Humber

Memories of Mulberry Harbour

BHQ was at Kilnsea Camp a few miles nearer Hull and probably the nearest actual unit to the point which...

My Memories

I am about to leave the wife and kiddies to go into the army, the Coy has been formed by R.G. Tarran...

Banking on the Front Line: 1941

His pièce de resistance that night was to convince a cynical Admiralty Signals Officer that it was a...

The Second Time Round

Once an escaping enemy bomber jettisoned his bombs after being chased by RAF fighters; they landed in the...

Early Signs and First Departure

Back home again in West Hull, where I lived with my mother and grandfather, they were building ugly...

The Schoolboy and the Rebel

So the boy and his mother began to save all the three penny pieces that they could, when they had enough,...

Memories of Arthur Turner: Part 2: With 7th Armoured Division

In middle of a forest with all its trees, so Royal Engineers came sawed the trees down which then became...

Helen’s Story

Helen was born, eleven years before the outbreak of war, in an isolated village near Hull where her father...

Beating the Odds

After lining up on the markers in accordance with the Bomb Aimer's directions, instead of the usual...

Evacuee 1941

Later in 1941 the Air-Raids on Hull intensified severely and the authorities decided to evacuate as many...

Another Time, Another Place

Joey Jacobs’ eldest brother Frank, is an SGT/Pilot. Joey Jacobs said “all Spitfire pilots were...

My Evacuation from Hull to Carlton

Our father worked as a labourer for Recketts, they lived on Garden Village in Hull, which was an estate...

My nightmare teenager years.

On the night of June 23rd 1943 the air raid sirens sounded in Hull, I was 16 yrs old and living at...

A Strabane Airman Remembered

One of the survivors of 150 Squadron, Group Captain Randal, wrote to Leslie's brother, Vic., in 1991...

My Childhood Near Pocklington Airfield

Pocklingtom was subject to cannon attack several times, probably by bombers which had dropped all their...

Life during the Second World War for My Grandma: In Hull

My Grandma's home in the centre of Hull was demolished....

Life during the Second World War for My Grandad: In Kirk Ella near Hull

Although there was so much bombing in Hull, no bombs fell in Kirk Ella, but he always felt that bombs might...

An 11 Year Old Boy's War Recollections: In Hull and the Merchant Navy

In May 1944 I joined the Merchant Navy, and joined a ship in Greenock, on the River Clyde. My mother was...

CRICKET VERSUS LUCKY STRIKES

The Yanks sauntered around the perimeter of the field carrying their baseball bats, catchers gloves, padded...

My War Time Story

Now we were ready for posting and in January 1943, my friend Isobel and I were posted to Blackdown in...

Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948. Episode 2

The first marine casualty to occur in the vicinity of the Humber was the loss of the fine passenger and...

A Tale of Four Parachutes

During the war I was too young to serve in the war itself so I joined the local branch of the Air...

St.Annes Convalescent Home The Night the Bombs Fell.

He was at home in Bridlington when the air raid sirens sounded,but remained indoors with the family...

Bombed and Evacuated from Hull

As Hull was one of the main targets for the German Luftwaffe, there was always a danger from the bombs so...

Joan Lawton -Land Army Girl

I already had a brother in the Army and another brother in the Air Force and I really wanted to go in...

Blazer to Battledress

As part of the overall plan to make units self sufficient, various members of the unit were sent on courses...