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NAFFI service memories aged 18

I was based at Lindholme Airbase near Doncaster South Yorkshire, but served in a mobile canteen which we...

Commendation to Pauline Middleton

When we got outside there was snow fall and it was quite slippery, we left the dance and driving back I had...

Life at the BBC at the Beginning of World War II

The BBC had an excellent sports centre at Motspur Park. My mother continued to play for the table tennis...

Grandad's War Story

My bride managed to get a wedding gown and it was a miracle that we managed to get 2 weeks leave together...

A Wireless Operator in the WRAF

I wasn't in a reserved occupation and I didn't want to work on the buses or in a factory so I...

1) I suppose it was inevitable...

I had done a preliminary nursing training course at Shrewsbury Technical College on one of the first such...

Dusters into nighties

Whilst the airmen were in Austria they organised a tea party for the children. When I was expecting my...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part four)

Then on to Aunt Eliza's, had a lovely cup of tea with Auntie Gert. Also Doris, Auntie Nan, Auntie...

Managing the WRNS Quarters - Evelyn’s Story

From there I was sent to Chelsea Embankment and as I was a writer, I got interested in running the WRNS...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part thirteen)

September 5th 1942 Saturday Edwin home on 48 hrs, telephoned me on his arrival 10.30 am, is meeting me at...

Poor Old London

Just before the war in London started our First Aid Post was moved from the Florence Nightingale Hospital...

Thanks for those volunteers not in uniform

The events happened in May and June 1940 and from August onwards until the end of the year. The recent...

A Civil Servant Evacuee

We started work next day in the Grand Hotel in Harrogate, high above the Valley Gardens with my office...

We Kept Smiling

I had an older brother Sidney James and two younger brothers James Albert and Leonard Frederick. I llived...

IN THE ATS by Ivy Bartlett

ATS, ‘Operation Overlord’, Bletchley Park, her husband taken prisoner. Bletchley Park A couple...

Experiences of the Second World War - Some of them!

One night at home in S.E. London my father and I were sheltering underneath our beds, as we had no Anderson...

Train Stewardess/WRENS

I can remember a few ie Jessie Matthews, Sunny Hale, Robert Newton, an able seaman in the Navy as well as a...

Morale

When Britain stood alone after Dunkirk, we never thought of the canteens helping morale as we took them for...

Henry Tuttle B.E.M.

During the WW2 German ‘Blitz’ on London in 1940-1941, my Grandfather Henry Tuttle, who had been...

Life in the Civil Nursing Reserve

He became a Methodist minister; he went to London, so he was in the thick of it, and he went to a...

Being an RAF Bride...

Whilst there, the crew of the Naval ship ‘Penelope’ stationed in Valetta harbour, and known...

LIFE OF A TEENAGER-TWENTY ONE DURING WW11.

After training I was sent to Framewood Manor, Buckinghamshire awaiting a posting and then onto...

Daphne's Wartime Memories Evacuation ( Part 1 of 2 - Part 2 found in Royal Air Force)

When in 1938 the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain arrived home after his visit to Germany carrying a...

A Swift Growing-up

Being an RAF Bride...

Whilst there, the crew of the Naval ship ‘Penelope’ stationed in Valetta harbour, and known...

Being an RAF Bride...

Whilst there, the crew of the Naval ship ‘Penelope’ stationed in Valetta harbour, and known...