Air Raids and Other Bombing

My Memoirs by Brenda

My dad said, “I will put a couple of bunk beds in the shelter for the kids and a mattress on the...

Tess' memories of World War ll

Despite all the shouting by Air Raid Wardens, Bomb Disposal Officers and Uncle Steve, she calmly went...

Fifty Years On : Remembering the Lodge Terrace Incident of 24th May 1943

DIED Alice Harris, 17 years Kathleen Harris, 11 years Ronald McArdle, 11 years Anne Huntley, 6 years Annie...

Farm Life and an Army Cadets' Experiences

We had to take the books out to the car for en to check, and he said 'I can see you're honest'...

Cricket to Pluto - Stanley Tarrant

We left the station outside Kenley Aerodrome and arrived at Liverpool dock yard not knowing where we were...

The Life of a Child on the Home Front — Part 2

One large bomb landed in HM Prison at Wakefield, in an old disused gas holder, which had to be made safe....

Memories of the War Years: A Biographical Account

On 20 November 1940, I was in the Star Hotel when the building next door took a direct hit from a bomb....

Under Attack: Living with the Bombs

Friends took us in and found out where Mum and my brother were. Wally was in Southall and Mum and Dad in...

Land Mines and Fighter Plane Crashes!

Our home, in London, was a six-storey town-house and one night a bomb landed precisely on top of the wall...

My Childhood Memories of World War II, Cambridge

Our sports lessons were taught by the young lady students from nearby Homerton College who took us to their...

A Close Call with a Buzz Bomb !

Mum and I went to London after the Blitz, even then night and day bombing was daily. Mum and I went to...

A Small Boy's Plymouth Blitz

They gave up on London, at least temporarily, and went for the big port cities instead, Liverpool, Bristol,...

The War Years in Burford

A canteen was set up in Church House, now Warwick Hall, and this was manned by members of the local...

From London to Bampton - a Wartime Childhood

When I see Travellers, kids, I often think "that was me once". After a year of my idea of heaven,...

Childhood Wartime Memories - Part Two

And the other thing that my Mum used to do, which I have got an interest in is Maps because after the...

An Evacuee in Wartime Coventry

But I did miss my Mum and Dad and sisters. A week later, the police came with his mother and sister and...

Wartime Memories of a Norwich Girl

When the air raid was over, my sister and I walked up Old Palace Road and saw where a pub had taken...

The Bombing of My School.

Should any one reading this wish to contact Mrs Coxhead, please do so through me at boxer.bryan@tesco.net...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 3

I left this camp some weeks later with a party of prisoners of war and Japanese guards; we walked a...

Fever Pitch

Off duty nurses slept in the passage ways beneath the main corridor, where the main pipes carrying the gas,...

Cod Liver Oil and Malt and Horse Stew

Uncle Bernard, in Montreal, Dad's oldest brother, sent seeds, food parcels and bright red apples from...

What the War Gave and Took Away

My father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and that left me and Mom alone, and, as she suffered acute...

Blackwater Wartime Memories by Clive Benney and Tony Mansell

Following the retirement of John Oates in 1919, Mr A. J. Whale was appointed headmaster at Blackwater and...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy -Part 2 (Chapter 3)

In charge of the party was a Sergeant and so secret was the equipment that not even the Troop commander was...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 4

4THE SUMMARY OF OLLIE'S STORY — With her Father away in the “R.A.F”, working as a...

Michael's War

One reason for this was that with Canadian soldiers billeted all around the area where he lived, Michael...