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A stay at Duff House In the summer of 1942 it was decided that we, along with the 4th Battalion, would...

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My Story of War Time in Cleland, Lanarkshire and My Time in the RAF

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Peggy's Wartime Memoriors

One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...

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Imagine the consternation of the local girls when a particularly pretty consignment of evacuees from...

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I have attended every Ack Ack reunion at York and really enjoyed them but how I wish that just once I could...

Family and Home: Evacuated to Beeswing, Dumfries

Yes, I remember the journey with awe; Every march, every line-up, every queue, Each call, from, "just...

Clyde River Patrol

Our instructor one day got a call from Capt.Davidson downstair in the deck dept. for a couple of us to see...

Forces’ Life — Leonard (“Nobby”) Clarke

Then, without any training or instruction, I was given transport to Bourton-on-the-Hill where a company of...

Air-raid shelter in the east end of Greenock

I was nine when the war finished and my most vivid memory was being in a railway tunnel in the east end...

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His name was David Mc Leod he was one of a family of 13 born in Cowdenbeath Fife.I guess I still have...

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My Grandfather was a member of the Home Guard in Largs on the Ayrshire coast... What they did not know was...

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