Any more memories out there of this momentous day, September 3rd 1939?

Question

This is a very special day in history you know.

Posted the original question 4 hours ago in 'Other, news and events'.

Lovely replies, mostly from the young. Anyone else with memories?

Answer 1

No memories. I'm too young. But yes very important and serious day it was.  

Answer 2

Wow about 1926 ?  On that day, infamous Gangster "Lefty Lewis" was charged with murder. He was accused of "preventing" witnesses from testifying against him and  had them convinced with a few bullets. (That's not nice.) He was eventually acquitted with the help of his cronies, who offered similar persuasion.

Answer 3

An uncle was a crewman on the Arthenia, first British ship to be sunk, later to die, by bombing, at a British dock the day he returned from a convoy. The war started early for him.

Answer 4

I was 7 years old at the time and I remember being told it would be all over by Christmas !

BOuncing   Snap !!

Answer 5

yes...world war 11...i know... my grandad lost two of his son's in that war...aged 22 & 27...it just reminds me how dreadful war really is!!

Answer 6

VERY important date - especially for me.

I was evacuated from `down south` in 1939  - and taken away from my family and parents, to live with total strangers in a tiny village in Staffordshire.

I never got back to my family, ever again.  So I shall never forget 1939.

It changed my life, almost certainly for the worst.

I`ll leave YOU to work out my relative age!   I was 7 years old when I was evacuated.

Answer 7

Memories...no

But I do know what happened.

Answer 8

The start of World War Two