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My Experiences as a Civil Defence Messenger

I joined the ARP, as it was then known, in Newmarket, in late 1939, as a Boy Scout Messenger whilst a pupil...

An Aircraft Spotter in Britain

We went on many gun sites in the London and Kent Area such as Woolwich common, Greenwich and Chislehurst,...

My story

I returned home with an empty heart and full eyes. I felt, I was the luckiest person in this world because...

Banks, Bombs and Boats in Wartime London

When the bombs had stopped, I remember standing at our back door — our house was on a hill —...

I'll never forget that day

Tears streamed down his cheeks as he told me in a broken voice that my beloved older brother Jack, 33 year...

TOOTING BEC AND LEMON POP

TOOTING BEC & LEMON POP, I was born in 1938 in Tooting, part of South London and lived with my mom,...

Extract from auto-biography. Joining the RAF

There was a tearful farewell from my mother when, using our precious petrol ration, my parents deposited me...

Horsham and Guildford Railway Bombing

Nursing in Oxted in the Battle of Britain

A Dornier shot a Hurricane down in flames - the pilot, Harry Newton, baled out over Titsey Hill...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part nine)

August 16th 1941 Saturday Went up to Town to celebrate, Edwin met me 12.30 pm, went straight to the...

WAR EXPERIENCES 1939-1945

The wireless station in Liverpool was situated on top of the famous Royal Liver Building, from which...

The Homecoming

I have been asked by my daughter - in-law for an account of one of my wartime experiences o that my...

From Teashop to Front Line

Dances at the Town Hall were popular and very cheap; we also went to HMS Wasp which had been the Lord...

No medals and no youth

I recall Hitler's speeches and his forces marching into Alsace, Czechoslovakia and Austria......

Evacuation at Midnight

From January 1940 until the spring of 1945 my contribution to the war effort was to serve as a nurse at St....

Knickers full of sea water

One of the ATS girls she'd forgotten to bring her swimming costume so she swam in her knickers and bra...

Top Secret Phoenix

Monk had built all the runways around Lincolnshire, enabling all the big bombers to land. These Caissons...

Memories of schooldays in ‘Proud Preston’, Lancashire

Franklin's parents were Harold Tyrer and Sarah Jane Tyrer. His younger sister Maureen was born in 1936....

Great Western Railway

I started work at Malvern Wells Railway Station in 1942 as a Porter, the duties being varied... Thinking to...

ATS Memories

I went to join the Wrens at Cardiff and they were taking batches every 6 months and I would not wait, I...

WW2 Evacuation from West Norwod, St. Clouds Road, 1939

On the way home from Norfolk, mum said it would be too dangerous to cross London that night, and we decided...

Summer 44

I spent quite a lot of time in air raid shelters, particularly in converted underground stations where...

Reminiscences of an Evacuee From London

All the pupils at my school, the Godolphin and Latymer Girls School in Hammersmith, London W 6, were taken...

Story from a Hebridean Bart's Nurse

When I arrived at the Matron's office in a complete state of panic, wondering what on earth I had done...

War Years

******************************************* April 1939: Newly wed Sid and Jean Meachen went to live in the...

Holiday - with a difference - in Lowestoft

However, my mother, a widow, was in Lowestoft in charge of a Rest Centre and Canteen for naval personnel...