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My Years in Internment Camps: At York and on the Isle of Manicon for Recommended story

The internees quickly re-named the ship 'H.M. Prison Ship the Lady of Man'. This was due to the...

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I was billeted with the ATS there, who were clerks and very envious of me being able to travel when they...

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I could become a Motor Transport Driver, an Aircraft hand General Duties or a Gunner. Whilst here I met...

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It was a dark bitterly cold frosty Monday morning when I went to the station with my travel voucher to go...

My Mothers Letters from the Isle of Man - Chapter 3icon for Recommended story

Glenda went to Onchan on her byke today, with the riding people, and she certainly put J.B. through it......

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We called it 'Joe's bus' after the man who drove it. My cousin and I decided to go to Ramsay on...

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I was born just before the start of the war, in Port Erin, Isle of Man, and lived just outside the...

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At around 11.25am on 1 January 1940, an RAF 7 Squadron Handley Page Hampden P1260 A four-seater bomber on a...

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It was at Altrincham Grammar School; the Grammar School children did mornings and we did afternoons, this...

My mother's letters from the Isle of Man - chapter one

Do drop me a line — especially Glenda, who is very proud of you being in France. One of her friends...

Life in Pulrose, Isle of Man

The flares were used to illuminate the target area used for nighttime bombing exercises in Port Soderick...

Internment Visiting in the Isle of Man

BBC War Time Experiences Shirley Jean Gargan nee Sharpe born Douglas, Isle of Man 1934. One such person was...

Growing up in the Isle of Man - part 2

The target was out in the bay They dropped a flare every now and again which would light up the sky like...

My Wartime Childhood in the Isle of Man

I would go to my Grandparents at holiday time in Glen Maye and we would see the German planes, returning...

The Girl From The Isle of Man

We were never bombed, we only heard the planes going back to England....

Bombs not Bloody Sandwiches

My father, Ernie Copley, was stationed in the Isle of Man during the Second World War, manning ant-aircraft...

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