I am a Methodist by religion while the wife was Catholic but that was sorted out, but permission to marry...
During World War Two my uncle and aunt, Ronald and Marie Ritson, started writing to each other as...
The whole village helped with our wedding, giving Mum little bits of their rations... We weren't...
Having completed my initial military training by April 1941, my first posting as a Gunner in the Royal...
My sister Joan and I would take breakfast up to these boys in bed, usually five or six of them, and my...
All Charles's friends were either at home or abroad fighting the War so he persuaded a work colleague...
My uncle tells the story of how he came home on a very rare visit and alighted from Shildon railway station...
One night at 2am I was woken up and told to go on guard duty because a WAAF had gone off sick,...
Gus Krayer and Rene Shodken got married on 25 August 1940, knowing Gus was about to be called up....
The first we hear from Eileen is in a chatty letter that she sent to Norman, who was stationed at Appledore...
Before the war Phyll had been trained as dancer at a leading ballet school and performed in various London...
To my mum and dad though, it was new as yesterday and my mum was always keen to tell my brother Howard...
He lived with the awful sight of his friend "Soapy Hudson " being shot and killed alongside him,...
In the early days of World War 2 I was invited to attend a Post Mortem because, as a member of the...
I well remember one night in early 1941 when the oil tanks in a suburb of Plymouth were bombed, we were...
We booked the reception at Reggiories Restaurant which was across the road from King's Cross Station...
Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...
Most of my time was taken up sewing tags on second-rate stock for reduced sale. For Gladys's...
Grampy sent Nan the money for her ticket and so in June 1948 my Nan left her beloved South Africa on the...
Sidney had arrived a few days before to Liverpool docks, thin, tired and ill he had had Malaria while in...
I arranged to meet Greataunt Min in Oxford Street to buy material, but that night Hitler decided to bomb...
I was lucky to have a “white” wedding and I queued at John Lewis’ store from 6.30am for...
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