So off we went with heads held high, To foreign lands across the sea, our aim to keep our country free....
Can you recall when we first met With hope and dreams we strove to get Bombed out of London Town, so what...
These things we all were used to, nothing worn for style A patch in the back of your trousers, you could...
Ancient Britons in skins and woad, Amongst whose ranks the chieftains strode, Faced the enemy from the sea,...
Sitting at the fireside bright, Listening to the news each night, I think, on hearing of things afar, We...
When raising up into the blue, The leader gave a smile, It's followed in close pursuit, His patrol in...
And I, a British soldier standing there, Am helpless but to offer up a plea, And can with horror simply...
If she'd been the girl she should have He would have been raising a son, Instead he's kicking up...
Then bed for me was a ragbag Tucked safely under the stairs. But if I was allowed out at night, On a...
THE EVACUEE by Arthur E. King....
It was work as usual doing my job as a secretary at the local cinema, leaving my mother to care for my...
The Mickey Mouse gas mask gave us a laugh, Eggs were in tins — that seemed pretty daft; Condensed...
I was just a twinkle in my mother's eye, when Churchill made his victory speech in May 45’, one...
The evil that corrupts this land, is plain to see at every hand, films that doth afflict the mind, of young...
He was just an ordinary 'Tommy' Just one of a nameless throng He was the chap who did the fighting...
****** We see birds of paradise and strutting peacocks gay, orchids, and such things as trees with lights...
Are there bacon and eggs for tea, Mum. Set the table now for tea Mum, Light the lamp and mash the tea,...
The memories of Dunkirk, on that infamous beach, When the small boats of mercy seemed out of our reach, The...
'A typist, an indexer and finally a marker of de-coded naval Enigma signals, working in Block A -...
It wasn`t such a sunny day when first we trundled onto the train, To where I did not know, Swaying,rolling...
The evil that corrupts this land, is plain to see at every hand, films that doth afflict the mind, of young...
No sound was heard on that cold grey morn When the life of France was once more born No bugler played his...