London

Evacuation, the Blitz and celebrating the end.

Having had 6 months in London, where there were no schools open at all because all the children had been...

A child's view of war

Lois came back from the town and told me that she had seen mum dancing with a sailor. Lois and me spent...

homelife

Russia invaded Poland and made a pact with Germany which resulted in partition of Poland. Germany attacked...

From Richmond to Egypt via Blackpool

Almost immediately there was a series of explosions as one of these German bombers released its load across...

Letters July 1940

WA Barter 6472227, No. 1 Platoon, Block No. 2, Somerset Barracks, Shorncliff, Kent....

Land Army and WAAF experiences

From there I returned to Wall Hall Farm, two other land girls with whom I was friends were Wendy...

Barbara's life as an AK-AK spotter

My good friend at the time, Freda Thompson, the daughter of publicans at Croxley Green, joined up with me....

A Wireless Operator in the Faroe Islands

It was plain to see from the photos that, although dad was on Vágar during all seasons of the year, he...

Ivy's War

I was posted to a Searchlight Battery HQ in Sturry, Kent, about 3 miles from Canterbury. We went by convoy...

Gloucestershire Adventure

My father was in the RAF in the first world war and was still on the reserve list in 1939 which meant...

WORLD WAR II RAMBLINGS - No.1. The BLITZ

One early evening of October 1940 during the London blitz at age twelve I obtained sixpence from either of...

Dover, D-Day and Doodlebugs: Life in the WRAF.

Often from Dover you could see them firing the guns on the Calais side of the channel and if you counted 12...

Memories of the 1940s in Great Dunmow Part Two

My RAF fiancé had so little money but of course the Americans had a lot more money. So before I met my...

Malta Upbringing

We had just arrived in the UK on holiday from Malta and almost immediately Dad was recalled to his job as...

A Nurse's Story

We heard the drone of aircraft over head, it got louder and louder, we turned up the corner of the black...

Bexhill bombs September 1940

Hello, my name is Eve and I am going to give you some recollections of the Second World War, especially...

Margaret's War

My postings were always in the midlands or further north so when I had leave it was necessary to cross...

My Mothers' story

Later I was sent to do war work at a converted factory in Grove Road, Chadwell Heath for the Plessey...

Caring for the enemy, and other stories.

Three wards of the Bolton Royal were used for the military wounded - two wards for the British and one for...

Life in London and in the WRNS.

I cannot guarantee the complete accuracy of my memory to the diminishing of food rations but at the height...

Yes, We Had No Bananas - Evacuation

We were soon to leave Clapham and travel north to join my father, whose office, the Charity Commission, had...

Under the Bury Clock

As the train neared London I again began to wonder what this Kings Walden could be like - little did I know...

FROM CO-OP TO ACK ACK

I then went to Crownhill Barracks in Plymouth, where I joined 480 Battery. After London, Plymouth was the...

EAST ACTON: DOODLEBUGS 1944

Grown-ups always gave funny names to frightening things so they called them ‘Doodlebugs’,...

BETTY FAGG's WAR

Betty Hughes, as she was at the time, was a 16yr old girl living with her parents in a double-storey, brick...

Daphne Martin - A New Malden's Schoolgirl's Memories.

I was a schoolgirl living with my parents and elder brother in New Malden, Surrey throughout the war. We...