Hampshire

School Days in Wartime Bridport

I was a First Aid assistant with Dr. Arnett and we used to have our area behind what used to be the...

5th June 1944

The 5th June 1944 found me at Hurn, an airfield near Bournemouth, with 604 sqdn, a night fighter squadron...

A War Child in Hampshire

It was his brother in law, Jim Woolgar who was a sailor on HMS Barham which was anchored outside Liverpool....

A Local Hero

It is mentioned in these reports that you, with other Wardens, did magnificent work in connection with the...

RAF Sopley Starlight GCI Station

On Christmas Day 1940 a Royal Air Force mobile unit found a site suitable for a ground control intercept...

My Wartime Memories 1939-1948

My Father who grew fruit and vegetables and sold them to his customers in the Chapel area of Southampton, I...

My Wartime Experiences

When I was about eight years old and things were getting worse, Mum and Dad took us down to Bournemouth,...

A WREN prepares for D-Day

The office was staffed by the Flotilla Coxswain who had been in the Navy, coming from a Barnardos home, two...

Operation Starfish - Baddesley Common Decoy Site Hampshire

Operation Starfish — Baddesley Common Decoy Site and others in Hampshire and further afield and the...

My World War 2 Experience

By the side of the co-op stores, now Scats stood an air raid warden, when we said where we lived, directed...

I Remember

Sometimes we slept under the stairs, us two children tucked at the back of the cupboard and Mum and Dad...

The War Years

Thank God we've got a Navy” as we watched the dog fights overhead between RAF and German planes....

World War 2 story

Priscilla's father was a special constable, her mother worked in a munitions factory and her brother...

World War 2

Priscilla's father was a special constable, her mother worked in a munitions factory and her brother...

On Being An Evacuee

The coaches arrived to take us to a school hall in a very quiet village in Wiltshire which was very...

Run up to D Day

My husband was overseas with the Navy and I was at home with my three young children, boys aged 5 months, 2...

In the Trenches -in Southampton! and, Service Record.

1 March 1940 — promoted to Lance Sergeant, duty NCO Headquarters Staff, attached to Quartermaster...

10 January 1941 — The Blitz — Portsmouth

I had slippers on my feet, which were sodden because of walking through all the water in the streets in...

Harry Blood's War Part 1 - Call up and initial training, 1940

From his call-up into the Army in January 1941 until his ‘demob’, Harry Blood kept a diary. I...

My Home Town

By this time Dad had become a Air Raid Warden, he took use thats Mum my sister and me to show use...

Saved by a Hat!

Both my brothers were conscripted into the army and George, the elder, at 20 yrs, had 3 months training,...

My Memories

I was 12 years old when the war started and stayed in Southampton right through it, I lived with my parents...

world war II

The unit I joined was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 & stationed in Yorkshire for a time & then to...

Experiences at Home during WW2

As Germany's bombing offensive intensified, we lived directly under the flightpath to Liverpool...

Memories of Four Locations

My father worked as a civilian in an army depot in the north of Portsmouth. I do not remember seeing any...

Stories from Cove Village

The following stories were originally published in Arthur Lunn's book ‘Cove: A Village at...