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"War time Nursing Memories"

Presently it was time for women to be 'called up' I had an interview with my age group, we were...

Life at the Air Ministry - Part One

But before the war I became addicted to the theatre, I decided that the theatre was a good place to be in,...

Canning Town v Adolf Hitler

A few days after the war was declared, my Mother, born Annorah Driscoll and known to everyone as Norah, my...

Peggy's War Part II

Mothers often sent cakes, especially on birthdays and I remember my sister Ivy sending me a lovely cake on...

Two Fatherless Children

Mum going to work meant, of course, that Leila and I had to fend for ourselves for a while after school...

Life in London in the 1930s

The dinners were cooked in the Domestic Science Centre, which was a 2 storey house built in the playground,...

Pre-war and Wartime Westminster

We`ve been hearing so much about Germany and Japan recently whilst we commemorated 60 years since the end...

My Blitz

On Sunday, the 20th of February, the Luftwaffe came over in force and bombed West London, Hammersmith and...

Letter to grandson Ian

From there I decided to join the Parachute Regiment and went to the Isle of Wight, Park Hurst Barracks,...

Photo

Brian and I stayed in London for a while with mum and dad; but then came the doodle bugs, a flying bomb...

The School Run

Epping was the local market town and had a railway station run by the old LNER — London and North...

The WRNS at War

In October 1941 I was sent to HMS Vulture, St Merryn as a Leading Wren, and I there until January 1942....

Feeding the Code Breakers

Phyllis Ashton 7.1.42 “Attested” to join the forces Service book 22.2.42 Mobilised in the WAAF...

People's War according to John Gilbey - Chapter One

Getting another job was easy for me, within hours I was working at Chigwell on a base for RAF balloon...

A Cowshed with Curtains!!!! - by Joyce Willis

My mum was doing her best to reassure us that it was best for us to be away from London and that...

Fever Nursing 1940-1943

When a friend and myself decided to choose nursing for our war service, we answered a newspaper...

My Story as Royal Naval Nurse V.A.D.

I was interviewed and accepted, then had an intensive course of further training with the Royal Navy and...

War came one day to our local pub

Joan sat in the corner to the side of the French window which opened onto the garden with a book on her...

The Good News and the Bad News

When I left school I returned to live in Battersea and started work at the Prudential Assurance...

Vera Lynn saved my life

I owe my life to Dame Vera Lynn. On the way back to my home we walked past the Finsbury Park Empire...

My War

On VJ day a fellow WAAF and I went up to London from Stanmore and were outside the palace when the King...

War Memories

As a member of the Scout Association I joined a team of stretcher bearers at the South London Hospital and...

Re: Dodging the Doodlebug

In June 1944 the front page of the ‘Daily Express’ carried a large, detailed cut-away drawing...

A woman in a man's world.

I was then sent to the King Alfred, Hove, which was the Officer's training establishment, to repair...

Dorothy Clothier, surviving the London Blitz: a teenager's story

She married Stanley Alfred Sullivan, who also worked at the Royal Small Arms Factory, in June 1943. From...

My Wartime Marriage

I started nursing about three months before war was declared at the Grove Fever Hospital, London SW17.I...