Stories categorised in 'Love in Wartime'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Because of the heavy bombing of London, Coventry etc. we were considered a high risk area and if a major...
1969 Request for Henry machine drawing by Leasco Systems and Research Company to be included in the summer...
When Ted became Chief Ground Instructor at RAF Guinea Fowl in Gwelo in the centre of the country we moved...
As the crow flies, Peckham isn't far from Kent, over which the Jerries used to come on their way to...
I was seventeen years old when the Germans came, for a while they treated us well, my mother spoke German...
Like the time when we had incendiary bombs in the front and back gardens, I upended a heavy pot with a...
Austria — the “Austrian Auschluss” - in which several of her family perished, she...
Wedding day Anyhow, back to November 1941, it was a nice day on Saturday the 29th, and the wedding was...
As days became weeks, weeks into months, and finally months into years, Alex's parents and friends...
When War broke out I was in Switzerland with my parents, but I was British, because I was born there, and...
Minna and I had endured an 18-month separation before she came to England to marry me. He offered to carry...
Among the officers reported missing is Lieutenant Harold Jackson Cholerton RNR of Brighton, navigating...
A few weeks later he contacted me to say that he was raising funds for war effort, and asked if I would...
Most of the civilians had been evacuated, but we had a large number of Service Personnel, Wrens, Waaf and...
In May 1997 my mother and my brother John, with his son, also James Brian, went to Damme to meet Wilfried...
Out with my cousin in Shepton Mallet we saw Alan and a friend standing on the corner of Peter St in the...
Muriel made all the arrangements for a marriage licence, wedding ring, and a car to take them to church. As...
It was the summer of 1940 in London, I was eighteen and doing a bit of dusting in our front parlour when...
When the war started Mary Weightman, then 34, was Nurse in Charge of Borden Memorial Hospital, Lanchow,...
Now, there are two mainline stations, and as I'd never been this way before, I picked the nearest, St....
I set off to meet Jim wearing a pair of grey silk stockings instead of the regulation air-force blue lisle...
The beguiling southern drawl of Sergeant Kurt Wagner Jn. would pluck endearingly at my heart strings, as...
She had a friend named Rochelle, who mentioned that she had a cousin, Alie Colman, who was serving in the...
With some friends from the office, including the boss and his wife, we all rushed down to the centre of...
He asked quietly if he could walk me home but I told him no, I was walking home with my friend, so...
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