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Wartime Memories: Chessington

It was certainly noisier for half a mile up the road was an anti-aircraft battery that would pound away...

Childhood Memories at Guildford

My family lived in the North Lodge that had originally belonged to Langton Priory and part of our large...

Wartime Memories

After two years in England it was found that I had a hearing problem and so I left the Royal Warwicks and...

Being a Child during the War

Bath night was Friday and of course nobody had an abundant supply of hot water so my mum would put the...

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A Yorkie's Waricon for Story with photo

Both York and Guildford suffered heavy bombing raids and Dad lost many friends when where he was stationed...

A Close Encounter: 158 SQN RAF Lisset Halifax MKIII "F" (Friday 13th) Pilot F/LT N.G.Gordon.RCAF

The Skipper chose to use a short wave radio to contact the airfield at Blackbush, but as a shock to us, all...

Doodlebugs

Another time were were in the garden when there were several doddlebugs buzzing about and a hurricane...

A child's view of adults at war

Their memories of air raids, food shortgages, casualty lists, looting of German owned shops, the Silvertown...

A Welsh Guards Tragedy

Have been attached to the Welsh Guards Training battalion based at Sandown Park race track near to Esher...

A Child in 1940: Some Serious Lessons in Wartime Surrey

Anyway a german bomber came low over the common with a trail of smoke behind it and Dad ran indoors and...

Friend or Foe: Memories of Gas Masks

With the masked squad walking round the 'gas' hut the specialist Sergeant then ignited a shallow...

The Pilot and the Six Inch Rule

I cycled to Weybridge station, a mile and a half from Vickers aircraft factory. I heard a German bomber...

1939-1945: Family Memories in Southern Counties

A few months later this boy, his sister and their mother kiss their father farewell and drive away into the...

Croydon Schoolboy in WW2

Secondly, at home our house near Croydon aerodrome was fortunately not damaged or destroyed by bombing and...

My Mothers War

During the war my Mum remained at the childrens home opposite the graveyard in Egham Staines... After that...

Kenley's Dornier Day

Also with an engine shot to a stop over the airfield, the aircraft that overflew our avenue bungalow...

Memories of Evacuation

Through a Childs Eyes: Memories of Cranleigh

Evacuees arrived at Cranleigh Station which was always a busy placeand a target for german planes... A...

From Mock Invasion to Machine Gunned - Pt 1

Despatches', 'Second Front' and the daily toll of bomber crews 'failing to return'...

Memories of My Parents' Wartime Concert Party

We had a bevy of pretty teenage girls who danced did tap and ballet, to include toe tap and musical comedy....

A Wartime Weddingicon for Story with photo

I really had not wanted a church wedding with all the attendant trimmings — a registry office would...

Wartime on the Homefront

The war was now moving in our favour but 1944 brought yet another unexpected and frightening prospect with...

Letter to My Mother, 29 July 1944icon for Story with photo

Vic Humberstone had one at Worcester Park on Thursday night about 6pm and it brought down ceilings and also...

Childhood Memories of WW2

He saw no point in my mother and me remaining in Birmingham with all the horrors that were to follow so we...

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 4 : D-Day, Gen Miller, Doodlebugs and the end of the war

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 4 : D-Day, Gen Miller, Doodlebugs and the end of the war. With D-Day...

Derby Day V1 incident

My Aunt and I had escaped injury from the bomb but my younger sister who had been upstairs in her bedroom...

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