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FIRE SERVICE GIRLS

I wore a uniform that consisted of a navy blue, skirt or trousers, navy blue tunic jacket with the NFS...

South Norwood V2

I was a blitz-hardened, 13 years-old Londoner, who, in 1940 had tolerated only two unhappy months of...

Coastal Forces

I was eventually released from teaching and went to Lowestoft where I joined the WVS working in the...

War Zones

I married in Silver Street Edmonton in 1940 and Malcolm was born in 1942. My elderly neighbours were...

Childhood in Hampstead, London

I don't remember the initial starting but then I was evacuated from London to Scotland and to Wales....

War Thoughts, to a lifetime in Television

By 1943 I had a place at S.E.L Technology College and had to travel each day on two buses or a bus...

Life on a Heavy Ack Ack Gunsite

I trained in Oswestry, Salop, to become a member of Ack Ack....

War allowed me to follow my desire to be a nurse

However after Dunkirk in 1940 the mood of the country changed and on June 6th 1940 I enrolled as a student...

Battersea Life

I was in my 20's during the war years and living in 2nd/3rd floor flat in Meteor Street, Battersea,...

Coastal Forces

I was eventually released from teaching and went to Lowestoft where I joined the WVS working in the...

Seven Years of Separation

When WW2 commenced, I was working in Bush House, on the Strand in a reserved occupation and lived in South...

My days as a 'Tweeny' for RH Miss Pakenham

I had been staying in Cooksbridge, Sussex, and my first job was in Haywards Heath for the Right Honourable...

Betty Staig's story

Following Morecambe, Betty was sent to a bomber station at Lynton, outside York, and became a radio...

Some Childhood Memories

As the sirens went and the heavy bombers droned over our head on the way to the London Docks, Mum would say...

Recollections of war as a young child

Boy Scouts and Beyond

At the start of the war I was in the Boy Scouts, and they became messengers between ARP posts scattered...

Memories of ATS days

Then when Ack-ack was disbanded I was sent to Finsbury Circus in London with the Pay Corps. It was one...

Coincidence

My family moved from Eastbourne to Greenwich in 1940. was bombed out, moved to Bedford... It wasn't...

From Stepney to Safety

On the 1st September 1939 I and my sister Joan, and my brother Donald aged ten, twelve and five,...

Life in the Wrens at Bletchley Park, 1941

WW2 orphans

1939 I was nearly nine when my brother and I walked in line with a lot of other children with the green...

My story by Mrs M Daly

The Merchant Navy were taking goods to Russia and bringing back ammunition to England. He was picked up by...

Wearing the trousers

I lived with my parents at Hampton and was an air raid warden I can remember it was rather novel to wear...

A WARTIME WEDDING

After this we were met everyday by a van at Liverpool Street station and taken out to Yiewsley where we had...

1943/44: Flying Bombs and a summer break in Bournemouth

To get a rest from the flying bombs in August 1944 I decided to go down to Bournemouth to stay with my...

Flying High

After a stint in Bridlington, I was in Bridgnorth when I heard my name called - "Billy" - I...