Wiltshire

The German Girl

I was about 14 at the time, and amongst my fellow pupils there was a German girl called Sylvia whom I...

My Mum Won the War

She remembered the iron table cum air raid shelter, food shortages and mums doing dads work, but mostly -...

Return from Dunkirk: Reminisces of a Hotel Maid in Wiltshire

I was working as a maid in the only hotel in Ludgershall , Wiltshire, a few miles from the garrison town of...

Bemerton Boy

There was an ack ack gun and searchlights on the cricket field and the little building that was built as...

Bombs Over Trowbridge

Mrs Baden was working at Clarkes, a cloth factory in Trowbridge during the war... One night all the bombers...

Childhood Memories

During the period 1940 - 1943 I lived in a vicarage in a village named Collinbourne Kingston between...

GWR Air Attack

During the day a single German bomber overflew the town and circled around the railway station and track...

Farmer in Plane Dilemma

On one occasion, one plane landed short of the airfield, on the farmer's field close by... The plane,...

Precautions in Salisbury

There was an ack-ack gun and searchlights on the cricket field and the little building that was put up as...

Patricia Lawrence, Wartime Reminiscences

Patricia Lawrence's story was told to helen Kemp at Fairfield Manor Residential Home, Boradstairs. I...

Christmas with the Germans

I remember the Christmas after the war, my father - a staff sergeant and training officer - invited seven...

Panic as Local School Feared to Have Been Hit

Unfortunately, my dad was working so he couldn't help my mother and me. the church had been hit by a...

Prisoners of War in Wiltshire

If I stood at our front door and looked to the front there was Boscombe Down Airfield, to the right was...

Boards for D-day

My father, Harry NORTHOVER, was employed by the War Office in early 1944 to make white-painted, wooden...

Exercises in Bemerton

On one occasion the local Home Guard was defending Bemerton against the “Germans” who were...

A Young Person's Story of the War

Father would be Warden Sergeant in the Home Guard and later became Warrant Officer in ATC. The point of the...

Growing up During the War

I believe he married Bebe and Ben Lyon's daughter Barbara and beame a B.B.C. producer. I remember the...

A Late Night Burglar

I was a small child living in Durrington in Wiltshire during the War, in a tiny one up and one down...

The Americans

At one time they were putting telphone lines up along the Wilton Road; they had coffee and donuts which...

Memories of evacuation

In 1940 I was evacuated with my sister from Banstead in Surrey to Ramsbury, Wiltshire... In 1944 I was...

Bombs Over Bradford On Avon

Joan has a vivid memory of being out in the school playground at Trinity School in Bradford on Avon one day...

Memories of my Father in Deptford

During the Second World War my father worked in Deptford Power Station. On his way to work one night,...

George VI at Upavon

Upavon Fying School trained pilots for both world wars. During WW2 George VI visited that aerodrome while...

Salisbury of Salisbury

In 1941 nine year old John Salisbury of Wooton, Salisbury saw a German fighter shoot down an unarmed...