Kent

Doodlebugs

Fighter planes were shooting at the flying bombs, and anti-aircraft guns were also firing but many of them...

Growing Up in Maidstone during WW2

On one of these occasions I and my brother were in bed when an air raid took place and as usual my...

A Clippie's Tale

If I was on an early shift I used to cycle from Acol to the Westwood bus station. I was on the...

Attack on Mangravet

There was a knock on the kitchen wall my mother replied and opened the back door Elsie came through the...

A War-Time Visit to Canterbury:

One Saturday in late October 1942, my friend Ginger Middleton and I then stationed at Lyminge in Kent with...

Dancing for Victory

Before the war there were a lot of us from Blenheim Road at dancing school and one girl in particular,...

Bill's War

I was seven when the war started and many things stand out in my mind, such as standing in our back garden...

Joining Up Enthusiasm, Cardiff, 1939

In the middle of the feature film a notice was flashed on the screen requiring all Territorials and...

Night Light

As the bombing got worse,Grandad built bunks for us all in the cellar of the old Edwardian house and every...

My First Hop-Picking

I attended school, Pluckley Church of England,The milkman also used to come along on a tricycle, he had...

Fate Takes A Hand!

One evening, my father was talking to the Clerk of the Herne Bay Urban District Council, who told him that...

Village Playmates: A German Child in Kent

The little German girl took one bite of her sandwich and spat it out!.. She couldn't pronounce the word...

Some of My Wartime Experiences By Bob Turk

On the way we stopped off in Durban before setting off for a Bombay transit camp in India and then onto...

Child Memories of War and Poems: In Kent

I always remember asking my mum « what's a war, mum ? » and she said « You'll soon...

A Farming Wartime at Hemingstone, Suffolk.

A Farming Wartime at Hemingstone, Suffolk. I lived at Hemingstone, at the lower part of a village north of...

Hop Picking in The War

The Johnson family traipsed their way to East Croydon station for the annual hop picking harvest. Then a...

Hellfire Corner: Memories of Dover Castle

Which leads me to the Swingate Swingtet, which I was part of, and we played old time, waltzes, tango, rumba...

D-Day Telegram

Meanwhile Mum was at home with My Brother and myself like most wives, and had not heard from Dad for...

Dunkirk - The Margate End

At Strathsidewere Aunt Ethel Jarvis and Squadron Leader Jarvis ex RFC and their only daughter, my cousin...

A stricken Fortress

The road from the western end of Shooter's Hill seemed to be lined with houses all the way to...

Shelters

We trooped up the garden to survey their handiwork, and found the pit full of water. When my stepfather...

The Day War Broke Out Lillian's Story: In Kent

THE PLAYTINGFIELD ACROSS THE ROAD FROM WHERE I LIVED WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE ARMY AND BARRAGE BALLOONS...

Early Days of the War.

So I ended up with the British Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. Things went rather well and I was picked with my...

Bombed Out!

I was in my late twenties during the war and had already had children, we used to live in Fulham in London...

Driver Jack Couzens' story part 2

I found myself all alone on the boat and saw hundreds of men in the water struggling I saw one lifeboat...

Bill's Memories of the War

The next week we guarded the local post office and telephone exchange, and, during the next 4-5 months we...