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My Wartime Experience in the Professional Theatre

In 1943, I was invited by C.E.M.A the forerunner of the Arts Council, to join the Birmingham Repertory...

Christine Pledger's part in liberarting the Channel Islands

Christine was delighted in being chosen as one of the four and she was posted to the office of the Chief...

Being a Choirboy during WW2

Around this time it was decided to form a 'Special Choir' to cover special services in St. Pauls...

Near Misses

I was an Air Raid Warden and luckily I was off duty the evening the Warden's Office got bombed. Often...

D-Day

So I dash up to the canteen and announce breathlessly ‘All the book-keeping floor are coming up for...

A nurse's Experience of VE-Day

I was a Guy's nurse and we had been evacuated from London to Orpington Hospital, Kent. I had not slept...

Barbara Tadd's War Memories - Nursing and Others.

I was a theatre nurse so saw some horrendous injuries when wounded woldiers were brought in for treatment....

A trip to London on VJ Day

After VE Day, when the threat of German air attacks was over, my parents booked a week at the Strand Palace...

More Sirens, Less Work.

More sirens, less work. Because London was beginning to be bombed, they moved us down there....

Women in ww2

On June 29th 2005, Dame Vera Lynn attended the reunion of the 93rd Searchlight Battalion — the only...

Snippets from a Subalton

I had to travel to Cambridge to sit my entrance exam for Girton College . I had to travel a cross London...

Therese Carter's War Memories

Therese Carter was a ballet student in London during the war. She lived in St Paul's Cray, a village...

Work with the Red Cross

At the age of 15, I was a volunteer with the Red Cross at the Surrey Docks, Rotherhithe... My father...

Sgt E H Smales

Non of this interested young Eddy, he wanted to work in the film industery, he did not...

Radar recollections

Ever willing he opened the door of the radar cabin and stepped out into the pitch black night with a wild...

VE Day 1945

There was the King in his naval uniform, the Queen in pink, or was it blue? Princess Elizabeth was there in...

Married life/working life in the War

I remember that night that there were bombs going off in the East End of London which gave light work for...

A Lucky Barge

A major part of his duties was taking high octane fuel from the distributing centre at Walton on Thames...

The Fire Service by Joyce Harries

We went to the Spanards pub and took the Fire Station dog 'Nero' with us... On another occasion, my...

Reforming after evacuation from France July 1940

The military camps filled with units preparing to join the battle for France so there was nowhere to put...

Reforming after evacuation from France

The military camps filled with units preparing to join the battle for France so there was nowhere to put...

Sgt E H Smales

Non of this interested young Eddy, he wanted to work in the film industery, he did not...

I found freedom

Private Ida Norman was only a teenager when she joined the Royal Corp of Signals and became one of the team...

Memories - sept. 2nd 1939; My wedding day

A neighbour, who worked in the booking office of Liverpool St Station said the emergency plans to take...

My Wartime Experiences

My husband and my father wouldn't let me join the forces, so I decided to stay as a civil servant and...

Truants into ATS

My sister and I eventually came together on a gun site when we radar operators, and there we met our...