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A Baby Survives and Sings! by Pandora

These stories were submitted to the People War's site by Jane Van de Ban of CSV Media on behalf of...

War Time Memories: The Civil Nursing Reserve

A Civil Defence Rescue Section was also formed; members of the St John Ambulance Brigade from Jarrow and...

Our Luck

Leonard, who suffered from the after effects of polio, was not called up but did clerical work at the power...

Secret Messages: An RAF Teleprinter Operator

Our remit was to listen to messages from Berlin and Madrid - everything was in code so we took the messages...

Anderson Shelter Memories: In Bermondsey

When the anderson shelter was built the family had to follow Pat's grandfather Tom to the shelter......

Staying In during a Raid

I lived in Wallasey, on Merseyside with my parents... We had to go to the local Church for shelter and a...

My Dad

I had a younger brother who was from my Mum's marriage to my step-father... It was hard for Mum when he...

Loss of a Family: A Bombing Raid on London

I was born in 1933 the youngest of 8,7 boys and 1 girl.When the bombing started in 1940 I along with 2...

Evacuation Day

My Nan used to keep a button in her sewing basket, she said it was special to her - I asked her...

The Fire Watch

Growing up in WW2B

I was the youngest of four children I was nine, Joan was thirteen,Arthur sixteen, and Harry eighteen. We...

War in the Suburbs by Beryl

One of the most memorable but not necessarily happiest moments of Beryl's war was the day that a bomb...

'Bring Me Home Mum'.

My youngest brother was 11 and he was evacuated, but two days later he wrote saying ‘bring me home...

Living Near Hendon Aerodrome Was Dangerous !

Dad had moved our bedroom downstairs and the ceiling was covered in sheets of corrugated iron, these were...

Air Raid Warning boy Warden.

I remember after D'Day when the Germans started to send over the V1s, I lived in Edgware and we were on...

Good Timing

Each morning without fail my Father caught the 7.20 am Tram from the Junction to his work... Just catching...

Where's The Fire?

During an air raid in 1940,at age fourteen, I was the youngest member of a team of Firewatchers stationed...

The First Flying Bombs

While Albert was stationed there the Flying Bombs — V1's started. The very first time he saw...

Young Firemen

On the Sunday morning the Salvation Army mobile Canteen arrived and while we were having a cup of tea a...

Memories of a Day in 1943

I remember the day in 1943 when I was 12 years of age and the Sandhurst Road Junior school was bombed and...

“Knocked Me to the Ground”

They were bombing the docks and it was only stray bombs that came to Greenwich and Woolwich... I was...

All Clear - Disappointment!

I have a vivid wartime memory of an air raid -the siren went at about 3am. We didn't have an...

GI Bride

There were six hundred brides, and two hundred and fifty children on the boat... When we came into the...

Fire Watching

My father, Alexis, being too old to be enlisted into the army for active service, joined a fire watching...

A WAAF at Bentley Priory

I started on general duties and then got promoted to special duties at Bentley Priory, handling...

Memories from my youth

When the war started I was 10 years old and lived in Fisbury before being evacuated for 2 years to Luton...