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A Pacifists War Wartime Collections

I was called to a tribunal at Fulham Town Hall where I had to face a judge, trade union rep, members of...

Wartime reminiscences

The firewatching was organised by the college, and raids with flying bombs had begun... Apart from...

We want air Gunners

While I was delivering the papers, I noticed that Mr. Petch, who owned a garage which was opposite the...

Growing up in Essex 1939-40

Raymond attended Ilford County High School, and he and his friends watched the Battle of Britain dogfights...

The Battle of Titterstone Clee

We did manoeuvres with the Hamers from Coreley The first foot and mouth Calvary They charged us with...

The Battle of Titterstone Clee

We did manoeuvres with the Hamers from Coreley The first foot and mouth Calvary They charged us with...

Truro Grammar School - The Red Cross Link

Fanned by the interest aroused by the Red Cross classes, a relatively large number of Fifth and Sixth...

Recollections of World War II as a young woman living in London

I travelled to London on the train to London Bridge station and walked from there to the Bank, across...

Post War: Chapter 2

This was a great improvement for me, a good rise in pay and no fares, I felt quite well off for a...

Eileen Nelson. More Beckenham WW2 experiences

I can't remember actual dates, but they bombed the viaduct at the Elephant and Castle — did a...

Radios and Boats

Vic's child hood was spent at King Edward VI Grammar School Chelmsford to start with, where the school...

Sixty Years Isn't Enough Time to Forget!

I lived in Sunderland then and worked at the NAAFI in Richmond in Yorkshire. The telegram came when I was...

Wartime memories

On one particular day, Tuesday 8th October 1940 I arrived back at Charing Cross station to find that a bomb...

An East End Boys Memories of World War Two

The next was seeing a German Plane flying low and firing a torpedo which sank the destroyer Dodrington and...

Evacuated to a stately home

In 1938 he'd taken out a lease on a stately home called Wroxton Abbey north of Banbury, the former home...

Five Years in a Few Words - My War Experiences

I had a few odd jobs after leaving Smethursts but during 1941 I started work at Lloyds Cars Limited,...

A student at Oxford

I was 20 when war broke out and a student at Oxford reading Spanish and French, and I had won a scholarship...

The Battle of Titterstone Clee

We did manoeuvres with the Hamers from Coreley The first foot and mouth Calvary They charged us with...

“Yee didna ring the bell, laddie!”

The only time I remember being frightened during the whole war, was one night when I was on duty at the...

Doing What I Was Trained For.

Now I had to shed one or two of my senior officers because I typed for the Brigadier himself - a huge...

My Small Part in Hitler’s Downfall

Our job was to monitor enemy Morse transmissions which were sent in a five figure of letter code, the time...

The Arabian Tea Tray

The two sailors grabbed us two children, forced us to the floor and placed the tea tray over us....

Two brothers escape bombing raid in Greenford Broadway

When I came back from Gloucester, me and my brother had been put in my Gran's house in Greenford and...

My Dad was a Fireman

By September, he was one of about 15 local men, now part of the AFS - volunteers in their spare...

invasion scare

Home to be Bombed

Born in London near the Elephant and Castle, the office where I worked was T.J Smith and Nephew in...