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D-Day: With the Royal Engineers

My father, Peter Headeach, was a lance corporal in the Royal Engineers during the war and took part in the...

Harry Pollitt and D-Day

Harry went over in a glider that time on D-Day, and he has taken us over to France and shown us where...

Lt.Whitfield's directing debut

Someone at Regimental level had decided that the Batteries should put on their own concert parties to...

Trouble with Smoke: Service with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

I was a gunner at the time and we had just come out of action and both tanks shot at the enemy...

An Arabian Night

Me and six other soldiers who did not fancy being POW when the South African General in command of the...

Tea with the Soldiers: Roundhay, Leeds

In 1944 I was 5 years old and I lived in the pleasent leafy suburb of Roundhay in Leeds, Yorkshire. At the...

Home Visit

During this time my mother and I were living at a small cottage in Braintree, located between the railway...

Dunkirk: Escape from De Panne

My dad was in southern holland with the BEF when he was told to get to dunkirk. on his way there he...

Almost A Channel Islander

My sister was also fostered out to a family in Bradford, so we were split up for most of the war years....

A Sergeant Remembers

I went over to France a few days after D-Day as part of Operation Overlord, providing protection over Le...

Capturing the Brewery

I grew up in the village, Tilney St Lawrence, and can remember going to school one day in about 1938 or...

Stuck in Tobruk June 1942

The staff officer, whose name Bill recalls bitterly, would have known that the German front line was...

My Father's War

Between arriving back in England on 30 May 1940 and leaving again for Cyprus and Egypt on 20 May 1941, my...

Prisoner of War Stalag IXc

His mother received two telegrams - first one saying "missing believed dead" then 10 weeks later...

My 4 days leave in Cairo

There were a lot of English ladies out there, whose husband were in business in Cairo, and they had formed...

Memories from Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter: Sam Murray

Sam Murray, resident of Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter, Aberdeen: Sam served time as a projectionist...

Rearguard at Dunkirk

He apparently had to try to hold off the German advance towards Dunkirk to give the rest of the army a...

H.R.H

One of the officers who had served a tour of duty in the Palace pointed out that her eighteenth birthday...

My World War Two Service with 1st light Ack Ack, Royal Signals Attached

I was then posted to Whitby with 3rd STB, from there were transferred to Huddersfield, Yorkshire where we...

Anecdotes from a Disillusioned Warrior

It took 2 months to reach northern Burma, on a captured German banana boat, sailing in convoy from Glasgow,...

Memories of El Alemain

When the units were broken up at the end of the war he joined the PWB in Suez where he looked after...

Prisoners of War in Libya

My father, usually known as Kelly, was helping to look after a camp of Italian and German prisoners of...

Letter from South Africa.

This is a letter sent from E. Risborough to Mrs Warren from South Africa. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with...

Harry and his Military Medal Citation

At about 1830 hours on 25 April 1945 at TRECENTA in Northern ITALY Corporal GOODFELLOW was in command of a...

DLI on D-Day 2: The Bocage

My father, David Wallis, spoke often of the coincidences that he experienced during the war, the odd little...

An Introduction to "T" Force

Hitler had been long ranting, that his "Wonder Weapons" would snatch victory from the Jaws of...