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Wartime Journeys

I remember us tramping across the old long footbridge, kitbags and all, and on up the hill to the RAF...

The one that didn't make it

My siblings had been sent to Sidmouth, in Devon, along with a large number of children from Kent, as the...

Evacuee memories

I was evacuated at 13 with my sister, Betty, aged 7, from Battersea, South London, down to Bognor Regis at...

Saved By the Seat of His Pants!

When the ‘All clear’ sounded one early morning after a long raid, Mum and Dad must have been...

My War at Bletchley Park

U-Boat messages in five-letter code were picked up around the country and passed to Bletchley Park where...

A WAAF Instrument Repairer at Honeyborne Camp, Evesham. Glos

A WAAF Instrument Repairer at Honeyborne Camp, Evesham. We used to see the American GIs at Evesham, at the...

"THE UNKNOWN WARRIORS" (Working in Wartime London)

The Police and the Fire Department investigated and found a body wrapped in the mattress - the body and the...

Memories of VE Day

We made our way to Buckingham Palace - not so many people gathered here but after a while when the news was...

Dodging the doodlebugs June 1944

"Francis, take that firewood round to Kathleen's please" my mother called out.My married sister...

Wartime Memories

Lots of people were killed, but not Dad owing to the signal holdup. My sister and brother, younger than me,...

Bombed Out Twice

Meanwhile my father, who was a Probation Officer in Lambeth and a member of the Home guard, slept on a camp...

A Brief Resume of the Army Service of Margaret Ashman

We were at Kingston for 6 weeks and when we finished we became officially members of the Royal Corps of...

The V2 rocket in Waltham Abbey

To enable myself to gain the necessary vision to look down our road I had to press my face against the...

A Cockney Maori Romance

I was terrified about how my Dad would react as Jim was a Maori, and he was sitting in my Dad's chair,...

My Days in the NAAFI during the War

Two girls took turns to clean out the kitchen ranges and light up ready for cooking cakes and heating water...

Arrival in Columbo on VE Day

Well, because my sister was a Petty Officer and I was a Leading Wren…as Wrens we slept in what's...

Joan Pound's Memories of her WAAF Days`

After three weeks, we were all summoned, by tannoy,to assemble in a big hangar and there seemed to be a...

Wartime Memories

In 1942 at the age of eighteen I began my nursing career at the Leicester General Hospital and remember...

An English WAAF avoiding Ulster

We had a secret bomb on the cable of the balloon... So that the planes, the Germans, would hit that, which...

"Anybody want a swim? And other tales

I'd finished my apprenticeship and packed up work at the G.E.C and I was helping to fill the sandbags...

Reminiscences

The Ritz Dance Hall was in Weymouth but the name changed a lot of times but it's known as the Ritz...

Money For The Police

On Sept 2nd, my mother and I were at Wandsworth Station, to help with the evacuation of small children from...

Serving the Fire Service

When the bombing started my father and the other firemen from his station were often called upon to go to...

The admirality at War

Extract from a broadcast talk by Rear Admiral R. K. Dickson D.S.O. Chief of Naval Information, Overseas...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part five)

Mother and I hope to visit Auntie Tily at Leigh on Sunday next Jerries over to-night - Five more down....

A Guernsey evacuee worries about her parents, deported to Biberach, and is reunited with them before the end of the war

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. Oh yes, we had a place, a...