International Friendships

The Day War Broke Out

You went out and played in the streets, when I was brought up in the Duke Crescent area, which was a fairly...

"A Child Remembers"

I was born 2 years before the war started and as a child I remember my Mother saying'I'm sorry son...

Wartime Memories of Semilong

Living at 85 Semilong Road, we had an extremely long garden, with a greenhouse, and a father who loved...

Not Another War

The river was easy for them to follow and helped them drop their bombs on the London dock area of East...

My Recollection Of The War As Seen Thrrough The Eyes Of A Child

Whenever I took that car outside to ride it all the kids would pile on it as I was the only child...

Evacuees and Americans - A Child's View of War in Ipswich

Imagine my father's horror following an incendiary raid in the road next to ours, when he came off...

Constance Benjamin Chepstow Memories

It was sensible to do, and Spence Thomas, of course his wife and children were in North Wales, but his...

Childhood In Wartime Yate

My father was a bricklayer, he worked for Rangers, which was a building firm in Yate and my mother worked...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 26a: Berlin August 1945 - February 1946

Butch and Johnny went straight over to Havel to view their charges - beautiful big sleek white cabin...

"A Young Boys War"

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

How the War Came to Rural Devon

Recollections of the war years in some small Devonshire communities recorded by members of Silverton...

The Schoolboy and the Rebel

So the boy and his mother began to save all the three penny pieces that they could, when they had enough,...

Story - John Bevan

But there weren't many German aircraft over Combe Martin. Combe Martin was fairly safe because it is...

A Quiet War

One boy achieved hero status by going into the pulpit at church and shouting 'Heil Hitler'. He then...

Evacuees in Stratford

And then, coming up to that, before that period when they were building the aerodromes, Long Marston...

Wartime Memories

With scant ceremony I was bundled up and taken up to their current flat in Bristol: in Filton, near the...

All Tanked Up - part 3

Church Gate Stores in the High Street was used as a squadron orderly building, and Canadian troops there...

Some Episodes of a War Time Child - Betty Mallard nee Waterfield.

Some Episodes of a War Time Child - Betty Mallard nee Waterfield. Miss Brentnall took it into her head that...

My War Years: Childhood Memories of Chartwell: Part 2

Recently I read the "Churchill Bulletins, Jan - June 1935" and was very interested to read...

Race Relations in Algiers (1943)

Arabs and Algerian French swarmed in the streets and markets... French shoppers - men and woman - sometimes...

Being a Baby in Wartime

Lights from the defence crew in Osterley Park darted all over the sky and the Ack Ack guns stationed in the...

Kathleen Pack

They had Land Army Girls over on Price's at Model Farm. They used to have all these Land Girls, and...

Immediate Post-War in Lower Saxony and Local Relationships

Since the end of the war, the Royal Navy in co-operation with the British army had been transporting to the...

'I Suppose They Think I'm Dead!'

I lived in the married quarters of Aldershot with my husband, Reg, who was a soldier... Reg was stationed...

John Cotton

I went to school in one of the huts in the old camp off Alpha Road until it moved to a new...

Ballet and World War Two

Even in war-torn Britain there were still things like ballet schools for little girls and I was lucky...