Hampshire

School at Burton Bradstock

About the same time I was standing on the bridge of Burton Bradstock next to the playing field and my...

Continuation of "3 friends one survivor"

Even as I climbed out of a top floor window of the hotel premises, which were our billets, with blanket to...

A Soldier's Life

Being too young for overseas service at this time, I transferred to the Royal Artillery anti-aircraft...

Mistaken Identity Card

I travelled with Doris' mother from Congleton by train but we had to cross London to get to the correct...

Recollections of My War in Portsmouth

Various things happened while we were at Edgeware road, just around the corner was a big wood yard called...

My Lasting Impression of D-Day: An Apprentice Boat Builder in Portsmouth

At the time of D-Day I was 16 years old, and I was working as an apprentice boat builder at Old Portsmouth,...

I Made the Fuel Bottle that went in the Torpedo that Sank the Bismarck

I made the fuel bottle that went into the torpedo that then sank the Bismarck....

I Recall the Second World War

My name is Alfred George Hobbs and I was born seventy years ago in Marylebone Street, Portsmouth. I was...

Cadets War and Invasion

During the week's after the Normandy Invasion I was with our ATC Squadron on a week's camp at RAF...

A Remembrance

I had a cousin called Basil who was shot down out of the sky over Germany and killed in those years... The...

Last Ice-Cream in Portsmouth.

I remember the bombers going over, and Coventry being bombed. My father was in the army, stationed in...

Sent Away for Safety!

That year my mother was taken ill and, for safety's sake, sent me and a very much younger sister away...

Home Front Questionnaire

My Nan was 25 at the time war broke out and had a baby, my Uncle David. One adults weekly rations in...

Southampton

As general staff we knew there was a special telephone line to Portsmouth dockyard, where tere was lots of...

The Ash Tree

Our Platoon consisted of one Officer, four Sergeants and approximately 30 volunteers, our C.O was a retired...

Mrs. Brooks Remembers [Mrs.Brooks]

I was living in Leicester when the war broke out; just 17 years old and working in a silk factory. Then I...

What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

At the age of 17 in September 1941, I started work at Hamble A.S.T.. Previously, this was a training centre...

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage...

Farming camp at Linkenholt

From there we boarded a bus, which took us to the small village of Linkenholt, about eight miles to the...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Doreen & Jean)

At the Corn Exchange in the town, Doreen and her brother were the last two children to be chosen. Doreen...

Bournemouth at War

She was engaged in munitions at the R.N. Cordite factory Horton Heath during WW1 which meant she was making...

Air Raids on Southampton

The war was still on of course and I remember at one time my brother and I were playing in the Recreation...

We had fish in our bath - by Mike Kimber

Although I now live in Newcastle upon Tyne, I was born and brought up in Southampton, on the South Coast of...

Red Cross Parcels - Red Cross Penny a Week Fund

During this time my father was a farmer at Clays Farm, Heckfield, Basingstoke, Hants, England. Basingstoke...

My life in Portsmouth during WW2

I left school at 14 in July as the war started in September.I spent the next 4years doing various jobs...

Evacuee from Portsmouth

I came up to Dodworth as an evacuee from Kingston, Portsmouth with my sister Francesca. In the 1960’s...