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- Tags: childhood in wartime
Sid Kaufman and John Wray in a garden
Captioned 'Technical Sergeant Sid Kaufman USAAF and John Wray in garden of 67 Lincoln Road Branston.'
Tags: childhood in wartime
Two men and a boy standing in garden
Captioned 'Bill Wray, John Wray, Sid Kaufman in garden of 67 Lincoln Road, Branston.'
Tags: childhood in wartime; home front
Group standing in garden
Captioned 'Bill Wray, Eva Akenhead, unknown, John Wray, Sid Kaufman in garden of…
Tags: childhood in wartime; home front
Eric Sinclair and family
Tags: aircrew; childhood in wartime; Pathfinders; pilot
Interview with Nelson Nix
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Interview with Reginald John Herring
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation; shelter
Interview with Cliff Thorpe and Roy Smith
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Halifax; RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Christopher Francis Allison
Part one.
Christopher Francis Allison, (b. 1925, 3007708, Royal Air Force) answers questions from school children about what it was like to fly in a Lancaster. He served as a flight engineer and was demobbed after two years…
Interview with Bernard Bell
Bernard can remember seeing much of the bomber action with the aircraft almost turning the sky black as they all left to participate in the ops over Occupied Europe.
Bernard…
Interview with Dennis Brader
Denis was twelve at the commencement of the Second Word War. He does not recall any air raid drills while at school. Denis had a variety of occupations after…
Tags: childhood in wartime; RAF Wickenby; training
Interview with Anthony Edward Mason
Interview with Anne Morgan Rose Harcombe
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Bob Butler with his nephew at his sister's home
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; childhood in wartime
Babies Anti-Gas Helmets
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Evacuation Why and How?
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…
Interview with Patricia Cook
Tags: animal; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Evacuation preparation
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
West Bromwich evacuation
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Government evacuation scheme
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Letter to George Shephard Johns' grandfather
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Letter to George Shephard John's mother
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Letter from the headmaster
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation