Bewteen the 14th and 24th of December 2007 we have experienced technical problems with our website and email. If you have submitted any recollections or requests sbetween these dates please could you resend them as we have not received any email.

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Celebrate your own Heritage

Honour members of your family who served in the First or Second World War.

Our Family History resources will help you to find out more about your relatives. Please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that their contribution will be recognised.

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All profits from the sale of these items will be used to keep this website running. Our bandwidth bill is expensive!

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We are actively seeking more volunteers to help with this website. If you have a computer and would like to volunteer, please get in touch. There is no need for any specialist web skills, or knowledge of the social history of the two world wars. It will be a great learning experience and it would look great on your CV. Click here to open a new page and find out more.

If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.

The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes.

The Forgotten Hero

The incredibly moving story of one man's bravery and the long campaign to ensure that he will never be forgotten.

Now available.
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Profits from this DVD will be split between the campaign to erect a copy of the statue in Winnipeg and Middleton St George School.

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Wanted

The project is actively seeking recollections from the war years.

If you lived through the war years and have a tale or two to tell, we would love to hear from you.

Listed below are some of the areas of interest to the project:-

Fighter pilots
RAF instructors and ground crew
RAF Maintainance Units
Aircrew who made a landing at one of the designated emergency landing grounds.
Coastal Command
Bomber Command
Evacuees
Wartime school children
WW2 Refugees from Europe
WAAF
ATS
WRENs
WVS
Nurses
Doctors
Teachers
AFS
Fire Brigade
Fire Watchers
Women�s Land Army
Farmers
Civil Defence workers
Air raid wardens
Observer Corps
Home Guard
Members of Auxiliary Units
Police
Special Constables
Police Auxiliary Messengers
Bevin boys
Mine workers
Ship yard workers
Munitions and war effort factory workers
Aircraft manufacturing or repair workers
ICI workers
Research / technical development staff
Office staff evacuated to suburbs/countryside
Anyone in Reserved occupations
Anyone who worked at Eaglescliffe Aircraft recycling facility
RAF
Army
Navy
Merchant sailors
Lifeboat men
Dock workers
Railway workers
Anti Aircraft Gunners
POW�s (allied or axis)
POW camp staff
Allied forces training or based in the UK
Air raids
Rationing
Blackout
Amusing incidents
Sad incidents

Web site update:-
Latest statistics for the site show almost 3/4 million hits per month, if every visitor gave just one penny in donation the funding issues for this project would vanish in an instant. Please consider giving a small donation.

If you have not yet added your recollections please consider doing so, many of those who have, have found it a rewarding experience.

We would like to say a huge Thank You to those who have made donations and enabled the move to our new server, hovever it still costs to run the site!

Any donation however small is always welcome.

The Great War and World War Two were perhaps the most traumatic times in recent history. The fighting and hardships affecting the whole of Europe, the Pacific and having a knock on effect through out the world. This project aims to collect and preserve the memories of people who have lived through the war. Not just the dramatic events which are usually recorded, but also the everyday memories.

This web site aims to be a collecting point for the project. If you lived through the war years please leave your memories on the form provided or send an e-mail. If you were born after the war and know someone who would like to share their stories, please ask them and add their tale to the collection.

You can print out the details of the project and a memories form by visiting this page

If you are looking for information on how to find records relating to members of your family this page may be of assistance:
Sources of Information for Tracing Individuals in World War Two.

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The project continues to grow and we are still actively collecting recollections from the years 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945.
If you or any members of your families have recollections or photos from the time we would love to hear from you. Recollections from any part of the world are welcome and from both sides of the conflict.
Contact us

Please be aware that we currently have a large backlog of material waiting to be added to the website. We will respond to all emails as quickly as possible, please accept our apologies for any delay in replying.

Do you want to help the Wartime Memories Project?

The Wartime Memories Project is looking for a sponsor to meet the costs of keeping the site running.

If you know of anyone who can help provide funding, or would like to make a dontation towards costs, please get in touch or use the button below to make a donation via paypal.

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If you lived through the war please visit the Questions about World War Two page and answer any that you can. The questions have been submitted by our younger visitors .

Question of the Day:

If you lived through the second world war: Click here to submit an answer or to view other questions.

The Study Centre continues to grow and to provide a useful resource for school children (and all people researching the war years ) to assist with their studies.

Study Centre

If you are a student please take a look at this first section, it may help you.

A message from one of our regular visitors:

I explore many WW2-orientated websites and always read through the forums. In so many cases families of those who have died since the war are searching for information about husbands, fathers and grandfathers who had one thing in common - "They didn't like to talk about the war". Sad to say, that is/was a very selfish trait. Sometimes 'old war stories' are the few remaining precious links that families have with their loved ones. I'd like to enter this plea to whoever reads it that present generations MUST persuade their living ex-servicemen family members to open up, put all other considerations aside and tell it like it was. Or if they're too reticent, at least write things down for their descendants to have as a record of what their forbears endured during those momentous years. MAKE THEM DO IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE PLEASE! We're all dying off at a very rapid rate.

Peter Deacon

It is important as time marches on to gather memories before the generations who live through the war pass away and their memories are lost forever.

The project will publish some memories, and photographs on-line. Others will be collected for publication in print. Memories of all types can be added, no matter if you were at home during the war, (which ever country you call home), posted abroad with one of the services, helped in the home guard or resistance, were evacuated or in a reserved occupation. Memories are welcome from both sides of the conflict, the project is not politically motivated, the aim is to preserve the stories without judgement. No matter which area of the world and what part you played, active or observer, the list is endless. No matter how small please add your memories to the collection and help preserve the wartime spirit forever, in the hope that it will never happen again.

Thank you for your time

The stories published on this website are protected by copyright
The opinions expressed are those of the individuals concerned.
The Wartime Memories Project is non-political does not condone any political party.
This website has nothing to do with any religious, political or racial tendence. The views expressed as those of the individuals who have submitted the recollections.
Recollections from any part of the world, both Axis and Allies are welcome.

The Project aims only to record history as it is remembered by those who lived through it.

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