My earliest memory connected with the war was in April 1942 when the enemy dropped bombs on York Station,...
Once at Linton I was immediately issued with a complete WAAF uniform — black lace-up shoes, grey...
At the end of WW1 the Germans were in a terrible state and had decided to get rid of the Kaiser, of...
In the first months of the war, few bombers made it as far north as Yorkshire, and even when Leeds,...
The first story began in June 1942 when as members of a Wellington bomber crew we were based at Harwell,...
The railway sidings ran along the side of the village, it was the direct, main line out of York, so we were...
The custom men would come now and then to claim what was recovered, the finder was paid for his efforts but...
Me and my friend chose one at a village near York called Alne. We went from Manchester to York where we had...
Seven crews from 58 Squadron and three from 51 Squadron, foregathered in Station Headquarter,...
Mum started work in 1943 at the Billing Section of the REME on St Georges Field, by the river side. and was...
Having passed I was send to Bomber Command 4 Group York and subsequently taken to 78 Squadron Breighton,...
Vera, for the very first time, polished the buttons on my tunic, cap and greatcoat and declared that I had...
The core of the training unit was composed of part of a battalion which had been a Territorial one, had...
There were Italian prisoners in Whitefriars and German prisoners in Hellifield Pele. As a minister, my...
As I laid in bed at night I would hear the drone of hard working aircraft engines as the bomb-laden...
To replace the heavy losses, Royal Air Force personnel were posted to Canadian Squadrons to make up the...
We stayed there until November 1940, and then moved to Johannesburg, which is about 1,000 from Cape Town. I...
Chest Thirty seven and a half inches Distinctive marks/minor defects Tattoo mark right forearm Age and...
When I was twenty years of age I was sent to work on a farm in Mirfield in West Yorkshire as a...
I spotted some friends, Estelle Vinburgh, Adele Taylor and Donald Levison, and my best friend Pat... My Mum...
From 1938 and during WW2 my mother wrote to a young Coldstream Guard, Jim Gregory, who was posted to...
I was born in 1933 and lived in North Hull in Endyke Lane in Cottingham... We went through the back door...
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