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Lois - Her Wartime Exploits

I cannot recall our first evening, but the next morning, Sgt.Cook ‘marched’ the three of us in...

A Woman's Story of Wartime London, Devon and beyond

When the raids became continuous and the night sky was red with fires in the East End of London, dad...

The Blitz in the Elephant and Castle, London and my family's removal to Feltham, Middlesex after being bombed out.

The Blitz in the Elephant and Castle, London and my family's removal to Feltham, Middlesex after being...

MEMOIRS OF AN HMS FORWARD (1939-1945) WRNS TELEGRAPHIST - Part 2

The greater proportion of the WRNS quartered at Seaford worked for NOIC Newhaven as Boats crew, Torpedo...

The Odd Job Man

Looking out of the back window across the river and to the right of the Lea Bridge Road was the offices and...

Daphne's Wartime Memories (Part 2 of 2)

Thank you mum for the food parcel, I can't tell you how welcome it was, Christmas is not a time when...

A Nurse's Story

My Aunty Norah, who worked in London as a teacher, suggested that I should come to London and start a...

‘AIRWAVES’: A WREN Radio Mechanic in the Fleet Air Arm, 1941-46

A Radio Mech and a Radar Wren would then go on the test flight to test the radio from air to ground,...

West Riding Treasurer's Department - War Bulletin No.2. Chapter 1.

Message from County Alderman J.H. Armistead — Chairman of the West Riding Finance Committee. My army...

My War Part II - Growing Up

At this time there was a barrage balloon located in the park and at some point a good friend of mine, too...

Growing Up in Wartime England

We walked round the rink and then marched to Cricklewood Station and boarded trains that took us to Bedford...

The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"

My father, who had worked his own business prior to the 'War', mainly from sub contract work from...

WAR TIME DAYS PART 2

He told me that the Coventry Chain supplied tea at a halfpenny without sugar and a penny with sugar and our...

WAR TIME DAYS PART 2

He told me that the Coventry Chain supplied tea at a halfpenny without sugar and a penny with sugar and our...

A Boy Scout at War

I found the 1st Gibraltar Service Rover Crew singing with great gusto at their meeting in the RAF's...

War Work-Part One

After the Officer in charge of the British Red Cross in Derby discovered this unhappy state of affairs and...

From Red Cross to Romance

I had been dancing with several Officers that evening besides Len and when we came out of the cloakroom...

Peggy's War - Part I

We were only allowed to travel within a 15 mile radius of the town so I was unable to attend my sister...

Reminiscences

I was living in London, Golders Green, at the beginning of the war but was evacuated to Scotland, to...

Bernard Houser - Growing up in war time London (Part 4 of 5)

Some stacking ammunition into neat piles as big as a cottage, covered in camouflage netting, that lined the...

A Cyphereen's Story Parts 1-5

Mary Foreman and Barbara Skelton, both Temporary Secretary cypher officers with whom we had worked in...

War Days

After the First World War, King George V visited the Flanders Battlefield in France in 1922 and said of the...

No Picnic in this Park!

So, I went up, with my Aunt Elsie for company and whilst she waited for me in Green Park I went across...

Wartime Memories of a WAAF Pt 1, 1939-VEDay

I have always had problems with shoes, they were always too wide, so by the time I was reasonably satisfied...

My Memories of The Second World War

I was awake at that time and joined the German boy, both in our pyjamas, and rowed across the river to the...

The unhappiest period of my life

I went back to the ‘digs’ with a very heavy heart then the landlady said she was putting...