Love in Wartime

The Day the Balloon Went Up

My grandmother Jeanne Michez had married Staff Sgt. Gordon Stanley in February – the first French...

Full Circle

Last summer I took my Grand mother on a shopping trip to Bury St Edmunds and as it was a lovely sunny...

Aug 1939 Southend on Sea

1943 Freda was married and the rationing meant that her wedding dress needed 8 coupons....

My experiences in London during WW2

We reached a point where we couldn't go any further and drifted down to Stanley where we spent the...

Wartime Memories - Part Seven

In the spring of 1943, Harold was actually given leave to come home and before he boarded the ship at...

Love Story, Troopship Through the Tropics, and Good Food

and I didn't know where I was going or when I'd hear from her, but in South Africa when I had my...

Meeting Les for the First Time

Ernie's close friend Les was feeling a bit down because Ernie was being draughted home Les and Ernie...

My Parents' D Day

This is my father's account of his D Day: "We embarked from Southampton, joining a vast armada,...

A Wartime Wedding

Jim was granted 72 hour leave, in that time he had to travel from Lincolnshire, marry and return... We...

A Traditional Wedding in Ahwaz

After chasing Rommel back and forth across North Africa and coming to Italy my fiance was sent to the Trans...

How I met my husband

There were queues to the cinema everywhere but when the commissioner came out he selected people in pairs,...

End of war wedding for aircraft fitters

Reg and I were both stationed in St. Athan, when we started to go out…and it wasn't all that...

Blitz Wedding

Father was Stationed at a Naval Air Station in Hampshire, mother was staying with Father's relatives in...

The Wedding Went off with a Bang!

On September 7th 1940 I travelledfrom my home near Watford to attend the wedding at St Margaret's...

Getting Married to Stay in Devon.

When mum came out of hospital we were evacuated to Templeton in Devon... It was a bit different from...

A Long Wait for My Wedding

I think that was the 19th June and we got married on the 25th June at Beverley Minster by special licence....

My War Runaway Marriage

I ran away from home and joined the ATS. The uniform of the ATS was khaki drill and one uniform we bleached...

Servicing Wellington Bombers and "B" Vehicles by Pat Bristow (nee Hordley)

Servicing Wellington Bombers and "B" Vehicles by Pat Bristow. My husband worked as a vehicle...

A Short Marriage

Douglas Fawcett and I, Joyce Cowper, first met in 1937 and became sweethearts. We travelled together from...

Celebrating VE Day in Bristol

Jock - my boyfriend in the 5th Survey Regiment of Royal Artillery - was working in Africa and Italy. When...

Wartime Conception

Not knowing she was pregnant, Mum joined the Land Army. She requested "Care of Livestock" but was...

My Parent's War-Time Experience

He was on the Anti Aircraft on the heavy artillery. my mother worked locally in the offices of a wholesale...

My Hero-The romeo of Chesterfield

As a kid, me and my friends always used to ask my grandad about gory stories he had encountered during the...

A London Wartime Wedding

I wrote and told my mum who showed the letter to Violet, Violet answered that letter and told me there were...

Celebrations !

When we planned our wedding for May 5th, 1945, at Habergham Parish Church, Burnley, we did not know that...

My First Long Train Journey

15 months later he landed in Scotland and sent me a telegram: "Meet me in Glasgow". well, I'd...