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When I walked out of the station at Putney, I was amazed to see not the usual gloom of the London blackout...
Sgt in charge of Platoon and to left of Sgt. Bren 25 yds to left of Sgt. Rifle close to and left...
Then I was aware of Jimmy Shrimpton closing in from the right and being shot as he jumed in among the...
The Italian officers and guards abandoned the camp and Fred, his friend Ron Ford and an Irish Guardsman...
By the time I was fighting in the area around Casino, the allies had heavily bombed the monastery but it...
Because of this we had to revert to using Mules to pull the guns... This was sometimes funny as the Mule...
The 9th Super-heavy Battery R.A. was in the station yard somewhere near Hull where gun crews were engaged...
I received a free railway warrant so I cycled to Much Wenlock, got on the train to Buildwas, got off at the...
The British 2nd Army had been given the task of making the corridor wider and safer, and George's unit...
As soon as we landed - whether it was a stray German shell or what or a lucky one - a shell...
Based in Divisional HQ in College Gardens, Belfast - now the Queen's University Common Room - I made...
The situation on the beach was pretty chaotic with damaged craft in and on the water, and the occasional...
A supply of body lice was required for testing on DDT, and I and a few of the small group of friends...
Day 27 - Ta Ya Koi, Yunnan Province, three miles from Mekong River. To avoid being attacked by the...
By the time the Battalion landed in Sicily a third of the island was in Allied hands, but that didn't...
I did just that there was only about nine of them so we went around some houses and we had not gone...
Next two minesweepers appeared, the troops left on the beach were mainly guardsman, Grenadiers and...
The penultimate meeting It was in February 1945 that the Big Three wartime leaders - Winston Churchill,...
This was for political reasons, as it was considered undesirable at that stage for British guns to be...
Far across the bay the mountains are a barely discernable humped mass of darkness against a dark sky. The...
The Kissing Cup When the General in charge of the landing on Peter Beach at Anzio in Italy finally decided...
Armoured Command Vehicles Control of an armoured division at this time was provided by a group of six ACVs...
Evacuation of Paris and Dunkirk Sometime after 10 June we saw the evacuation of Paris and watched a French...
On the 24th of July my unit, the 49th Light Ack Ack Regiment, disembarked North of Avola, Sicily as part of...
2 Mobile Anti-Gas Laboratory, Royal Engineers, Locations: mainly Palestine, also Transjordan, Lebanon and...
I wrote: 'I have considerable qualms when I think of a Socialist Foreign Minister, a post which seems...
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