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MY STORY…MY WAR

During 1939/41 I was sent to live in four different ‘family’ homes before ending up in a...

“There Is No Place Like Home, Is There Dear?”

During World War Two my uncle and aunt, Ronald and Marie Ritson, started writing to each other as...

Wartime Experiences

I worked at the Royal London head office in Finsbury Square and it was said that our spire was in direct...

A Scotsman Journalist Views the Blitz

By now, in my spare time, I was driving a small Ford 8 mobile canteen from the YMCA Red Triangle Club at...

Eastenders

My first memory of war was after we had moved a couple of hundred yards down Grange Road into “the...

My Longest Night

Late in September and with no respite from the raids my mother and sister left London to stay with friends...

Evacuation of children from London on 1st September 1939, as written by Eileen Wright.

Evacuation of children from London on 1st September 1939, as written by Eileen Wright. A good few children...

A Child of the War

My mum and dad picked me up and we got down into the dugout in our back garden as quickly as we...

War Memories: Bombs, Evacuation and Porridge

He had a dislike of the evacuees and called us “a load of London sewer rats running away from a few...

Night Raids

German night raids over our cities were known as the ‘Blitz’ from the German Blitzkrieg used in...

Battle of Britain 1940: My Dads D.C.M. at Buckingham Palace and the day I saw the King.

Grace's story: In East Grinstead

I had been married for just a month when war was declared and very soon East Grinstead, like many other...

Scouts, de Havillands and Table Tennis

So started 20 years of working for The de Havilland Aircraft Company - initially as a shopboy, at 17...

A Child Alone

During the war I was aware of the lack of food and money, however, the nuns and I survived, and she, the...

The Memories of my Aunt in Harrow & London

As war progressed the Germans launched V1 flying bombs at London. This was one of the signals used to...

My Wartime London

I knew that central London would be the place to see the excitement at its best so, leaving the industry of...

David Camp, My Jewish "Sister"

He received a visit from an Austrian Jewess who needed help in getting her younger sister out of Vienna and...

Evacuation Memories

They were Mr. & Mrs. Parsons and I well remember their beautiful thatched cottage. They also arranged a...

Remember, There's a War On!

As always we had put on our nightclothes and gone to bed on the bunks that lined the cramped, smelly dugout...

WW2 seriously affected my education

In 1939 my family lived in Grimsby House, East Hill Estate, Wandsworth, London. At this school I later sat...

Yesterday----Tomorrow?

Amid the whirlwind of destruction and violent death, the yapping of a lonesome, frightened canine mingles...

What a Night. 19th February 1944 @ 01.15!

My elder sister Rita had already married and was living in Shepherds Bush, whilst my brother Andrew was...

Memories from Second World War

It was after a subsequent more terrible raid that I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940”...

Summer of 1940: A 13-year-old's View of War - Catford and Reigate

My 3 brothers Dudley, Dennis and Kenneth were all in the forces, Dudley and Dennis in the Army and Kenneth...

Life in Folkestone

The war situation must have looked quite serious in Folkestone as we left to move in with my maternal...

A Few Memories of the 1939-45 War: In Acton, London

OO pm on August 25 1939, before checking in at an hotel we went to the docks to ascertain the sailing of...