Air Raid Precautions

Civil Defence - First Aid

His father was a volunteer with the East Yorkshire Regt volunteer brigade and Dad wanted to join as well....

The Story of a Seventeen Year Old

MRS. LINDA MARGARET WILLIAMS FOR HER FATHER KENNETH FENWICK AND FRIEND CLIFFORD DAVIS. At the age of...

George Medal

This story is about my husband's grandfather who was awarded the George Medal. Albert George Chappel...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: A Shipyard Worker and an Air Raid Warden

I worked all my life in Wallsend shipyards, North Tyneside ....

An Irish Tale

Ernest is an Irish man; he believes many Irishmen served in the war because they saw an opportunity to get...

ARP in Bournemouth [Peggy]

During the war I was an ARP warden in Bournemouth. After the bombings of Malmesbury Park and Alma Road, a...

A Police Auxiliary Messenger.

My father was a Police Auxiliary at Shenfield, Essex. I became a Police Auxiliary Messenger in 1942, at the...

Early Teenage Memories

I left school at 15 and became a fire service messenger for the AFS - Auxhilary Fire Service in Mill St...

My Dad and His (Lack Of!) Action in WW2

My dad worked for a shipping company in Hamburg in the Early 1930's seeing the Nazis and Communists...

Guy Gibson Gets Lost!

Noah Grant was a member of the royal observers core during the war. his job was to man the observation...

My Wartime Experience in Mitcham, London

I remember the first exploding burning bombs falling in the recreation ground in northborough Road, a real...

Memories of WW2 in Derby

Derby Co-op had a lot of grocery branches at that time and had an office specially to deal with food...

From 15 to 21

Oct 1942 was awarded a State Bursary and became an undergraduate at St Andrews University studying General...

ARP Messenger in Plymouth

I was 13 when the war started and I lived in Plymouth with my parents and sister... I was an ARP messenger...

Our Total Army 0ver 60 years ago !!

Stories of whistling bombs, living by all those factories, land mines, Heinkels and Dorniers, Ack Ack...

Managing Walter Wilsons', Ferry Hill

I was manageress of "Walter Wilson's" all during the war - I was only 20 - the youngest...

War Time Memories: The Civil Nursing Reserve

A Civil Defence Rescue Section was also formed; members of the St John Ambulance Brigade from Jarrow and...

Bedford ARP

I worked in an engineering plant in Bedford. In my spare time, I was an ARP warden....

High Wycombe ARP

The American doolittle's commander was billeted at the girls school in High Wycombe and on the other...

Young Boys Memories

So we all jumped up, Dad pulled the curtains, the rest of us checked that all the other windows were...

Observer Corps

My grandfather, a bank manager at Bothwell served with the Observer Corp during WW2. Also on duty was the...

Home Guard in Wolverhampton

I joined the ARP as a messenger boy and I remember when Coventry was being bombed I was sent to the Rock...

Welcome to Manchester

Christmas 1940- it was my first introduction to manchester... I was brought into Manchester on Christmas...

Exeter Blitz 1942

My mother was 40 years older than me and she recounted stories of my grandfather being straffed by a...

The Royal Observer Corps: The eyes and ears of the RAF

When I first left school, I worked for th Minister of Supply as a shorthand typist, sometimes, I did...

The White Lion ARP HQ

We had our headquarters in the ‘White Lion’ pub in rooms out the back which have since been...