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Transporting Petrol

Just before the Salerno landings in Italy we acquired petrol tankers which were put onto the landing craft...

Partisan Party

About 5 or 6 officers from Div HQ and two or three NCOs came to a small hall in the village of...

The Palace at Jaipur

For I would have to go to the Naval leave camp and they would have to go to the army camp, which...

In fountains at Trafalgar Square/In cellars in France

On VE day I was in Nantes, hiding in a wine cellar with two German prisoners, waiting for reinforcements......

Churchill Mk VII Crocodile

Dunkirk rearguard: Royal Sussex Artillery

This was a rearguard action to make Dunkirk possible.They held out for three days.They were non-combatant...

Mrs B.P -Memories

Unfortunately he was a despatch rider and unfortunately he had an accident but it was a good job out of a...

The Searchlight Battery at Shrawley

My brother told me that one night in 1940 the Army came with lorries, a search light and a gun and set...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 7

We thought that we were going to be bombed at the barracks but the Germans bombed the airfield about 2...

My Hero-The romeo of Chesterfield

As a kid, me and my friends always used to ask my grandad about gory stories he had encountered during the...

The Forgotten Army

The 14th Army was the British Army in Burma... People talk about armies and 8th army and what have you...

Pipes of Peace: Dunkirk 1940

Regimental Seargent Major Thomas R Jelley, my grandfather, spent his 20th birthday on the beaches of...

The Story of James Lang: RAOC in Kenya

There were three of us sharing a hut and two of us were transferred, David joined the Royal Artillery, and...

Staff Sergeant in India

During my service in India I was promoted to Staff Sergeant/Armourer and was responsible for servicing all...

Danke Herr Mix!

I went with the entertainments officer to the pub to act as interpreter and explained that the publican was...

Volunteering to Go Overseas

My father, Roger ‘Tiny’ Lambert was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Essex Regiment and was based...

Birth

Following the successful invasion of North Africa by the British 1st Army, I was driving a 15hwt truck from...

Egg And Chips For Winston

One time, we had the pleasure of cooking egg and chips for Winston Churchill whilst on a Troop Train...

Dunkirk evacuation - RASC.

My Father, Fred Warden, joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1919 and served until 1925 when he was posted...

My Parents Contribution

Dad took part in D-Day and admits to being scared... But this was not to be, as one minute they were...

Stamping My Authority: At the Guildford Command Workshops

I was posted to Guildford Command Workshops, where I was given the charge of the Carrier Bay... The...

My father's war

According to his medical records, he became sick soon after landing in France and was treated first at No....

The Letter

One brother Sandy joined the Air Force,a sister May was in the A.T.S. Tragically he was killed in action 10...

ME 262- A JET I'D NEVER SEE

The plane in question was the German ME 265, the equivalent of the British meteor jet fighter... Seconds...

Soldiers on Holiday: In Northern Ireland

William James Nevin joined the Irish guards in 1928 at the age of sixteen - he lied about his age. After...

Home and Away

Reg Davies joined the Territorial Army in the 1930s then went onto become a soldier and bandsman in the...