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Before and after Dunkirk: Royal Signals

Eventually dad gave me some snippets to what had happened at Dunkirk after I found his army record because...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART III

On our return, it was back to the railway again, moving up country to Tamuang.Here we had to build huts for...

3 Wartime Memories

Imagine my delight in getting a leave in December 1944 to a snow covered Paris to find myself at a concert...

Memories of the Military Police.

We sailed for a fortnight and stopped off at Naples, Malta and then to Tobrook and then to Crete, and...

Corporal Hopper's Story

Two days later handed over to 7 platoon 24 hours later Germans attacked again driving 7 platoon off the...

A Snake Hole in Madagascar

The water bottle I had left in snake hole, along with my other equipment, had been hit by flying shrapnell...

Jock Taylor at Dunkirk, did you know him?

In 1939 had been living in married quarters at the Didcot army base with his wife Annie and sons Derek and...

Mick's War

In the Spring of 1967 I moved into bedsit accommodation at No.6 St. Anne's Gardens, London NW3... Mick...

My Brother Charles

When the Germans overan Belgium and France his regiment was directed south and went through Abbeyville then...

Posted to France - The Consolations of Food and Wine

I have just started receiving letters from Normandy from my son, Lieutenant G.W. Myrddin-Evans of The...

En Route to Egypt

SEA JOURNEY FROM UK TO EGYPT VIA SOUTH AFRICA. The sea route through the Mediterranean Sea was, due to...

Prisoner of war (POW)

Prisoner of war my grandad was very young when he joined the army in 1937. but very quickly he was captured...

Dunkirk retreat: With the East Lancs Regiment

The boat started leaving with my grandfather filling the machine gun for the fat sargent... After Dunkirk...

Wartime Reunion

One of my mates was called James Henry Stuart Arthur. In fact when I came back to work in England, James...

'H' Hour for Operation PLUNDER, Crossing The Rhine

The Rhine crossing would involve Twenty-Nine Divisions,a total of one million men.The objective was to...

Italy Part 1; Across the Med

At night, when the sea roughened up a little, spray scudded over our beds on deck, snuggled under...

Operation Varsity

He achieved the rank of staff sergeant and served with 'B' Squadron, No 1 Wing the Glider Pilot...

London Scottish

Once again the lad had a change of address, the First Welch was reduced to a Carter battalion, a minimum...

Kohima 1944 Memorial Service York Cathedral Tues 26 April 2005

2 Div have organised a Memorial Service at York Cathedral on Tuesday 26 April 2005 to remember those that...

My Dad in the War.

My dad was a bren gunner and came from Sheffield, he landed in France on D-day plus seven without incident...

Boy Soldier

In 1936,at fourteen years of age having read my fathers daily paper the HERALD every day for some years...

War Memories of a Bournemouth Girl [Anon.]

We can remember on a Sunday morning we heard German bombers coming over and I could see them from my...

SANDBOSTEL

David was introducing Alan Wicker Humphrey Littleton and Lord Peter Carrington,regarding their War...

Donald Delves' War, Part 4 : Italy, Taking Cover Under a Sherman Tank.

So on seeing a Sherman Tank, which had not been there long, my army friend and myself decided to go under...

Assessments and Physical Training in the Army

When I was called up into the army the first town that I went to was OSSET in West Yorkshire and it...

My Father The Hero

My father L/sgt Marjoram served with the Essex regiment during world war 2 from 1940 , serving with the...