Hampshire

A Child's View of WW2 in Portsmouth and Cirencester

My Wifes Story At the begining of the war my wife Joan who was 2 and her brother Bill 4, cousins and...

Acts of Wartime Kindness

When all lines seemed to pass through Doncaster Station, as a laden train pulled in, be it day or night,...

All Tanked Up - part 5

Those on Ludshott Common tended to go to Grayshott and Haslemere – Pat Lewis, who was in Nissen huts...

Recollections of World War 2

In those days, an army barracks known as Albany Barracks adjoined Parkhurst Prison where my father was a...

Seven Years of War - Part 5, a continuation of story no. A4235672: Back in Bournemouth and in Dover.

I now realised I was selfish to ask Joan to come to Dover, although it was wonderful to see her. The...

Forties Fragments

I used to help a couple of nights a week at the Church Army Canteen in Gosport, walking home, quite late,...

A child on Naval Shore Wireless Station HMS Flowerdown

I think Mum was probable one of the reasons dad joined the Naval Shore Wireless Service and was posted, in...

My WAAF years

Finally we left there and were posted to Tangmere, a fighter station outside Chichester with a satellite...

My Younger Years

When we stayed with Nanna and Bram in Hitchin we would stand in their bedroom looking through the big bay...

Born in a Pussers Blanket

I recall the first day-light raid on Portsmouth when we stood watching a ‘dog fight’ overhead...

Please Take Me Home: Evacuation to Winchester

In this front line city things were getting hotter and hotter, so Mum & Dad decided to move to a...

All Tanked Up - part 12

They may or may not have buried motorbikes in Erie Camp; from recent stories in the local press, they do...

Daphne Cross - Land Army Life -Part two

In 1942 we had a ‘lease lend’ combine harvester so Geoff did some of the harvest with that,...

Joining the WAAF

I was 19 at the time, we all had to do something for our country, either Land Army, ammunition factory,...

All Tanked Up - part 3

Church Gate Stores in the High Street was used as a squadron orderly building, and Canadian troops there...

1939-1945 Some Memories of a Teenage Schoolboy

We never had any bombs very near us although we sometimes heard them and the anti-aircraft guns firing from...

Searchlights in Southern England [R.Thresher : Part 2]

The third man directed the searchlight crew to the same spot in the sky the sound locator was aiming at....

'I Suppose They Think I'm Dead!'

I lived in the married quarters of Aldershot with my husband, Reg, who was a soldier... Reg was stationed...

Reminiscences of a Hampshire Home Guard - Part 1

He also said that as I had no military experience he had arranged for me to go to the local Royal Marine...

A Royal Artillery Battery's Preparations for War

At 1400 hours, the Battery formed up in the square and, for the first time since the beginning of the war,...

Pompey at war

I stayed at Abbey Wood in London and the Duke of Kent, brother of King George V1 was killed in an air...

All Tanked Up - part 11

The immediate effect of this, as far as the village was concerned, was to bring the Garrys back for their...

From Pillar to Post - Part 3

Notice boards informed inmates of areas in the city badly blitzed and it was no surprise to mum when her...

My Longing For Portsmouth

Then one evening in June we had just returned from work,and the sirens sounded, and my father, my sister...

Fire-Fighting during WW2

The lighthouse tower was never camouflaged as the Germans aircrafts when they came across the English...

Life for Joe

In responce to your request on World War 2, I enclose a poem extract from my story I am at present writing...