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My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 3 - The Blitz

The midwife who was to attend to mum lived in Bellingham and she refused to turn out while the air-raid was...

Amateur Dramatics from the ARP Post.

From 1934 he was an Officer of Customs and Excise in London, working mostly from an office on Fulham...

The Story of Dorothy Parker

I did a course of night work sitting on the tailboards handing guns to the troops in the lorry including...

A Bombing Raid on Acton

I lived with my family; Mum, Dad, three sisters at 26 Park Avenue,Acton,London W3 and was 16 years of...

A Child in London 1939-1945

Almost immediately the "war proper" began, and I have recollection of hearing the 'Ack-Ack'...

Being Evacuated at Three Years Old: From West Ham to Huntingdon and Newick

My sister and i were three years old when the second would war started So the story goes is that my mum...

A Child in London 1939-45

It must have been about 1940 when I first remember the Second World War — I was about 4 and a half...

The Blitz

On the night of May 9/10, 1941 I went to bed in the block of council flats at 60 Halton Road, Islington......

My Mother Was a WREN

Mom moved to London against her family's wishes; she was an only child. They had three children and...

Memories of an Eight-year Old during WW2: Evacuated from Battersea to Westbury

She said "Salvation Army" - so when asked I proudly announced Salvation Army....

The Victory Parade

Limited space made dressing difficult but starched white aprons and caps are designed to be effective and...

Women's War Work

A short time later, we took part in an Active Defence Exercise, one dark morning at about 2 or 3 a.m. The...

Late Entry Evacuee

Sometimes dinner money would be spent at the bakers. For a long time we only attended school in the...

Life in a Air-Raid Shelter

I remember that to cover up the noise of the bombs, my dad brought a little organ from home and he used...

Norman Ellis's experiences in the Friends' Ambulance Unit

Norman was born in Yeadon, to the west of Leeds, on 13th March 1920, almost a year to the day after his...

Memories of My War

During the school holidays, Dad sometimes took me to work with him, usually repairing shattered roofs and...

Harry Lidstone Lugg

By 1939, when war was declared, Harry was promoted to Petty Officer and assigned to the cruiser, HMS...

Evacuation No.2 From 1 Danes Place, Bow, London

I do not remember the earlier years of the War but my parents have told me that in late 1939 my mother,...

True Love on VE Day

His speeches throughout the war had already claimed legendary status for their strength of delivery, their...

I Performed before the King and Queen

We looked after Mill Hill, Hendon and Finchley fire stations, a garage at Hutton Grove, Finchley and the...

Fun in the Country and a New Family in Wales by Louisa Small (nee Kingsbury)

We stayed there until Dunkirk 1940 we could see the soldiers coming into Ashford and after that we were all...

A Wartime Examination

In the summer of 1940 the daylight raids started and by September the Battle of Britain was in full swing...

The Aldwych Buzzbomb (V1) 1944

Later I was tranferred to Bush House which lies between Fleet Street/Strand and Aldwych facing directly up...

Buzz-Bombs over London

And then we went up to courses in Richmond, Surrey, a Suburb of London And that's between the 2 places...

WW2 Bombing: My Dad's Story Working on the LNER

The full story about Doll and Len and there early life i will leave out and start with my dad he was...

Hot Hair and a V1 Near Miss

The area around had been flattened and a park bench, one of the type with cast iron uprights and wooden...