Individually Contributed Diaries

Extracts from David Phin's Diary

In 1941, Joyce Henderson met David Phin, who was an Engineer in the Merchant Navy....

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 3 Germany The Long March

Jan 22 Reported Russian armour over Oder Bridge which we crossed reported demolished, at 3 a.m. Panic...

Scraps from My Old Diary

Mum told me to wipe it off, and told me use my blackboard that Uncle Bill made for me... Mum has sewn...

The Diary of Mrs Ruth Irving- Bell 1

On Kru Estate, in spite of warlike rumours, life went on placidly with our household of Timothy the Indian...

Evacuation and the Blitz

WE WOULD STRAIN OUR EARS FOR THE NEXT SOUND … SOMETIMES QUITE A WHILE, THEN IN THE DISTANCE, THE THUD...

My Camp Diary [M.Colley]

Miss Briggs was the daughter of Zillaq, Shelagh was the lover, Mrs Mac the mother, Trina and I was the...

Diary Entries 11th April 1945

A horrified Busty yelled: "Get down you stupid bastard!" and to my immediate relief Hewie...

Jim Omer's War Diary

The course was the first War Course for Assistant Instructors. It was held in the Railway Gymnasium, York,...

This account of one day in 1940 is taken directly from my daily war-time diaries which I kept as a school girl, living in Kent.

The all clear at 2.10p.m. When 3 friends came to help Dad with the roof of the dug-out, they told us that...

War Diary- May 1940

24th May Told going to Calais, got prepared, went out of village via Pontamahon, Lille, Armeliers, Buaill...

George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part V

Taken on a visit to Romileyon the road to Haifa, this time it was a Bank manager and we had tea at...

A Dutch Story

As an English woman living in Holland, I was recently given a "baby book" written by the parents of...

Extract of Diary: George Wilson,Senoir Radio Officer SS Cameronia

6th June Wave after wave of fighters flew over the ship this morning.This is D.Day,we leave at 11 am.pass...

Wartime Diary of a Schoolboy in Isleworth, London

He kept a diary throughout the war years which documented his experiences as a schoolboy living in London...

Dive Bombing in Italy - A Memory Confirmed

The next day 90 Bty guns moved towards Termoli on route protection and RHQ moved to north of Serracapriola...

Extracts from a Diary of a 14 year old in W.W.2

Her two sisters Pat and Sylvia met us in Paddington Station and took us on another train to Burnt Mill. Mon...

My grandads diary: With the Royal Signals in North West Europe 1944

He went trough France to Belgium and ended in Holland near Eindhoven. Later on in live she marries my dad...

Diary of the War for 1944

As well as recording details of all the events as they unfolded across Europe, John's family obviously...

H.M.S. Speedwell - June 1944

Off Portsmouth on the Wednesday morning 7th and turned round without going in and went back towards France...

Diary of a 17 Year Old in 1943

18th-ARW 4.55am for seventy minutes, heaviest gunfire London had heard. No air raids were recorded during...

Keeping a Diary in Wartime: 4th Queen's Own Hussars in Italy and the 49th LAA in Egypt

Keeping a Diary in Wartime: 4th Queen's Own Hussars in Italy and the 49th LAA in Egypt. A typical list...

The return home from Malta

Trouble when an Italian sea man was caught stealing tins of jam, milk etc... More stories and pictures...

Yurij Ryabikin's diary

It's a diary of Yurij Ryabikin. This day mother and Irina were evacuated from Leningrad....

Diary of a private soldier. Hill 112

Our position in an orchard was then 'visited' by five German tanks; we thought they were British!.....

Leaving Dunkirk: With the 21st Anti Tank Regiment

It was a kind of diary, handwritten notes in a small notebook, beginning on the 10th June 1940 and the...

CONVOY DIARIES TO NORTH AFRICA NOV 1942

ESCORTS DROPPED DEPTH CHARGES,STILL QUEUING FOR EVERYTHING,ORGANISATION STILL LOUSY,BIGGEST WORRY IS...