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LAC Eddie Ingall RAF

From here I chauffeured many high ranking government and military officials in and around London using...

D-Day Tanks Rolling By

Hans Bloch was a German pianist, a Jewish refugee who had been accommodated by my parents in two rooms on...

My Dads Wartime Story

They had planned a honeymoon on the Isle of Wight but that was not possible so they went to a hotel in...

My East End Childhood

Quite a few Germans came over after the war and they'd laugh and say “Oh, you Jewish British!...

The London Blitz and V Weapons

We stopped in a pub in Southgate I think the Rising Sun from the garden looking to the east the sky was...

Life in the Unique 93RD Searchlight Regiment RA manned only by Women

This was the 93rd Searchlight Regiment RA the only one in the world entirely manned by women. Putting on...

A Teenager in wartime London 1939-42 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

My elder brother, who some months later worked away in the building trade, going to Scotland and Ireland,...

All Girls Together

When I was better I was sent to an Ordnance depot situated in a barracks in Feltham in Middlesex and...

My Wartime Experience in Silvertown

It was like a yoyo, every time a bomb exploded, the door was dragged open, pulling me with it. The bombing...

Wartime Jobs for Women

We had elderly drivers because most of the young ones had gone off to fight, and sometimes we would have...

I've Survived!!

The previous month, August 1939, they were sandbagging the Town Hall and excavating for shelters in the...

An Exciting and Unique Time — a London Girl During the War by Irene Fletcher

And Regents Park housed a lot of airmen who also held dances, mainly on Primrose Hill. If a German plane...

My War - Chapter 2

I got a job in the Arlington cafe in Seven Sisters road, which was run by a very nice lady named Eileen...

A Small Girl's Wartime Memories in London.

I was born in 1938, and when the war started, my father joined the Special Police-force, up in Liverpool.My...

WWW2 - Childhood Memories of Holborn

My memories of that school was that very few lessons were held, and that most of our time was spent...

Memories of Evacuation

"The Miracle on Wycliffe Road"

Before I could move, the whole window frame in my bedroom, glass, wood and bricks came flying out and...

East London Firewoman 1938-1945

I joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, part-time, in 1938 aged 20, at Station 22, Burdett Road, Bow,in East...

Working for the Admiralty and the Story of my Five Brothers by Gladys Mooge

My brother John was in the Highland Light Infantry. At that time he was stationed in Glasgow. My brothers...

Evacuation From the Isle of Dogs

However the gentleman came back and said he had got us fixed up in a cottage round the corner in Elms Road,...

Me as Backroom Boffin

At the outbreak of the War I was working at Croydon Aerodrome as a secretary in the Drawing Office for what...

Working for the War Office

As a skiing enthusiast I went to Europe every year and had friends who were German and Austrian –...

My War Childhood in Bexleyheath: A View of London on Fire

We were at a wedding once in Erith when one stopped right over the church, well it seemed so, the vicar...

It Took Me Three and a Half Hours to get Home

Oxford Circus Station was closed due to the raids so we walked down through Trafalgar Square to Charing...

The Anderson Shelter: London Blitz

By now we could hear the bells as the fire engines came nearer, together with the shriller bells of...

A Miracle on Brittannia Row

Due to this fact he often had premonitions of what was to come so on this night he had told my mother...