The Second World War Experience Centre
Our mission: To collect and encourage access to the surviving testimony of men and women who lived through the years of the Second World War and to ensure that different audiences share and learn from the personal recollections preserved in the collection.
May we record your wartime memories?
The recording of Veterans' recollections before it is too late is one of the main aims to be achieved when the Second World War Experience Centre was created. There are now almost 4,000 recorded interviews and every day more requests are made to join the programme. They come from all sectors – the Old Comrades from all three Services, munition workers, land girls, evacuees and conscientious objectors.
We invite all concerned, who have experiences to recount, to come forward and volunteer to be interviewed. We ask Service, Corps, Regimental and Squadron or other Associations to make known all their older members, via their newsletters, the opportunity to join this programme volunteering their recollections to add further vivid life to our archives.
We hope that many more veterans will be motivated to volunteer by the powerful thought that this will one way of remembering those who died, and ensuring their sacrifice continues to be recollected through these recorded interviews, which remain a rich and authentic resource for researchers and historians in the years ahead.
Major-General Henry Woods CB, MBE, MC, Dlitt, MA, FRSA
Please email Cathy for more information
The Centre is a Registered charity. To make a donation to help
us secure the future of these valuable memories, please go to
FINANCIAL APPEAL
- Latest Issue of the Journal: Treasures from our Archives
- Print-friendly PDFs of personal experience in World War Two
recently added:
- Captain John Cloudsley-Thompson was a tank commander with the 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) with extensive experience in North Africa and Italy.
- Private Ronald Hopper was evacuated from Dunkirk and later served in Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq and North Africa where he was captured by the Afrika Corps.
- Sir Denis Forman Kt OBE was a Major in the 6th Royal West Kents during the Italian campaign, where he, and Lionel Wigram, had the opportunity to test the battle theories they had devised.
- Sergeant Margaret Halliwell served in the ATS during World War 2 as a telephonist both in the UK and as part of SHAEF in France and Germany.
- Key Stage Two World War Two Education Pack: 'What Was It Like For Children In The Second World War'
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