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And married women were brought into the civil service for the first time. So I volunteered to join the...

RECOLLECTIONS OF AN ATS GIRL 1939-1947

Mum and Dad thought bombing might start right away and sent my brother and me to my uncle's farm near...

Childhood Memories of World War II - Part 2

Then just one week later came the first of Hitler's secret weapons, the V1 or Flying Bomb, or...

My War as a youngster

After a while Mum decided that she preferred the bombs in London to this situation especially as she had to...

Memories of a teenager

I do not know the date of this bombing, there is no date on the note, but I was on Epsom station...

A Young Person's War

On another occasion, during an air raid in the winter of 1940, a german bomber dropped a stick of six...

Doodlebugs

One early morning in June, soon after D-Day, while I was on night duty at the Town Hall our house in Perry...

Driving with the FANYs

So Pat, Sue and I decided on a change: Pat joined the WAAFs, Sue joined the MTC - and I joined the...

I Remember, Will They?

I got posted to various Batteries in London, I went to Hyde Park, Wimbledon Common, Primrose Hill, we were...

Jean Haslam - post war 1

In 1951, Churchill became P.M. again, and we had the Festival of Britain in London... Although we could...

What did you do in WW2, Mummy? Or from Hounslow, Middlesex to North Africa

On occasions the TA girls would go into Hounslow Barracks and help set out the food for the regular...

One of Many

The main road from Swansea to Cardiff was already an endless khaki convoy snaking its way to who knows...

A Boy's War

Although Bureau work was not normally part of my duties my boss used to joke that if information about...

Driving round corners was difficult but the vehicles were clean

I'd gone from the MT yard to this big hangar to load up and as I stood there looking down towards the...

Bombs from London

I turned into Watlin Street and eventually found myself in Queen Victoria Street only to see the...

Victory Weekend - June 1946 - A WAAF's View

Gladys managed to get a seat but the train was very crowded, and Nancy and I had to stand in the corridor...

Wartime Reminiscences

All top grade cipher ops were summoned by War Office to take a test in Kingston-upon-Thames. One night I...

Growing up through the War

Sunday the 15th September, the paper mills somewhere in South London were bombed, and the sky was dark with...

Mobile Canteen

The Canteen is a 30 h.p. Ford Van Ette, the gift of the Citizens of Greater Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.A. It...

From home to Home

Parents didn't speak on the journey home and for once, neither did I. I knew of the horrors that China...

GWEN CROCKERS STORY 1938-1946

In September 1942 was sent to Northolt, Ruislip Gardens, signed in at Northolt Aerodrome.In huts at first...

My wartime life

When Dad moved to a flat in Acton to be nearer the factory, I moved too, and found work at Woolworth`s...

Highlights of My War - Part 2

I was soon stretchered up to a tine jeep-like vehicle and taken to the clearing station at the Adelphi,...

More Shared Memories, Part Two: group session held at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, 9 March 2005

There was a great bang at the back of the house, breaking glass etc and grandma said we had better go down...

Life as a WAAF

Exam time came, and luckily I passed with no trouble and with another friend I was posted to Bolton...

Granny's wartime memories.

On the night of the 7th September the siren went, and Bill, Con Traynor, Dennis and I went into the...