Suffolk

Bombing During the Blitz

I believe it was June 1944 that a bouncing bomb hit Alan Road and rebounded into Myrtle Road killing 9...

MACHINE-GUNNED ON A SCHOOL BUS

"I was an Ipswich School boy and one day in 1942 I was on my way in by bus when we reached...

Birthday on the Base

Mum and Dad were invited to social events in Raydon and the boys would come to us fairly regularly. I...

It Will Never Get in Here: B17 Forced Landings in Ipswich

One day we received a call from Air Trafic Control informing us that a B17 was approaching for a wheels-up...

Schoolboy Royal Observer

Every time the fighters came back to Raydon, they invariably flew low over Hadleigh in formation. One...

Past Medical History: Suffering from Meningitis in an Ipswich Hospital

Diagnosis: Meningitis Child aged 3-4 Time: 1941-1942 I don't recall nice food, sweets, chocolate,...

My War: Childhood in Ipswich

It was in 1940 when I was five years old that my dad joined the R.A.M.C. and went to Africa and Burma...

Dancing to Glenn Miller

There were 25 of us land girls at Moat House hostel in St Margaret South Elmham and there was an American...

Air Crash in Combs Village, Stowmarket.

Air Crash in Combs Village, Stowmarket. A Wellington bomber had crashed coming home from Germany....

90 squadron R.A.F

I am Reg Ware and I joined the RAF in 1942 volunteering for aircrew.After a few weeks at the reception...

The Lord of the Manor

My sister was evacuated to Dullingham village and my two brothers and I went to Stetchworth. I don't...

Suffolk Cow Girl

I got nits and the lady who was over us put paraffin on my head and my bedlinen in disinfectant, so with...

The Lure of Walberswick

History does not record the reason for my being taken to Walberswick at such a tender age, although I would...

A Glamorous Auntie

One day we were all taken to have our gas masks fitted and tested but I had no idea at the time...

My Memories

My mother, grandmother, brother and myself then moved to East Bergholt where we lived for two years and...

A Memory of WW2: Evacuated from London to Suffolk

When WW2 broke out I was eleven and on holiday, in Newmarket, at my grandparents. They suggested to my...

Collecting Brussel Sprout Stalks

I was a Land Army girl and one memory I have was when my friend and I had a job to do...

A Cockney Encounters Real Chickens

I remember the coach arriving at Boxted Hall in Suffolk which was a huge estate with a moat and tennis...

War in Felixstowe

My young brother went to Bromesgrove, which is near Birmingham; he was brought home post-haste when the...

Growing Up

My mother was in the WVS, located opposite Westleton Green supporting the troops the Westleton Common; they...

Jewish Lady Evacuated to Suffolk [S.Markson]

At the age of 12 I was evacuated with my mother and baby sister aged 4 from the school in Bethnal Green,...

Keeping Cattle in the Land Army

I was 16 years old and as a Land Army girl I took over the care of the cattle....

J A Martin DFC - 19 Dead in Air Accident

We weren't due to fly one day during 1943, and I had a WAF to see in Cambridge, when Mac McDonald came...

A Happy Year

When I was 11 years old, I travelled with my sister's school and three retired school teachers who had...

The Runaway Brother

It was awful really leaving my Mum, but I had my elder brother with me so it wasn't so bad....

The Luminous Ankle

My primary work was in Boon Defence, managing hydrogen balloons, initially on a shift basis. My hands were...