Kenneth Reeves was born during World War One, in 1916....
Because London was beginning to be bombed, they moved us down there. And we realized a German bomb had come...
My first memory of the war when I was 2-3 was the drone of the impending arrival of the doodlebugs which I...
We lived in Brighton at the time After a long day in which we had our medicals we climbed into the waiting...
Mum, however, insisted that she really had heard the church bells... Of course, Mum was the culprit, the...
The boss listened to me when I asked him for the money John had given her, the taxi money and table money....
David was awarded a Certificate of Good Service on 1 January 1946 and this was presented to him by Group...
The so-called 'phoney war' continued for a while, but by September 1940 the German aircraft were...
I was 16 and living in London when the war started and for the next 2 years experienced blackouts, seeing...
One of our Directors, Captain Petter, said that they were thinking of evacuating our London office...
Although, on our eventual coach journey back home we were treated to our first sight of a barrage balloon,...
A very vivid memory of my training in Camberley, was looking up at dusk to see hundreds of bombers in the...
Brother Alf was 4 years older than me and had already been called up and was in the Durham Light Infantry...
I was stationed at Holmsley South in the New Forest and eventually became an ambulance driver. The squadron...
On Waterloo Station one night myself and several relative - the military police came up and asked my...
I begin my story in 1941 at the time we were bombed out of our flat above the United Dairies in Chislehurst...
Since both my father and my boyfriend were in engineering and I didn't like the sight of blood, I chose...
After marrying in 1940 and Ken in the army, I was at home with my parents in Surrey, until I volunteered...
I was posted to Brecon as a Timber Corps land Army Girl... They cut them into pit props To send into the...
He had a warehouse which was beside St Paul's Cathedral in London... I along with Sylvia Gibb decided...
I followed my father into the kitchen who told my mother that he thought that was imminent and that London...
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