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My Wartime Experiences: Evacuated from Croydon to Oxney in Kent and Eltisley in Cambridgeshire

My next recollection was being sent away to stay with my aunt and uncle in stone in Oxney near Tenterden...

The Age Of Fear

A rattling loose rear mudguard and soft tyres made peddling my bike hard going but I was being driven on by...

Rosemary's Tribute

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

Letter to America

Muriel is now working at the B.I. headquarters and travels into London every day. They were bombed out...

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WW2 People's War: A Secretary at Cornhill Insurance

Prior to the outbreak of World War 2 I was working as Secretary to one of the Partners of The Cornhill...

Machine Gunned in Croydon: Shortages, Sirens, Marooned Cats - and the Tale of the Ice Cream Man

Machine Gunned in Croydon: Shortages, Sirens, Marooned Cats - and the Tale of the Ice Cream Man. In due...

The Waiting Months: In Chaldon, Surrey

With so many good fields and wild countryside in and around Chaldon it wasn't difficult to imagine that...

Victory in Europe - as seen from Rome and from Surrey

Our cinema now screened newsreels of the ‘V-E Day’ celebrations in London — the...

A Boyhood During the War 1939-1945

I remember digging in a bomb crater in Selsdon Wood near Ashon Vale to find pieces of shrapnel which was...

Personal Memories of World War 2

Margaret and I were the last two in the crocodile and when Mrs Read, the lady who had said she would take...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 1

As Hitler and his Nazi party took control of Germany, the German Government complained to the League of...

Light Rescue

As Henry looked up, the joists slipped just a little without invoking another whistle from the Warden, but...

Red Beads for Remembrance

My eldest sister, Elsie, joined the WRNS, and before she left she gave me a necklace of red glass beads to...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood, part 2

A small beach had formed near the railway bridge where the river came through from Ewell village......

Barbera Barnes War memories. Part Two.

Later on I became a sergeant and had S and T squads at Camberley with possibly twenty girls in each. At one...

An Incredible Departure

Because we didn't own a car, Mum and us four children all piled into the front cab alongside the sole...

The Queen Mary's Hospital for Children - Carshalton

The following photographs of the Second World War and Post War years were kindly contributed by: Miss J F...

Any Volunteers Out There?? Childhood Memories of Chaldon, Surrey

The German 'push' into Holland and Belgium after 'doing' Norway and the stepping stone...

Fly Away Peter, Come Back Paul

As he now swiftly worked his way around windows, the News reader was revealing first the tale of the...

The 'Bug' on a Mission

Flying mainly at 1,500 feet to beat the gunfire, many 'bugs' were directed to overfly Redhill, then...

Banging in the Night

Both Caterham and Kenley held legitimate war targets for bombers, but as always civilian property round...

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I can remember as a boy of 6 learning the Canadian National Anthem at school so that we could sing it at...

Cuddington Hospital to Chirk N.Wales

I suppose that because Mitcham Junction Railway Station was less than a mile away we were in the target...

Waste not, Want not!-Surrey childhood

Enemy bombs fell on Ewhurst, we had an oil bomb in the school playing field, and others fell else where in...

Childhood Memories of WW2

He served on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Formidable, and H.M.S. Wolf, I believe this ship was a...

Wartime Memories (1939-45) of Frederick Davies

Met at Lewes station by helpers and given my first car ride to the then Cinema-De-Luxe, School Hill, High...

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