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15 October 2014
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Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 1: Back to School - September 1939

But before long the numbers crept up to 140 and some of us had to billeted with families in the town as...

Frothy Freddy

I went from there with 1651 to Stradishall, then back to Waterbeach, then West Wratting. Then to another...

Serenity of a Caring Mother.

One particular day my two brothers and I were in the kitchen with our mother when we heard the familiar...

An East Ender in Monmouthshire and Taking the Family down the Shelter by Rose Hyams (nee Wolfshaut)

Back to the East End for a holiday I came back for a holiday with my sister and she didn't want to...

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Marjorie's D-Day

Coming from a very ordinary family living in a council house in Liverpool, with no member of my family...

Bomber Command Armourer

There were 15 bomb stations on a Lancaster and the aircraft was loaded in order to keep the aircraft stable...

Winged Chariots -Part 4: The Chairman Remembers

At initial Training Wing I was lucky enough to be at New Clare and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge, where...

Royal Engineers

In April or May 1942, the Workshops Section Officer of 231 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers in 11 Corps...

My Time in the WAAFicon for Story with photo

When I arrived at Huntingdon Station, I was met by a truck driver who threw my kit bag in the back of...

Memories....History

Like the sound of a siren and the goose bumps that immediately appear over my body, even now, whenever I...

Food and Clothing

Sometimes Uncle Bill would kill a hen that had stopped laying and it was cooked in a saucepan as a...

Memories of Parker, Pledger and Dayicon for Story with photo

My brother George Percival Pledger was called up for the Militia. My husband Arthur Parker was sent out all...

Evacuation to Ely

We only travelled for about two hours and ended up at Ely station. While at Ely, my Mum and Dad, Aunt and...

A Solicitor in the Fire Brigade

I remember after the fall of France - it would have been about 1942; our eldest child David, he was just...

Being Evacuated at Three Years Old: From West Ham to Huntingdon and Newick

My sister and i were three years old when the second would war started So the story goes is that my mum...

A Close Shave

The farm was about half a mile south of the main runway of the Bourn airfield a base for Mosquito bombers...

Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day [N.Barnes]

Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day. I then moved to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in Birmingham for general...

Pathfinder Tour

I was finally posted to 97 Squadron at Bourn near Cambridge; part of the 8 Pathfinder Force. I took part in...

Living with the Horrors of War

My auntie was crying as she dreaded the bombs were hitting Linton as the sky was lit up in that...

Toys Games and Occupations

My uncles used to make me toys like dolls houses, monkeys or clown acrobats that swung between two sticks...

Cambridge Home Front Letters

These letters were given to me to copy on to this site by by aunt Joan Punter she now owns these letters...

Spy Fever

Unfortunately, they put it in the wrong place and to get a clearer view of any German Tank that might...

A Childs Tale: Evacuated to Redhill and Huntingdon

Help’ was handing out mugs of tea, chocolate and cigarettes to the hundreds of soldiers on trains...

Evacuation - to St Neots

We found ourselves in the village hall at St Neots, Cambridgeshire, standing with many other London...

American Airman with Deep English Roots Then and Now

The preparation for war left no time for looking for English cousins except for two days with a related...

Childhood Memories

One night there were Stirling bombers, and German planes were attacking them, and we were watching the...

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