Kent

My Sister, Poppy

Poppy was born on the 11 November, armistice day and was named by my Grandmother. Poppy and my mother were...

Teenager in WW2

At the outset of the war we went to school part-time but the animal-lovers among us trudged the 2 miles to...

D-Day Memories: Listening to the Radio in Perry near Wingham

Peggy's husband Bill was in the air force and Peggy was living in a cottage in Perry with her baby son...

Sirens/Dunkirk

I was walking a long the west cliff Ramsgate. It was a lovely sunny morning and the royal habour looked...

Dunkirk: Little Ships from Chatham Dockyard

As Jack was a dockyard worker, he was not called up for military service,I remember him telling me how,...

German POWs

From pictures I recognised them as Germans and I called my mum to see them... These were some of the first...

Re:Dunkirk, the SS shooting of POW's

My grandfather relayed this fact to me following the first episode of the BBC docu-drama Dunkirk. It...

Beneath the Stairs: V1 over Bexley Heath

During the duration ofthe doodlebug bombings the family would take shelter in the cupboard under the...

Mobile Siren

For Air Raid Warnings we listened out for siren Warnings and All-Clears from the tw0 towns mentioned. Came...

Full House!

My dad was in the East Lancs Regiment and was stranded, like so many others, at Dunkirk. But that is where...

Our Air-Raid Shelter

When I was 5 we used to have to go down to an air-raid shelter beneath a grass bank... Another time my...

Plane Crashing in St Peters

My great nan, Muriel Brenchley, told me this story for a school project on Town Life in world war 2. She...

Living in Tunnels and underground

Sister oona fascinated me when she said that they dug a long tunnel around one of the white cliffs of dover...

A Near Miss. I Forgive my Sergeant Major

The Company office was in large bedroom on the first floor.I was being given my orders for the day, when a...

My Wartime Home, Kent

The houses had an 100ft long gardens where I lived in the suburbs of London... For years after the war,...

On the Front Line: Battle of Britain

The story was related to me by my Grandfather, Gilbert Hares of the Old Malt House, Mongeham, Deal, Kent...

Strafed by ME109

Whilst in the allotment behind the houses in Dymchurch Road with my grandfather and friend Bernard,we heard...

Feeding The Troops

During June, two to three days prior to D-Day, whist still at school I went to help my mother at the...

Another Pat's Story

This could have been the same aircraft as Ted's, except it was on the beach when I saw it. My mother...

Mother's Anguish

As a very young child I lived near Woolwich Arsenal and so was evacuated... One day at school an air-raid...

My Flight Above Folkestone

The date was March 24th 1945 and with many other members of the 6th British Airborne Division I was en...

Scared Stiff

They piled into their Commanding Officers open top Bentley car armed with shotguns, slashers and...

Location Codes

For example 'darling' meant he was in Egypt, 'hello dear' was the far east, etc., etc. So...

Protection from Airial Bombardment

I was a clerk in the Royal Ordeance Depot, Ashford, Kent. During World War II, I was walking to work one...

Birthday and Priorities

I remember the ARP Wardens blowing whistles as they walked around the fields to announce the outbreak of...

The Beginning of My War - from London to Folkestone

I was nearly seven when the war started and went to my grandparents home.We thats my mother and myself left...