Air Raids and Other Bombing

WRVS Incident, May 1945

When daylight came W.V.S members were told to prepare meals for the whole town as the British Restaurant...

Schoolgirl's Memories from Ceylon

In 1939 when the war broke out on 2nd September, I was a schoolgirl in Ceylon and lived in a town about...

The bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese

My family lived on the top floor and from our veranda, I could see the steeple and weather cock of St...

My Father the Fire Watcher

Dad was a Fire Watcher, when the Sirens went and we headed for the air raid shelter he had built in the...

1942 — A Tragic Bank Holiday

I am David Nix and I spent the early war years living, with my grandmother Mrs Emily Gooder and my aunties...

Mary Daniels - My War Experience

Although we didn't think about the war, the firm I worked for, Charles Letts the diary people, were...

THE CAT KNEW BEFORE WE DID

I suppose the very first incident of seeing a German plane was being told by my Dad to come and watch a...

Lost in the Blackout

One evening, in December 1940, when I was 11 years old, my friend Fred Harle and I decided to go carol...

The Night the Luftwaffe Bombed Alfreton: 10 April 1941

He cleaned it out and used it as an ornament on our mantelshelf for years, as a souvenir of the night the...

Life of a War Orphan

My very earliest recollection is of being in an orphanage in Burnham-on-Sea where we were regularly taken...

Moaning Minnie

into a large subterranean air-raid shelter... Every evening at home we slept, clad in siren suits, in the...

Latterbarrow Bomb

I narrate this story as told to me by my father, Jack Hodgson who is now a sprightly 84 years young.During...

My Guardian Angel

I left school at 15 years of age and went to the work at the Whitehead Torpedo Works in Wyke Regis. I...

A Very Very Lucky Escape

In the early days of the war, my father was stationed at RAF St Athan. My mother spent the night next door...

Baffling Walls in Glasgow

People walked into them, especially after they'd had a few drinks, and children ran out of the close...

Bombing Over Christmas

A story that will live with me for life, I was about 6 years of age and with my parents we walked...

In Peace & War: A Govan Childhood

Wartime / Expanding horizons The declaration of war / Evacuation The blackout / LDV warden Hazards caused...

Wartime Memories of a Civilian

Dad, in the Specials, had to leave us and go home early, and Ken went with him as his schooling was...

RECOLLECTIONS OF A CINEMA PROJECTIONIST

One further emergency exit door gave access to an enclosed cast iron spiral staircase to street level via a...

Teenagers in War

They came over the white cliffs of Southern England in formation, to drop their bombs on London; but soon...

Schoolday Memories of Wartime Years, The Final Chapter.

We spent a large proportion of our leisure time, out on our "bikes", aircraft spotting, We used to...

Memories of WW2 in a Cotswold Village

The bags were then stacked to make a wall in front of the downstairs Police Station windows, the latter...

McCollum family World War 2 Memories

Mum was by then back in Newcastle, living with her best friend for the rest of the war, and that same time...

A Childhood in Gosport and Portsmouth : Part One

Having been discharged on pension, he served with the Royal Marine Police at the RN Armament Depots,...

My Childhood Experiences of WW2

In the meantime a friend of the family, Charlie, had heard that our district had been bombed so he came to...

She said "Carol, War Has Been Declared"

Another unpleasant memory was sound of the enemy aircraft overhead at night; the throbbing of the engines...