South East Wales

War Memoirs of Reginald Kenneth Probst (part 3)

Maggie's sister was getting married in London and it was a rush early one morning, leaving Elswick...

As I Travel Along Life's Somtimes Stony Path - Part 1

Each of the surrounding villages of Gowerton had one or more coal mines, or a steelworks, a tinplate works,...

Marjorie Pinchin

We got our uniform from Hall's in Monmouth you see, which was a maroon tunic, but black stockings and...

Margaret Parker

Then my other brother, he went to Canada, he was sent out there to train, in Charlotte Town he was, and he...

Ruth Packer

The big house at Mount Ballan that was filled up with Land Girls, and there was another Land Army Hostel...

Childhood Memories

He said that he had heard Miss Williams tell his fostermother that she had received a letter from my...

Fire Orders Chapter 2a

After three months in Dudley, during which time we had become completely integrated into battalion lire, we...

Keith Underwood's Memories -Part 3

I left Penn School on July 27th 1942 and went to the newly set-up Junior Mixed School in the Hall of the...

Cardiff Under Attack by the Luftwaffe Part 1 Llandaff Cathedral is badly damaged

I was then a little girl aged 8 years old and lived in the village of Llandaff, Cardiff, in South Wales....

Betty Bennett Chepstow Memories

One of the leading ladies painted the water colours of Chepstow Castle and the Arch that Larkfield staff...

Donald Barton Chepstow Memories

Late in October'39 my sister Pat started at the elementary school near to the Castle and I was admitted...

Edward Green's Story

Chepstow was a very small Market Town which comprised mainly Chepstow within the Town walls, Garden City...

Jean Hopkins

But Chepstow was lucky - only one bomb fell on the mud on the banks of the River Wye near the Castle,...

My Mum's Diary as an Evacuee aged 16 Part 2

Elwyn was too shy to dance with me but it was enough that he was there! He signed it ‘Love Elwyn and...

Eileen Couch's Story -Part 1

Anyway, 1943 we had an epidemic of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, and the Hospital was full, all the wards...

WAAF

I would like you to imagine a young country girl 20 years of age standing on the platform of her local...

A Wartime Childhood - in South-East Wales

He became an armourer, loading bombs into the aeroplanes at the aerodrome at Weston Zoyland, and later at...

Tess' memories of World War ll

Despite all the shouting by Air Raid Wardens, Bomb Disposal Officers and Uncle Steve, she calmly went...

John Florida

There was one very nice wedding where the daughter of a DASO, that's a Deputy Armaments Supply Officer,...

Eileen Couch's Story -Part 2

Voluntary Organisations then in 1941 Harold Morris started the Army Cadet Corp in Chepstow. Harold Morris...

Through My Eyes: An Unhappy Time in Eastbourne

This, together with the shortage of food and mum missing dad coming home in the evenings soon made us...

Pamela Johnson

They were all so different, the Colonel about Ike's size and the Captain a big bear in the Jeff...

John Florida

There were always Uniformed Officers coming, the Cordite and everything we produced was inspected by the...

Cardiff Under Attack by the Luftwaffe - Part 2

One of the tombstones hit the roof of Llandaff Church School, that was situated in the centre of the...

Nesta Marendaz

My Mother's sister, her husband and four children were living in Southend - my uncle was a Manchester...

A Wartime Boy in Penarth

The prominent position of Penarth, overlooking Cardiff Docks and the Steelworks, meant the town became one...