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Doodlebug to Mars - A Visit to Gran's I'll Never Forget

Doodlebug to Mars — A Visit to Gran's I'll Never Forget....

Going to the RN College in Greenwich

It was absolutely amazing going to the RN College at Greenwich from Portsmouth in 1943. But at Greenwich,...

As I Grew Up

My shorthand teacher who was then Employment Officer recommended me to Cadbury's at Station Road East,...

Home Front - A Rude Awakening.

I trained as a radar operator at the Sennen Cove Hotel, monitoring low flying German aircraft. At one time...

Right Place, Wrong Time. A Lucky Escape

As I took shelter under the desk a ‘Doodlebug’ exploded, the bomb had landed in the middle of...

From Threepenny Rush to Reality

They bombed the Docks, right up the river and through the city. The first raid of that night ended, I...

Teenagers in the war

Joan said “Oh, hello Tony, meet Ethel”. Tony Gandolfi's story My father was Italian and...

A Visit to the Australian Army Field Hospital

By 1942, my younger brother Kevin had joined the Army when he turned 18, and they sent him to New Guinea......

Air Raid London - Wood Green

Two years later I was conscripted into the ATS, Auxiliary Territorial Service. I did not want to go, I was...

Searchlight lit up our Parish Church on VE Day!

I recall linking arms with friends, and striding two abreast down Bromley's High Street and along the...

Private Eileen Beehan

Ambrose the eldest brother worked for the Air Ministry in Kidbrooke, and was posted to Stornaway in...

Gas, Doodlebugs and Nursing in London

When I was doing my nursing training, I had a near miss. I had an evening off and arranged to meet a...

VJ Day letter home from a nurse in Sydney

I finished my night duty yesterday morning, and was just leaving the hospital when the good news came...

Working for the Press in London in WW2

Travelling into London six days a week, from Greenford in Middlesex, by bus to Ealing Broadway and then to...

Even working in factories and offices could be dangerous

In the worst of the bombing they dropped a bomb right in the middle of Coburn Kingsway, at lunchtime, and...

Re: Unwilling to be Beaten

They would fly over London, then stop, the bombs would come down and blow something up. London was a pretty...

Memories of a Teacher at War

Dora's closest friend was a girl named Alice Martin who lived with her parents on Greenacre Farm......

My Three Evacuations

One day, between D-Day on 6 June 1944 and my sixteenth birthday on 16 June 1944, I was delivering a...

A Doodlebug dropped in June 1944

Gran came then just in time to hear me say that Mum was coming down the street, and that yes, Dad was...

Nursing in WW2

At seventeen I left school and started nursing at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital... When peace was...

ww2 Evacuation from West Norwood, St. Clouds Road, 1939

So, if I held back for l0 minutes, I could run to school furiously hard, and still be in time if no...

My Life as a VAD

I had wanted to be a nurse when I left school, but I would have only got 4/6 a week plus board,...

Prostitutes at the Ministry!

It soon became known in Paddington, that if you registered as a prostitute, the ministry of labour...

Life as a Charge Sister in the Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service 1943-1947 and Nursing of WWII Patients

Life as a Charge Sister in the Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service 1943-1947 and Nursing of WWII Patients....

From City Life to Valley Life

Soft hands, soft muscles…I wasn't an athletic type..and I was taken out of West End banking in...

Arabian nights!

During the period of 1940- 43 London was subject to heavy bombing at the beginning of the bombing raids...