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Interview with Ada Breschi
L’intervistata è Ada Breschi, nata a Pistoia il 22 settembre 1917, impiegata. L’intervista è effettuata da Claudio Rosati a Pistoia, presso l’abitazione dell’informatrice, il 22 settembre 1983. Dopo l’Armistizio, Ada Breschi aiutò numerosi militari…
Interview with Aldo Galardini
L’intervistato è Aldo Galardini, nato a Castel di Casio (BO) il 25 giugno 1925, ferroviere in pensione. Interviene la nipote Annalia Galardini, è presente la moglie. L’intervista è effettuata da Claudio Rosati a Pistoia, presso l’abitazione…
Interview with Clara Dei
L’intervistata è Clara Dei, nata a Prato il 19 maggio 1927, insegnante elementare. Interviene l’amica Annalia Galardini. L’intervista è effettuata da Claudio Rosati a Pistoia, presso l’abitazione dell’informatrice, il 5 settembre 1983. La notte del…
Interview with Giancarlo Savino
L’intervistato è Giancarlo Savino, nato a Trieste il 2 giugno 1933, docente universitario. L’intervista è condotta da Claudio Rosati presso la sua abitazione a Pistoia, il 25 agosto 1983. Il 24 ottobre 1943, a mezzogiorno, Giancarlo Savino racconta…
Interview with Gerardo Bianchi
L’intervistato è Gerardo Bianchi, nato a Pistoia il 14 dicembre 1905, professore di economia e deputato della Democrazia Cristiana. L’intervista è condotta da Claudio Rosati presso la sua abitazione a Pistoia, il 19 agosto 1983. Quando c’è stato il…
Interview with Raffaella Sorsini
L’intervistata è Raffaella Sorsini, nata a Vicchio (FI) il 25 maggio 1919, impiegata in pensione. Interviene Marianna Galardini, nata il 18 maggio 1897. L’intervista è effettuata da Claudio Rosati a Pistoia, presso la casa dell’informatrice, il 12…
Interview with Paola Rinaldi
L’intervistata è Paola Rinaldi, nata a Pistoia il 2 giugno 1937, assistente sociale. L’intervista è effettuata da Claudio Rosati presso la sua abitazione a Pistoia, il 4 agosto 1983. Paola Rinaldi è più volte sfollata con il fratello e la madre. Il…
Interview with Martin Arthur Catty
Martin Catty grew up in London and was evacuated, with his school, to Westward Ho! at the beginning of the war. He completed a short training course at Cambridge University in 1942 and joined the Royal Air Force. After training, he flew 40…
Interview with Laura Hickey
Laura Hickey was living in Tottenham at the outbreak of war and was evacuated to Suffolk. Her brother, Charles Henry Clarke joined the RAF and was shot down, becoming a prisoner of war and enduring the Long March. She tells of her times as an…
Interview with Roy Berrill
Roy was born in Northampton and was evacuated from Becontree in London to Weston-super-Mare. He gained his degree from Queen Mary College, London, which was evacuated to Cambridge. After the Air Training Corps, Roy was called up to be a…
Interview with Jan Albone
Jan was born on a farm in North Lincolnshire and went to school in Brigg. She loved the farm, particularly the horses. Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey, which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on the…
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his experience of finding a German butterfly bomb close to his home. Geoff described how, after…
Dan Nash memoir
Born in 1916, Dan spent his early childhood in Kent with his grandmother before moving back to his parents in Fulham. He left school aged 16 to undertake a job with the Hudson's Bay Fur Company, where he met Joyce, his future wife. At the outbreak of…
Interview with Gino Muratori
Gino Muratori (b. 1929) recollects three Rimini bombings that occurred in November 1944, one of which was aimed at the Ausa river bridge. He mentions his grandmother losing two relatives when their boarding house was destroyed, and recalls how, on 26…
Interview with Reginald John Herring
Reg Herring was living in London with his father and elder brother at the start of the war. His father built a shelter that collapsed after a heavy rainfall. Reg was evacuated to Sizewell and then to near Birmingham. After the war Reg returned to…
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Letter from sergeant David Boldy to his father about sailing to London from South Africa, visiting Gibraltar and swimming in the sea. He misses his girl friend Babe.
Letter from David Boldy to his mother and brother
Letter from David Boldy to his mother and brother. He let them know that he has moved from Hastings to Torquay and includes some of his observations on his new posting, with references to girls evacuated from London.
Interview with Nancy Titman
Nancy Titman was born in 1918, and grew up in Deeping Saint James, Lincolnshire. At the age of 11 she won a scholarship to Stamford High School and did her teacher training in Peterborough. In 1938 she attended an interview in Cambridge, had a…
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank was born in London. He recalls a V-1 coming over and taking shelter in the London Underground. Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial, when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and,…
Interview with Queenie Hall.
Queenie 'Robbie' Hall was born in Suffolk and had wanted to join the WRNS while under age; she bluffed her way into the RAF instead. She describes volunteering, her recruitment and training. At first she worked in kitchens but remustered as a clerk…
Interview with Anne Morgan Rose Harcombe
Anne was born in 1938 in London at six months old was evacuated to live with her grandparents in South Wales. During the war, her father was in the rifle brigade and her mother worked in a munitions factory. Anne would complete chores in order to…
Interview with Gladys Hatt
Gladys Hatt was a teenager and working in Manchester when it was bombed. She recalls her life was a sequence of work, shelter, work and there was no teenage life for her. She worked as a machinist sewing uniforms, which was a big change from her…
Memoirs of Des Matthews
The author was shot down over Linz, Austria whilst bombing a Panzer works. The other six in his crew perished. He was taken to Dulag Luft at Frankfurt then Stalag Luft VII. In January his camp was evacuated and he joined the Long March to the west,…
Soldat Paul May
Writing to 'my darling Teddy' Dorothy gives Paul news from home and her difficulties in obtaining some goods including toilet paper and asks if Paul can obtain curry powder. She mentions new railway tracks being laid, a cannon being built and news…
Interview with a survivor of the Villanova Marchesana bombings
The interviewee recalls how he moved from Libya to Italy and lived for some years in various camps in Napoli, Marina di Massa, Trento, San Remo and Massa Lombarda. He describes a three-day bombing raid in Napoli where he managed to hide in a church…