Hampshire

D-Day Rehearsal

I stand on the cliffs at Brownwich Farm which is situated between Titchfield Haven and Chilling, now called...

Wartime Experiences in and around Bournemouth (S.Ward)

Either a nurses' aid in a Southampton hospital, working in a munitions factory in Bournemouth or into a...

From School Girl to Code Breaker

I was a pupil at Southampton Grammar School for Girls when war was thought to be imminent and on the 2nd...

War Episode and Entertainment

My entry into the professional dance band was at the Cheltenham Town Hall, when I was invited to join the...

Memories of World War 2 and the Effect it Had on My Family: Childhood Memories of North Camp

My Father was still away training new recruits to ride motor cycles and become dispache riders, it was a...

From Child to Man

Roger Rawlinson and his wife also had a few people round at his house, where we studied the 'Orchard...

Memoirs of a Teenage Schoolgirl in WW2

At one time we had Canadian soldiers stationed in one of the big houses and I had to deliver newspapers to...

Dear Old Pompey

The Germans had firstly bombed the water mains and then sent in the planes with incendiary bombs, althought...

Bring them to Safety!

I was twenty-one and was living with my husband, Cyril, in Roundhay, Leeds, when war broke out in 1939. My...

Bombs and Blackout

I was working at the Supermarine factory in Woolston, Southampton, making parts for the Spitfires, when a...

Memories of Bournemouth During The War

Bournemouth got hit with some bombs and the local department store, Beales was badly bombed. Lots of the...

Land Girl and RAF Sergeant

My mum, Joan Pearson, joined the Land Army from her home in Lee Green, London around 1942. Dad's...

Tending Cows in the Land Army

Before arriving at the estate I had had no previous dairying experience and had to get up every morning at...

Survivors of New Milton Bombing

I remember the raid that day.The German Bomber flew so low that the crew were clearly visible.It flew over...

Some Schoolboy Memories of WW2.

We saw dense black smoke coming from the next village, so we rushed on our bikes to find a crashed German...

A Rare Find - A Female Cartographer

My cousin in Nursling heard that they were taking on 12 women and would train them in the drawing office......

Polly the Foul Parrot

I was worried for my parrot, Polly, and the money I was looking after for the girls at work....

The Night The Bells Rang

When you are eighteen, you are young, silly and just the right age to serve in the British Army, for...

A Solicitor in the Fire Brigade

I remember after the fall of France - it would have been about 1942; our eldest child David, he was just...

Rat-a-tat-tat

I remember we had blackout curtains and brown paper strips on windows to help prevent flying glass when the...

Alan's War

At the age of 12 years I lived with an Aunt Mrs. Alice Buss at 508, Commercial Road, Portsmouth... We were...

My D-Day

We reached Portsmouth Harbour station and boarded a paddle steamer, Merstone, with tall thin funnel…I...

A Very Young Evacuee

My mum was moved from Portsmouth to Haselmere for my birth and, in talking to visitors to the Nothe Fort,...

A Gasman's memories

The locations mentioned are Gosport in Hampshire & Falmouth in Cornwall. I should mention that father...

Experiences at Netley Hospital

On the 17th July 1943 I had to report to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, near Southampton. I crossed...

Beating The Ban

Margaret discovered that the border of the prohibited area was at Singleton, about six miles to the north...