However, my main story takes me back to very early November,1942, when my beloved uncle,, Robert Leslie...
It included poachers and gamekeepers,ghillies, stalkers, verderers from the New Forest, farmers and their...
Bedford itself was bombed twice, once at 9 in the morning near the railway station, and luckily no one was...
One night a bomber had been over, and had dropped an incendiary bomb which had gone right through the large...
In 1941 the Home Guard had been formed and my Uncle Willy being a First World War veteran was put in charge...
He had to wear a uniform, Khaki in colour and a helmet.His main tasks were to look out at road junctions...
The school was orignally owned by a brewery family and was taken over jointly by the education authorities...
Occasionally bombs would fall in the Croydon/Sanderstead area, but the chickens appeared unaffected and...
We marched from Hyde Park, down Piccadilly, Oxford and Regent Streets, and came back to the saluting base...
My parents lived in Hillmorton, Rugby and spoke of nights stood on the landing watching Coventry being...
The Home Guard in our small village met in one of the pubs, the Farmer's Arms, and staffed fire...
My Grandad Moved from the borders of Scotland to Norfolk at the beginning of the Second World War... My...
Wartime on a hopyard near Pershore, Worcs. The idea was that when a German motorcyclist was driving along...
He did fire-watching dutyand was on the anti-aircraft guns in Hyde Park London. He died many years ago, but...
It was a Sunday morning and I was delivering the milk to a lodge of Warwick Hall near Warwick Bridge. Our...
My Dad John Sweeney, was in the LDV Liverpool Defence volunteers, he had lost his leg in the 1st world...
When in action the battery fired 128 of these shells to a determined height and position with the general...
Hello At the age of 6 years or so I remember accompaning my Dad on week end manoeuvares with the Home Guard...
I remember when our village, Lingfield, was bombed... The second bomb had hit the village school...
Three of us, Jack Masters, Dennis Coombe and I, were detailed to be on look out on the top of Ilchester...
During the 'phoney war' when nothing much happened, there was a big car park down at the back of...
During the testing of the first of these on the River Weaver, huge quantities of water were dispelled from...
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