Hampshire

V1 Flying Bomb: Sholing, Southampton

THIS STORY IS ABOUT ONE OF THE FIRST V-1 FLYING BOMBS WHICH HIT THE SHOLING... THE BOMB FELL IN....

Pygmys and Pipatone

Mr. Pipotone is Italian but he lived in Tunisia for most of his younger life when he was old enough he...

Journey into the unknown - Part 06: Parading for the King in Farnborough

When His Majesty King George V1 passed in front of us, accompanied by our Commanding Officer Lieut....

Wartime Experiences

It must have been an era when lots of boys were born and few girls, cos all my playmates were boys I...

WRNS Rifle Team

It was at the time of the Dieppe Raid. I was a member of the WRNS Rifle team and we were due...

D Day

I have two very powerful memories,the first on D Day 6th June 1944,I remember seeing the hundreds of...

Memories of Priddy's Hard

Mrs Gladys M. Harget I lived in Gosport, Hants, during the Second World War and went to work at the Royal...

Block Mills Disaster

The Dockyard area was of course the primary target, but quite a number of stray bombs landed on homes in...

Meeting Clark Gable

She looked inside the cab and saw Clark Gable sitting there.It was just after his wife Carol Lmbard had...

Memories of the ATS: Not all Good Times.

While the invasion barges were being built in Portsmouth Bay we shot a German aircraft down in flames from...

Jewish Lady Evacuee to Weston Super Mare [Anon.]

Jewish Lady Evacuee to Weston Super Mare. The bombs were starting, so I thought there was no sense in me...

'Stop Me and Buy One'

As a child of five years old living in Gosport, Hants., I remember my mother wearing a whilte long coat and...

My War

I was working in Southampton Docks as a tractor driver... We had been very busy for weeks, helping load...

Dad's Army

My Father was in a reserved occupation during WW2 ,and lived and worked in New Milton and Sway as a...

Young Girls Memory of D-Day

Entered on behalf Shirley Jeanne Bridger All this took place at Widley, 9/10 miles north Portsmouth. The...

A Southampton Schoolgirl on D-Day

They were replaced by a convoy of white soldiers, incuding Julius Ruske, a German who had become a...

Finding Love At Netley

When WW2 broke, my mother was in the first group as a Sister in the Queen Alexandra's to be sent to...

Garden Bombing

In 1944 I was child of 11 years, on February 23 rd our family were all at home in Hampshire when the...

Barrage Balloons

During the first year of the war, I worked at the barrage balloon factory in Millbrook Road, Southampton....

The Day War Was Declared and the Age of Innocence

As it turned out there was no fun - Brian was killed 1940 in an accident defending Dover radar and Richard...

The first air raid: On Southampton

I was 17 when war was declared and living with my mum and dad in Waterhouse Way, Regents Park, Southampton....

Net Curtains

My Father always told the story of how Major David Strangeways was rescued with his uint from Dunkirk by a...

Girls flew Spitfires to aerodromes

I worked at Chattis Hill, Stockbridge where Spitfires were assembled and tested. I have been back to...

Invaders Have Mobile Bank

On D-Day+3, my father in law was sent out to France... The mobile bank had 4,750,000 francs or...

Canadian Soldiers

The Canadian Soldier named Ralph had a camera which ou family did not have, We were out to play in the...

Hazel's Memories (part 2)

I remember fire-watching during air raids, and getting tangled in a rope hanging down from a runaway...