Love in Wartime

Under the influence of Scottish girls as I celebrated my 21st birthday

Three Scots girls I was sharing with spotted the greetings cards on my shelf and dragged me to the RAF HQ...

A Sailor's Farewell

I remember I wore a pale turquoise dress and jacket and a pill box hat with a tiny veil. On the way...

Wedding in Colchester in 1940

My dad's sister altered the bridesmaid's dress she had worn at a friend's wedding in December...

Jim and Evelyn Bristow

Jim Bristow from Liverpool lost no time in securing a place in the heart of Youlgrave's one-time...

Seriously Wounded in the Mediterranean

Journey home on leave

I lived in Kilnsea. I was a radar operator in the ATS, and I was posted in the Midlands when they were...

Love and war

Tony was with the Ist American Army, stationed in Marsh Mills in Plymouth... I received another letter from...

Pay Office in Edinburgh

However, when he went for his medical they would not accept him because he had poor eyesight and he was...

HMS Glorious

This is a short note in memory of my uncle and the men that died with him between 9th and 10th June...

Wartime wedding

I married my husband Ralph in 1946 in Ryslip church,St Martins.He was stationed at Boscombe Down and had a...

My Army Experiences by John Burtenshaw

I went to Germany, Cyprus, Singapore, Malaya to Hongkong and ended up in the Outer Hebridies in Benbecula....

Regiment

Son of Archibald and Isabella Taylor, of Greenock. Ella used to go for picnics with Sarah Kennedy....

My husband George

My husband, George was in the Royal Airforce at Henlow in Bedfordshire. I married George in 1941 at the...

'Best of Friends'. By fellow allotment tenant Martin Doughty.

Whilst researching our allotment history to support a 'Dig for victory' day at the National Trust...

MY WEDDING DAY

We were married in the church of St. Martin's in Camden, where I lived... When he put in the...

Welcoming the Yanks

She decided to entertain the American soldiers from Weeton Camp at her home in Bloomfield Road,...

Mary Churchill’s birthday party on the Renown

We were on the way back from Canada in HMS Renown, it was October 43, Mary Churchill, now Lady Soames, as...

From Scotland to England

In wartime I lived in a small Scottish country town that was considered safe. I moved from the countryside...

Former Wrens

I have kept in contact with some of the former Wrens’ Behold the Dawn Sticky paper to make a window...

Most embarrassing moment of my life December 1940

At the Hogmanay ball in the Sergeant's Mess, Wynne and I were dancing the Dashing White Sergeant. I...

Our Special Date

Wherever he was stationed at the time, he knew that I was at home and we both listened to the Forces’...

Eileen's story

However, Eileen and her friends had to make their own way to the airfield in order to go on the aircraft......

Our Weddinng Day April 3rd 1943

WE were married in uniform Dearest Mia in her W.A.A.F. uniform and I was in my Naval uniform... Seargants,...

My wedding

I married a serviceman in Gillingham Methodist Church... We borrowed chairs from the church and I carried...

how do you feel?

Sindh is the land from those,those are ful of love... I love sindhri because she is daughter of sindh....

Wren

I had been away at boarding school and decided to join the WRENS. During time off we'd go to Eastbourne...