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A Train Journey in War Time

We would talk to each other, and in this connection we had to be very careful what we said for there were...

Wartime Experiences of Mollie Northen

When the blitz ended I joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, at Camberley, to train as a driving...

Exeter in the war time forties

Sometime during World War II I was about 16 years old and had been invited to go to Exeter and stay with...

Wartime Love Story: Poland meets England.

During the war I was living in my home village of Iver in Buckingshire, and I was working in Shepherds Bush...

Bombing Memories as a Child in North London

My earliest and very first memory as a small child is that of sitting under the stairs, holding my...

A Wartime Romance

It was in July 1941 that Mum and I decided to go to Cornwall, to visit the children, catching the midnight...

The Typing Pool

Second World War In The W.R.N.S. (Women's Royal Navy Service)

I joined the W.R.N.S., based at Felixstowe, Suffolk in 1940, where I worked for the naval pay department,...

A collection of stories from Somerset

Mrs Searle had always counted on her family for help, but in Sussex she went to Miss Traunter for advice or...

A Few Short Memories

THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY WERE WONDERFUL TO US THEY MADE UP THE DIFFERENCE FROM £1.15s.00d THE ARMY...

‘Truth and Lies’ by David C. Kershaw

I couldn't own up to his Ground Staff status, so I told them he flew Lancasters, Hurricanes and...

Mentioned in Dispatches

By this time the bombing of London was mostly over, but there was no glass in the windows, only black...

Life as a teleprinter operator with the ATS

My mother was at home on her own more-or-less but she did go to some relatives after a while and stayed in...

A fireman's wife in Sidcup during the war

I only remember being told about the bombing of the Naval Barracks in Chatham Dockyard during the First...

Time at HMS King Alfred - Hove

I was to go to H.M.S. King Alfred, a shore establishment in Hove where R.N.V.R. officers were trained. I...

Living in West Ham during The Blitz

What had happened was a large bomb had exploded in the middle of the road opposite, a few houses along from...

My War memories

I had left school and started to work in the offices of Peter Robinson in Oxford Street - I will never...

A British born Alien Part One

After the war he was deported back to Austria but in 1922 he was able to return to England working at the...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part twelve)

We spent the weekend at home, having Mother & Dad over to dinner & tea on the Sunday to celebrate...

Re: ME AS BACKROOM BOFFIN

At the outbreak of the War I was working at Croydon Aerodrome as a secretary in the Drawing Office for what...

Fire watching in London

When I was young my Aunt, Ellen Church, told me these memories of her time in London during the Second...

Spike's Shadow

By then Franco and Guernica gave me pause for thought. i had a bright young Scoutmaster who taught Physics,...

DAY THE THAMES DISAPPEARED

It was a warm, sunny Sunday around 1941, and the French windows were open at our home in Kingston, Surrey...

WAAF Meteorological Assistant

So on 1st January I went to the RAF recruiting office and volunteered for the WAAF hoping to be a map clerk...

Fred's vision (Echoes of War P.45)

I would not say that Fred changed the world, but he certainly gave me a vision of a world that had changed,...

The Final Days

To make it more authentic there were photos of Hitler's bunker where he and Eva Braun had ended their...