Hampshire

Shore Leave during the Greenock Blitz

Royal Naval Barracks a scene of activity, firemen, rescue workers, digging, probing, somebody remarks...

Civilian Contribution to D-Day

He was retained for civilian work and all through the war was in portsmouth keeping the telephones working...

Chicken for Christmas!

Chicken for Christmas. A chicken dinner is unremarkable now but, during WW2, chicken was a luxury food....

D-Day Experience:Childhood Memories in Liss

Around the area where we lived in Liss, Hampshire, there were many military camps and so on D Day thousands...

Well Camouflaged

During the war I worked at the Denham Film Studios in Bucks as a clapper Boy and sometimes had assighnments...

D Day Food Distribution.

Out of the blue this area of land was taken over by the Army and in only a few weeks there was...

My Experience of WW2

Halfway through the film a bomb fell very close to the cinema and part of the ceiling fell down, the...

Firewatch

During the second world war she was a teenage girl, living at home with her mum and two sisters, and...

Disturbed Children

At Meon Road Infants school at the end of the war we were told that a boy from Europe was coming to...

A Christian Family Saved Twice by a Jew

When Jewish Mr Loewy came from Schlomannes in Germany looking for designers of Rolling Mills in order to...

Memories from HMS Daedalus

I joined the Navy in Dec 1942 and after training I ws posted via Portsmouth to a Fleet AirArm station HMS...

C.J. Stevenson, RN

He then went up to Cambridge to do further training at Addenbrokes Hospital where he enlisted in the Home...

Written in Camp at Nettlestone, Isle of Wight - 1943

The poem below was submitted by Bert Tolfree (11053245), to BBC Radio Stoke. He was posted to 523 battery...

Memories of Evacuation -Dorothy Brier

We were bombed in 1943 so I went to live in Alton, Hants with my husband's Aunt, a red cross nurse, who...

Fate Visits St Mary's Church, Portsmouth

My mother told me several stories of being shot at by German aircraft, but the most shocking story was when...

My War

Until the end of the war I was a plotter in Dorset, Essex & Norfolk. About 20 of us were billeted in...

ARP in Bournemouth [Peggy]

During the war I was an ARP warden in Bournemouth. After the bombings of Malmesbury Park and Alma Road, a...

Having Evacuees Among Us

Lots of evacuees came from Portsmouth... The Headmaster and one teacher from Portsmouth Grammar School...

Air Raids During Evacuation

Often at night we could stand on the front lawn at the farm and watch the 'barrage balloons' being...

Wartime Marriage

It was a Sunday morning at Waterloo station and my parents and my sister were going to Bournemouth for me...

Pennies For Luck by Natasha Drewry

Being a very warm-hearted little girl, she ended up giving all her pennies away to soldiers in the hope...

Hazel's Memories (part 1)

By the time I was fourteen nightly bombing raids, and daylight ones too meant we spent every night in the...

Martin During the War

My Grandad was an ARP warden... My mother said that children didn`t need tea so she used to barter our tea...

The Cow, or a Defiant Response to a Bomber, Aldershot

To allay our fears, Aunt Harriet used to chant, in un ison to the bombers, WHERE we gonna drop'em,...

The Night the Ceiling Came Down

My mother, sister Betty and I were all in Mum and Dad's bed on the night in question, we could hear the...

Raw Vegetables and Sandcastles

One of the few things that I did know in life was that when you went to the beach you took a...