During WW2 my wife was a member of the Girls Training Corps. CHORUS We are cadets of the GTC Our youth to...
My brother Jack Allard was in the home guard, nearby we had a prisoner of war camp, one of the prisoners...
During the war I was employed at the Ulster Transport workshops in University Street, Belfast. Not long...
My Father was a railway employee with the Great Northern Railway, working at Kings Cross goods department...
One night the area around his home was subjected to an intense bombardment by German aircraft dropping both...
However, my father was continually harrassed by the local party officials, who had risen from nowhere and...
He then went up to Cambridge to do further training at Addenbrokes Hospital where he enlisted in the Home...
Like most people who have ever watched Dads army on the BBC and rawed with laughter at the antics. One...
John, his eldest son was so concerned that he wanted to remove the valves out of the bicycle tyres, in case...
We went to South Elmsall Hall to do the training which was done by trainers from the regular army....
In the war I worked in the steel industry whitch was a reserved occupation this mean't that I did not...
During a dark December night in 1942 and whilst on duty for the home guard manning an ack-ack ant-aircraft...
Ever since the Great War, when he learned to play the fife and clarinet, he had played in a Territorial...
This is the service history for my Mother-in-Law Emma, known as Emmie to her friends in Hull... Emma...
My father was 29 at the outbreak of WW2, but was in a reserved occupation, building cranes, excavators and...
In no time at all Norman Wyatts mother had come in with a tray of tea and cups, she pushed the gun...
Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...
I remember on a foggy day a German bomber flying low overhead to drop a string of bombs which just missed...
We assembled in the back of the Factory ready to march, not realising that the boys from the Metal Box had...
My Father was in a reserved occupation during WW2 ,and lived and worked in New Milton and Sway as a...
My father, James Millar, was employed at the John Kelly coal yards in Belfast docks all of his working...
Maynard Sinclair, who was then in the Ulster Govt, came and addressed everybody and thanked them all for, I...