• John Hughes
    … Atlee presented the Children's Overseas Reception Board plan to the House of Commons on June 19, 1940. On June 20, 1940 C.O.R.B. opened for … accepted. About half of the C.O.R.B. evacuees went abroad without any sort of consultation by their parents. After return to Newcastle … posters of countries to which we could be evacuated. The Canadian one of a Mountie on a black horse in a wheat field with the Rockies in …
  • Dutch Culture and Traditions
    … people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport in the … age of 12, depending on the child’s skills and what they want, they can choose from 4 different types of high schools to enter. VBO – … Kerstdag ) – December 25 Tweede Kerstdag ( Tweede Kerstdag )– December 26 Koningsdag or King’s Day marks the birthday of the King …
  • Warrant Officer Jack E. Mills
    … supposed to be at a dance, but I was! Ed was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I staked him to a taxi ride. I always told him I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in …
  • van Dongen
    … retirement. It even allowed them to return several times to visit the family in Holland who they had left behind so many years ago, …
  • Patricia Norlander and son Stanley
    … Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet … was older than my seventeen years. Much to his surprise I hadn't aged any when he returned two years later and I was still only nineteen. … struggle up the boot of Italy, the Battle for Ortona proving to be one of the tougher fights. During this time we exchange many airmail …
  • Egbert Jan Oosten and Akke Haaksma
    Akke Haaksma arrived with parents and siblings. …
  • LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … Indian Line of ships in 1936. What a shock to an English War Bride to come from a home that was planned and built by my father, to a terrace …
  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … went to another cousin that we stayed with,” Vita explained. “They had one double bed, so there is my cousin and his wife, my little brother … things I recall, I guess because…there are certain freedoms that you can’t describe that…worries were taken off your shoulder.” And was Vita … One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort …
  • Edith Metcalfe Wallace
    … in 1942 in Newcastle on Tyne. She remembers nursing German POWs - one in particular was very young and frightened, quite a sweet boy, she … for sugar, etc so my grandmother could make the cake. Mother had to visit the vicar at St. Stephen’s to get permission to marry a Baptist - … best man and the two ushers. The wedding reception was at Nanna’s house at 11 Cambridge Place, East Dene, Rotherham. Nanna stayed up all …
  • Discrimination Hurts by Surya
    … Iran, and Egypt. They were all agriculture students and so we could compare and contrast agriculture in our respective countries. We played … At my workplace, we have a map with pins for places where everyone has come from. They are from all over the world and we get along remarkably … But, I feel that racism and discrimination are still prevalent in our community, just like I experienced 35 years ago. To that end, I am …