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The young mother waiting for her husband

Her home was in Wales but she was living in rooms in Plymouth, as her husband was in the Navy. Because of...

My War time wedding dress

My mother-in-law made my wedding dress. I was told it was the last bit of silk from Nottingham Market....

Compassionate Leave

My father was a gunner in the HAA and stationed at Wanstead Flat, East London. In 1944, my father Alfred...

6) It was a strange time really...

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DEMOBBED, SEPTEMBER 1946

I climb a lavatory-tile staircase to the Prof's eyrie and a queue of girlish smiles. The Prof is...

War Memories

My Dad, Arthur Ashby, was still posted at the Bury St Edmunds barracks with the Suffolk Regiment as Sargent...

Wedding Day

We had to use coupons for our wedding... For the wedding cake we were given fruit and it was made with soya...

You just had to do it there and then

It was difficult planning a wedding in the wartime — I think you just had to do it there and then. My...

Womens Airforce

WAAF, 1941-46 Palestine new post in Issral, we were in tents in Jeruselem we got married in St Georges...

serendipitous love

I was a young woman, working as a nurse in Sheffield... I learnt they were stationed in Sheffield, training...

POWs in Jpan

He was captured by the Japanese in 1941 and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp for the British......

Wedding

My wedding was 1942... We had a fruit cake and 4 bridesmaids - Harry sisters and my sisters....

"Holiday Inn"

In 1942 my girl cousin and I stood for two hours in a long queue of service men outside the old Kings...

Time just came and went

My wife and I got married on the 26th May 1945, that was the time when I was in Folkestone, and I...

A Wartime Wedding

I met a British soldier in Hucknall who was originally from Lincoln. He became my husband and for three...

Clippy Janet Married My Friend!

Clippy Janet Married My Friend. But when I was on duty my friend was off duty and he was seeing Janet too....

"WARTIME WEDDING" (Photograph of Phil & Reta Vaughan on their Wedding Day)icon for Story with photo

Alice Vaughan - Groom's mother. Gladys Sharples - Groom's sister and Muriel's future Godmother....

Free post

The Army provided duty-free labels and post labels so we could send items back to England for free. A...

Getting Married At Our Own Risk

I got married to Peggy in 1944 in Wilmington Church. My wife worked as a supervisor in the ironing room at...

Wedding Bells After 5 Day Romance for HMS Barham Survivoricon for Story with photo

During this time he was writing to his sweetheart Joyce Sharpless from Gateshead on Tyne. George was...

Bread of Life

In April 1945 during the last few days of the war I was working at Whittons Bakery in Lincoln 24 hours a...

Dressed as a nurseicon for Story with photo

The above photograph was taken of my Father when he dressed as a Red Cross Nurse to raise finds for the Red...

Edinburgh to Exeter for the Admiralty

During the bombing in Exeter my father moved our family back up to Edinburgh to stay....

Lost at Dunkirkicon for Story with photo

Fred and Rose were survived by their only daughter, Sheila Norvock, who was born on 1st May 1940 - one...

ROYAL ENCOUNTER

She had many relations in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The visitor had been in the Army during the war and...

Unlucky offer

One of the things I remember from the war is this gentelman who wanted to sell this property... Thank God,...

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