Hampshire

Boscombe Snippets [R.Sanders & E.Sired]

Edwin went to school at Walton on the Naze.His father was a coast guard on the east coast. edwin went into...

The Day the Tower Caught Fire

We were eating lunch when we heard the Church bells ringing... At this point we realised that there was no...

Tea Party

We were having tea about 4 or 5pm and there were about ten of us around the table which was by a...

Born Just Within Peacetime!

I was still safely growing inside my Mother's womb in those final turbulent months before peace was...

My D-Day Memories: A Coy, No 2 War Office Signals

I was a member of A coy no 2 War Office Signals.The men of our unit were already taking part in the...

An Ingenious Provider for Evacuees

My grandmother, who lived in a very big house in a hampshire village, took in about forty evacuee children...

Underpants

I was in the bathroom clad in my underpantsscrubbing a hammock when the sliding door opened and there stood...

Passing Trains

My Mother told me of an occasion when, during the war she worked in Basingstoke and lived in Hook and she,...

Army Medical Corp

I was called up in 1940 and joined the Army Medical Corp. I enjoyed my time in the Army and met a...

Womens Auxilliary Airforce

I served in the Womens Auxilliary Airforce, during the Battle of Britian, 1940 & 1941, on the Royal...

Childhood Memories

The GI's also offered Nylons to John's mother and this did not always go well with the father....

D-Day

I was a small child living in Southsea, and one day in early June my mother took me out for a walk...

D-Day Prep: A Cook Deckhand in Portsmouth

FOR THE MONTH BEFORE D-DAY NY FATHER SWOPPED HIS GLOUCESTERSHIRE VILLAGE PARISH TO BECOME A COOK DECKHAND...

Dunkirk evacuees: Voluntary Work in Portsmouth

My mother was a young French teacher in the Portsmouth area at the time Civilian voluntary work included...

Uniforms in Short Supply

Being conscripted in April 1940 and having passed a 4-day Trade Test on HMS Excellent, Portsmouth, I was...

WW2 Memories [F.Bungay]

I was born in 1936 and was a child during World War Two. Me and my sister hid under the table eating...

HMS Greenwich by Leslie J. Sprigg, Ex Leading Telegraphist

My last and only big ship was HMS Greenwich, a destroyer depot ship, in Portsmouth harbour....

Introduction to Naval Discipline

In the fourth week of my basic training, dressed in sports jacket and flannels, I was on Guard Duty on the...

An Alarming Incident

My mother joined the ATS just before the outbreak of war -- together with her Scots terrier Ib Fidelius...

A 4 year olds memory of D-Day

One day, I was sent to the local shop by my mother and there was a platoon of soldiers having a smokoe....

Airgunner of the Dutch 320 squadron

I like to express my sincerest thanks to the Canadian Orthopedic Surgeon and his assistants of the Royal...

Happy days, serving with the Wrens

We got a lift in an Army truck already occupied by Army officers and Navy Sub-Lieutenants, and ended up...

"MY WAR IN THE WRNS" (Dartmouth after D-Day, early 1945; VE Day & VJ Day

Part 2: Plotting & Ops Officer - A4146004 HMS EAGLET Liverpool; HMS PHROSOPINE Orkney; HMS HERON I.O.W....

My war in the Wrens by Pauline Sperring

I wanted to become a Wren, as my mother and her sister were two of the very first Wrens 1914-18 - even...

FAREHAM IN THE WAR

Towards the build up of D day my recollections are more vivid the build up of troops of all uniforms,...

Bournemouth: The 'Non-Stops' Concert Party

Bournemouth got hit with some bombs and the local department store, Beales was badly bombed. Lots of the...