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Jim's Story

One incident in the Atlantic does however remain with me, for I sighted a Torpedo advancing towards my ship...

In 1939 I Was a Happy Child: Effects of the Bombing in London, and Some Near Misses

Then the air raids started and my younger sister, Mum and I, used to go into our neighbour's house...

Family at War

One Sunday morning in November 1940 2 bombs dropped on Tolworth Hospital - my brother and I were asleep and...

The Blitz

She made the decision that we should go to Scotland, to her people, as we had lost our home in London......

Dancing through the War

I had been training as a dancer in ballet but not wishing to go into munitions I got a job in the...

Italy and Back Again

Location of the story; London; Kent;Italy. After doing my initial training in Kent, we set off for Italy...

War on the Wards

In the forty-bedded ward were 20 Free French patients and 20 German wounded prisoners of war! As student...

Rural Contrasts

During the phoney war, we were all evacuated to Castle Carig in Somerset with many other children who were...

Surviving the Blitz: Croydon at War

Joan, now my wife, also lived near Croydon and her home lost all its doors and windows when they were...

My Experiences of World War II

Additionally, some of the teachers were very cruel in some of the things they said and quite often the...

War Through the Eyes of a Wembley schoolboy

In 1942 I went to East Lane School, Wembley.One night in a heavy air raid a 'Molotov Bread Basket'...

1940 Destination Putney

With Liverpool behind us we set sail for 'who knows where'; it was a big secret which would...

Young Reminiscence

The first place I remember when the bombs started dropping was down the crypt at All Saints Church in...

London Evacuee

I came home and told mum that the teacher said I could go and play in the grass with the lambs, mum...

Diary of a 17 Year Old in 1943

18th-ARW 4.55am for seventy minutes, heaviest gunfire London had heard. No air raids were recorded during...

Wartime Memories

I lived in Chislehurst on the outskirts of London during the war. We lived around the area where the enemy...

The Luck of the Irish

We had an Irish girl lodging with us,she had been with us for about 3 years,she used to work with my...

World War 2 D. Day Landings

Recently this all came back to me when I found a Dutch Bible in my husband's study, found by me during...

Conscientious Objector

Elizabeth often told the following story of her lucky escape: As the Blitz intensified she was working as a...

German in the Garden

I got into the garden and came face to face with a German....

Bombs in South London, Looters and the Evacuee from Hell by Peter Harman

The evacuee from hell I stayed in Westfield on the South Coast until France fell and then Burry Port in...

Saturday 7th September 1940

The council had cut trenches across all the parks to stop German gliders from landing and in each of the...

Evacuation: From South London to Worthing

I remember being on West Norwood, London SE, railway station, with my two brothers, one older one younger,...

Dennis' Wartime Recollections as an Evacuee

Darwin has rugged terrain like Exmoor in Devon, but Dennis really enjoyed these weekly walks with his...

My First Day of World War 2

Anyway, suddenly my dad called me in and Uncle Harry leapt out of the frond door running away down the...

And So War Began..

This was inveneted by MP Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, and became known as an Anderson shelter......