Hampshire

Collected Memories Around the Wartime Airfield at Winkton, Hampshire

Winkton airfield also had vehicles of its own, and the base used Mr and Mrs Harrison's Sopley Garage as...

Attack on Barbee Farm and Vendes 16 July 1944

The Hallamshires were to attack the village of Vendes and the enemy held strong point of Barbee Farm. D Coy...

A Childhood in Gosport and Portsmouth : Part One

Having been discharged on pension, he served with the Royal Marine Police at the RN Armament Depots,...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 4

My diary records that here Wellingtons, Whitleys, Ansons, Battles, Blenheims, Stirlings, Oxfords, Defiants...

From Rags to Riches part 2

Christmas 1946 Wynne's Mum and Dad asked me if I would like to spend Christmas with them at their home...

The Home Front in Nottingham, Manchester and Portsmouth

MANCHESTER December,1940 My friend Sarah and I had been transferred to Nottingham....

The Story of William Ewins [W.Ewins : Part 1]

29th August 1916 was a very hot summers day in Wandsworth, London and in the largest bedroom of a small...

Memories of a Southampton-born Lady [E.George : Part 2]

I was weeding someone's garden in a big house all day because I was buying a warship and the following...

A Navy Wife's War

Well Charybdis was already in commission, Scylla had reached the stage when one of the early people, still...

My Fleet Air Arm Experiences 1939-45

After new entry training at HMS Victory in Portsmouth I and my class went for our technical training to the...

My Time In Partyfunshore 1944

There was plenty going on all around us, some shells were exploding on beach and among the landing craft,...

Tom's Story -Part 1

To understand what O.A.S. means is simply that of all the personnel in the R.N. only those who actually...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 1

This combined initial intake to the two RE OCTU's of 86 young men represented the Royal Engineers...

A child in the blitz

In Southampton, from the fire escape stairs at the back of the hotel I watched planes attack the...

Wartime Memories written for my grandchildren Pt 2

My dancing teacher planned extravagant ‘Displays'. She hired the Avenue Hall in the Avenue and...

The Life of Ethel Jenkins Chapter 5

The British were considerably embarrassed when the French not only chose to fight but also to do so from...

A Marine's Tale Part 3

There followed a period of intensive training involving many practice landings along the South Coast and we...

Wartime Memories Part 1

I lived with my Mummy and Daddy in a first floor flat over a tailor's shop next door to what is now...

A Childhood in Gosport and Portsmouth : Part Two

Pill Boxes, Way Signs, Air Sea Rescue and Other Things With the threat of a German invasion of the United...

'Blitz Kid'

In the first year of the war, my school was ‘Bombed out’ and so I spent most of my time playing...

Evacuated to Canada

Over in Belgium where my Uncle Donald, was Chaplain to the British Embassy and Vicar of Christ Church in...

ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service(Part 2)

Whilst staying at Burleigh Manor Hotel the meet was held their with the fox hounds and Huntsmen and the...

As I Travel Along Life's Somtimes Stony Path - Part 2

When opposite Algiers the convoy turned due south and so, on the 8th of November, Operation...

HMS King George V - My Experiences

I was born in Worcester, the second child, but eldest son of James Hancox and Ada Florence Hancox. I was...

ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service (Part 1)

From Naples I hitchhiked on the post van to Rome went to see the Vatican, all the paintings by Michael...

Memories of a Collision between a Wellington and a Mosquito Night-fighter over Emsworth, 1944

Dave Thompson, Leader of the Ist Southbourne Sea Scouts was organising the unveiling of plaques at Prinsted...