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A YOUNG LAD'S WAR

My Mum and my Stepfather returned to London but my brother, sister and I remained in Kingston and went to...

The Barrage Balloon Girl

I went on site in London, our duty was to operate Barrage Balloons during air raids. I was injured because...

A Vow of Silence

As soon as she could, Felicity also joined up, and by coincidence they were both asked to serve at Station...

Bombed Out

Also my youngest sister was asleep in her cot under the bedroom window the blast so iwas later told ,lifted...

Mary Hayzen Mears (nee Smith)'s WRNS experience

June 1943; I joined the WRNS at Mill Hill Training Depot for two weeks general training, followed by one...

A Young Nurse in Wartime

I returned to work at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital as a Midwife were we had eight maternity beds and our...

Double Evacuation

Because of the bombing it came very prominent to the government in England and the government in Gibraltar...

The photo in a serviceman's wallet

One such photo, that of my parents, was transferred from pocket to pocket, small pack to small pack, kitbag...

Gwendoline Fullick's (nee Pressland) Wartime Grocery Experiences.

Gwendoline Fullick's Wartime Grocery Experiences. We used to pack up the 2 ounces of butter with the...

SPECIAL W.A.A.F. MORSE CODE OPERATORS

For training as a wireless operator, I was sent first, along with other girls, to learn the Morse Code, at...

Wartime in Ilford

I was living at no 28 Levett Gardens in Ilford, Essex, and had just started school when the war broke out....

VE Day celebrations in London

I had spent the last few months of the war down in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, where I had been evacuated with...

Take Cover

There was a double bed for my mum and Dad and my bother Ron and I each had single bunk beds... The...

Evacuee

My father JohnDilworth was a Civil Servant working for the Admiralty at Admiralty Arch off Trafalgar...

Memories of Jill Jones - nee Dickens

On VE Day my brother went with friends on an un-blacked out train to central London to celebrate in...

1939 - 1944 A.T.S

My day consisted of working in shifts 6 am to 2 pm and 2pm to 6pm, seven days a week and my...

Rene's War.

Whatever the reason the Stuka now bore down on Rene as she pedalled ever faster, "the cock-pit was open...

My Very Exciting Day

After signing out at the Orderly Room I turned out of the camp gate and, hardly able to contain my...

The Day the Country Went Mad

Dancing and games were organised and it was very nice to go there if only to hear the latest Glenn Miller...

More Nursing Memories

I was training to be a nurse at West Cornwall hospital in Penzance and there were Americans stationed in...

My War by Dr Brian Kirkpatrick

Throughout the Second World War I lived in North London with my mother and sister at 8 Theobalds Avenue...

V2 Rocket

Just before the outbreak of war when I was 11, I was sent on a trip to a little village in East...

Royal Navy Meteorologist (enlisting)

I joined the Royal Navy with the hope of becoming a meteorologist because I had had a year at university...

My experinces at the start of the War

This left me without a job and no income, I had a boy friend and I was also learning to drive, but...

navy week 1942

Resplendent in my Girl Guide uniform dress of dark blue cotton, a polished leather belt with loops for...

Doodlebug Terror

Isobel, a Wren from Huddersfield based in London during the war, relates some of her experiences: One of...