When he left the army after his injury he worked in engineering travelling the world... Then I started...
I am Joseph Sidney Simmonds, born 26 July 1922 at Puncknowle, where I lived until 1980 when I moved to...
His name was Dennis Rose and he was in the 1st Army in Tunisia and Italy: After Tunis we travelled along...
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The war had ended the electricity supply to our billets came from Helmstadt in the Russian zone, it was not...
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As we were moving up the leg of Italy, an officer told us to go ahead of the column in our wireless...
Lt Greig was a platoon commander in the first wave to go ashore on 6th June 1944. Th platoon waded ashore...
With the End of WW2. occuring in May 1945,being in Borgo-san-Lorenzo north of Florence,we were involved in...
The next trip was to Selerno in Italy where I watched the battle of Naples from amongst the lava of Mt......
My father, who died eight years ago at age 81, was in the 1st Hampshire regiment and landed on Gold Beach...
Some servicemen would get one over on them by accepting the fiver but handing over a box containing their...
My very earliest recollection of WWII is the day my mother and brother received the news that my father,...
My Father was a railway employee with the Great Northern Railway, working at Kings Cross goods department...
My father was a member of a 25lb. field artillery team, sent to France in 1944, a few weeks after D-Day....
Apparently they were members of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra who were Jewish and escaped from there...
Someone on this site mentioned Army Transport and it set me thinking, so I decided to list all the vehicles...
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