Kent

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 2

During my tour of duty at Shoreham airfield I did get detailed for gun post duty once or twice. Together...

The Day I Discovered Peace

Then there was the walk to the shops with Mum, brother and myself. My brother and I were told that...

Michael Daniels' War

I lived with my Mum and Dad in the village of Borough Green in Kent. Sitated some seven miles from West...

Contrasts

Where I worked many of the young compositor apprentices were already Auxiliary members of the Edinburgh...

Backyard crisis

The day before war broke out I was evacuated from East London to Maidstone, Kent to stay with an elderly...

Growing Up In The War Years

At age 7yrs I went to a Convent school ran entirely by French nuns who listened in to the free French radio...

Nine Billets in Three Towns

I was sent to Glamorganshire, not with the children from the Whitstable but linked to East London children...

Two Kinds of Luck Story of an Evacuee

This time his luck really changed for the worst, John encountered the Whiteings, a well- to- do family who...

Non-Stop Bombing

Jean recalls watching a dog fight from her Aunt's bedroom, near Dartford Heath. There was the Joyce...

Wartime Memoirs Of A Lark - Part 2

"Oh yes, from Martin Mill in Dover, right around the North Kent coast, including mills at North...

A Brief Wartime Experience

I was working in Theatre at the time and was rudely awakened on my day off at 5:30 am by a night...

War memories of Somalia

However, we had many nationalities in the camp; we had English; French; South African; and Italian...

WAAF Experiences - RADAR Chain Home Low

Amalgamated Press — London WAAF — Radar Operator — Chain Home Low Gloucester —...

Mr W S Lowbridge: Joining the Royal Engineers

The trrops were sent into France, Belgium and Dutch borders and what was known as the phoney war started...

Early Memories of Bombing in Bexleyheath, Kent

The next memory is 29th June 1944 when my Brother myself and a lodger were sleeping in the Anderson air...

Olive Roots’ Dymchurch and Newchurch War Childhood

Lived in Blackmenstone a farm near Newchurch Romney Marsh Kent. One Sunday morning a German plane came down...

One Man's War as a Fireman in Kent

He moved to Ramsgate when he was two, and went on to attend Chatham House School, along with his best...

My Life at Dunstable's Meteorological Office

Four went to Bletchley Park and the other three including myself went to Dunstable. The Met Office closed...

A Schoolgirl in Canterbury

The Battle of Britain (1940) In 1940 during the Battle of Britain, as a schoolgirl I was in the Simon...

This account of one day in 1940 is taken directly from my daily war-time diaries which I kept as a school girl, living in Kent.

The all clear at 2.10p.m. When 3 friends came to help Dad with the roof of the dug-out, they told us that...

The Shelter

My husband John was an engineer and working on the radar system at Beckenham in Kent... A bomb had landed...

Staney Tassells war and farm memories

During the war the children of Ulcombe were evacuated to Devon and then children from London were brought...

One of Many

There was no room for about 10 of us on the buses so we went by horsebox to meet up with about...

Street Trader's Son's Story

When I was 8 years old in September 1940 my family's home was bombed in Lewisham London. Nobody was...

Grandma's Evacuation

My Brother was 3 years older than I was when we were evacuated from Charlton in London, well known for its...

The Last V2 - Final Attack in Orpington, 1945

It was the morning of the 27th March 1945, Mum had gone to clean the library in Orpington High Street, it...