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BBC Radio Devon's Peoples War team have been collecting wartime memories from across the County.

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Extracts of a Diary written for David Grimley by his father
Jersey Under the Occupation
St Johns Ambulance
My Great Adventure
Royal Engineers
The Blitz of Plymouth and its Suburbs.
My First Memory
Last Voyage of HMS Charybdis
War in a Child's Eye
A Railway Lad and the Yanks
The Anderson Shelter
Recollections of a WAAF 1942 - 1951
Wartime Memories of Barbara Mills
'Death in the Afternoon'
Memories of a Teenager in WW2
RAF Overseas Service
A Child in War-Time
Life With an Evacuee and Others
A Dartmoor Special Constable
The Plymouth Blitz and Purple-Sided boots
Americans at Landkey (North Devon)
Survivor from the Children's War at Plymouth's City Hospital
Childhood in Lincolnshire
An Experience of the Hamburg Blitz
Evacuation of Blackhoughton
A grim experience
A Schoolboy in WW2
A great adventure for an 8 year-old.
D.U.K.Ws at Weymouth
A lucky escape from a V2 Rocket
Banana raffle and parachute silk dresses!
Evacuation to Trethosa
13th June 1944 Duddle Bug!
Memories of a Little Nipper in Iddesleigh, Devon
Picnic
A Few Memories
A Christmas Kindness
A Special Week in the War.
"Stonehouse" - The Blitz, from a Boy of the Period
138 Squadron RAF (Bod Droppers/Moonlighter)
When the Americans came to England and were based in the West Country
Albert’s Bike
An Evening and Night During the Plymouth Blitz
An Unexploded Landmine
Last Voyage of H.M.S Charybdis
Survival
What We Used to Laugh at
Exeter Blitz May 2nd 1942
June 1944 and VE Day
The Day War Broke Out
Memories of WW2
The Women's Voluntary Service
My War-time Teen Years
Ghost Story
Mud Glorious Mud
Childhood Memories of World War II by Ronald Apps
A Teenager in Wartime
War-time at the Shop and around the Farmstead Home Dairy Farm
DAD'S WAR
Violet Josephine Coombs
Life in the Women’s LandArmy
From Evacuee to Plotter
Photograph WRNS
Street Celebration for VE Day
My memories of the evacuation
BOY DURING THE WAR
A CHILD'S MEMORIES OF THE BLITZ AND ALSO THE PHONEY WAR
Living Through The Blitz In London
Plymouth Blitz
Eiderdown Potatoes
Ordered to Kill my own Family.
A Chudleigh Knighton Childhood (in ww 2).
Plane shot down over Exeter
Middlesex Childhood Memories (during ww2).
Stalag XV11B
My Experiences As An Evacuee 1939 — 1940
A Nurse’s War
All the servicemen returning from Dunkirk
Bringing back the wounded from Normandy
The Americans in TAVISTOCK
Concerning my Grandmother
My experiences in the South Hams
A Boy's Recollection of Early War Days.
Belgian refugees in Brixham
Night Raid
My Sister
Nightly Refuge on the Buses
A Lucky Escape.
Plymouth Blitz
German Observation
Sleeping Through a Bomb
1942 — A Tragic Bank Holiday
Plane Crash at Colyton: Parachutist Lands at Farway
My Wartime Childhood
Not The Glorious Twelfth
" Gone missing "
What Price Teenage?
Royal Navy through WW2 including: St Nazaire Raid and the Blitz of Plymouth
My Mum.
Incendiary Bomb
The Barrage Balloon
Childhood Memories
A London Child/Evacuee's Viewpoint (1940-1942)
Childhood Memories
The GI 'Invasion' of my hometown, Torquay
London's Burning
Childhood Victims of War
Part 1 -The Siege of Malta
Part 2 - Snapshots to Normandy Landings
Home Guard booklet
Home Guard Booklet part2
Safe Surrender Document
Propaganda Leaflet
VD Celebrations
German POWs -Part 1
German POWs -Part 2
German POWs -Part 3
German POWs -Part 4
German POWs -Part 5
German POWs -Part 6
German POWs -Part 10
German POWs -Part 8
German POW's Part7
German POWs -Part 9
US Hospital Staff
US Hospital Staff part2
US Hospital Staff Part3
LIFE IN THE WOMAN'S LAND ARMY
MEMORIES OF THE WAR AND THE PLYMOUTH BLITZ
'39-'45 (Sixteen schools!) - Part 1 - A "Sheltered" Existence.
'39-'45 (Sixteen Schools!) - Part 2 - "Frankie's coat".
'39-'45 (Sixteen schools!) - Part 3 - "Doodlebugs"
1940 - Evacuees from Acton, London sent to Totnes, Devon until the end of the War.
Trying to find my Aunt, Uncle and Cousin after the bombing of Plymouth in 1941
Bombing of Totnes, Devon during the day in 1942
Memories
To Fly or not to Fly
Photograph of Ron Tremlett
Postcard from Jerusalem
Civil Defence Leaflet
Home Guard Letter from the King
Proclamation from Neptune
Exeter Poem
Certificate of Merit
Land Army Girls
On board HMS Salopian
Plymouth in 1941 after the Blitz
An Unusual Rowing Trip
"To the Pictures"
"A clip around the ear"
Sewing Kit and Bandages
National Registration Card
Woodbury - Souvenir Programme
Recipe Book for Food Rationing
ID card and Photograph of Family
Photograph of Horse and Plough
"A Freak Accident"
Churchill said "We'll Fight Them On The Beaches"
Exeter Blitz 4th May 1942
Childhood Memories Of The War
Close Encounters of the air raid kind
OUR LITTLE BOMB
WARTIME MEMORIES
My Life in Land Army - The Timber Corps
THE BELGIUM FISHERMEN'S MUTINY
HURRICANE FIGHTER SHOT DOWN AT DARTMOUTH
Leaving School - Bevin Boys
SMEATONS TOWER AND THE HOE
"JERRY WITH HIS PANTS DOWN"
My Mum And Dad At War Time
One Young Man's War at Sea
Marjorie Jones' wartime memories
Schoolboy Memories In Wellington Somerset.
Behind the Barracks’ Walls
Lions or Germans!
Childhood Memories of Pioneering Plastic Surgery
Wartime Memories of Hyde Park, South Brent and Buckfastleigh
Memories of a Schoolboy in Exeter During World War 2
Hoe Street Day Nursery
Fragmented Memories of the War Years 1939 — 1945
Our War: Unusual To Go To 1939-45 War On A Horse.
Wartime Memories of an Eight Year Old
Evacuations and Air Raids
Childhood Memories - London and Torquay
Anne Dunn's Memories of Wartime
A Wartime Christmas Present
V.E. Day at Sidcot School
Philippa Gould's War from 1939 to V.E. Day 1945 - Part I (continued in Part II - A6183092)
I’ve Got No Daddy
My Mother’s Memory
"MY WAR MEMORIES"
A Midshipman's Story 1940
Fire Watching in the Blitz
Alan Kift's War Memories
My War by Sidney Elbro
Memories
The Memories of a Schoolgirl
My War by Jean Keevill
Air Raid London - Wood Green
ATS Training Camp Honiton Devon 1942
War years as a Civilian or CHild
War TIme Incident
Sweet encounter
When the boys went away
My War and Life
Surviving the London Blitz
Evacuated to North Devon
Working on the land in Kent
'The Wise Old Mount'
Frank and Dorothy Marker
Showing the Flag - Courtesy tour of Cornish and Devon coasts
Colour Blind
Unfriendly Fire
Life as an Evacuee
Friend or Foe
Marazion memories and others.
My experiences in the W.R.N.S..
The worst bombing raid on R.A.F. St Eval during W.W.2.
Dad Saves Children During Bomb Raid
Near Miss
Dunkirk And D-Day Recollections
Lucky to be alive
A Child's View Of The War
D-Day Landings
One Of Their's
A POW Camp On Our Farm
Shattered Glass
No Mod Cons
Listening for Lancaster Bombs
Bouncing Bombs and Forced Landing on a Football Pitch
Post War Credits
Not A Honeymoon But A Great Adventure
Christmas 1940
Reminiscences
Philippa Gould's War from 1939 to V.E. Day 1945 - Part II (continued from Part I - A5387736)
D-Day Landings (Part Two) (Part 1 - No. A6093669)
The Wartime Schooldays of Michael Ashton
(A6267125) At School in WW2 (1941-1945)
A Lucky Choice
Totnes at War
Part One - The ‘Start’ (in more ways than one!) by Jorama
Wartime Memories of William John Turner
I Didn’t Know There Was A War On
(A6356711) Devonport Memories-A Plymouth Schoolboys War.
D-Day Landings (Part 3 continued from A6190535)
My Life During WW2
Memories Of A 14 Year Old Boy In Plymouth
The Max Fischer Story
Our Bank Holiday - a poem by Deirdre Y King
Memories of a Junior Assistant
Bombed in Plymouth and chased by U Boats - from July 1940 to December 1945
The 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings Fri 4th June to Mon 7th June 2004 Part 1
The 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings Fri 4th Jun to Mon 7th June 2004 - Part 2
The 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings Fri 4th Jun to Mon 7th Jun 2004 - Part 3
Mount Tamar School 8th May 1945
The Bombing of Plymouth
Toys Made by German POWs
D DAY Landings - (Part 4)continuation from A6380453
My ‘St John Ambulance’ Experience During The War
A School Evacuee in Penzance, 1940-1941
The liberation. of Athens.
Things I Remember from the 2nd World War
Near the end
Life before, and after, capture, by a P.O.W
Memories in a Nutshell
Recce Raid on Greek Mainland - 1944
Plymouth Bombings
Daphne Ley's Experiences in the WAAF/WRAF, 1942 - 1952
A War Time Night in the Life of a W.R.A.F
War Memories of P Ainsworth
Homeless
Saturday Night Soldier - Part 1 - The Fourteen Days after Dunkirk
Saturday Night Soldier - Part 2 - The Fourteen Days after Dunkirk
Evacuation - My story.
A teenager in wartime
Exeter in the war time forties
Saturday Night Soldier - Part 3 - July 1940 - August 1943
Saturday Night Soldier - Part 4 - July 1940 - August 1943
The Plymouth Blitz
Childhood memories of Carole Bragg
Memories of the War Years 1939-1945
Remembrance Of VE Day
My War Memories
School Evacuation In Birmingham
Dad's Weeks Leave
One Mans War
Childhood Memories of London Blitz
My Memories of The Second World War
A Horrific Experience
That Dreadful Night
Blowing the whistle
The Setting of the Sun
Phyllis’ War
Planting For Victory
FRAGMENTED MEMORIES OF THE WAR YEARS 1939 TO 1945
Northholt Airport
Evacuation with Plymouth High School
Wartime Memories - Lincolnshire
Oaklands and Torquay during the war
One man's war
The Plymouth Blitz 1941
Childhood Memories of War in London
World War 2 Stories - Remembered so well - Part I (continued in Part II - A7748571)
A WRN in Alexandria
Enemy in the sky
Memories of the Jersey Occupation
Memories are made of this
Bygone Days Worth Remembering
Home and Away
When The Americans Came
The Calstock Boat Yard
Plymouth and the South West at War from a Child's Point of View by Ivor Puleston
Childhood memories of World War two.
The Peoples War
Attack on an August Afternoon
Memories of CPO Writer Clifford M Cook
World War 2 Stories - Remembered so well - Part II (continued from Part I - A7564124)
The War Period (1939-1945) in Stokenham Parish, Devon by Charles Hamlin and Tom Brooking
A Rolling Stone.
Pat's War
How I Survived a Direct Hit from a Hit and Run Raid
Evacuation of Children - Part 1
Evacuation of Children - Part 2
Lynton, N Devon from London
My Life from the Age of 14 by Jessie Luscombe
A Chudleigh Knighton Childhood in WW2
Middlesex Memories
Draft Sermon for Remembrance Day, Sunday November 13th, 2005 by Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly, KBE, CB DC.
WITH THE 53RD WELSH
Life as a Charge Sister in the Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service 1943-1947 and Nursing of WWII Patients
WORLD WAR 2 CONCERTS - Performed by some young girls in Stoke to help sick people in the war.
MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2
Air Raids in Plymouth
Evacuation of Children
An Evacuee in Cornwall
An Evacuee in Cornwall - photograph
Occupation Facts
WAAF Meteorological Assistant
WAAF Meteorological Assistant
My Childhood Memories of WW2 (Part 1)
My Childhood Memories of WW2 (Part 2)
The Evacuation, and Return, of the Stokenham Parish area, due to the use of the area for the Training of American Troops, as remembered by Mr Edward Lethbridge
John Hannaford, Butcher of Torcross Remembers
Letter from King George
The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"
The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"
The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"
The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"
The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"
THE DAY I CAME FACE TO FACE WITH A GERMAN FIGHTER PLANE PILOT
WORLD WAR TWO - MEMORIES, HOW WE COPED
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WAR TIME PLYMOUTH
A small ship snaps back at the big bad wulf
Remembering Big Brother Bud
A teenage blunder
BBC Home Guard
A short history of HMS Tenby - Part 1 - The Tenby goes to war
Henry Brooking, Builder, and Family during the War by Aileen Friend (nee Brooking)
The Evacuation of the South Hams by Jane Putt.
A Child’s War
Honiton Railway Tunnel Guard
The Raleigh Exercise
Dear Diary from 1939-45 - with the BEF 1940
Geoff Stanfield's War
Mediterranean Convoy Escort
BALED OUT IN BAMPTON
AXIS PUSH FROM OCCUPIED GREECE AND THE NORTHERN AEGEAN
MEMORIES OF A C.O.R.B. (CHILDREN'S OVERSEAS RECEPTION BOARD) EVACUEE 1940 - 1944
EVACUATION FROM BIRMINGHAM - SEPTEMBER 1ST 1939
Memories of the Second World War
The Arrival of Dunkirk Survivors at Plymouth
Gloria May Remembers a War-time Childhood
Betty Sleep's War
Evacuation From Malaya - 1942
A Few Incidents in the War
The J34 - HMS Tenby - Part 5 - The job is done
J34 - HMS Tenby - Part 4 - Disaster in Plymouth
J34 - HMS Tenby - Part 3 - Norway is liberated
J34 - HMS Tenby - Part 2 - Operation Overlord
The J34 — A short history of HMS Tenby - Part 1 - The Tenby goes to war
Wartime Book - Frontline
Ration Books
Family Teddy Bear
National Identity Card
Memories of an Evacuee
My Cub's Diary
Shrapnel found in Caterham, Surrey
HMS Salopian
on board HMS Salopian
Cap Badge from HMS Orion
2nd Polish Corps
Fire Service Staff at Barnstaple AFS
Collection of letters
The Family Cricket Team
Home Guard - 1st Aid Instructions
Wartime evacuation to the USA 1940-45
Street Party in Barnstaple
British Victory Parade in Berlin
Escape from Stalag Luff 3 and 6 - Germany
Experience of a nurse during the war
Childhood War Memories
Nursing in London during the war
Working for the Fire Service
Working in Plymouth Dockyard
Action against the Bismark
Lustleigh Home Guard
Prisoner at Stalag 11A
My Wartime Experience in the W.R.N.S.
An Evacuee's Story
Dear Diary - 39-45 - From capture to release. POW in Poland
From capture to release. POW in Poland — Part2
HMS Beaufort (Hunt class destroyer) 1942
From the diary of J P Kearns 1943 - Part1
From the Diary of J P Kearns - 1943 - Part 2
From the diary of J P Kearns - 1943 - Part 3
Sunday Morning At St Pauls
From the diary of J P Kearns - 1943 - Part 4
From the diary of J P Kearns - 1943 - Part 5
From the diary of J P Kearns 1944 - Part 1
From the diary of J P Kearns 1944 - Part 2
Working in munitions
Blitz of Plymouth
My mate 'Tommy Hall'
Daphne Warburton's Wartime Childhood - Part I
Nursing in London
Childhood memories
Childhood memories in Plymouth
Nursing in the War
Memories of the war in Plymouth
Childhood memories of Gloria Furber
Twenty Five years in the Royal Navy
Wartime work in Essex
Working at the Ministry of Information
Tank Driver
Alfie
Air Raid Precautions
Working in Spooners Department Store in Plymouth
Any Old Iron and the Shelters
My childhood memories of wartime in London
Eileen's War
Special Duties Squadron
General Montgomery in Kingsbridge 1943
American GI at Box Hut in Thurlestone
GI at Box Hut Camp in Thurlestone in Devon
My Childhood in the War
My War as a Submariner by Joel Blamey - aged 101 years (the oldest surviving Submariner)
My Days in the NAAFI during the War
Daphne Warburton's Wartime Childhood — Part 2
My War - Home and Abroad

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