Surrey

A Child of a Wartime Postman

My mum thought that I would be as safe with dad as anywhere else, so as a very young laddie, I would...

Dorothy Collis's story Part 1

Children in London were being evacuated to the country and different offices were being set up in the...

98 Brighton Road

We were ordinary middle class of the period - father in his 40’s having served as a volunteer...

A Young Boy's War in Addlestone and Ardleigh

Our village school had an air raid shelter which we had to go in whenever the siren sounded , but during...

Dorothy Collis's Story Part 5

Hitler's secret weapon had arrived; a flying bomb, remote controlled form over the sea. it was called a...

Memories of World War 2 - in Croydon

I don't think I heard Neville Chamberlain's announcement. At that time my parents lived in Croydon,...

Reminiscences of a Roughrider 1937-1940

We were now to exchange our 13-pounder RHA guns for Swedish Bofors 2-pounder pom-pom guns, expand to three...

A teenager's view of WW2: In Dorking and Durham

I was not a very academic pupil but I somehow scraped through the General School Certificate with two...

Story Written For My Grandaughter of my Experiences During WW2

A couple of days before war was declared I was evacuated at the age of almost 12 years, my elder sister...

Village Life, Bombing, and Rationing: Childhood Memories of South Holmwood, Surrey

Village Life, Bombing, and Rationing: Childhood Memories of South Holmwood, Surrey. There were 3 members of...

Bob's War: Childhood Memories in Chaldon

Very soon after the WAR began our Royal Navy took a very serious loss when a U Boat torpedoed the aircraft...

My Teenage War Years:Growing-Up Years : In London, Farnham and Devon

To get back to Farnham on this particular evening, the first part of the journey required travelling by...

Doing My Bit: In 'Normal' Wartime

I remember years after the war mending a puncture and discovering that the still serviceable inner tube...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 9

You had to walk home from a town called Whitton in Middlesex to my home in Mortlake in Surrey, which was...

Evacuated, Returned, Then Blitzed.

There we were with bombers flying over head, a bomb which may explode any minute and water getting higher...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 3 (Chapter4)

I got there in the late afternoon only to find that my Troop were occupying a gunsite, equipped again with...

Michael's War

One reason for this was that with Canadian soldiers billeted all around the area where he lived, Michael...

Memories of the RAF Balloon Site 19

He was always working as he was in charge of a crew repairing Spitfires, Hurricanes and Wellington Bombers...

My War Years: Evacuation from Sutton to Wales

The next few months were strangely quiet, but busy, with an Anderson shelter being built in the back garden...

A Six Year Old's Memories

We were all got up ready to go, god knows where, up until then we had never been out of the London...

Barbara Barnes War memories Part One

Anyway, in October I went to Penn House in York, but I was not officially in the army... By then I had...

The Age Of Fear (Chapter 2)

We could hear her shouting from behind the door, telling the lady to take the boys away... This time much...

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

My Wartime Years

During training we did aptitude tests and I was selected for RDF. Together with my friend Sid Webber, on...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 5

I really wasn't believing I was home until we were going between where we landed at Wing to Amersham...

60th Anniversary of VE Day

Aldershot was only a microcosm of the delirious merrymaking and celebrations that went on all over the...