Canada

My Life My War - Chapter 7b

Ruth had made plans to visit all her relations in turn and she would hold my hand and say, “This is...

Ronald Edgar Remfry in Canada, 1941-43

This was ascribed to the fact that we came from places much nearer to sea-level than where we were in...

An Evacuee's Story-Canada

In July 1940 my father took me by train to Liverpool where we joined my Jewish Auntie Josie and cousin...

Maggots in the Soup

And then he stopped, glanced over at my bowl, took a double-take, then did the same to his own, stirred it...

A Slice of Autobiography (1939 to 1946) — Part 5

Turnkey hamstrung". Not long afterwards: "Turnkey staggered". I think someone on the Bridge...

Happy Days Are Here Again

British Bomber Command had a lot of Canadian Air Force personnel manning the planes in the nightly raid...

My Life My War - Chapter 11a

Jack Hylton my buddy from Bremerton was still with us, and together we went ashore on our first liberty......

Canadian Adventure

Even there we felt the threat of German invasion from France so it was surprising that my parents thought...

Jack Duggan: Distinguished Flying Canadian

Flight Lieutenant Jack Duggan's Lancaster was one of only four allied planes lost in the March 22nd...

Round the world at government expense Chapter4: Training with the RAF in Canada

Towards the end of the summer there were days when flying was cancelled due to smoke haze that arrived from...

Bomb Aimer's View

At the completion of R.A.F.training, with others, we went to Blackpool and Heaton Park; then, it was to...

A Fighter Pilot

It all started at Uxbridge where I did my initial training to become an A.C.2 I then joined the RAF at...

Working on the Loading Dock

And when a vehicle other than an ordinary truck came through the dock, such as a fuel or water-tank truck...

My War - The Contrast.

Things were very quiet for the first six months of the war and I remember when some German aircraft came...

Flights of a Navigator

However, my flying was not as good and after a report by our German, I was checked by the Chief Instructor...

A Canadian Boy's Account

This boy was 11 when war was declared and its immediate effect on us kids was a rush of patriotism, God...

Round the world at government expense Chapter3: Training with the RAF in Canada

The aircraft we were to fly at Assiniboia were Fairchild Cornells, low-wing monoplanes with an in-line...

Evacuated to North America

My memories of Lyme in the early days of the war were of soldiers training on the beach, of waves...

A Filght Mechanic's Tale

We started the aerodrome there, initially there were only Mk1 Anson planes, these were old English...

The night I surprised a Nazi sub

From my position at the oerlikon with Gunner Lewis, I could hear Capt Steven discussing his action. Capt...

Across the Atlantic: Evacuated to Canada

The unreality of the early months of the war, found our family living in a semi in a small Hertfordshire...

VE and VJ Days in Canada

After initial training and time in Malta and Algiers, I was posted back home to HMS Vernon in Portsmouth,...

Fred's Journey, Part 4: Leaving the POW camp in Japan

However I managed to take a pair of Wies binoculars home, which my dad just gave to his old mate, a bookie!...

Evacuated to Canada then on to India

I was then sent to Boarding School in Toronto, and my brother and Mother went across Canada and then the...

Peter Senhenn's story

Crossed the Atlantic to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth to Halifax, Nova Scotia and was posted to RAF...

The Other Anne

We sailed on the S.S. Oronsay and I vaguely recall being in a cabin with 4 bunk beds with my sister who...