Surrey

Happy Times at School Camp by Geoff Blyth

There are about 60 people in the group, with members in Australia, New Zealand, US and Canada... The Lady...

Evacuation and Separation

Mum was ill with quinsy and I was taking care of her, even though I was only eight years old. I just...

John Russell's Evacuation during 1939/1945

We boarded a train at Epsom station and set off not knowing where we were headed, and after several hours...

Memories of the ATS - Doodlebugs

They had moved a lot of the girls and men down the coast, to shoot the doodlebugs down because our guns at...

Wartime Memories - The Land Army

I joined the Womens Land Army in May 1940 and in January 1944 I was sent to work on an 18 acre...

A Mickey Mouse gas-mask and no bananas

I was very proud of mine as my Dad got me a Mickey Mouse one, which was pink with a floppy pink...

Hooked on Leicester!

The German bombers taregeted the Hawker Factory which built the Hawker Hurricanes and C.B. Gormans's...

Putting The Record Straight

The 2/6 Battalion consisted of Officers, NCO's and other ranks that had seen service in the First World...

Epsom at the start of WW2

A house on the other side of the road going towards Epsom Common, at the bottom of West Hill, was...

Evacutation 1st Time 1941

My mother and I visited him.He was staying with an elderly couple,a Mr/Mrs Hubbard at the Old Tannery...

Playing Hookey

The following week, I played hookey from school and I went down to Woolwich to have a look at the King...

Bombs over Lingfield

It passed over the village, probably no more than 1,000 feet and to my horror the bomb doors opened and a...

The End of the War

There were many nationalities representing the services including some Free French sailors and some very...

Evacuated to Limpsfield

My sister Helena was at the head of our line and much to my amazement, when we came to the end, she...

N.F.S. (National Fire Service)

Anyway my friend Joan and myself joined N.F.S. We were stationed at Mkt Bosworth, later to Hinckley... We...

War Time 21.6.44: V1 in Carshalton

Mum and Dad went back to the bomb site and told them we we safe as we had been re-united in Poulters...

Snippets of Wartime Memories: In Surrey, Leicester and South Africa

Snippets of memories of World War 2 Some snippets of memories gathered by volunteers at the Epsom and Ewell...

ATS Girl 1943-6

I had dreamt of going to Egypt but arrived in Brussels, to the HQ 21st Army Group... I spent a month at...

The Free French at our Home

Most of those that stayed with my parents didn't survive the war but were killed on active duty...

A Firewatcher's Helmet

Although my father gave in to my wish to be with him he insisted that I wear a firewatcher's helmet....

A Spoilt Lunch: Raid on RAF Kenley.

I was 12 years old and with my mother and father and my young brother Ian we were " house minding"...

Wartime Schooldays

During 1940 we would see our spitfire and Hurricane fighters having dog-fights with German Messerschmitt...

A wartime boyhood in Cranleigh

School life proceeded normally until the Infant School was destroyed and there were just not enough...

Ivy's Story

At another RAF station, I had the misfortune to see one of our bombers crash on “take off”, all...

Sutton Stories

One flying bomb hit the Diary next door to the factory I was in – it landed in the loading area,...

The Anderson Shelter: Beneath the Bombers in Surrey

Mum, and big sister Squibs, asked the men what they were supposed to do with the unwieldly and heavy strip...