Love in Wartime

Bridesmaid's Dress

We found some white nylon - ex parachute nylon, no coupons were needed. She had worn a nylon wedding dress...

A Christmas Wedding

I had a rich fruit cake base for my wedding cake with three cardboard tiers. My wedding dress was borrowed...

In memory of Vi

It was Christmas and she had spent hours procuring and then cooking mince pies for the boys... We all...

A Chance Meeting

On his return to England he was sent to Nottingham and put in charge of the German prisoners at the POW...

GI Bride

There were six hundred brides, and two hundred and fifty children on the boat... When we came into the...

Midnight Express

I got special permission from Wedgwood's, where I worked, to have time off and my mother-in-law paid...

TRYING TO TRACE MY AFRICAN AMERICA GI FATHER

I AM TRYING TO TRACE MY AFRICAN AMERICAN GI DADDY STATIONED AT FAULD BURTON-ON TRENT STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND...

Doodlebug Romance

I always enjoyed listening to Ella Fitzgerald sing, so when she was in a film in our local cinema I made a...

A Short Marriage

I was being taken out for a drink at a hotel in Norwich by an officer, my husband to be joined us...

15 mile walk for love

John and Joan Powneyhave just celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary... Joan and John caught an early...

Finding Love At Netley

When WW2 broke, my mother was in the first group as a Sister in the Queen Alexandra's to be sent to...

The Boy Who Became ‘Bill’

He was a man of medium height Kindness, happiness illuminated on sight, Smiling face eyes of blue, Showing...

Day Trip to London

For a treat myself and boy friend Cecil, with Margaret and Frank, went on a trip to London. The siren went,...

Young and Newly Wed, in Wartime Birmingham

Both my children were born without my husband being with me. our daughter was 5 mnonths old before he saw...

A Milltown Romance

Then he was transferred to 224 Squadron was based at Milltown in April 1945 operating USA Liberators... As...

Mrs Holmes Tells Her Story

Mrs Holmes is 84 yrs old and her contribution has been edited to include only her wartime experiences. He...

Hitler, his part in my birth! [to blatantly pinch one of Spike Milligan's book titles!]

My mum, Ann McLellan of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, would never have left home of her own volition,...

Eric George Layton

My partners Father Eric George Layton was a member of the royal corps of signals during WWII... Coming back...

An Italian Wedding.

He met my mum while stationed near Venice... A Polish solider she'd met looked after her and took her...

What a Start to a Marriage

There I got a job in a factory that made Long Range Jettison Tanks for the aircraft, including the Lockeed...

Marrying a GI

"My twin sister married a GI on a freezing January day, at the synagogue on the Bristol Road... But my...

A Wartime Loss

We would read the Vatican paper to see if there was any news. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum for Mrs Sanders,...

Alan and Joan's Story

My Nan was a gunner on the anti-aircraft battery and my Grandad was the radar operator, tracking enemy...

Married life in Bridge of Weir during the War

I met my husband in 1940 and married him in 1942, he was in the Argyll and Sutherland regiment and 6 weeks...

Ken's Wedding 1941 before Tragedy Struck

In 1941 my brother was conscripted aged 20 into the Army barracks at Beverley in East Yorkshire... On the...

Just a Coat Tale

I remember going to Sheffield on the day of the Blitz to buy a dress and coat for my wedding in early...