Cornwall

Memories of the War Years: A Biographical Account

On 20 November 1940, I was in the Star Hotel when the building next door took a direct hit from a bomb....

War Damage and Repairs

Local air raids damaged Falmouth's Wesley Church, Lister Street and the Boscawen Hotel. In fact Lister...

Blackwater Wartime Memories by Clive Benney and Tony Mansell

Following the retirement of John Oates in 1919, Mr A. J. Whale was appointed headmaster at Blackwater and...

Wartime Memories 1940 - 1946 (Continued)

I must have fallen asleep straight away, as in what only seemed minutes, there was the Petty Officer coming...

From Farmhand to Making Spitfires

The factory was always a prime target for the bombers but it was only towards the end of the war that the...

The Service Years (Part 12): RAF St Mawgan

Halfway between the drome and the Sergeants' Mess, a brand, sparkling new young Officer - just out of...

Adventures with the Royal Artillery Part 1

Some Allied troops moved and took Tunis and cut off the Germans who fell back to Tunis and surrendered......

Memories of the Evacuees

A gentleman who lives in Lostwithiel also an evacuee, who settled back in Cornwall, approached Josie and...

WW2 Memories

I cannot remember how much longer I stayed as an evacuee in Rushden but I know I returned home to Chiswick...

1940 Evacuation to Cornwall

Somehow Dad convinced the instructor that the A3 from Putney to Guildford would be just the route to give...

The Blitz in Bermondsey and Evacuation to Cornwall

This was all about to come to an end as we had to listen to that fateful speech by Chamberlain that we...

Barbara’s Wartime Memories — St Agnes, Cornwall

At the outbreak of the War I was nine years old and living at Garden Cottage, Goonbell St Agnes, Cornwall,...

Smugglers or Spies ?

Then the German tanks invaded Belgium and Holland and broke through the French defences and the British...

Fred Cole Part 1: The Start of World War II

There I discovered that I was also entitled to a day off a week for part time studies; so after...

Diary of a Squaddie: The First Three Days

Lots of other young men had similarly chosen, the result being that the form advised me that Private A....

The Sole Survivor

Within minutes of arriving home I had discovered that the ship had been an aging unit of the British India...

Encounter with a Flying Bomb

The usual procedure of the Bomb's journey was; leaving the French Coast with enough jet fuel to take it...

Enid's War, St Agnes Cornwall

I met James “Alfie” Kneebone, and we started courting, he lived in Rosemundy cottages with his...

Evacuation Experience (Cornwall)

Also in 1943, all the Jewish young boys, like myself, had to go in a bigger boys’ cottage called...

Jeanette's Story

The bay was where a lot of the action was.People was trying to escape from France ,and the Germans were...

WARTIME MEMORIES

I remember sitting with the girl who later became my wife in the dining room of her parents' house in...

Growing up during the war: Evacuee in Cornwall

My mother was a teacher at Amberley Road Primary School, Paddington, in London and she was evacuated before...

Evacuation to Trethosa

Trethosa Chapel Sunday School was used in addition and a teacher, Mr England was sent down from London to...

A Schoolboys View of World War 2

A Schoolboy's view of World War 2 By John Salisbury I was only 6 years old living in Rose Cottage,...

My WW2

I lived as a child with my parents and my elder sister in St Ives, Cornwall. It was a Focke-Wulf 190. It...

A View of the War from Cornwall - part 2

TRAVEL Journeys from Cornwall to Devon and Somerset were by train via, of necessity, Plymouth North Road...