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World War 2 Memories

In November 1941, I left home early in the morning to meet up with two other girls from the village, Alice...

My Wartime Contribution

I spent over two and a half years at Woking even making tiny chutes for boxes that contained pigeons which...

Plane Spotting

I was sent to Ireland for a rest then, on my nineteenth birthday, after being ill with sea sickness on the...

An Experience of the Balham Bombing

On the day of the Balham Bombing, Felicity remembers sitting with her mother in the kitchen, listening to...

WAAF and reserved occupation

While in Torquay I went to the cinema and saw a news reel about bombs sent me under my seat. I stayed...

America Applauds Aunty

Nurse Susan McGinley, of Clare Hall Hospital, South Mimms, Middlesex,fined 10/- at Barnet yesterday for...

Life During the War (2)

What happened was that four hundred trainee piolts were shipped over to America and were split into four...

ON DUTY AT SAVERNAKE FOREST

I never did establish whether it was shot for the antlers, as venison for the officer's mess, or just a...

A close shave

I would often go half an hour after the bomb had dropped and you would see a dozen people working on the...

Dusting off war time memories

After 6 months I was transferred to Somerset and after another 6 months I was interviewed to become an...

Early Days in Wartime A.T.S.

Two A.T.S. companies worked for the R.A.S.C. The Gloucester Company were cooks and orderlies, and we were...

How we carried on having fun in London in spite of the war

There were bombs dropped by the side of that but there were lots and lots of other cinemas. We saw lots of...

how i dealt with nursing in the war.

In Febuary I changed hospitalsand started my training at a hospital in North London it was a veryhot summer...

Listening to the Enemy Radio

I was offered a factory job, or office-type work in Kent or Bletchley, Bucks. Vaguely knowing Kent and...

Memories of a wartime childhood in Kensington

Back in Kensington — father ARP warden — views of East End during the blitz — memories of...

BILLY and BETTY WISE

Every week Mum would visit Dad and my brother and I went with her as often as we could during his forty...

Calm before the storm

Dad and the Rescue Services dug furiously all that morning for survivors and eventually found Uncle Tom...

War Recollections

Inner London was badly hit by the bombing but only a small number of bombs fell in the South Harrow and...

Barrage balloons and polishing Spitfires

After training, I ended up at Hampden Park, right by Hampden Park….we were parked there and there...

Without a Home and Worse

When I got to London, it was very dark, the blackout, very late and very quiet, no people about at all as...

Life in the Blitz

When the bombing was really bad we had to go down to the Anderson shelters in the garden — a bloke...

Re: London's East End and Entertainment

My father an Air Raid Warden, and a local Councillor in East London, an area which had a mixed population...

I was working at The Air Ministry during WW2!

MARGARET SYKES AIR MINISTRY. I had worked for the Air Ministry for two years before the War started and...

A child's impression

When I was seven, flying bombs were a regular occurrence, so my parents evacuated me to Aunt Margaret and...

Celebration and Remembrance

Six weeks after the last V-2 rocket fell on London, the war in Europe ended, and May 8th 1945 was offically...

Hospital Evacuee as a Child and Sharing the Hospital with German Prisoners of War.

When my father was home from the Army on ordinary or compassionate leave, I used to persuade the nurses to...