Kent

Schooldays and a Sad Loss

One night following a loud bang and darkness, Dad rushed out to do his Air Raid warden duty, subsequently...

Weald House

On Friday 30th June 1944 a terrible disaster happened at Weald House a children's evacuation home at...

Unreal and Real Air Raids

My mothers sister invited my mother and I to sleep at their home during the war years whilst we spent the...

Margaret Emerson Wartime Memories

Kerry, Southern Ireland, one of 17 children, 8 sisters and 8 brothers. I lived in London working as a...

Who stole the Silver Spoons?

It was very close to the Woolwich Arsenal, a weapons manufacturer; so many bombs were dropped close to...

An Unexploded Bomb: A Hell of a Headache!

My father in law, Derek, spent the war on a farm in Kent where he lived with his Aunt and Uncle in...

And the band played on

In Jan 1940, I went to France and when the Germans invaded in 1940 I was in Belgium – Krombeke, about...

Blackberry & Apple Pudding

My grandmother and I had been into the orchard to pick blackberries and Bramley apples, in order for her to...

My Black Uncle

Uncle Jack was in the RASC and was at both Dunkirk and the Normandy Landings on D day. Into the pub came...

Alan Archer — Sea Mine from the Sky in Whitstable

At that time German bombers would fly over Whitstable to drop sea mines to attempt to blow up water traffic...

A Bullet through our Window in Beckenham by William G Duckworth

I was inside looking out of the window and from my right which is from the direction of Beckenham or...

Memories of a Frightened Lad

After the V2 Doodlebugs started bombing London and our vicinity my father thought it was time to send me...

How it Began: John Side 1

It has been written by his daughter Lyn Davis who kindly provided it to the Thanet Libraries and UK-Online...

An early beautiful Doodlebug viewing

The Philpot family bungalow was in South Willesborough and Archibald was employed in the railway works at...

Philip Stowell's War Time Memories

I remember the night when I stood in my back garden watching a German aircraft being cornered by the search...

Air Raid on Ramsgate: John Side 3

It has been written by his daughter Lyn Davis who kindly provided it to the Thanet Libraries and UK-Online...

Ken Nichols

My father had no job at that time so he joined Wilsons bakery and drove an electric bakers van around...

Brits on the Maginot Line, France 1940

"In the spring of 1940, I was sent with a small detachment to the village of Woippy in Lorraine, near...

First Experience of War: Childhood Memories in Kent

As it transpired, Bexleyheath was to become a point on the direct route of the Luftwaffe into London during...

Horror on the Harvest Field: 1940

My first really close-up experience of war, which even now, sixty three years later, threatens to make me...

Sad Experience in the Doodlebug Days

The Doodlebug menace was getting serious so the WVS half way up the Crayford hill was open and outside was...

Gravesend: The Doodlebug is Coming!

One day Mrs. Turner ran out of her house screaming for my Grandmother to "Come quick, Emma! My...

Wartime in Minster-in-Thanet

The first one fell in the orchard at the back of Bucks field, it's a council estate now, another one...

Dunkirk — Digging Out Shrapnel and Amputating Limbs

I was twenty years old when, having completed my training as a medical nurse at St Stephen's Hospital...

A 12 Year Old Trying To Do His Bit

Mr Churchill made many stirring speeches about defence of our little island and of civilisation as we have...

Make do and Mend

We lived in the Country, near Whitstable right on the South East Coast and had seen much activity in the...