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Back from Dunkirk

On the way back to Dunkirk, Geordie Bull and six men under his command had finally reached the road which...

My Dads War: 6th Battalion KSLI and 181 Field Regiment RA

What I discovered over the following six years astonished me.Not only had my father took an active part in...

My Time in France

Instead of having the modern machine gun we had the old fashioned Lewis gun.We had battle dress, a tin hat...

RAMC, Rank and Responsibilty: A Radiographer's Tale in Malta

Reg Gill was a radiographer in 45th General hospital on Malta From 1941 to 1944....

Stalag 344 and RSM Sherriff -- "Camp Leader"

"After being taken prisoner with the remnants of the Battalion, the germans appointed him 'Camp...

Netherlands Retaken

Netherlands Retaken...

Lancashire Miner in the Chindit Operation

My uncle Bill was a miner from Atherton Lancashire who joined up as a regular in 1938, he was sent to...

The Taichu Memorial

After the surrender in Singapore, I was in the River Valley camp before spending 3 weeks on a hell ship...

I was a Gunner

I was in South Africa; Egypt; the Western Desert; North Africa; Italy; Austria. I've got the Africa...

Dunkirk: A Royal Scots POW

This was indeed the case with my father and he spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in Upper...

Eruption and Explosion

My mother, Margaret Brown, worked in an ammunition factory in Newark on Trent... One night a damaged RAF...

Story of the Virgin Soldier (News of the Blitz in Belfast)

As he recalls, letter writing was no bother for Robert McIlroy and he would have even seen himself as a...

The Lure of Walberswick

History does not record the reason for my being taken to Walberswick at such a tender age, although I would...

My Call-Up -Part 4

He pranced around yelling at me as the ball came in my direction "come on, come on" I promptly...

First Capture of a Tiger Tank

I approached the Tiger Tank that was sitting on top of a sand dune... I returned to my unit, and was...

Experiences with the Royal Signals

Whilst he was in India he got dysentry three times and looked like a Belsen victim in photographs that were...

My Great Grandad The POW

I don't know that much about my Great Grandads time in the army as a normal serviceman or like many a...

Diverted to Iraq

We were diverted to the Middle East, serving in Iraq and then Persia before transfer to North Africa,...

A Savage Does His Bit!

I really wanted to join the Somerset Yeomanry, a mounted regiment, because I was a horseman as my father...

Donald Delves' War, Part 5 : Italy - Meeting a Friend from Home

It was one day in Italy that we were about to cross another river that I met Clifford Hailey on the river...

The Little Ships

However, on the beaches a certain Captain Terry, knowing my father was a capable swimmer, ordered Johnny...

War in Italy and Greece

I remember that there was a great debate as they wanted to bomb the Germans but we were in the way... While...

Lieutenant J P Walker, Bdr Edward Terence Boon (14395076) and Gnr Charles David Goodey (14306491) - 11th Field Regt RA

Goodey who served with the 11th Field Regt RA and both of whom died in the same shelling of their battery...

My Father was Churchill's Bodyguard

My father who was in the Royal Marines was posted to the Admiralty in London to guard Sir Winston Churchill...

One of the First POW's

During his time as a prisoner of war, Jack did many types of hard labour, some of the jobs he had to...

My Grandfather

My Grandfather...