Kent

Stories from Welling by Peter John Caplin

These stories were submitted to the People War's site by Jane Van de Ban of CSV Media on behalf of...

The Sinking of the Umvoti

THE SINKING OF THE "UMVOTI" In July, 1940, when imminent invasion was expected, I was posted to the...

Our First Night Was Memorable

After training we were sent to Scotland as part of a new A.A Battery on the Craigentenny Golf Course,...

A Lucky Escape

My Mother went upstairs and suddenly shouted down to me to bring up all the pots and pans I could as there...

Home to Ramsgate: John Side 7

John Side — Home to Ramsgate During the Italian campaign things slowed a bit... Eventually Calais...

An Artillery Piece Saved My Father's Life

And on December 10, approximately 6 weeks after his hernia operation, HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the...

Memories of War Time in Dover, Kent

May 1940 the evacuation of Dunkirk began, we had no news of my Father so when the troops were landing at...

Working in the Rag Trade — Life went on as Normal by Joan Elsie Cork (nee Davies)

The younger one went back to our mum and then the oldest one got called up and joined the Lancaster...

Basic Training in the Army at Chatham [D.Ormsby : Part 2]

Basic Training in the Army at Chatham. The army training at Chatham came a little easier for me thanks to...

J A Martin DFC - Surviving an Attempted Own Goal at Dover

We thought we were crossing the English coast when the Dover Gunners started shooting at us with...

Canterbury in the First Year of War - a Child's View

As we were in the flight path to London I remember seeing German Bombers flying over in perfect V...

Flying Bombs over Sidcup

We did experience some of the bombing down in Kent and certainly up in North Wales we witnessed the...

Edgar Downs a Dornier

I had to edit them most carefully as mother would often relate the activities of Edgar's wife Poppy and...

A Thanet housewifes tale

My parents moved down to Birchington, Kent from London just prior to the outbreak of WW2, having both...

An Evacuee in Staffordshire 1940 - 1941

After the retreat from Dunkirk and there was a possibility of an invasion, it was decided that all school...

A Childs Tale: Evacuated to Redhill and Huntingdon

Help’ was handing out mugs of tea, chocolate and cigarettes to the hundreds of soldiers on trains...

Dorniers over Barnehurst 15th September 1940

Despite it being 65 years ago, we can relate to the story by Douglas Cooper concerning the death-throes of...

Shooting at Doodle Bugs

In order to intercept and shoot down the flying bombs which were coming over from France in great numbers...

My memories of the 18th July 1940

So that evening we went to the regent picture palace in Chatham and afterwards for a drink, then onto my...

Childhood during the war.

We were sent to my Grandmother's in Ramsgate in Kent, thinking that was the safer option... When my...

Letters from Home

During The Second World War, he was a firewatcher in East Dulwich, London, complete with stirrup pump......

Bill's War

It wasn't a bad posting, but neither was it without incident because there were huge artillery pieces...

The Morning After An Air Raid

As we stood on the doorstep, my grandmother a little behind and to the left of my mother, and myself on the...

My Memories of WW2

I lived with my family, Dot and Fred Moody, in the Prince Regent public house, Market Square, Dover. On...

Watching the Skies with the Royal Observer Corps in Kent

There were thousands of aircraft flying over the North Kent coast at this time. There was little enemy...

Some Brief Recollections of My Life at the Onset of World War Two: by Eric Castle.

From the onset of the Second World War I lived in Dover. Soon after the above incident I joined the navy...