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Operating searchlights during World War II

One night we received a call on the RT to get out of bed and make our way to the searchlight station....

On the move

Very soon afterwards, our house in London was bombed, however nobody was killed. We moved to our new home...

Flying Bombs

Towards the end of the war in 1944, pilotless flying bombs were used to bomb London and the south east of...

A Broken Neck from a Protective Helmet

The doctors took an x-ray and discovered it had been broken by the heavy helmet and the movement of the...

My Blackout Blunder

After some months I had settled down in my career I lived in Birmingham and my hospital was called Hatton...

Stripping down the 25 pounders

I got posted to a village in Oxfordshire called Nettlebed, it had 3 public houses and 1 church - we had 3...

Wartime memories

My parents moved down from Paisley in Scotland to rented accommodation in Bexley, Tile Kiln Lane near...

Student Nurse in London Blitz

I am writing on behalf of my mother, who left Redruth Hospital in Cornwall to continue her nurse training...

Hot bread!

While serving in the ATS on a gunsite, I was asked to take several ATS girls at another gunsite to form a...

Espionage at the woolwich arsenal ?

My officer said to me take a lorry and two men an report to woolwich arsenal to give telephonic assistance...

The Disruptions of War

In 1943 I was called up for full time nursing as a St John Ambulance nurse in the Civil Nursing Reserve and...

Heavy Bombardment September 1940

Me, my mum and my dad were sitting in the living room, mum was doing her knitting, dad was reading the...

"Entertaining the troops ... not quite ... but nearly ..."

In February 1944 — which was four months before my dad's RAF deferred service became actual...

Family Memories of The War

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I joined the RAF in April 1943 working in the Transport Office. Due to my records being sent to the...

Staircase In My Head

The next memory was being carried in someone’s arms across to...

Ealing Memories

My father had a shelter at the bottom of the garden which was half buried: a brick shelter put up by a...

Barrage Balloons going up in London

To celebrate the occasion two friends, Bob Hobbs and Ken Hugo and I cycled to Alexandra Palace to go...

Better the war in London than evacuation to Royston

War Work at Moores in Barnet.

So then I went to Barnet and I worked for Moores, it was a surgical place, surgical factory, very modern,...

My Mother's War

After this experience, Gran started to consider the possibility of evacuating from London, but still she...

Dried Eggs

In 1946 I wanted to celebrate my 21st Birthday so three of us cycled 14 miles to Culverhall to have poached...

Air Raids in Essex

One day I was on my way back from Ilford Library; my mother was out shopping and my brother was at home,...

Wedding Dress from Across the Atlantic

As I was getting married in December I was granted a companionate posting to Wimbledon to enable me to...

THE BLITZ Fire Storm of London (29th December, 1940) World War II

We met other crews from the London area; we were told to control the fires in Newgate Street by St. Pauls....

It All Depends on Me

Another one I took particular comfort from was one I saw whilst waiting at a trolley bus stop, and this was...