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a wedding in the blitz

Having acquired this we then pressed on to buy another important item - the wedding ring - of which, once...

Young People 1939 - 1945

For those first few months there was very little to do, so ehen Mr Murray, the Art Master at Poole Grammar...

Aspiring Journalist Alan Haylock's experience of the June 1944 Aldwych Bombing.

Memoirs of WREN Sheila Bayley, Part II: 1941-42

There was one Wren officer who had hysterics and another Wren gave her a sharp smack on the face to shut...

ats volunteer

Eventually we were given our postings and I was sent to Cambridge where there was a Holding Unit on a...

Joan Windors WW2 Experiences in Cannonbury Road, London

My flat was in a house in Highbury Hill, right opposite the West stand of the Arsenal Football Club. A bomb...

A WAAF'S INVASION OF BLACKPOOL

After joining up at the recruitment centre in the town Joan packs her bags and with her travel pass...

'The Day War Broke Out' Galashiels

For the troops in town, the YMCA operated a Canteen, and ladies from local churches in the East Church Hall...

Bernard Houser - Growing up in war time London (Part 2 of 5)

Yet Dad said this is North London. The two girls had found jobs locally; Dad had to struggle into London...

Remembering the War

In August 1939 I went on holiday to Herne Bay in Kent and one day walking along the front I heard the...

Sweet 16 in Penzance, then quickly grew up as a WAAF

St. Michael's Woodward School in Bognor Regis, Sussex, where I was a pupil, was deemed to be vulnerable...

A Young Boy's Early War Life

Elland lies between Halifax and Huddersfield, Yorkshire. I left school at fifteen and became an apprentice...

My War Part IV - Convoys, Tragedy and Joy

He had been coming out of the same War Office building where we had made out the report and said that when...

Dulwich Childhood during the Bombing

We stayed till February by which time my aunt and uncle had gone to live in Shrewsbury where uncle's...

Personal War-time Experiences

There was also the added thrill of watching RAF fighter pilots flying -2- alongside them and using the tips...

The RAF had it all:visits by the king and WAF toilets

I was standing at the end of one of these bays watching Slater who was sitting astride of one of the...

Wartime Working at the Admiralty

However, daylight bombing at the limit of fighter cover proved too costly for the Luftwaffe and in...

The Bombing of Sinah Battery

Early in 1941, we moved to Sinah battery, on the south of Hayling Island. While I was lying in the hospital...

Personal War-time Experiences

There was also the added thrill of watching RAF fighter pilots flying -2- alongside them and using the tips...

Teenager's memories in South London

On a lighter note I can remember dancing at Covent Garden Theatre with service men and G.Is. round the...

WW2 memories of a teenager and marriage to a Merchant Navy Officer, part 2.

Food for the Wedding Autumn 1943 Walking down the Epsom Upper High Street one day, I passed a delightful...

Life in ENSA

We did an audition at the ‘Theatre Royal ‘ Dury Lane, which was E.N.S.A. headquarters and this...

MAUREEN BURNS - SERVICE LIFE

At least the ablutions huts had both showers and bath plus hot water... In April 1945 I married a Warrant...

My War As a Child. PART 2 of 3.

Mum and dad were making a ready-cut rug, others were knitting or doing embroidery. Besides the two teachers...

Tewards the end

So opened for us one of Hitler's dying flings, the launching of his V1 flying bombs, buzz bombs or...

Alerts Have Sounded: an excerpt from my autobiography

We would watch the follow up of our ground ack-ack guns when a German bomber or any of their aircraft were...