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A Child's Recollections of the War

However Streatham and Croydon began to suffer many hits as the rockets fell short of the targets of central...

A Reluctant Evacuee

As a member of Hampstead Odeon Mickey Mouse Club I had witnessed on the newsreels Hitlers depredations into...

"Z"Battery, Rocket AA in Hyde Park

I must be one of the last surviving members of the 101st City of London Home Guard, AA Rocket Battery,No7...

Sixty years on, The First Army remembered

The task of First Army, together with the Americans who were landing in Morocco and allied naval and air...

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Nursing at King's College Hospital

In October 1943, I began nursing training at King's College Hospital in Camberwell....

Bombed on Return from Evacuation!

Carrying one suitcase, a gas mask and a packet of sandwiches, we walked from our school, James Allen's...

Saved by fate - Joyce Ramm

That evening whilst I was on the bus going home, the bombing started over London. If I had not left London...

Leyton Blitz (J.Earthy)

Residing in Leyton, East London, I was evacuated as a boy of ten at the end of 1939. Once mother took me...

The V1 That Turned Round

I lived in Putney, south west London, with my Mother, Father and young sister, who was six months old. My...

RedTape

My first job was in censorship work in Liverpool and then in Bermuda — where, although the work was...

Mobilizing for War Aged Fifteen

The Sixth became the 31st Searchlight Battalion Royal Engineers. The unit moved from Farringdon Street,...

Through the Eyes of a Child: Biggin Hill, Radar and WW2 Food

The front door was blown off and shot up the hallway, the ceilings came down and the windows blown in....

My Mother's Story (Joan's War)

In 1939 just before the war started, all the seamstresses employed by Harrods were sent to work at Harvey...

War Memories of a Civilian

Unfortunately the German secret service must have realised that the Canadians were stationed there, so one...

Child at War: In Becontree

Mum and dad believed fervently in the war against fascism. Dad had been one of those who'd turned out...

A Dispatch Rider with the London Fire Brigade

I was accepted and each morning for two weeks had to travel to New Cross in south east London to be trained...

My Battle of Waterloo

On the 1st September 1939 the children from St. John's were put on a train at Waterloo, with several...

Childrens evacuation: Wandsworth to Reading

Most of the pupils of Eltringham St. Elementary School were shepherded along to Wandsworth Town railway...

An Enigmatic Tale

There were times when we didn't have electricity or gas and water had to be brought up in buckets, and...

Second World War Memories: Walthamstow

I travelled to work next morning as usual and had to pick my way over a mass of hosepipes on the walk...

A Shy Evacueeicon for Story with photo

I lived in a house with my widowed mother, my single Aunt Doll and Aunt Flo and Uncle Charles, their...

Was it a V1 or a V2? Palmer's Green and Southgate

We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Soon afterwards I...

Childhood in London's War

I was very young but the images in my mind are still bright, photographs - if only there was a print button...

The London Blitz and War Work My Memories as a Young Mother by Alice Norton

I was living in Rotherhithe, South East London, between the docks and the railways, both of which being...

The Day The Bomb Parachuted into My Garden

In World War 11 my parents’ home was nearer the docks and all the bombing and they thought it would...

The Life and Times of Wartime 'Kids' of East London

Well,we had some adventures,sliding down this sewer bank, on bit's of tin we found.Only to find,after a...

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