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We often heard Mom and Dad discussing her antics while Uncle Jack was away at War. Mom's plan was that...
We bought a wireless for news, some new blankets (a good buy) and for some reason, a set of saucepans...
Mary and I had an earnest discussion as to whether we alighted at Fratton or Portsmouth and Southsea, but...
My mother's fierce indignation at ‘foreigners' taking over her beloved island flared out one...
When walking on Riddlesdown, between Purley and Sanderstead, Mum and I saw a lot of army vehicles parked in...
I can clearly recall Aunty Mary and grandma working together on washing-day, but maybe that memory is so...
"He,s the little boy that Saunta Clause forgot And goodness knows he didn,t have a lot He wrote a note...
It was here that I heard the news, "We are at War with Germany". Later at my parents house I had a...
The larger ‘Family’ was proudly thought of as a Navy Family living in the City of Plymouth,...
There was an unexploded bomb near the rear entrance to Ewell Court Park... Dad worked in the City of...
It was decided that as my husband Nigel was on the reserve of the Sherwood Foresters and would be called up...
Surgical and theatre nursing At the end of my first year I was despatched to work as a junior theatre...
I was wondering what to say to him, when Mam shouted along the passage, 'Is that you Willy, how's...
The sinking of ships became a frequent occurrence, and my Mother got a telegram to say that one of my...
'Lady' my dog was always looking for George. George arrived home from the War at 9pm, I was...
We moved to Welwyn Garden City- Dad took over the Optical practice of Mr. Musson, who apparently had an...
There were some nuns, a Sister Grace and a Sister Ethel, who lived up one end of the court who used to...
Rodmell originally had two farms, a public house, a village shop, a Post Office, a petrol forecourt and a...
After a long delay the allies and the German Reichskommissar agreed to the dropping of food by 235...
He had been brought up in Bohemia, the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia in a little village and sent to...
My parents were at the time of the arrival of Harold and I living in Northern France and by the laws of...
Dora fled eventually to Schleswig Holstein where Christian had family - but they were separated and did not...
And actually aboard the German submarine all I can remember was the bar of chocolate given to me by the...
As children my brother sister and I saw bodies, limbs, wrecked and burned houses, buses and a bombed...
TORPEDO The family had been reunited at Durban in South Africa, after nightmare months of separation during...
My friend and I both worked for the insurance side of the business when I was not on audit and we girls...
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