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From Dunkirk to VE-Day: With 73rd Light Ack Ack Regiment

Many years later, whilst sorting out his third wife's deceased husband's personal papers he found...

A Military Medal for Corporal Ernest Spye

He was with the Lincolnshire regiment in the second wave of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, from where...

"Cattle Trucks"

Sometimes television programmes about the war show Jews being transported to concentration camps in cattle...

Nearly nude

With the war in Italy almost over,Tom and I were able to take advantage of the generous leave given to us...

Dunkirk his Story by Pat Reeve 534742 Royal Signals

I LOVED FRANCE AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND I BECAME VERY FRIENDLY WITH ONE FAMILY,THEY TREATED ME LIKE A SON...

My Father's D-Day Geologist Role

Fred Shotton, R.E. Then he was made major and brought home on top secret work for the D-Day invasion,...

My Father's Homecoming from the War

My father, Thomas Alan Rush, served with the Royal Artillery in India during the Second World War. He also...

Gib during the War: With the Royal Engineers

He fondly remembered, how each night a soothing piece of classical music, the Intermezzo from Cavelleria...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 10

It was a report about Lady Astor that she had said in the House of Commons that she had called the troops...

Seine Sign-writers

That at least, was the experience of Sappers A.H. Harding of Camberley, Surrey and V. Coles of Maidstone...

Wartime Memories

Shown are Mr. David Parker, Mr. Ralph Parker and Mr. Raymond Parker. Raymond Parker served with the Royal...

A Royal Engineer's Recollection of D-Day

At the end of May we received orders to waterproof our vehicles and then knew that the invasion was not far...

A Cold Weather Story

We went straight to Coast Defence in Dorset and from there made several trips to Iceland, a neutral...

Memories of NW Europe Campaign

Empty shell cases made useful 鈥淭ankjohns鈥� The co drivers job was to make the tea Ours was a...

Following the Front Line

My father was a private in the CMP-VP (blue caps) and it was his job to drive a ford truck with which he transported up to 10 prisoners at a time...

Brits on the Maginot Line, France 1940

"In the spring of 1940, I was sent with a small detachment to the village of Woippy in Lorraine, near...

Milking Cows in France 1944

So after a while I thought to me'self I would have to get something to make it drinkable, being a...

TONCHAN POW CAMP, THAILAND

My friend and I whilst working near the river, had noticed that the Japanese in their cookhouse, which...

The Sergeant

I am sergeant Wilson, your platoon sergeant! You also have Captain Mainwaring and Corporals Jones and...

ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS

I was then transferred to C.S.E.U. and became guitarist with 鈥淭HE ASTRACHORDS鈥� 鈥� the 30...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 17

Over the radio came a voice shouting 鈥淐pl Haugh there's a Tigar with an 88.mm pointing at ten...

Pantomime: In North Africa

In the pantomime when the babes were lost in the wood and lay down to sleep they were covered in leaves...

Belvederians who died in The Second World War 1939-1945 (12)

Matthew Donal Murrough Bergin Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps Died 15 September 1944. Captain Donal...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 28

The Battery was obviously as overflowing with praise for the 5th Hampshires, for having kept the enemy...

Jewish Man's Funny Anecdote [B.Steinwaltz]

I caught the train to London placing the box with the live chicken in it in a safe place up on the...

Susan's Story:Childhood Memories of the North

Susan Ridley was a young child at the end of World War Two.In this article she tells us not only her...