Northern Ireland

Corvette commander on North Atlantic anti submarine duty - part 3

The first of the two submarines sunk by the groups to which Kenilworth Castle was attached was in the North...

The Life and Times of an RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner - Part I

Here I joined a crew of three alongside Gib Whittamore Arthur Grifffiths and Ron Diggle manning a Lockheed...

Commissioned Service to 1944

Their crews sprang into action and, with great difficulty and resourcefulness, managed to fix a towline...

A Wren's WW2 Experiences..... As Narrated at Schools in Sydney by Doreen Orr

Hitler then turned his attention further afield and started the bombing of all the large cities in England...

Mike Sambrook: a Collection of Wartime Stories as Told to Alan McVeigh

So began Mike Sambrook's life in Kilkeel -- a journey that found him love and marriage, a journey that...

An Irish - Italian Romance

Had there not been a second world war my father John Logue of Campsie, County Derry would have lived...

Who really won the war, Daddy?

MIKE Sambrook's sons never asked him such a question, but if they had, his answer would have been...

A Thomas Cook Tour

Belvoir Park, Belfast, was an ammunition dump at the time. Whilst there, I saw Winston Churchill, President...

The Mournes and Me: Kath's Story

I can remember watching the people walking along the Dundrum Road, people who had walked the whole way from...

War Memories of Derry

I was born in a quiet and rather sad town that was Derry before 1939. Fortunately, Derry escaped attack,...

Memories of a Jewish Couple [Mr. & Mrs.Kammerling]

In Vienna ten per cent of the inhabitants were Jewish. One of my sisters was eighteen at the time in 1938...

Emily Cathcart's Wartime Memories

She and her husband George Cathcart ran a small country general store and post office in Bellanaleck, Co....

On the Home Front

The reason my parents wanted this was because they were Mayor and Mayoress of Dagenham and were going to be...

Evacuated to Berney near Strabane

We stood for a long time whilst they decided where best to put us and then it came to our turn and...

Growing up in County Fermanagh during the War Years.

During World War Two Edith Sheridan was a teenager in rural County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on the...

Blitz on Belfast

We spent holidays at the cottage and my grandmother used to take her children there after Easter each year...

Further Memories of an Irish Schoolgirl

Shortly after the outbreak of war my father's eldest brother, who lived in Wembley and worked in the...

Shankill Road Evacuee at Strabane 1941-43

My father was originally from the Artigarvan area, near Strabane but had moved to Belfast and we lived in...

'I Suppose They Think I'm Dead!'

I lived in the married quarters of Aldershot with my husband, Reg, who was a soldier... Reg was stationed...

V.E. Day, Sirens and Maggie's Teeth

This women and her family heard the sirens and ran in for the neighbour next door and they said to her,...

The War Years in Omagh- Memories of a Schoolboy

There were no scarcity of military installations — the St Lucia Barracks, the garrison home of the...

My Wartime Childhood Years

We stayed in Scotland for 3 years until Dad's ship was sent to Belfast where we once again joined him....

A First Taste of Army Rum, and, the Commander and the Clown.

The colonel, however, came up with the idea of bringing the rum back to Kilkeel and splitting-it between...

Greenislanders ww2

As Pat Graham I grew up in Greenisland on the shore of Belfast Lough, 8 miles from Belfast and 3 miles from...

Royal Ulster Rifles at Sword Beach & Cams Wood

We lost 182 men in Cams wood by crossfire and sniper and tanks....

Wartime Revisited

The Home Front My dad Archie served in the Home Guard and was on duty in the Castlewellan area when Belfast...