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My elder brother who had stayed in bed was later called up in the army. My son joined the Army in 1977...

V.E Day, "In The Mood".

They would fill the pots with tea and give me corned beef sandwiches and I would wheel it back to the...

Our First Taste Of Country Life.

One plane was very low, you could see the head of the pilot and when we got home the house next to...

Mrs Brown's Story: In Liverpool

I lived in Fazakerley, Hawksmoor Rd and later on, Longmoor lane on the corner of Dereham Cresent. Aunty...

A Child's War, Liverpool Circa 1941 - A Poem

At last, We've found The shrapnel that nearly got mum. Hope Mum, Dad and Arthur are OK....

Schoolboy Cycle Messenger in Oxton, Birkenhead, 1940

I had still to reach my sixteenth birthday when the war started and had already enrolled in the ARP as a...

Christina's War: Evacuated to Chester

We were introduced "Mrs Ledsham, this is Christina from Liverpool". The waiting was over. I stayed...

VE Day Memories

On the 8th May, 1945 my cousin, two friends, and I were joining in the celebrations which were being marked...

Teenager Helping Fire Crews

This entailed riding on the engine with the crew, through the bombing to the fire and cycling back to the...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Liverpool: Sheltering from the Blitz

My Grandmother, a working class lady, had a china teapot of which she was very proud. Just as my...

The Basement

We got our friend Claire, nighty Claire to go outside to wait for the MPs... The MPs walked up to the...

Whistle In The Dark

The nightly air raids by German bombers returning from targeting nearby Liverpool forced my mother and I to...

My Story about the War and the Horror

I went to St. Bridgets School in Limekiln Lane, and was evacuated, along with my brother Frank and all the...

Open For Business

When we emerged, all hell had let loose, Liverpool was on fire, bombs dropping, guns blazing, people...

Volunteer Ambulance Drivers

She always told stories of the comradeship in FI Division and indeed the drivers remained friends until...

Hitler Ruins my Education

I was attending Grammar School near Princes Park, Liverpool, and in early 1940 the Germans started bombing...

Enlistment

War seemed inevitable, and as I had done some time with the local Cadets, I decided to try to join the city...

The Trauma of Evacuation

He would get the bees and wasps, pull their wings off their bodies on a pin and run after us with them......

New Life

He was given a Canadian rifle with no front sight and ordered to defend the suburb of Walton, Liverpool...

Our Evacuation Hell: From Bootle to Wales

We were sent to Seaforth by train and then we were taken by coach to the village hall, where we were kitted...

Norway Meets Liverpool

We had our honeymoon here at the Adephi - 26th Dec.1942 after being married at the Norwegian Seamens Church...

Olive Ball's Story

As the days went on and the time of the wedding drew near I was still awaiting Len's reply. We finally...

The Blitz and the Egg

My Nan, Mary Keegan, worked in a munitions factory during the war. she has told us of how she used wire...

Memories of St Luke's Church, Liverpool

Miss Swift used to visit the sick in the neighbourhood carrying a basket of posies which had been picked...

Memories of the Blitz

Matron Miss Gertrude Riding worked tirelessly to rescue an Auxiliary Nurse and the Chaplain who had been...

When my Grandad was a Lad

He also had to carry his gas mask in a card board box on a string around his neck.His sister had a...