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DOODLEBUG NIGHTS

By 1944, when I was 12 years old, my home had moved from near the Elephant and Castle to suburban...

Demob Education Course

Somehow I heard that it was possible to go on a course run by the Army Education Corps for men and women...

Our Lil

Both Lil and Nellie burst out laughing while trying to tell the nurse just what was wrong with her. Lil...

factory at Norbury?

On my 21st Birthday we had to keep diving under the Morrison Shelter with our tea and cake — due to...

My life 1939-45

Eventually I joined the London Scottish battalion and was sent to the 2nd Battalion of the Gordon...

13) Enamel Washbowls on your heads

That was the junior nurse's job, and the sister and staff nurse, stayed on the ward. 1 I suppose it was...

A Once Apon A Time Story

When the 6 weeks were up, she was posted to Woolwich, Garrison Town and seconded to a Civilian Quantity...

Audrey Fahey’s Story

I lived with my Dad, stepmother, brother and sister in Enfield Highway, which was outside London in...

Surviving a V2 (and a Tsunami!)

A V2 Rocket hit a Woolworth store no more than fifty yards from the bus. I was thrown up the aisle of...

Remembered with a Smile.

I went on to Rochester.Here I met a life long wren friendEffieturner & we also shared a cabin with...

Joan's Memory Lane

When I registered I was told that I was too small for nursing, too light for the land army; I was 6...

A WAAF in Bournemouth

I was stationed in Bournemouth, it was where the colonial troops — Canadian, Australian, New...

From Hoeing Kale to MI-14

However, I wanted to work, and I had a school friend who had a large estate called Rycote Park in Thame....

Vera's War Memories

However, they were, in fact dropping bombs and had “hits“ on the Bourjois Factory near Croydon...

From schoolgirl to factory worker

We eventually rented a bungalow also in Rainham not far from my grandparents and after a while the cottage...

Wren in London

I was sent to Kings Cross and stayed at 41 Parkstone Gardens in Earls Court and was there when tube station...

BLUE MEMORIES

Our old gramophone in the nurses home only had one record……Eugene Onegin and I tried to teach...

Lack of Communications

In 1939 I was working for the Post Office in London, in 'telecommunications'. I lived in digs with...

PEOPLE'S WAR WINTER 1940-41 ("Leave the Train, there's a Bomb ahead!")

My father worked in West London and our journeys to and from work coincided over the "Southern...

Surviving the London Blitz

WAR-TIME MEMORIES OF A PROBATIONER (STUDENT) NURSE

Much has been said and written about the invaluable contribution made by the Voluntary Aid Detachments in...

Vicky Buonvino's Wartime Memories (2)

tales of an evacuee

We were all given a brown label to tie on our coats and a brown paper bag containing one packet of tea,...

Bethnal Green Disaster 3rd March 1943

My Aunt and I were walking along Old Ford Road when the searchlight came on in Bethnal Green Gardens. Now...

Doodlebug near Links Road, Epsom

Towards the end of my first year as a boarder at Epsom College, in the summer of 1944, the doodlebugs...