Dorset

Bombs, ARP and Home Guards

And they were both lovers of the sea, and Father and Uncle had a sailing boat and a motor boat, but they...

Langton Herring, Dorset, in Wartime

During the Battle of Britain fighter planes used to hdge hop arund the village.One larg piece of plane went...

Bomb and Mine Disposal in Poole during the build up to D-Day

As the work up for “D” Day began in earnest, and live munitions replaced practice rounds, it...

Farm Life and an Army Cadets' Experiences

We had to take the books out to the car for en to check, and he said 'I can see you're honest'...

Working in the Women's Land Army - Irene Johnson

As it came up to the first Christmas in the Land Army the Cluitts offered me a goose to take home for...

My War

We went all the way down the French coast, past Calais — the Germans were still in Calais —...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy -Part 2 (Chapter 3)

In charge of the party was a Sergeant and so secret was the equipment that not even the Troop commander was...

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...

Memories World War Two at Wyke Regis

So with the Weymouth bay and harbour, the Portland harbour and the Torpedo factory, the area was of great...

A Boy in Dorset

Father's sister and her husband owned a hotel on the Dorset coast and held the lease of an unoccupied...

Machine-Gunned on Swanage Beach

It was a lovely place to be, and in the fateful August of 1942 that all Swanage people remember we shared...

A Boy's Wartime Memories of London and Dorset

An aunt of mine had a house in the village of Chideock in Dorset and I was sent out of London to...

Weymouth War Memories

Born in Weymouth Dorset, I was just a young boy at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, but it...

Poppy's Wartime Memories - Part 2, 1941-1945

In those days there was no television and no big shows in this area to compare us with so we performed at...

WW2 — Through the Eyes of a Small Boy

Little did we realize the pounding that Portsmouth was about to undergo from the nightly raids from the...

Enlistment and Training

Edwin did not enlist on his own, his cousin David Cole joined him, but they were soon split up after their...

Evacuees, Pullthroughs and Flax - and the Navy

Now Watton Hill, which would have been on this map up here, now I told you an uncle of mine lived there...

Village Life - from Evacuees to the Americans

We had a new, talking about evacuees, the next schoolmaster that came, Mr Rose, he came from Gravesend with...

Grandmama's War

My younger sister and I were lucky, because our mother came with us as an escort, but lots of children and...

Child to Soldier

Also evacuated to the village were schools from Southampton and London, I went in with the Southampton kids...

Poppy's Wartime Memories - Part 1, 1939-1940

My Granny had one and this was to be shared between tow houses, Granny's and Mr and Mrs Sayers next...

Forties Fragments

I used to help a couple of nights a week at the Church Army Canteen in Gosport, walking home, quite late,...

Wartime Memories - Following the Army

Having reached the requisite age in 1938, I attended the Church of England Primary school in Lydd where,...

"A Young Boys War"

The London children tended to look down on anyone not from "The Smoke" and at first referred to...

War for Nita

Children were evacuated to our area from the areas which were thought to be most at risk from the expected...

The Birch Family at War (Part 2) Evacuated to Devon and Dorset

I remember looking up at night and seeing the searchlights pick up a plane, it looked like a silver moth,...