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My war time experience at 17

Bletchley Park was known as Station X, very hush-hush so, as they sang in one of the war-time songs "We...

LIGHTS OUT ! Part 1

We must have fallen asleep, because we were rudely awakened by the Duty Officer shining a torch in our...

Jean Haslam 1944 continued

The following day, the war in Italy was over, as the remaining German and Italian divisions in Italy...

Home Front

They did contract work for the Railways and sometimes in the London Docks. Back in Leyton I went to the...

1st Part of an 11 year old's account of World war 11

No 2 Navel Row was occupied by Dad's Aunt Uncle Sid Aldis and his cousin Lilly No 3 Navel Row was...

Wartime experiences of Derek Ashcroft extracted from his autobiography part one

We finished at Rugby in about June and I was posted to H.M.S. Ariel at Newton le Willows near Warrington in...

WARTIME MEMORIES

When, aged 17 years, my peer group were joining up I started my nursing career as a children's nurse in...

Columbia Market shelter bomb.

The ‘Buildings’ as they were known were a grand project built by Madam Burdett Coutts, of the...

Mildred Joan Tulip II: Enigma and Bletchley Park- my recollections

I am Mildred Joan Tulip nee Nichols, born 24th January 1913, recruited to Bletchley Park in 1942 after...

Olive's War

I was 21 when I qualified as a Registered Mental Nurse and a Royal Medico Psychological Nurse. I wanted to...

A Projectionist (part one)

At the time we were living on the outskirts of London on one of the highest points, so we could see easily...

South Heighton

I remember that on one occasion a cry went up from the port that 'The Maid of Kent' had been sunk,...

Wartime Memories

There was also a letter from Mick's brother to say he was on leave and hoped to bring his wife and...

Wartime for a child in Lambeth

GranGouldings memoirs mentions the flats in Kennington Road and Rowlands Dairy being bombed; Worcester...

The War Years from Adolescence to Adult

Fortunately, Surbiton escaped the worst of the bombing, but on one occasion, the telephone cable to a...

Hilda Reed nee Sparrow

It was two weeks before we were issued with proper uniforms but I was provided with a boiler suit and by 10...

The IWM WW2 touring exhibition on display at Carlisle, Cumbria

The IWM Second World War touring exhibition was housed in a room next to the front entrance to the Tullie...

KENNINGTON ARP POST 11 1940

Outside the Waifs and Strays home, the old Town Hall Kennington as I was on patrol and ambulance driver...

Joe's Story

I used to be on the Patient Car outside, moving kiddies all over the place - transfers, going to treatment,...

OCCUPATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Dad did some turns as air raid warden at Southampton Docks Post Office. I had started a marine...

Rosie's War

Back in Paris Mum was looking forward to her 21st birthday which would be on 10th June our Grandmother had...

Medical student in London

The London School of Medicine for Women/Royal Free Hospital had to be evacuated to Aberdeen for two terms...

For the Duration - Chapter Eight

I was to be a boarder at Bancroft's School, a minor public school on the outskirts of London. From the...

My War - A Memoir by Monnica Stevens Part Two

I was about to take my School Certificate examinations to give me exemption from Matriculation in two...

Working in London and a wartime wedding

Working in London and a wartime wedding...

GPO Telephonist Part 1

I started on the 1st floor, opposite the trunk telephonist and I was on the City and Central boards for a...