Childhood and Evacuation

Childhood Memories by David Dunne

My Father was a Sergeant in the Home Guard Detachment on Denton Golf Course, where one of the soldiers was...

After the War

Both my Uncle Len and Les had been RAF mechanics in the Far East, Uncle Roy had been an Army driver, Auntie...

Reflections Of A Bristol Boy

We now lived in Chaplin Road in Easton, and so I was evacuated to Newlyn seven miles from Newquay. I saw...

A Guernsey family evacuated to manchester

We lived in the then New Couture States Houses A field away from St Martins School to which we went, we...

Stranger in Paradise

Mum found we had a distant aunt of hers living in a railway cottage in Ivybridge and a vist there was a...

Wonderful Memories

The most memorable posting, after volunteering for overseas service, was the one to Trincomalee in Ceylon....

HALSALL FLARE

At Grange over Sands I heard American voices from the carriage ahead.The station platform had beautiful...

Gwen Gibbs' (nee Sidwell) Secret Wireless Work.

I was a Special Wireless Operator, Intercept Operator, at Bow Manor. We were sending these interceptive...

Ilkley Moor

We did not suffer from enemy action, as aircraft passed us either full of bombs for Leeds, Bradford or...

I was five years old when the war started

I attended St Peters Church of England School, Heysham, Morecambe, Lanc... He would work so many hours on...

The Story of Juneta Wilson by Kerry Maplethorpe and Katie Martin

I was also quite scared when my Auntie told me that the German planes emptied their spare bombs in the...

Flaming Onions

He held me up in his arms at the bedroom window looking towards the city and the pom-poms in the sky and...

Evacuated to North Wales

I was in Surrey for most of the war and joined the Army Cadets and we were doing manoeuvres in Beddington...

Student Life in Cambridge during the early days of the war

The London School of Economics was evacuated to Cambridge at the outbreak of war. I was a Social Science...

FROM BOMBS TO BOOKENDS

From September 1940 to July 1942 I was a student at the Norwich College of Education in College Road, doing...

Evacuee in Eastbourne and Cornwall - by Jean Hales

Eventually, Eastbourne became a Danger Area so our school relocated to Wales, but my sister and I were...

An Island Military Family (Chapter 5)

I was at school during the war years of 1939 — 1945, travelling daily by bus between Newport and...

War Years in Hove

My name is Renee Harvey and during the war I lived, with my parents, in Hove and Portsmouth. Indoors we had...

The Evacuees

My mother, a WVS member went to Stirling station early on Friday 1st September, to help place children in...

Dorothy's Evacuee Story

I was lucky in going to the Clarke household where Mr Clarke, a Methodist lay preacher, Mrs Clarke and...

Behind the Barracks’ Walls

As young children, my brother and I spent the last years of the war living in the Royal Marines Barracks,...

Mrs williamsons War Memories - Part Two of Two

She told of all the street parties, her neighbour was in Forest Hill then and they were both the same age,...

Joyce Emmott's memories of evacuation and World War II (Part 1)

What a Birthday Present

Mum worked in the city of London at a place called Hollywood... Packed off with our little cases and gas...

Being at School in the war

I lived in a small seaside town — Gorleston-on-Sea, near Yarmouth. When still at school in Great...

Memories of a Blitz baby

I was delivered just in time to be unceremoniously dumped into a laundry basket and shoved under the bed,...