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Adventures in the ATS

When I had passed my test, I was posted to a REME unit in Kent which was itself attached to a searchlight...

My War Began in Bermondsey

During the raids, Beatrice, my girl friend and I stood on top of a building, the basement of which was a...

My war as a teenager - Chapter 2

I loved dancing and when I wasn't on duty for the Fire Service and the canteen I mostly went dancing at...

My War

I also had to learn how to use a stirrup pump, to put out incendiary bombs, in the event of air-raids, My...

Memories of the "Winter War" and the "Continuation War" between Finland and the Soviet Union 1939-1944

My grandfather, together with many Finnish officers served in the army of Tsar Alexander I, until Finland...

Snippets from Toddington Luncheon Club

Aircraft from Hendon crashed into farm near Toddington and the crew thought they were in rural France as...

Nursing in Wartime

All the nurses were known by their surnames, so we were Malby, Whittick, Roake and Nyilassy. Our transport...

Life in the wartime WAAF - II Part 1

I, together with three other girls, was posted to Debden near Saffron Walden in Essex. The main job of...

Carrying on at home....

1940: The bombing of London started and was really bad. My friends and I walked home in the blackout...

My time with 574 Heavy AckAck Battery & the Dental Corp

Princess Elizabeth had manned a gun site - when she joined the army - in Hyde Park and Elizabeth's...

An RAF Nurse's War

I was a very junior Nursing Sister and held in awe the Senior Sister who was in charge of the...

MY SIX YEARS OF WAR Part 1 by Olive Tyrie

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, our Prime Minister at the time, went out to Germany for discussions with Hitler,...

The Letter

You see when I received a letter from my sister Cathleen, she said,” I think you would have the...

Vicky Buonvino"s wartime memories (1)

EAST ACTON: VE and VJ DAYS 1945

At our house, 18 The Green, East Acton, Mum found her Union Jack left over from the King's Coronation....

Phyllis’ War

So I went to the lorry and travelled to the hall at Horrabridge which was open to the public. The next...

From Wimbledon to Westmoreland

The family then lived in Wimbledon in Surrey. During WW2, Wimbledon lay along what was known as...

Dodging Bombs and Rockets in WWII

However, I do remember a couple of times riding my bike to work at the Sperry Gyroscope Company at...

A Guernsey evacuee bombed in Southall and Uxbridge

And we came back from that lot, and we had another lot as well, not as bad as that , but another...

The 'Lost' Year

My new employers gave their toolroom trainees the chance to attend one of the newly introduced day-release...

Jack Shear's Story

Whether it was the proximity of that august institution which made Jack want to become a doctor, I've...

Keeping the Wheels Turning

Hungerford Station goods depot was always very busy because of its size and layout. Considering the...

Joining the WRNS

We travelled by train to Leeds station and then took a tramcar to Headingley, to report to the Wesleyan...

D DAY NURSE

In November 1943 London County Council hospitals were asked to send nurses to what had previously been a...

World War II in Bromley

We read in the paper the following morning that it actually was the first flying bomb which had actually...

Wartime duties in the Port of London Authority

Early in the war, women in some country areas took over daytime duties in order to relieve the male members...