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A Rude Awakening

One night during a particularly heavy period of bombing, my grandfather was out and my grandmother in bed...

High Jinks in the Home Guard

I was a pianist so I got roped into being involved in a pantomine that the regular Army Captain had...

Peter Bamford-Wartime Memories.

My father was the Sergeant Mayor of the Home Guard in Crumpsall and my mother was the switchboard operator...

Spies (extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970)

He was a British army Captain named Baker. A German plane would fly low over the area where Captain Baker...

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The Girls Training Corps

During WW2 my wife was a member of the Girls Training Corps. CHORUS We are cadets of the GTC Our youth to...

A Badge for Volunteering: A Miner Turned Down by the RAF

My brother Jack Allard was in the home guard, nearby we had a prisoner of war camp, one of the prisoners...

Almost a Soldier

During the war I was employed at the Ulster Transport workshops in University Street, Belfast. Not long...

1939 - 1945 Wartime Experience: W H Smith and the Royal Fusiliers

My Father was a railway employee with the Great Northern Railway, working at Kings Cross goods department...

Blitz 1940

One night the area around his home was subjected to an intense bombardment by German aircraft dropping both...

The "Volkssturm": A Comic Situation

However, my father was continually harrassed by the local party officials, who had risen from nowhere and...

C.J. Stevenson, RN

He then went up to Cambridge to do further training at Addenbrokes Hospital where he enlisted in the Home...

Training

Like most people who have ever watched Dads army on the BBC and rawed with laughter at the antics. One...

Alarm Bells Ringing in Woking!

John, his eldest son was so concerned that he wanted to remove the valves out of the bicycle tyres, in case...

Life on the Home Front

We went to South Elmsall Hall to do the training which was done by trainers from the regular army....

Life in World War II: Working in the Steel Industry

In the war I worked in the steel industry whitch was a reserved occupation this mean't that I did not...

The Real Home Guard in the Black Country

During a dark December night in 1942 and whilst on duty for the home guard manning an ack-ack ant-aircraft...

Arthur Pascoe and the Home Guard

Ever since the Great War, when he learned to play the fife and clarinet, he had played in a Territorial...

WW2 Service History: Civil Defence in Kingston-upon-Hull

This is the service history for my Mother-in-Law Emma, known as Emmie to her friends in Hull... Emma...

Exercise Invasion

My father was 29 at the outbreak of WW2, but was in a reserved occupation, building cranes, excavators and...

German Parachute in Tree

In no time at all Norman Wyatts mother had come in with a tray of tea and cups, she pushed the gun...

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Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Shaking Hands with the Queen

I remember on a foggy day a German bomber flying low overhead to drop a string of bombs which just missed...

A Memory of Worcester During the War.

We assembled in the back of the Factory ready to march, not realising that the boys from the Metal Box had...

Dad's Army

My Father was in a reserved occupation during WW2 ,and lived and worked in New Milton and Sway as a...

Belfast Air Raid Duties

My father, James Millar, was employed at the John Kelly coal yards in Belfast docks all of his working...

The Home Guard is disbanded

Maynard Sinclair, who was then in the Ulster Govt, came and addressed everybody and thanked them all for, I...

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