I was 17 when I joined up, and I was stationed in York's Fulford Barracks. I was on telephone duty one...
I joined the Wrens in April 1943 to be trained as a Wireless Telegraphist....
Herbert, Hoses and Water. One dayduring the War, my wife's father, Herbert Sefton MM, who was an...
Because of the air-raids June, her Mum and Grandmother were evacuated to the countryside... Her Dad stayed...
My father Eugene had lost his leg in the first world war at the Battle of Mons so he had a job...
Middlesborough was a village near York....
Middlesborough was a village near York....
My father, Ted Picton, worked as a ground crew mechanic on Whitleys in '41/42 , and Halifaxes at RAF...
The first few years of my life were spent with my Mother and Grandparents as my father was a Japanese...
There were sultanas, cheese and a banana....
As a child during the war, I recall a regular trade in swaps of bits of shrapnel, foreign coins and...
I think it was 1941, when THE bomb dropped in Harrogate. It fell on the Hotel Majestic -did little damage...
The caption reads ‘Signalmen Abbott and Gardener, Catterick Camp, Yorkshire'. Christmas, a time...
My grandad was evacuated from Leeds to Little Ouseburn in North Yorkshire....
Only one German bomb fell on Harrogate in Yorkshire during WW2, so it is reported... ...this was dropped by...