Category Archives: World War 2

The end of an era…

Posted on February 3, 2021 by G. A. Michael Sims

I have decided to step down as a trustee of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre, Lowestoft. With a family connection of active support going back to 1919 it’s a bit of a wrench but there comes a time when … Continue reading →

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Lowestoft WW2 Cuckoo postscript

Posted on January 30, 2017 by G. A. Michael Sims

With the 75th anniversary of the raid on 1st February 1942 fast approaching it is perhaps time for a brief postcript to the piece I wrote on Lowestoft’s ‘cuckoo’ air raid warning. Please read that first if you have not … Continue reading →

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Lowestoft’s life-saving ‘Cuckoo’ alarm in WW2

Posted on February 19, 2016 by G. A. Michael Sims

The 1st February 2017 will be the 75th anniversary of a tragic incident which took place in Victoria Road, Lowestoft in 1942 during WW2, when  a mother and her two children were killed by a German bomb. Their deaths, however, … Continue reading →

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Edward Seago and Pegasus

Posted on September 30, 2014 by G. A. Michael Sims

Recently I was privileged to be able to visit the Dutch House, the home and studio of the artist Edward Seago at Ludham in Norfolk. For those unfamiliar with him Edward Seago was born in Norwich, the younger son of … Continue reading →

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Kitchener AGM 2014

Posted on September 14, 2014 by G. A. Michael Sims

Another year has gone by and the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre at Lowestoft – colloquially “Kitchener’s” – has come round again being held last Friday evening at the Centre in Kirkley Cliff. Once again … Continue reading →

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WW2 letters from Lowestoft

Posted on September 11, 2013 by G. A. Michael Sims

After the best part of twenty years I’ve finished but was it worth it? I’m not the best judge of that. The discovery of a collection of letters from one member of my family to another, recording events in my … Continue reading →

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‘A Passage to Sword Beach’ by Brendan A. Maher

Posted on August 20, 2013 by G. A. Michael Sims

One of the joys of selling second-hand books is the opportunity to read your stock. When cataloguing I try to summarise the content of all our non-fiction but occasionally you come across one that you dip into and just can’t … Continue reading →

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P.A.D.? – help please!

Posted on August 19, 2013 by G. A. Michael Sims

‘WAR’ was a series of ‘restricted’ pamphlets issued fortnightly by the British Army Bureau of Current Affairs from September 1941 until just after the end of WW2 which provided information to officers of the army about progress of the war … Continue reading →

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Robert S. Arbib Jnr. – Here we are together

Posted on November 3, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

I have only recently discovered the recollections of an American serving with 820th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Staff Sergeant Robert S. Arbib, Jnr., called ‘Here we are together’. Robert Arbib relates his experiences in Great Britain during WW2 when he and … Continue reading →

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RNPS Commando – Petty Officer Harold Hiscock

Posted on October 21, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

I was recently talking to a colleague, a retired British Army Major who now leads battlefield tours in Europe and who had been investigating the records of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, in what was East Germany. He had come across a … Continue reading →

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