Shropshire

Recollections of a Wartime Childhood (Part 1)

The following account of my “Recollections of a Wartime Childhood” was first published in a...

HMS Godwit Recalled

The Fleet Air Arm took RAF Peplow over as RNAS Hinstock and in Naval manner it was named HMS Godwit. My...

My Life in World War 2 (cont)

We had a ganger a girl from just over the Welsh border, who was in charge from day to day, as well...

Memories of Four Locations

My father worked as a civilian in an army depot in the north of Portsmouth. I do not remember seeing any...

Getting Lost and Finding Drainpipes

Via airfields at Ouston, North East, South Cerney, Glos, and Catterick, Yorkshire, I was moved to Torquay...

The Sadness of War

The sirens sounded, and all of a sudden a German plane dived down and started machine gunning where...

Life In The RAF

Posted to a bomber squadron in Lincolnshire, I qualified as a Bomb Aimer... Following 30 operations we were...

Tale of a Telegraph Lad

At the outbreak of the war in 1939 I was a 14 year old telegraph messenger at the Post Office on Pride...

A Very Small Miracle: Dunkirk 1940

My family, Mother Father and us two boys, lived with my great aunt, who was a publican and kept the Lion...

Broseley Guide Company

It was at the start of the Second World War when the Headquarters of The St John's Ambulance Brigade...

RAPC Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury was the first depot, where a detachment of the R.A.P.C. was stationed. It was real November...

Evacuation to Shropshire

My cousins and I, with a group of other children, eventually arrived at a place in the country which was...

Ripples of War

Dear Editor Opposite my Nan's house at Drenewydd, Park Hall near Oswestry, was the home of the Badrock...

Wartime in South Shropshire

Soon we were to meet the village vicar Reverend Reginald Griffiths and his wife Mary and their daughter...

"EVACUEES COME TO EVENWOOD"

My husband's story "Bill Gordon's War with the RAF in North Africa and Italy" can be found...

Joyce Manifold's War

I was sent to Tallyhoun Castle near Dunbarton for training - learning to be an officer's steward and...

From Liverpool to the Army, via Shropshire farms

I then moved to a farm in Herefordshire to drive newly-arrived tractors and then moved back into Shropshire...

The Zephyr

I'm Alice Elizabeth Rowe and I was born in the village of Harley, Shropshire. In 1940, I left the...

Crash at Homer Lake

The plane seemed to be attempting to fly below some electrical pylons when all of a sudden it plummented...

Life for Evacuees in WW2

Dorothy's family ran the New Inns pub in Madeley, Shropshire and because they had plenty of space there...

Victory Celebrations

As often as not my mother and my brother and I had to travel in the guards van as seats were non...

Evacuation

Betty vaguely remembers been taken by bus to a house were they to stay with Aunty Minn who also had her own...

I Remember

The girls in the sixth form having a rota for fire fighting duties at night, but living in Albrighton we...

On the Home Front in Ellesmere

As the war was ending, General Montgomery and his entourage called briefly in Ellesmere on his way from...

1939 to 1945 Wartime Memories

After these traumatic experiences my sister, baby and myself were evacuated to Ludlow in Shropshire to a...

Evacuation by Margaret Thorton

I didn't know where I was going as I was only 11, my brother was 10, my sister was 9 and my...