Kent

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 5

I was on the court enquiry and it seemed that the sergeant in the Bren Carrier thought that the mines were...

My War by Betty E Turner

True to his promise, when we were settled in Maresfield in May 1941, a brand new ‘New Hudson’...

Fire Orders Chapter 12

The other dentist took a Iong look at the chart in his hand, then looked at the chart in my dentist's...

My Life My War - Chapter 13b

Next door was the Admiralty building and at five minutes past midnight, the beach, which was out of bounds...

When the Army Came to Stay in WW2

He came back followed by an Army Officer who had come to inform us that during the air raid last night, a...

Dungannon Boy goes to War - Chapter 1

Most of my Belfast school friends had joined the Territorial Army, a great many of them had joined the 8th...

A Schoolboy's War: In Folkestone, Dawlish and Dumbarton

I only stayed with the Houstons for about a year as, in late 1941, my Mother sent for me to join her...

A Schoolboy's War

David Houston worked in a torpedo factory on Clydeside and Mary was a Nurse at the local army barracks. I...

Life in the Services 1939-46, Chapter 4

We then pressed on to La Goulette, where I found myself with a Petty Officer and two other ratings in the...

Wartime Memoirs of a Lark

There, military or civilian police would ensure the disposal of Germans to a POW holding wing, or in the...

John Hudson - A London Family (1939 - 1945)

Perhaps some old soldiers from 1914 expected them to "go over the top" when the whistle blew, but...

Getting Out of the Army

It was 1943 and I was thirty-nine, and the prospect of being uprooted and away from my wife and kids was a...

A Marine's Tale Part 5

The hospital ship sailed that same evening and docked that night in Portsmouth ,we were then taken by...

Dungannon Boy goes to War - Chapter 2

The next night Herbie Rowan, Harry Murphy and myself, found ourselves free in Cape Town. In our four day...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 2

I had enlisted with 254 Battery Royal Artillery and I discovered, it was quite good so far as Territorial...

Arrive at Shorncliff

These early hours with the army and its life stile pointed to an early return to Civilian Street, cold,...

A Young Girl's War in Falconwood and Edenbridge

My family - Mum, Dad, older brother Norman and younger sister, Valerie and me - lived in Falconwood, just...

A Shed Full of Mills Bombs:A Boy's Memories of WW2 in Maidstone

Maidstone suffered terrible casualties one day when a lone Dornier, aiming at Rootes Motor Repair Sheds,...

My Life in Folkestone during WW2

As the Germans were only 21 miles away across the Channel they would send shells over and although we were...

Baedecker Raid of 42

Tom Hoare, George Easton, Bill Gardener, Bert Burden and Joe Wants were on the Cathedral roof together with...

Canadian and American Squadrons at Headcorn Airfield

The two Canadian Squadrons were 403 and 421, led by Wing Commander Johnnie Johnson CB CBE DSO DFC DL. Soon...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 4

The following day, a Sunday we all took part in “Boat Stations” drill at 0900 hours as usual...

Ken Webb's War

While on duty at the Reculver lookout some months later, we had to look out for the German Focker Wolf 190...

Primary schooldays WW2

Chelsfield was only a few miles from Biggin Hill which was a fighter defence air station guarding London....

The Story of Lillian Ewins [L.Ewins : Part 3]

Billy had a very good voice, like his Dad, and sang m St. Lukes church choir. While Billy was attending...

Child of the War

I was born on 14th April 1936 at 9 Lorina Road in Ramsgate in Kent, which is close to the Whitehall Road...