Postwar Years

My Uncles' Graves

We'd been told that John had been buried near a Mr. Hannegraffe's house, killed by a sniper,...

J A Martin DFC - UK to Singapore Post-War

The next time I encountered Sergeant Barker was at Habbaniya in the Middle East when I was attched to...

My Call-Up -Part 4

He pranced around yelling at me as the ball came in my direction "come on, come on" I promptly...

Singapore Now

I've previously read the book, Battalion at war, Singapore 1942 by Michael Moore which detailed the...

Parachute drop in the Welland Valley (East of Market Harborough)

I think it was on August 25th I was stooking wheat. I was in a field overlooking the Welland Valley when I...

Reveille:Conscription

For almost twenty years postwar,generations of teenage boys were "called up" for two years National...

My time in Germany: Memories of the German Army

His reply was that he was not a spy for the Germans and he didn't intend starting as a British spy....

Blackpool to Hannover

I did my training at Squiresgate in Blackpool which is now Pontins!.. I was married back in England in...

Milk and Food: After The War

I used to take a bowl and a jug to the school there was about 5 ladies standing servingg soup and dinner...

Willy's search for Alwin Muntz

In response, I contacted Willy Birkemeyer a fellow pupil of my time in a Primary School, Germany 1934. The...

A Narrow Escape - The Athenia

On Sunday September 3rd 1939, the first casualty of the war was the sinking of the Athenia... They had...

Reunited

Dakotas rebuilt engines and flew them to England to sell as scrap to the Americans to make pots and pans. I...

He Called Me "A Young Whippersnapper"

His Liverpudlian sense of humour was infectious, and, in order to find out more about his past at East...

Our Playgrounds were Bombed Building Sites.

The center of Swansea,had a three day blitz.Anyway,when I was growing up,The bombed buildings were my,and...

Hiroshima after the Bomb

In January 1946, when I was in the occupying forces in Japan, two Americans who were going in the direction...

HMS Undine

A Remarkable Coincidence: Cologne 1946

In late 1946 I was walking along the embankment of the river Rhine in the much bombed city of Cologne......

The First Post-War New Years Eve, December 31, 1946

December 31st 1946 was our first post-war New Year's Eve and the Squadron spent it at Monfalcone, a...

One Of My Memories: Field Marshall Montgomery

My sister and I used to go-with lots of other children-to the Odeon Cinema on a Saturday morning......

For My Dad

He received the usual war medals and also has the Dunkirk Medal and Certificate signed by the Mayor of...

Weather Report

I heard a talk here in Wolverhampton by the retired meteorologist Ian McCaskill, describing how his...

Passing Out in the RAF

Ronald Bennett joined the RAF on 30th January 1946 and was stationed at Kimbolton, Bedfordshire. Doris and...

Visit to Buckingham Palace, Spring 1946

I accompanied my husband, Bob Tracy, to the Palace whilst he received the D.C.M. medal, awarded for his...

Memories of the Victory Parade

My sister Alice Healey AKA Irene drove an ambulance in the WRAF... Sadly we do not have any photographs of...

Was I A Teenage Spiv? by Mike Kimber

I found a shop in Southampton that would sell me bubblegum at only 1 penny per pack as long as I had...

Warspite Aground at Prussia Cove

Prussia Cove was for the most part unheard of, until in 1947 the famous battleship HMS Warspite broke her...