Mum,, was about 10 and my uncle a little older and were being looked after by relatives for the day whilst...
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Christmas — 1944 — German Occupied Guernsey, Channel Islands. As the baubles were made of glass...
My sister Sylvia and brother Brian were separated, each going onto a different boat. My father was given...
My parents, Alice and Percy Curtis, together with my sister, Sheila, and my grandparents, had fled the...
The Germans were not cruel to the Guernsey people left on the island but were dreadful to the P.O.W's...
Mike obviously came from Lancashire and when he told me he lived at Nelson I replied that I had often...
If the bell rang, Arthur had sufficient time to dismantle the set, go out the back door and hide the box in...
I was born in Jersey, 69 years ago, and around 1938 or so my parents and myself moved to Guernsey in search...
Although it was rather funny, because the Austrian did not trust the German, well, when I say didn't...
But of course you had to be very cagey about it, and that, and it is documented that one of my uncles...
There was a girl called Angela Cornett and a boy, John Cornett, both from Jersey. It was signed by the...
A sea otter of the Fleet Air Arm was going to Guernsey from Lee-on-Solent and I was offered a lift. We...
It was 10am that morning, I was flying a Grumman Wildcat fighter from H.M.S Searcher, on a Combat Air...
Any how the nurses woke me up at 6 o'clock in the morning and said “come up”, there...
My mother, my sister and I hid in Melplash with our two children as we didn't want to let the children...
The Germans announced their arrival by bombing the tomato lorries waiting at the docks with their Guernsey...
Our officer did not, and we then learned our second German word for the day... I was hoisted onto the...
And then one day I was just playing by the lake there, with the dog, and this German, big German car came...
There was the cinema, and there was films there with either German subtitles or English subtitles,...
So I went home, went to bed, and the next morning when I woke up, it was sunshine, a lovely day,...
I passed the AA gun battery opposite the tram sheds, which I had passed every day for months going to...
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