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One Sailor, Four Soldiers: Family Members from Walthamstow

During the War i lived in Walthamstow, East London with my mother and father, Florence and Earnest sears....

Unidentified Allied Soldier

My Fathers name was Sgt G.W.Baldwin MM his Army number was 6915249 and he was with the 8th Bn of The Rifle...

My Dad's Military Medal

The detachment immediately responded to Sergt... Next morning the position was sniped, but Sergt....

Honourable return

My grandfather John Jelico Bennett served with the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry during world war two,...

North Africa WW2

But one he did was that he got to test the guns for H.M.S HOOD before they were fitted + a few...

Almost a prisoner

In 1944 I was in a base depot in EBOLI, a sergeant called out asking if there were any drivers in the...

T. J. Plumley

No 14585500, T.J. Plumley, Durham Light Infantry. I landed at Arromanches on D + 10 and served as rifleman...

THE JERRICAN

The original watercans issued to the Eighth Army were crude and inefficient. The final compound of water,...

Army Service of Charles Lacey

My father joined the army at th age of 14 in January 1922 and in 1924 went to India as a bugle...

Morse: With the Royal Signals in the Middle East

Bill Gibb was a Scot from Inverurie near Aberdeen. Bill's favourite story was when he was on guard duty...

Memories 3a

It's something to say casually when Africa is mentioned 鈥淥h yes, I have a boy in the Artillery...

Ron Hancock: "Cuckoo" the German Panther in Service with the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards

Ron Hancock: "Cuckoo" the German Panther in Service with the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards. After...

Tunnel

The road round the hill was a mile long, however there was a short cut via a railway tunnel about two...

The Grenadier Guards 6th Batallion Remembered

I served in the 6th Batallion Grenadier Guards; the 6th Batallion was raised in October 1941 and embarked...

German POW Staying within British Household

During Christmas later that year I had a letter from my sister telling me that our mother was having a...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 8

Other parts to this story can be found at: Pt 1: a4178333 Pt 2: a4178360 Pt 3: a4178388 Pt 4: a4178423 Pt...

Raw Recruits

I then went to Catterick for about 9 months for more training, to Croydon where I was taught driver...

My Grandad's WW2 Story: In France 1940

He was then sent to find a different army group fighting the Germans in Belgium but he never found them...

Dunkirk Experience: With the Royal Engineers

He went with the BEF to France and, in due course, was ordered to retreat to Dunkirk. Later, on the beach...

Forgotten Volunteers.

In 1940 I was one of the 2.5 million people from the Indian Sub Continent, who volunteered to join the...

Hiroshima after the Bomb

In January 1946, when I was in the occupying forces in Japan, two Americans who were going in the direction...

Captured, free beer on VE Day!

So, in our usual battle formation on one section first, followed on the other side by the small platoon...

The First Troops into Ballymena ...

The IRA was very active in Manchester I think around that time, so to the army the Irish were all their...

Admiral Doenitz' Arrest by Jacqueline Brooks (nee Kathrens)

At the end of the war, my Father was serving in the Intelligence Corps, rounding up Nazis and important...

Our Experiences by Roy and Doreen Joy

Roy Joy I was born in Wood Green and I went in the Army aged 17, Grenadier Guards... My father was in...

A Moment of Crass Stupidity

A Moment of Crass Stupidity...