Cambridgeshire

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 5 - Harry Wood

We lined the guns up on the ranges, our gun being number 2, and I went with Jock Reynolds to pick up...

A Boy in Wartime Cambridgeshire

The skies above that had seemed busy became positively crowded with aircraft - Fortresses, Liberators,...

Phoney War? What Phoney War??

At Beaux Aires this was a four cylinder Lister diesel generator, rather than a searchlight lorry. On this...

'T' for Tommy: Bomber Command - 7 Squadron, at RAF Oakington

He was picked by a man called Eddie Land, an American, also on his crew were the Nav,Bomb aimer,Rear...

My Childhood Memories of World War II, Cambridge

Our sports lessons were taught by the young lady students from nearby Homerton College who took us to their...

Just Another Story - Chapter 2: 1678 Conversion Unit

Each aircraft was meticulously cared for and on many occasions, ground crews waited for the return of...

From the Blitz to the Cambridgeshire Fens 1940-1945 Part 3

I passed the 11+ examination in 1943 and was awarded an LCC scholarship and a place at a London grammar...

My Wartime Experiences: Evacuated from Croydon to Oxney in Kent and Eltisley in Cambridgeshire

My next recollection was being sent away to stay with my aunt and uncle in stone in Oxney near Tenterden...

My War: Evacuated from Tottenham to St Ives

When Mum and Dad got home we set off for St Ives and left the debris as it was. During the weekend...

My Wartime Experiences

My next recollection was being sent away to stay with my aunt and uncle in stone in Oxney near Tenterden...

Memories of War

In Totley my brother Paddy and I used to wander around quite a bit. We were told not to accept sweets from...

They Also Serve

Many of the men from the village were called-up which was strange as they were vital workers producing the...

Just Another Story - Chapter 7: Fifty Years On

P/O N.W.F. THACKRAY PILOT RAAF SGT. C.W. BANFIELD FLIGHT ENGINEER RAFVA SGT. R HUGHES WIRELESS OPERATOR...

An Evacuee's experiences:London to East Anglia

From North London we were evacuated to East Anglia, and we took the train from Liverpool Street with the...

Wartime Schooldays-First Job

I was about to knock on the door of a house when the bombers dropped a stick of bombs that screamed down,...

Cash-register Economics

I remained a potential officer even when, in the real army at last, I was medically downgraded for bad...

IV. Getting Ready for D-Day - 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

Getting Ready for D-Day Heveningham Camp, Fort George, Chippenham Park and Stanswood Bay, Southampton....

A Childhood of War

My earliest memories were of being evacuated, but I was lucky: my father as a schoolteacher at White Lion...

The War in Cambridge

When my second daughter was born in April my brother and his new wife came to live with me as they had...

Memories of a Sutton Girl [Mrs.Park]

1939 I was born in Sutton in Surrey saw a lot of the bombing in the docks, My father had his own...

Airman in Spitfire

Joining the RAF in 1942,at the age of 20 years I went into Initial Training Wing Paignton, Devon to train...

From Siberia to Arnhem via Scotland

In January ’42 Franek is accepted into the army and travels to Kraznodzk and then by oil tanker...

Vera Lynn Saved My Life

A Village Policeman's Daughter

The local men from the village formed the “home guard” and my dad, as an ex- guardsman would...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 4)

Ground crew and other staff awaiting demob were flown in Lancasters from our base in Upwood, Cambridgeshire...

Evacuation to Huntingdonshire

From Finsbury Park Station we went to Huntingdon North Station. Huntingdon Grammar pupils had attended the...