The northern cities were no longer bombed and I was able to enrol for a course of Art and Design at the...
Somewhere near Bishops Stortford, I was driving a Flight Lieutenant and two RAF hitch hikers towards London...
At the beginning of WW2 I was five years, fifteen days, & seven hours old. . I lived at Darley Dale in...
I gained one of the highest scores of all the children taking the Manchester 11+ and was awarded the...
The main purpose in life in Chesterfield was learning to drive an Army lorry, but we still had PT,...
We kept abreast of the news from the front by newspapers such as "News of the World"; "Daily...
One of the teachers’ jobs was to visit the billets once a fortnight, to see how our children were...
There were other travellers on the train, mostly natives of India and some British troops, but I was the...
After a brief stay in Monkton we were put on a train to Lethbridge that was not too far from Winnipeg. When...
Before going any further into our life in The Hall, I should write something of the village and the...
Our Stan' kept the small room that had always been his, Nell, Ruby - for just a couple of months -...
Out of a batch of forty or more applicants at that time from the battalion, just two of us eventually went...
The children were: - Maureen and Joyce Rawlings, Sheila Rawlings, Pamela and Derek Monk, Dorothy and Dennis...
Introduction At the outbreak of the second World War, I was nine years of age and one of four children...
Soon five gas mask boxes were lined up to dry, with :- MUM, DAD, STAN, LIL and PEARL written in gleaming...