Love in Wartime

A Donegal Mother Produces Five US Naval Heroes

George McBride didn't see much future in Convoy nor did he fancy joining ditch digging on the other...

A Christmas Day Wedding 1943

My fiancé, Ken, had persuaded me, on one of the few occasions we had managed to meet up since our...

From Royalty to Burma

The King wanted no formality so sat on a bed and was able to chat for about 12 men at a time...

Experiences of the Royal Navy-being a Wren

I then went down to Plymouth, did my probationary training for a month and although I was a mobile Wren I...

Life as a cook in the WAAF 1942-45

Airforce camps were subject to many bombing raids and mam has related many tales about these ordeals.One...

My memories

Mum went to Exeter to get a Special Licence which was needed if the bans could not be called for three...

Wartime Marriage

The first thing to do was to see the Rector of our Parish Church in Sampford Courtenay. In the morning...

Durham Sapper drowned from SS Yoma : last letter home

They were married on Saturday June 5th 1943 at Ferryhill, a mining village in County Durham and their...

A Wedding on a Shoestring and Desparate to Help

The next item was my sister's wedding dress....

My Wartime Experiences

My eldest brother, Archie, was a Fusilier, in the army, stationed in India, Benny and Arther were in the...

I met and married an Austrian girl

So off I went back to England, went up and got my de-mob suit and things, came back down to where the...

Wartime Wedding

My war time wedding

Pat was in the Royal Navy then, servicing as a gunner on board the merchant navy vessels. Wedding...

My White Wedding

The wedding was at the Templar Halls in Paisley, but they couldn't supply any meat for the meal. Lots...

ANDERSON Family at War

Whilst there, he was a member of the Guard of Honour at the burial of Pilot Officer Billy Fiske, the first...

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We next went to Southampton Water where soldiers were waiting to embark for Dunkirk, we slept under canvas,...

Red rose on a pilot's grave - sixty years on

He was first buried in a small churchyard in Holland and then taken to Jonkerbos Military Cemetary which is...

A Wartime Wedding

From my home in Stoke-on-Trent, I went first to Halifax for training and then was posted to Nottingham and...

A Brief Wartime Honeymoon

When I was stationed in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, I met Ann Holloway, a farmer's daughter and local school...

Love At First Sight

I went to the Church Well Dance at St. George's, 1/9d, to go in. I was 17 years old, and I'd never...

The Wedding with a difference!!

This we did, Rev Evan Hopkins of St James Church Tunbridge Wells was very helpful, but as I was under age...

PoW torment for a young Gloucestershire war bride

We married on January 18th 1943 when my husband was 23 and I was 19 but a few weeks after we were...

Wartime Wedding in Holmer, Herefordshire

My husband-to-be, William John Cushing, had to go to war and was not back until the war ended... We had...

Memories

I met Vernon my husband when he was working in John Lewis, Oxford street and he was a volunteer with the...

A Wartime Wedding

Preparations went ahead nevertheless and on the morning of 2 January 1941 I got up very early and walked...

OVER THE WALL WEDDING NIGHT

A wedding was planned for the 31st August 1939, on my Dad's return to the U.K. The day before the...