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An Unpleasant and unforgettable memory

Beryl, age 20, Eunice aged 11, Doreen 8, Roy 6 and baby Jean 3 months... My Mum thought our baby sister was...

Brief Memories

Mum's older brother, Pat, was a pilot in the RAF and flew his aeroplane across to her airbase once to...

Life on a Gunsite

I was sent to Stanford-Le-Hope near Tilbury on the Thames... On V.E day 1945, at the holding camp in...

Battle of Britain Time in Chiswick

As I recall, the largest bomb fell shortly after on the Depository in Chiswick shattering it. After a...

Police Service

We manned telephone switchboard and it took down reports from other police forces and Scotland Yard and to...

Nursing a Spy?

Some months later Nurse Kearns went to London to meet up with her mother-in-law for a holiday; her husband...

dresden

Heidi Weller, born in Dresden, 1944....

A womans place in the home guard.

However, we all were sent a certificate which read as follows, "I have received the King's Command...

Inspired to Loving Duty Part 2: British Red Cross

As a British Red Cross Junior Detachment Nurse, I helped one evening a week at Mayday Hospital. CROYDON...

Nursing Experience

In the first week that I was there incendiary bombs fell on Mount Pleasant, the chief sorting office at the...

Dancing with my sweetheart in 1945

I attended many a dance at the Civic Hall, Buller Hall and Higher Barracks where my friends and I enjoyed...

A Frightening Air Raid in Sunderland

Friends of my boss ran the Air Training Corps, so he suggested that one of my colleagues, Norma and I would...

When Daddy Goes Away

I was twenty-three years old when Gillian was born on the 17th May 1941, but within six weeks, Claude was...

Noise and growing up to realise the danger

I've taken my grandchildren to a theme park since then and I was asked how it compared with the real...

Holding the Line in Mayfair

I was living with my parents and an older sister in South Norwood, London SE25 when war broke out and I...

Childhood in Wartime India

My maternal grandfather arrived in India courtesy of the Black Watch Regiment and my father arrived with...

Your story edited and categorised

The fire guard duty meant a man spent a number of hours on the roof of King's Cross station listening...

Fire Watching

Later in 1940 I won a London Junior County Scholarship for entry to a Grammar School. I then attended the...

An encounter with Churchill

After a short time there, he came to find out that Mr. Churchill was addicted to movies, American movies...

A schoolboy in Wembley

Shortly afterwards I was evacuated with my young school friends to a farm in Buckinghamshire because of...

The day a V2 Rocket hit Tottenham Grammar School

One day in March 1945, I was in the entrance hall of Tottenham Grammar School at about 1.30 pm, whilst the...

Bevan boy to pilot

I volunteered to the fleet air arm in 1944 as my brother had been in this service, he came with me to...

How I met My Wife

While I was stationed at Foulness with 519 Battery anti-aircraft guns, I and my mate Charlie Wheatcroft...

George's V E Day Coincidence

At my school in Croydon we used to have brick-built shelters where we used to take lessons during the...

A Boy from the Blitz

As a boy aged 7-8 I lived with my mother Gladys and three brothers George, Alec and David at no 9 Bentons...

Sleeping in the birdcage

The area was hit by a bomb called the Doodlebug or buzz bomb - and was the first modern guided missile used...