Hampshire

Women's Land Army — Sept. 1939 - Dec. 1942

Next morning it was up early to start in the cowshed at 6.00 a.m. and learn to milk - not with a...

Per Ardua Ad Astra: Through Difficulties To The Stars

I joined three other WAAF's at Temple Meads railway station, duly given travel warrants to Southampton,...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 20b: D - DAY! D - DAY! - 6th June 1944

The LDV then returned as fast as it could to England with Butch and the other pick-up driver, an...

Memories of a Southampton-born Lady [E.George : Part 1]

We by then five children used to see our two dogs out tracking together, Digger always behind Roger and if...

What did you do in the War Grandad? by Ralph Martin

Perhaps my only claim to fame was landing, as a Private, on the Beaches of France on “D” Day,...

From Pillar to Post - Part 2

We saw a torch light and heard voices heading towards us and was jolly well relieved when mum climbed into...

Wartime for a Southampton Teenager

On July 1, we left Bournemouth and enrolled at the School of Art, which was still in Southampton. Then,...

From Pillar to Post - Part 4

Some families were transferred straightaway to spare hop pickers huts at Cowhouse, Buriton only a few miles...

World War Two Childhood Memories: From Sidcup to Southampton

I remember the Anderson shelter being dug into the garden lawn, among the fruit trees; we children enjoyed...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 1

One day the guard turned around and said that none of the PoWs knew the circumstances in which he joined...

With the Bishop's Waltham and Swanmore Home Guard

In 1944 I was billeted in the "Railway Inn" in Droxfordand was on duty as the sergeant in charge of...

Playing with the rabbits Ch.4 (Part 1): CHildhood Memories of Bournemouth

The Story of Miss Boobier (Switchboard Operator)

In Bobby's there was a Restaurant and my father played in the orchestra they use to have a cake trolley...

Bicycles, Books and Blackout [C.Hazell]

This entailed going to Grooms the newsagents in Lansdowne Road to fetch the magazines each morning and then...

Tommy’s War Part 3: Training at Stirling Castle and in Aldershot

Eventful War Years in Andover: Childhood Memories

Christmas time for RAF service men's children at Andover was always a Christmas party at Middle Wallop....

All Tanked Up - part 2

It would appear to have been the Churchills of this British regiment which Jim Clark and others saw being...

In Memory of my Father

After France capitulated on 17 June 1940 a group from the Division went towards South Loire and on to...

A Wren's WW2 Experiences..... As Narrated at Schools in Sydney by Doreen Orr

Hitler then turned his attention further afield and started the bombing of all the large cities in England...

Montgomery of Alamein.

Monty is remembered more for his exploits as the Commander of the 8th Army in North Africa, better known as...

My Wartime Childhood: from Malta to Portsmouth

Eventually, soon after my 7th birthday, we heard on the radio that war had been declared and we started to...

From Pillar to Post - Part 1

It was while paying these visits on relatives in the city and being young and impressionable that my...

A Medical Corps Unit lands in Normandy, June 1944

We followed over and landed on the Eighth of June, at 11.00h I think it was Sword Beach. This was Sword...

Kathleen Cartwright -My Experience of Life in the Wrens

After one spell of duty, however, I was called to the Duty Officer and informed that I was to return to...

The Twins - Our Life As Evacuees

So for whatever reason we were sent to Chichester where we joined what appeared to be children from a...

All Tanked Up - part 8

Whereas the Calgarys arrived with British ‘Matilda’ and then ‘Churchill’ tanks, all...