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The Rocket

I had to be — men were on their own at night — but women because they came over, the German...

Out of Hastings

By the grace of God, the bomb nearest to me was a Molotov breadbasket containing 100 incendiary bombs, 94...

My Wartime Experience in the W.R.N.S.

My brother, John Dennis, was a regular naval officer on H.M.S. Dundee, which was in the West Indies in...

Irene “Peggy” McGrath—Experience of Evacuation

I asked them if there was anything wrong, Mum just looked at me and said “your sisters are going to...

I left a patient sitting on the bed pan!

Back in Barnard Castle I lived at home and worked between the North Wing, now The Bede Day Centre, which...

Carry on

There was the incident of a bomb blast at a bus stop in Forestgate, a nearby town; the bomb had targeted...

1939 — 45 SIXTEEN SCHOOLS — A SHELTERED EXISTENCE

When war broke out in 1939 I was living with my parents and aunt in Eltham, London, but I was sent to...

Enid's Story - Nursing bomb casualties and soldiers - Part Two

And the laundry was opened you know, the parcel was opened, and he was on his own, and I went back to...

Life was interesting during the war !

My first job was in 1938 when I was 15 years old , acting as nurse maid for Mrs Gough , the...

Nursing in Norfolk

One morning a couple of nurses took the basket to collect and distribute the medicines as usual. Two nurses...

Wartime Childhood Memories

My father was the Churchwarden of St. Matthews Bethnal Green and I first remember the Parish Room as the...

Helen's questions on Wartime for a Feltham lad.

A. Children did from my area, Feltham in Middlesex, but I do not remember if we were asked. Previously King...

Alice's life in wartime Edmonton

Alice had worked for the same firm for some time and her boss, a Russian Jew, who had escaped during the...

"A secret, mythical place" in wartime Preston, Lancashire.

I would like to thank Franklin for sharing some of his wartime memories, especially about the secret,...

Schooldays are now Over

Japan sent their aircraft carriers to bomb Midway, Hawaii, but these were all sunk and America took control...

My War (Part 1)- 3rd September 1939 — Where is she now?

For some weeks before that I had been visiting a youth club in Pond Street , Hampstead in NW London with a...

My aunt's war

While there, I went to the Baptist Church and met a lovely lady and made friends with other Wrens and ATS...

How the BBC made my war bearable

The Schools Section and the BBC Symphony Orchestra came to Bristol!.. We continued to have this happy...

A Guernsey girl trains as one of the first Radar operators.

I got very homesick, so I didn't sign on, and my father was a schoolmaster at the Boys Intermediate,...

A Young Woman’s War

As my father worked in London, it was decided that we would move to Gidea Park near Hornchurch as this...

Sister Ursula Macer - A Flying Bomb Victim

The first memories of my Aunt Ursula were black and white photographs of her as a nurse and my mother...

TO THE OPERA

D. M. S. Eight of us were to make up the party: Mrs Forman, Rene and Yvonne Cassalls, two French girls from...

TRAVELLING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN WW2 AND MY EXPERIENCE ON DUTY AS A NURSE WHEN DULWICH HOSPITAL WAS BOMBED.

TRAVELLING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN WW2 AND MY EXPERIENCE ON DUTY AS A NURSE WHEN DULWICH HOSPITAL WAS...

Recollections of a schoolboy during the 40s. ww2 era.

One of our old neighbours from Arbuthnot Road, Bertie Hope, was on his way through the park to work for a...

Joining the Colours

However’, the Orderly Officer continued, ‘according to King's Regulations, if it was an...

From Army Orderly to Secret Service Lady

And I didn't like cooking, and clerking was my day job, so I became an orderly, and orderlies had to go...