Poetry

Ode to Ann and Harry

Now Ann was a farmer's daughter Who had lived at Church Farm all her life, But Harry, he came from the...

Poem found in the pocket of an American Soldier in 1944

Where you live on Brussels sprouts and Spam And the powered eggs aren't worth a damn, Where in the town...

Fred Hirst-Poetry

The author of this true poem is unknown but it has been taken from the book, ‘Memories of...

V J Day - 60 Years On.

On September 1st 1945, my mother's young brother Donald Stewart Bowden, Flight Sergeant with 99...

‘Our Heroes’

Missions from Woodhall Spa Tracers coming through the thatch I didn't quite get the chop Little humour...

In These We Served

A sturdy British Brigadier, A Nippon bayonet at his rear He struggled with his tangled gear And a little...

Far East and Italy Memories

In 1944, Audrey Hepworth`s father Charles Leslie Broxholme, then living in Bradford, received a letter from...

Remembering

Come on Girls get out of bed. those were the words mamma always said. There we sat, each with favourite toy...

Night Raid on the Tyne. 1942.

Children brought toys, or prams with their dollies, And their parents brought blankets and flasks of hot...

A D-Day Mystery

I was a lad with all to gain Travelling to school by railway train I stayed at school quite late one day...

My Father

I had a Baby Daughter on my twenty first Birthday, Yiu met her too,when she was just a Babe in arms... My...

A Poem by Brian K Fenton

Hitler waged war in Europe in 1939 Until then, the world was at Peace, we were all doing fine Ambition and...

Desert Rat

IF JERRY'S GUNS AND EYETIE BOMBS DON'T FRET YOU - AND ROUGH ANGOLA SHIRTS, DON'T EVEN CHAFE....

Soldiers Don't Cry

Battled for weeks to relieve Tobruk; at Sidi Rezeigh whole Regiments wiped out, On to Bengazi, both sides...

The Coventry Blitz:Two poems

The Scheherezades fearful of ending their stories, told on and on until the All Clear brought us out,...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 4

During my stay in Northern Ireland with the 53rd Infantry Division, we carried out many military exercises...

Arnham

This story I shall tell I can remember well Although it happen many years ago I met my Fred But now he...

Brothers at War

His brother,Will,sailed on a troopship to the other side of the world.Their convoy was escorted by brave...

Our Bank Holiday - a poem by Deirdre Y King

It was on that August Bank Holiday When the Huns decided to come this way, They came with a bang, a bump...

Christmas on The Duchess

On Christmas Day 1941 I was one of several thousand servicemen on the troop ship "Duchess of...

The changing face of Childhood: Evacuated to Wales

My Uncle was a Carpenter in a Pit and made wooden toys for me with the left-over bits of wood and Auntie...

A Londoner's Recollections

The palace proud in crimson brick With oaken beams and Tudor chimneys tall, Elizabeth the Virgin Queen...

The Photographs-Joan Moor.

The young people who had tried to hold on to the peace and had been injured or had lost their lives in...

Childhood memories

The Nuttgens and Fosters And Eric Gill too We played with their children In orchards and farmyards. To...

The Allithwaite Blitz

The tomcats growled, the tabbies howled Joe Rainford's hens had fits, The cows all bawled, the old mare...

Child Memories of War and Poems: In Kent

I always remember asking my mum « what's a war, mum ? » and she said « You'll soon...