Stories categorised in 'Allied and Commonwealth Forces'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
They were certainly different if only because they were patient to the many children who appeared as soon...
It was real India, on the edge of Delhi, not New Delhi, with the famous Chandni Chowk, a busy crowded...
We went to Norway by steamer in a convoy, then by train to Finland and finally were in barracks at Lapua,...
Alveley, as with so many small villages throughout the United Kingdom was to be called upon to take part in...
Before he went away on 17 January 1944 to begin Basic in Ohio, his sister gave him a diary and a photo...
A first-class fighting unit It was during the battle for Ortona that the Canadian 1st Infantry Division ran...
Whilst serving as a 21 year old Leading Seaman DJX312195 on a destroyer, HMS Beagle from June 1943 to June...
My name is Les Willis and I'm now aged 75, so any remembrances are tarnished by the passing of 60 years...
These men were mostly village people whom the sophisticated Indian might call 'Jungle Wallahs'. We...
Part of this can be read in Nel's Story: Part I: Looming War: Indonesia 1942, where my mother tells how...
The Lisbon Maru was sunk by the American Submarine Grouper near the Chusan Islands close to Shng Hai...
As for myself I rejoined the Polish army in France and went through until the end of the war, after 25...
We tried to get away from The Casino but the fight spread faster than you could imagine and soon spilled...
Eventually he ended up fighting for the German Army on the front lines in France on the anti-aircraft guns....
A Vega employee gives it the name Miss Lollipop, in the hope that that it will be a good ship and bring...
The whole of North Yorkshire and South Durham had become one large Airforce base, with Aerodromes at...
My D-Day story took place in a small Cheshire village, ten miles from the city of Chester, called...
A Fighting Perth Remembers The night was black as pitch, no moon, no stars, no flash of artillery fire to...
On another occasion when we were with the Maquis, Andy, Tom and I were leaning on a railway level crossing...
The 8th Army had marched from the sands of El Alamein in Egypt, through Cyrenaica, Libya, Tripolitania and...
This story is set in Poland, where my granddad was brought up and at 19 years old decided to join the army...
Don Webb drove this chugging beast which today would make a Health and Safety officer faint with its...
Ours was called Albert Macshiels - which even I could see was a strange name for a Belgian. Among us all we...
""HELLO MUM AT PRESENT MOMENT I'M IN THE U.S.O IN PIYO INDIANA AND THE U.S.NAVAL STATION BUNKER...
Their second jump was in conjunction with the British 6th Airborne in the area of Wesel, Germany called...
A silly unusual story, about a Belgium Cavalry Sgt, a Monsieur Coppenhalle; a little colliery village Rene...
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