Air Raids and Other Bombing

Excitement and Fear as a Young Lad.

A lot of them went back to London when the bombing didn't start and during the Blitz in 1940 when the...

My War

We watched as my brother was taken away by an old lady with grey hair and an unsmiling face, but I held...

Snapshots 2

That of course when Dad wasn't on duty at the FAP To enter a public building at night one had to...

A Navy Wife's War

Well Charybdis was already in commission, Scylla had reached the stage when one of the early people, still...

Pauline Mottershead Childhood Memories

Of course your Uncle, Neville Mottram, was with the 8th Army at El Alamein and was with the Army when they...

Dorothy Taylor- How I saw the second world war part 2

We rarely got new clothes except at Co-op ‘divi’ times, when Mam would collect the dividend...

Wartime Memoirs of a Lark

There, military or civilian police would ensure the disposal of Germans to a POW holding wing, or in the...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 6

7 THE SUMMARY OF MARLENE'S STORY — In London, she details her early memories of being shuttled...

WW2 When I was Five.

And I know Fred's wife and my mom used to worry while they messed about in the workshop. Dad was...

A Small Boy at War

At the beginning of WW2 I was five years, fifteen days, & seven hours old. . I lived at Darley Dale in...

The Diary of Two Nobodies - Part One

My sister Jean was only five years old when the RAF fought the great aerial dog-fights over London which...

To Die For Mussolini -Part 5

I was left with no hope to see him again and started to move away when I heard somebody calling me, I...

One Child's Story Part 2

Mum hadn't got back from shopping when the bomb landed on the library but luckily Dad was at home. Dad...

Effie's War in Lincolnshire - Part 1

My father was a Special Constable and came into closer contact with these exotic flyers when he had to...

Cider's War

The Policeman dolefully shook his head and made his excuses to leave, but my Nan, her sorrow now firmly...

WW2 as seen through the Eyes of a Greenock Schoolboy

Most of the boys took a keen interest in the types of aircraft used by both sides; the German Heinkel,...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 5

She also writes about her own birth, her unusual layette made from surplus fabric imprinted with secret War...

A Shed Full of Mills Bombs:A Boy's Memories of WW2 in Maidstone

Maidstone suffered terrible casualties one day when a lone Dornier, aiming at Rootes Motor Repair Sheds,...

My Life in Folkestone during WW2

As the Germans were only 21 miles away across the Channel they would send shells over and although we were...

The End of Lancaster 'N' for Nuts - 30th August 1943 - Part One

On arrival at Stalag Luft III near Sagan in Lower Silesia I was regarded with some suspicion by the senior...

My Wartime Childhood Memories

Our local ‘British Restaurant’ was a few hundred yards away in Long Ditton village hall,...

Memories of a Young Schoolboy

I was born in 1936, the youngest of four children, in the City of Wakefield, and my earliest memory of the...

Baedecker Raid of 42

Tom Hoare, George Easton, Bill Gardener, Bert Burden and Joe Wants were on the Cathedral roof together with...

Remembering the “Sleepy little town of Whitehaven” during World War Two

My name is John McCrickett and these are a few of the memories I have about my home town of Whitehaven, in...

Ken Webb's War

While on duty at the Reculver lookout some months later, we had to look out for the German Focker Wolf 190...

Margaret Parker

Then my other brother, he went to Canada, he was sent out there to train, in Charlotte Town he was, and he...