Although Portsmouth and Southampton, on each side, were hard hit, Fareham escaped the worst of the bombing....
Probably the most vivid was being taken by my mother to see the wreckage of a German aircraft that was shot...
During the ages of six and eight I was evacuated from Orkneys to join my sisters in Hampshire. I remember...
Every lad in the village would have had trousers made by my mum, from the lower legs of his father's...
I reported at Bournemouth and they said 'Oh, you're wanted in Bridport in the Materials Section, so...
They had lived in Gosport since 1932 when, just as they were getting married, my paternal grandfather had...
In the summer of 1940 I was a pupil at Weymouth Grammar School and found myself sitting at one of a row...
One of the cyclists had never ridden a bicycle before and on a practice run he steered it into a ditch,...
1944 had past and now 1945 and my life was happy with my grandparents and I enjoyed the village life and my...
My elder sister and I tended to join forces in roaming the woods and gardens to the constant consternation...
I was 11 years old when the second world war started and I lived in Southampton with my mother and father,...
Betty Parker remembers Canadians from Bordon sheltering in Headley too: “They slept in the woods by...
One day when the siren went, we were all home, Mum and Dad went into the shelter. Because of Dad's...
Extracts from a book compiled in 1994 by John Owen Smith from conversations and correspondence with...
Mum used to invite the soldiers into the cottage for meals and tea and I, as a toddler, would be taken out...
My paternal grandparents lived in their own house in Trafalgar Place, Portsmouth, but when their house was...
I spent two years in Helensburgh and then was transferred to the Admiralty Research Laboratory at...
My brother and I were pupils at Freemantle School but as we had a sister who was still a baby my Mother...
The captain called this a 'spoof'. With the shorter days we resumed convoy work, but at night time...
In August 1941 as a nine year old boy, I was playing with a friend in Derby Road between Cranbury Road and...
After training my friend and I were sent to a holding depot in Portsmouth, and then on to London, where we...
So my Mother, once the bombing started, took us to a place called Waterlooville, just outside Portsmouth....
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