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Narrow escapes from the bombs in Stoke Newington

Doreen was 12 years old at the beginning of the war, her family lived in Coronation Avenue on Stoke...

Thoughts of my childhood

A very vivid memory of my training in Camberley, was looking up at dusk to see hundreds of bombers in the...

army communications in london

Anyway our units job was to keep army comunications going , ther was a high powerd radio trans mitter at...

Lodgings and Loneliness

In 1940, Claude was posted to Porthcawl in South Wales and I went with him... Claude was working nights at...

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The War Memories of Kenneth Reeves

Kenneth Reeves was born during World War One, in 1916....

Ambulance driving in the blitz and our train bombed

Because London was beginning to be bombed, they moved us down there. And we realized a German bomb had come...

Doodlebugs

My first memory of the war when I was 2-3 was the drone of the impending arrival of the doodlebugs which I...

My life in the ATSicon for Story with photo

We lived in Brighton at the time After a long day in which we had our medicals we climbed into the waiting...

The Night Dad Went Off to Win the War

Mum, however, insisted that she really had heard the church bells... Of course, Mum was the culprit, the...

Beware the Taxi Dance

The boss listened to me when I asked him for the money John had given her, the taxi money and table money....

David Jones in the Royal Air Forceicon for Story with photo

David was awarded a Certificate of Good Service on 1 January 1946 and this was presented to him by Group...

The Phoney War Ends

The so-called 'phoney war' continued for a while, but by September 1940 the German aircraft were...

Life in London/ WAAF at Middle Wallop London/allop

I was 16 and living in London when the war started and for the next 2 years experienced blackouts, seeing...

An Engineering Company in Loughborough - A Secretary's Story

One of our Directors, Captain Petter, said that they were thinking of evacuating our London office...

My War

Although, on our eventual coach journey back home we were treated to our first sight of a barrage balloon,...

Losing my childhood

A very vivid memory of my training in Camberley, was looking up at dusk to see hundreds of bombers in the...

Bevin Boys

Brother Alf was 4 years older than me and had already been called up and was in the Durham Light Infantry...

Take Cover

I was stationed at Holmsley South in the New Forest and eventually became an ambulance driver. The squadron...

Waterloo Station

On Waterloo Station one night myself and several relative - the military police came up and asked my...

bombs on the fox and hounds in chislehurst

I begin my story in 1941 at the time we were bombed out of our flat above the United Dairies in Chislehurst...

From Clereical to Factory Work and Very Noisy Nights.

Since both my father and my boyfriend were in engineering and I didn't like the sight of blood, I chose...

Life in the Coastal Artillery and other memories

After marrying in 1940 and Ken in the army, I was at home with my parents in Surrey, until I volunteered...

Wartime childhood in Chiswick

Land Army Timber Corps

I was posted to Brecon as a Timber Corps land Army Girl... They cut them into pit props To send into the...

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett (nee Wear) BEM - Joining up

He had a warehouse which was beside St Paul's Cathedral in London... I along with Sylvia Gibb decided...

The first days of my war

I followed my father into the kitchen who told my mother that he thought that was imminent and that London...

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