Stories categorised in 'Sussex'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Towards the end of summer 1943 we were involved in an “invasion” exercise, the enemy being our...
The German plane dropped two bombs that landed near the Odeon cinema and all the windows and emergency...
This is the story of the abandoned and little-known tunnels of Royal Naval Headquarters HMS Forward at...
As such, it was responsible for HMS Marlborough at Eastbourne, HMS Aggressive and HMS Newt at Newhaven, HMS...
But the war came closer to the Horsham firemen's home ground when a bomb landed on the house of the...
Rodmell originally had two farms, a public house, a village shop, a Post Office, a petrol forecourt and a...
My father and mother had moved to Brighton in the June, when the Royal Engineers Records Office had moved...
The last two years of my Land Army days I was transferred to East Sussex and employed by the East Sussex...
When War broke out I was in Switzerland with my parents, but I was British, because I was born there, and...
Eventually mother, my middle sister and l crossed to southern Ireland to take refuge with Uncle Frank and...
Vic Crow was on watch, and because the boats were smashing to and fro against each other, so violently that...
My photographs of the bombing of a certain West Sussex town, however, made the deadline in a remarkable...
I along with my sister was evacuated from London in the first wave of children 'sent into the...
As there was time to spare before the train came I would wait on the Crawley Post Office step for the Post...
His six months in the Army did good as he used to play his accordion in the local pub of an evening...
All adults look large when you are about two and a half feet tall but when the Canadians arrived, I had...
My earliest realistic memory is living in Montague Street, Brighton and taking cover beneath my...
The boils and blotches on my legs appeared to the medical staff to be suitable specimens for a research...
We lived at 67 Foredown Drive Portslade East Sussex, my grand father Capt J.J Crowe V.C retired visited us...
It was a hospital of 300 beds then.In 1940 I was involved in the nursing of soldiers rescued from the...
Patricia Marriott was 14 when she was evacuated with other class members from Buckingham Gate Central...
We were watching the dog-fighting going on, allied and German fighters battling it out in the sky above......
In the Boys’ Brigade you were never on parade, You had to have your morning cup of tea, How did you...
I flew operations from RAF Tangmere in Typhoons during 1943-44, and subsequently moved to an advanced...
I was working on the land, casual work — hoeing, picking peas, gathering potatoes by hand - in all...
I witnessed newly brought-down German planes, ditched English planes and so on. Because my father always...
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