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Stories of my father

He then joined the NFS. I remember his telling me once when he was in the docklands and went into a...

A light in times of darkness

During the war I was a nurse based in an ammunition factory in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Imagine the roars of...

Evacuation to King Lynn and return to London (Buzz Bombs)

Evacuation to King Lynn and return to London. I left Kings Lynn about a year later and came home to the...

Home Guard L.N.E.R.

That night while on duty in our guard hut,the sentries changed and one of the lads coming off duty pointed...

Volunteering during the War

I gathered all of my school friends, I was at the High School in South Shields...gathered all my school...

The Lone Rifleman

His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. He...

Untitled

I was in the infantry about the time Hitler had the Doodlebugs going over London. We met his wife and son...

GreenLine Bus Driver

He had a nightmare that he was vainly struggling to say the Lords Prayer, but try as he might the words...

16 Year old survives bombing

On returning to London I lived in Lambeth where my Mother was.I became a member of the Junior Red Cross and...

Cricklewood Broadway

Shortly after the Blitz started proper, I asked Mrs Gregg, my neighbour if she was going to go to the...

Tyneside Cockney

I was living in Battersea, South London with my husband Tommy... Tommy contacted his mum and she said come...

The 4.7 Ack Ack Gun

I would say Whitehall a heavy anti aircraft gun would be mounted on the top of Primrose Hill So a naval gun...

Nightingales and stars

We were always very conscious of the sky due to the nature of our job, and as we were standing around...

On My Own Again!

I got posted early 1940 to Croydon and instructed to join City of Birmingham 605 Squadron. I got to Croydon...

Train Tipped In Dunton Green

My aunt, Helen Wright, was living in Sevenoaks and my mother, Annie Hughes and I were going to visit her on...

ATS Ladies in Trafalgar Square

During our off duty we went dancing in the Service Clubs in London and once went to Hamptpn Court...

My New Bike - The Day the Cinema was Bombed

I was opposite the Whitehall Cinema when the bombs dropped - there was no panic....

Sportsmen in the War

Bert Assirati was born in Islington, London in 1908, and in the late twenties became a professional...

V2s

The Germans had just started sending over V2s. I didn't even know they were coming when I arrived in...

"I have never cycled up the hill so fast."

I was in the WRAF as a fighter plotter during the war stationed at Biggin Hill. I was in my late teens...

A Boy from Romford

At 17 I joined the Army I was in the 7th Army Division in Germany... In 1951 I left Germany and the...

Brave pilot tips a Buzz Bomb

We heard the sound of a buzz bomb, and when its engine stopped we rushed to the window, to see it fall...

Depot Superintendent of CSD

Within 12 months I was a sergeant and a depot superintendent of CSD... The CO, when he first promoted me, I...

A long walk to work

I had to leave the train at Stepney because of an unexploded bomb at Fenchurch Street. When I got to...

Never mind the planes...there's a mouse!

When the war was on, the German aircraft were bombing London nearly every night. The aircraft were going to...

A Terrible Telegram

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN INTERVIEW GIVEN BY ERIC THEOBALD, OF ERIDGE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS. It read...