Fifty or so tanned and happy boys crowded onto the train to Waterloo Station London, many of them with tins...
Land-mine descends on parachute, settles on a hedge in the village, fails to explode, Royal Navy Bomb...
Most of the shrapnel was steel fragments from anti-aircraft shells but there were all sorts of bits of...
My sister Sheila Kathleen was married to Ronald Charles Turner, pharmacist, at St Nicholas Parish Church,...
MAKING FRIENDS Evacuees started to arrive from Southampton and Portsmouth and quite a number found their...
Probably not, thinking about it, and if you kept chickens you weren't allowed eggs, because you got...
I had to pick up a bundle of small brass rods which were to go to Manchester, and then, before setting off,...
Next morning it was up early to start in the cowshed at 6.00 a.m. and learn to milk - not with a...
When being trained by Flying Officer Kelsey at Hatfield, he often used to ask pupils to practice a forced...
Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...
I recall rushing to the window along with many other boys to see this armada of aircraft flying past,...
Whilst there I have memories of taking a 'go-cart' up to Hastings Railway Station yard where we...
Our larder would have seemed empty to my children and grandchildren because they would have seen nothing...
All boys and teachers of our South London Grammar School were packed into a special train whose destination...
There were Large, Medium and Small, also a Mickey Mouse one for the kiddies, and a cot one for babes in...
I cannot remember how much longer I stayed as an evacuee in Rushden but I know I returned home to Chiswick...