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MY SIX YEARS OF WAR Part 3 by Olive Tyrie

I had passed the exams and was now a Red Cross nurse ready for duty. Sunday 28th August — Duty at...

Lasting memories of Service life 1940-1946

This post was not very comfortable for someone whose previous occupation was in banking at Barclays, St....

Wartime memories of Luton and Maulden Part One

But also while I was there she and I were sitting on the office desk one day and she'd got this lovely...

Letters September 1940

Todd and his wife Alice came to tea last Sunday, Albert also came and they put thistles in Lill's and...

The Barmaid and the Butcher

In the evenings I helped out in the pub which was where I met my husband to be Fred Hockin who was...

"You Will Wash Me!"

Then we had a Dutch nurse who came to train with us actually, and she'd escaped from Holland in a most...

Dennis Vokins, Transport Man [Part One ]

42a - Dennis Vokins: I was born in Gosport, Hampshire, 1923, May, which was a Naval Base that was on the...

My War Part III — ATS

What I wasn't prepared for was the inscrutability of War Office procedures when it came to my first...

Land Army Days - Pleasures and Privations of an 18 year-old [Part One]

55a - The Stratford upon Avon Society and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Transcription of an interview that...

Posted to 'Hellfire Corner'

The Germans used to jettison their bombs on the way back from raids, including firebombs and incendiaries,...

A Policeman's Lot

* In 1940 we were moved to Wimborne, Divisional Headquarters, where we had a nice little Police house at...

Near Misses

A week or so later the next Flying Bomb fell about a mile away in North Harrow and blew up and completely...

MARY WHITES LIFE AS A TEENAGER IN WW2

Germans had invaded the small countries of Europe, and were certainly getting closer to England, we were...

LIVING THROUGH THE WAR IN LONDON - PART 2 OF3

One morning , the boy who delivered the papers to the Prison Officers maisonettes which surrounds...

MY SIX YEARS OF WAR Part 2 by Olive Tyrie

As one ship was filled to capacity, it turned to go back to England and another came forward and so it went...

Memories of World War 2

My first memory dates from just before the war when living at Heston, Middlesex; it is of seeing Neville...

Land Army Days - Pleasures and Privations of an 18 Year-Old [Part Two]

Joan Copson: I think we had a radio in some of the hostels, but we didn't listen. Joan Copson: Now the...

Requiem for a W.R.E.N

The bomber crash-landed in a field near to Exbury House which at this time was the home of HMS Masterdon,...

My Recollections of the Second World War or Bombs Fell At Random

It was Surrey Docks receiving cruel bomb and soon after black charred paper descended from the sky, the...

My War

It was while I was there that I took up my music again, bringing my violin down from London and I played...

Work as GPO Telephonist in Wartime London. Part1, Training and Early Days.

Work as GPO Telephonist in Wartime London. The bombing was still very bad and so it was decided that 500...

With a Different Ring of Ice Around the Bath Everyday

Sometimes there was a bit of military mail but the Army normally did its own censorship so there wasn't...

I never told you about Gloria, didI?

Ian had lost his wife Joyce some two years earlier and had become fairly reticent, so the unheralded...

Battle of Britain Skies; Irony on Stage during the Blitz - 'Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

That's wonderful that'll get you away from these dreadful flying bombs, get you out of London. One...

Extracts from my experiences in WW2 by Johnny Myers

So, as we approach my 80th birthday and the end of the twentieth century, I have decided to put my story on...

MY WAR

I was W/209417 Pte Lewis O.B. She was W/209916 Pte Lewis V. I was marched into the presence of the Officer...