Surrey

The Bombing of Kenley Aerodrome 1940

I started to help with the cleaning up when, suddenly I realised that if the Luftwaffe had bombed us they...

From Mock Invasion to Machine Gunned (Pt 2)

Having ventured upstairs to look out of the front bay window, he reported that the skyline was ablaze on...

A Little Overtime Work

Ted on many occasions rode home with anti-aircraft shell splinters pinging off the pavements as he passed....

Memories of a Teenage Wartime

We left Catford station at 9.30 that Saturday and finally ended up at Ashford station about 12.30 where we...

A Charmed Life: Evacuation from London to Godalming and Back Again

At the outbreak of the Second World War, my father, Edwin Pearson, was three years old and living with my...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Surrey

Rationed balancer meal was obtained from the Ministry of Food office in Millmead, Guildford. The Ministry...

Extract From Young Henry's War

One day Henry and Ron turned a corner as they scuffed their way to school, to see the road blocked with a...

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 2 1940 : Dunkirk, the LDV, cadets and airplane spotting

Redhill, Reigate's twin-town, was an important railway junction... Trains full of Dunkirk evacuees,...

Work of National Importance

Just a ten-minute walk to and from my flat and, as the firm's canteen was housed at its main factory,...

Just Another Day: V1 in Worcester Park

I can see my father now standing in the doorway of the shelter hands against th wall on either side to...

D-Day Preliminaries: A Child in Caterham

The follwing day Eddies, the sergeant, approached my Mother "We are hopeless cooks" he said, we...

War Diaries (part 4)

13-10-1940 Sunday Around 11.30 a.m., Alan, Bert's son, asked if he and Loline could go up to the Golf...

The Home Front, 1939-40

Children from London and other vulnerable target areas began to be evacuated to parts of Wales and the West...

Schooling and Sardine Pie in Surrey

Anti-aircraft guns would attack the German bombers as they approached London. My friend's father grew...

Moving From War-Torn Portsmouth to Surrey

My mother must have felt it strange leaving Portsmouth, with all the " mod cons" - running water,...

Home Guard in Caterham

About 6 months later, Cranmer was promoted Adjutant and I was promoted to Platoon Officer, operating from...

Siren Sounded a New Way of Life

The date was Sunday, September 3rd, 1939 and the previous day my brother Alfred and I had been part of the...

Evacuation from London to Surrey

I returned to Surrey staying with Mrs Rayner and her two daughters who were from London and renting the...

D-Day +

We awoke real early to the noise of many, many aircraft, so we went out of the house and looked up, the...

Joan Boschier's Memories of Woking in World War Two

We had a British Restaurant in Woking and my friend and I went there at lunchtimes because we liked the...

Nursing at King's College Hospital

In October 1943, I began nursing training at King's College Hospital in Camberwell....

Henry Lund's War Chapter 7 'Release the the Journey Home'

On the 8th May we were flown by Dakota aircraft to Brussels where we were cleaned up and given cash......

Recruits in the Scots Guards:Spring 1944

The powers that be in their wisdom decided to choose the REAL Scotsmen for the Scots Guards, that is, the...

The Lost Briny: Memories of the Isle of Wight

Here was a wild unspoiled section of coastline east of Bexhill town and with not a single...

Recollections of the W.V.S. 1939-1942

In August, the Dorking and Horley District Council requisitioned ‘Thornbury’ — a large...

My War: Evacuated from Surrey to Somerset

My sister Pat and I played happily in the garden with our friends whilst our parents wondered exactly what...