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Civilian Nursing in Lambeth Hospital during the Blitz by Doreen M. Abrahams

There were no inco-pads, soiled linen had to be washed by the nurses before being sent to the laundry,...

Billets in the Park

All good clean fun.When we moved to Bristol Kath became clerk to the Padre, a job which she loved... In...

Junior Chemist in War.Pt 2

The over lap was to allow the on-coming shift to don toxic clothes, the shift leaders to discuss the log...

A Nurse's War: The Air Raid and the Victory Parade

I wanted to come back to Hereford and do private nursing, but no — they decided that I must go into...

Growing Up In WWII

We were stationed in Mullers fish shop in Rye Land, Peckham and did one night a week, but my brother and...

Spike's Shadow

My former colleagues were getting killed overhead in the Battle of Britain, pillboxes were being built for...

Hackney During ww2

We lived at 9, Bodney Road not far from the station My parents two sisters and I, my elder brother was...

MY BIG ADVENTURE

We were from the east end of London, Bowen Street St., Poplar to be precise, and up to that moment had not...

Bramley

I worked part time at the R.S.C.H. in Farnham Rd, Guildford and part time at three other hospitals,...

Betty Sleep's War

She lived in Liskeard and travelled into Plymouth each day on the train to work at Dingles on the...

Fleet Air Arm

My dad, and his dad, Thomas, and his mother, Rebecca, moved to Leicester with my Dad's older sister,...

Some of my experiences working with The Auxilary Fire Service

We had a recreation room over the station and Harry Kerslake, one of the Red Riders used to play the piano...

Wartime memories of Silvertown, London and evacuation to Rushden, Northants.

Violet Smith - Wartime memories of Silvertown, London and evacuation to Rushden, Northants. My sister's...

Bombed out and evacuated twice

We had a dog, a terrier called Toby, and mum and dad said he would hear the sirens before we did... That...

MY WAR. by Barbara Hammond (nee Biggs) Known as 'Dutch' or 'The Duchess' PART TWO.

I felt relieved after Queen Elizabeth, King Haakon of Norway and his son, Prince Olaf, had inspected the...

MEMORIES OF A STUDENT NURSE

I remember one poor student nurse who on her day off got onto the wrong train at Euston which took her to...

"We had to get on with it" by Joyce Allwright

Next door to Sainsburys was the Police Station, which was how I got to know Ron Layley, who became my...

A Bristolian at Bletchley Park

I particularly want it recorded for Bristol that Gordon Welchman who was the son of the Archdeacon of...

rougue soldier

This is a true story about a man who served in the 39/25 war.First we must look at the way he was...

Whitby in wartime

I was 11 when the war broke out attending Wembley Hill School and often when the registar was call there...

My Encounters with Doodlebugs

In June 1944 when I was fourteen my parents and I were to spend the weekend at my grandmother's, which...

The RAF is still “my” service

Then other stations, army and RAF within a few miles, always sent invitations for 40 or so WAAF to go to a...

Doris Goff Reports on her time in 'C' Watch, then to Department No.8 in "The Citadel"

An Irish nurse in East Sussex, Part 1

In February 1938, at the age of sixteen, Mollie left Ireland on a long journey for England to begin work as...

With the Wrens

In 1941 I was training to be an Art Teacher at Leicester Art College, I couldn't see myself teaching...

A Luton Family at War

My sister joined the Land Army and was sent to Luton Hoo where the head farmer was Reg Loader; I know his...