Hampshire

Plymouth - One memory that I have of World War II

I was born in 1935 in a flat above the Seymour Laundry in Cromwell Road, Plymouth, but moved from there in...

My Wartime Memories, Cornwall

I remained good friends with the other two girls who started up the station and in spite of spending 25...

Wartime Medical Studies: Southampton and North Africa

I prepared to study medicine and at the outbreak of war I had a short time in the Auxillary Fire Service in...

Diary of the War for 1944

As well as recording details of all the events as they unfolded across Europe, John's family obviously...

“Oh Garrett, we thought you were dead”

And Hitler came over one day and dropped a bomb near the hospital and I woke up one morning and everybody...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 5 - evacuated to Wimborne

I don't remember much about the journey except that the trains, buses and trams had all their windows...

A Wartime Childhood in Southampton

As this aunt lived in central Poole very near to the gasworks, and bombs were soon dropped in this...

My Childhood in Portsmouth

My father, Sydney George Whitefield, had a coal business in Portsmouth, the family business. One night this...

My Grandads Evacuation Story - A sad story

All the children from seperate schools had to stay in chalets but they were in short supply so my Grandad...

Allied Troops in the Forest of Bere Before D-Day

Some 300 yards from the cottage was the Forest of Bere, a vast woodland, and situated in the wood and very...

WRVS Bembridge Report

Telephone request received from Mr. Leal, County Salvage Officer, for two clerks to attend at Bembridge...

D-Day: a Boy's Contribution

We local boys knew that the Army occupied The Grange and just up the road was Bushfield Camp,swarming with...

WRVS Report

At 11.45p.m. we were rung up by the ARP to ask if we would open up the Canteen as it had been...

Evacuated to Winchester - Acorns and Cowpats

The countryside was for me a new and exciting set of sensations: nuts that grew on trees, acorns, pale...

My Childhood Memories in Bridport during the War`

When the incendiary bombs fell in Happy Island I seem to remember going along the road to a garage where...

WW2 Memories: Childhood Memories of Bournemouth and London

My father had a clerical job with Shell, and at the outbreak of war his office was immediately evacuated to...

Based On The Evacuation Story Of: Marguerite F. Gaston

I sat next to a girl with curly blonde hair, she cried more than anyone else, she must have really missed...

U.S. Army choir at Romsey

Remembering that most menfolk were away on war-service, the Master would invite, perhaps, British Army boys...

Evacuations and Other Experiences

In 1940 my brother and I were evacuated to West Meon, Hampshire. Southampton was a base area and tonnes of...

Eric's War

I have vivid memories of him and his friends going off each Sunday morning dressed in their khaki uniforms...

Village Life as an Evacuee

I was 8 years old when I was moved out of my home in Holland Road, Southsea to Redhill in Rowlands...

I Can See The Stars

My Grandfather Edward Stubbingtonlike so many would re-count,the tale often,. My Nanlistening silently but...

Young Girls Reminiscence of the war

This did indicate that there had been a very big bombing raid in Portsmouth, although we didn't hear...

A Bomb Blast at an Aid Station in Portsmouth

She became a nurse and was in Portsmouth during the bombing of the port during WW2....

A Child of the 1939 to 1945 War

During May and June 1940 I remember so many British and French soldiers arriving at Winchester Railway...

Nursing Memories

Holidays taken in London with nursing friends and bombs being dropped... We saw Ivor Novello in...