Love in Wartime

Bill's four-year absence as told by Joyce

My eldest sister, Vera, lived in Headingley and I sent her a telegram to tell her I was coming and hoping...

A war-time wedding in Pembroke Dock.

"Flight Sergeant John A Monks, Cheshire and Gwendoline Hitchings, Pembroke Dock, South Wales. The...

My parent's marriage in wartime in North Africa

My mother, always known as Betty, immediately thought of the handsome young Flying Officer she had known in...

Searching for Giacomo

A fifty eight year old lady, by the name of Verna, wished to obtain any information available about...

And I was in the Brownies Part 2

To return to Idris.Towards the end of the war he was stationed at LAD Kineton.LAD stands for Light Air...

Dorothy Joblings' Story

I hired a film stars dress for the day, it was full length ivory satin and with it I wore a long...

Nursing in the war

We also had dances at the hospital and everyone joined in nurses and patients whether they were British or...

Wartime Wedding

My husband-to-be, Bill joined the Royal Navy as a boy in 1936 and I met him when he came to the S.D.O....

The Dress

I didn't have enough coupons for a wedding dress. Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental in gathering...

My VE Day by Harry Hudson

I was at a place in Italy called Falconara near Ancona with 384 GT Company RASC. I came home by boat from...

The Dress

Joan's Story---G.I. Bride

Joan Wassell lived in Blackpool with her family and in 1939 she married an old school mate. When the...

A Lovely Photo

WAR BIRD

After Ringway, my father went up to Scotland, to film preparations for sinking the German battleship; the...

Sadness and Joy

Billy failed his medical, I did not, so off I went in 1941 leaving Billy at home in Gisburn near Clitheroe...

The Flying Photographer

After Ringway, my father went up to Scotland, to film preparations for sinking the German battleship; the...

Wartime Wedding

My wedding dress was plain satin, bought with my own coupons and some donated by friends and relations....

A Wartime Wedding, 1945

We arrived at the Hotel looking forward to a cup of tea but we had missed 4 o'clock tea and had to...

Love and War

My family was from Cheshire but moved to Liverpool for work reasons and I was born there in 1919 and spent...

DANCING TROOP

One day, I was on my way to the air-raid post because of an alert — Glasgow was being bombed —...

Wedding on a Shoestring

By this time clothes coupons were in very short supply so I borrowed an evening gown from Marjorie and...

Yugoslav Diplomacy

When the war ended in Europe, the Yugoslav Royal Family and its government were in exile in London and...

Courtship And Marriage - Wartime Style.

Courtship And Marriage - Wartime Style. Topic of story: Courtship and Marriage — Wartime style....

Betty's days as an army cook

I was stationed at St Annes on Sea where I met and feel in love with my husband who was also an...

End of a romance

In 1945 my boy friend returned from the Middle East... We spent a few days visiting friends & relations...

We’ll get engaged on my next leave!

A soldier in the King's Royal Rifle Brigade Bob had been ‘courting’ mum since his transfer...