Suffolk

Early Army Days, October 1942

The long awaited buff envelope had arrived on our doormat a fortnight before informing me that I had been...

Home to Find the House Gone

I was on a night out with some of the other girls who worked with me at Reavells in Ranelagh Road, and...

The War as I Saw It: Air Training Excitement in East Anglia

One weekend our ATC section camped at Felixstowe, near the Languard Fort, where there was an air sea rescue...

Jim's Wartime Memories

Fortunately no one was hurt, but it meant that we had to move to Framlingham in Suffolk, where my...

A Child's War.

When he had to go back we all went to Haughley station to say goodbye, Mum was very very upset, the worst...

Beccles Railway Station

It was a junction for the line from Beccles to London Liverpool Street, the lines to Yarmouth and Lowestoft...

Life in the Women's Land Army

Childhood dreams of a lovely old farmhouse with cows and sheep in green fields were soon shattered when I...

Cigarettes And Alcohol

The dock police would confiscate the rum if they found it on a sailor... The police got their ciggies, the...

B17 Crash: At Ubbeston, Suffolk

Further Comments: The crash was attended by Military Police from Theberton / Leiston Airfield who took the...

Childhood Memories, Sutton Hoo

I lived near Sutton Hoo, as did my friend, Patrick Smith, during World War II. The airfield at Bentwaters...

Suffolk Coast, from Peace to War.

It was one morning about miday whilst at Languard that we observed a sea plane flying in, very low, from...

WW2 Experiences of an Evacuee Chapter 2.

From Dagenham I was sent to my parents friends in Carshalton, Surrey... In 1943, at about ten years old, I...

Ron's Grand Tour

In the fond hope that other folk have trod this path with me, I now give Ron's Grand Tour, 1942 to 1947...

Wartime in London and Evacuation

When the bombing began in earnest my mother, sister and I went to the local public shelter which was in the...

Losing A Friend

She looked out to see Mrs Hoyle,with Trevor,at her front door... My mother assured Mrs Hoyle that us...

Ipswich Wartime Memories

The first significant war event was the arrival of evacuees from Ilford High School to Ipswich. Reproduced...

The Lighter side - Life in Darsham

Although we feared enemy activity because of the radar station being so near we were extremely fortunate...

I Was A Pioneer

The Warrant Officer in charge of our workshop was of the opinion that WAAF personnel should be able to...

MTB695 by Leslie J. Sprigg, Ex Leading Telegraphist

Then a convoy was seen approaching and the SO took us up the shore side and all boats attacked with...

A W.A.A.F. at Martlesham Heath 1940 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Mary's story, together with the war story of her husband, Harry Blood, was transcribed onto a floppy...

A Boy’s View of the War in Suffolk by Stan Miller

The milk round I was 11 when the war broke out, I lived in a little village in Eyke in Suffolk... When...

A Wartime Marriage

As, at that time, my husband was stationed at Harwich, we spent our honeymoon at my Aunty May's house...

Village Life in Glemsford

As we were in the direct line for bombers going to London, we oftenstood in the back yard and saw the glow...

Bury St Edmunds during the War

From listening to the radio we soon learnt that if the planes went to the right of the sugar beet factory,...

Schoolchildren during World War Two

On a lovely summer morning we all arrived at the railway station,wheeled our bicycles into the guard's...

Land Army Memories

After I joined the land army I lived at Sutton Hoo, and learned to milk cows there... We had to wash the...