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Essex Action Desk

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Stories contributed by Essex Action Desk

A Happy Year
Landgirls
First Capture of a Tiger Tank
Childhood Memory
A Dagenham Childhood
Wartime Baby
From White Hart Lane to Sandford Mill.
Evacuation to the Country
Refugee from Jersey
V2 Rockets
Bombing In Islington & Evacuation
We want the King!
Memories of Teenage Years
Tilbury Docks
Flanders Road Bombing
A Life Cut Short
Ju188 shot down in 1944
Childhood
Wartime Memories as a Child
Memories of a young wife during the War
Bomb over Broomfield
The Children's Overseas Reception Scheme
The dreaded gas mask
My Husband an Arnham Hero
A Child's War
A Childs View of War
The Birth of First Daughter Sylvia
Night Raid
Sunday Ride Out
The Glider
How George Qualified for Membership of the Caterpillar Club
Child Gas Masks
A Wellington Bomb & Turpin's Surprise
Bill Mortimer's recollections
Scunthorpe to Southern Rhodesia
Isledon Road, Finsbury Park
The Tramp & The Lady
Putting Out Incendery Bombs
Bombs from the Sky
Memories of Corporal Grace Marjoran
When the Lights Went On
The Evacuees
The Last Rocket But One
The Death March
November 1940
My Life as a School-Boy Living in Glasgow During WW2
Doodle Bugs & Exams
Chelmsford & Brentwood 1940
Brave or Foolish
Thaxted at War
Fifty Years Ago
MY WAR, G.J.Mooney 1939/1945
A Near Miss on the way to the Cinema
Peter's Schoolday Recollections 1940
The Joys and Sorrows of Life in the WAAF
Early Warning System (Canine)
A Tank outside the Front Door
Escapades of a 17 yr. old Ambulance Driver
From Barking to Cambridgeshire During The War
A War Child
Thanks For The Memory
Ham & Tomatoes
Time and Away
London Docks
The Day Sylvies Mum & Dads Front Door Blew Off
No Fire Here...Buzz Off!
38 Squadron - RAF - Middle East Bomber Command
EVACUATION
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN
The beginning and the beyond - a snapshot of an evacuee's life during WW2"
Wartime Experiences The Home Guard and Africa
Escape to Freedom
My Childhood - The War Years
A Near Miss With A V2 Rocket
The Night Cardiff was Bombed
Memories of an 8yr.old in Birmingham
"El Flako" Returns
An Australian Perspective
Air raid shelters
Evacuee Days
My Own Memory of Serving in WW2
When the Lights went Off
From Normandy To The Elbe
Winnie's Jim Crows
An East End Boys Memories of World War Two
Oranges, just for me!
A boy from Writtle Orphanage (1940-1944)
Evacuation to the Country - Part ONE
Evacuation to the Country - Part TWO
Bomb hits Jam Barrels, Histon, Cambridge
Did cowslips flower late in early June 1944?
Sadler's Wells' opera singer joins ENSA
When the Bugle Blew - Luton High School
Smokey Joes in Luton
Anita's unfinished doll's house - Little Staughton Aerodrome , Nr. St.Neots Beds. and Rushden Northants
Bomb drops on school Rushden, Northants
Betty Brewster takes cod to Newcastle
Where is Liverpool lass Louie (WRN) and friend of Betty Brewster,demobbed 1946
Black silk stockings requested for WRNS by royalty!
Siren suits, leggings and evacuees
True Memories
Our home was bombed
Life as a cook
A Policeman's Daughter
WAR MEMORIES OF A TEENAGER
HOSTING EVACUEES
VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE
KENT EVACUEE
A POSH HOUSE
EVACUATED TO RUTLAND
DEVON DELIGHTS
THE ROVING EVACUEE
A London Fireman's Wartime Story
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE
First Fighter Pilot killed in the war (Aka - The battle of Barking Creek)
The Magnificent Feast
Father and Son
"ALERT"
AIR RAIDS
Dad went hoppity hop .Bombs-Broomfield Essex
Severed leg to Galleywood
Peggy Ivory remembers war time in Chadwell Heath
Friend or Foe?
Memories of a Disabled Evacuee
Aunt Dolly's Bananas and the banana Queue
Bombs on East Ham
Wartime childhood in Scotland
A prisoner of War in Europe
A prisoner of War in Europe
9 children, 4 pigs and 40 turkeys at the cottage.
The Daines Family in War
Jean Serving In The War
The Daines Family During The War
My War My Memory
Childhood Memories of World War 2.
Early Memories of World War 2.
German Measles Saved My Father's Life
Lucky Escapes in Walthamstow
Working for the Red Cross
Milly's War-time on the Farm
A Young Boys War Memories
From Children's Home to luxury on Somerset farm.
The Life and Times of an Essex Chippie
Dunkirk ( Herbert Cook)
Manchester High School (Margaret Reeve) 1939-45
Morrison Shelter Birth 19.3.1944
Butcher boy to RAF gunner (Victor Easen)
Wilma joins the Dutch Resistance
Wilma joins the Dutch Resistance
Wilma'a 21st Birthday Party (liberation time, Holland 1945)
No longer Children's War Games
War allowed me to follow my desire to be a nurse
Reminisences of my Medals and The War
Take Cover
One Young Man's Contribution in the Far North
Evacuation from Dagenham to East Dereham, Norfolk
Memories of a Teenager During the War
What a Life on the Ocean Wave Days
War Years
Wartime Childhood in Holland
Memories of Black Saturday
A Day at the Seaside
A Child's View
Go West Young Man
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 1: Voyage to Valetta on "Orontes"
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 2: Living at the Crown Hotel, Sliema
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 3: Hal-Far At last our own home
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 4: H.M. Dockyard School Tal-Handak, Malta
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 5: Valetta
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 6: Christmas 1946/7 Hal-Far
Maltese Childhood (1946-8) Chapter 7: Outings, cricket matches and returning to England
Wake Up! Wake Up! The War Is Over
Going On Holiday!?
"Iris Mary" CK 105
The Puffs Of Smoke Were Parachutes
The Interpreter
Learning To Jive And Jitterbug
London's Burning
We Thought Our House Was On Fire
60 Years Ago Today
A BELGIAN MEMORY
Weapon Issue - Pitchforks
"WE COULDN'T AFFORD MEAT SO WE ATE LOBSTER"
A LUCKY ESCAPE
We Made Camouflage
VICTORY DAY
The "Golden Ray"
The Animal Warden
THE WHITE CART HORSE
THE WHITE CART HORSE
THE WHITE CART HORSE
From Changi to Tollesbury
No Birds, No Dogs or Cats
The One Good Thing to Come Out of the War
Back to the Barracks for Peace and Quiet
A Direct Hit on the Cowshed
Evacuees and then Troops
The First Year (What A Difference A Year Makes)

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