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Addendum to Music in Wartime Italy.

Pavarotti and Mirella Freni were schoolmates at Modena in Northern Italy, Carreras and Monserrat Caballe...

Tales of a Para

I served in North Africa with the 8th Army then we invaded Sicily and Italy. When I came home in 1945, I...

The Charge and the Verdict

Annoyed, he got out of bed, opened the door, and was just in time to see a young Egyptian lady being...

Misadventures in North Africa

My grandfather fought in North Africa but the main part of his job was to repair vehicles salvage parts...

A Signalman at Dunkirk

John Malkin was a signalman using his skills learnt at the Post Office – you would think that as a...

Journey into the unknown - Part 07 : Traffic Accident with 172 Field Regiment in Algeria

Immediately the accident happened,I banged upon the back of our truck immediately behind our driver, but to...

A POW's story

I was taken prisoner on 1 July 1942 and sent to Italy as a POW, then sent to Stalag 4A and 4B...

Christmas 1944 with 2 SLanR

The 2nd battalion South Lancashire Regiment was somewhere near Tiddim in north Burma on Christmas Day 1944-...

Sailing With The Convoy

On New Years Eve we anchored in the Harbour at Freetown - a dance was organised for officers, warrant...

Tea at the Windmill

My father, Frank Dobson owned the windmill and bakehouse in Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire during the war....

Wartime wild country: Army Training in Cumbria

The unmade road up the Tilberthwaite valley was used for various military manoeuvres during the...

A Desert war

"One night we were woken at 1pm in the night to do a suprise attack on the Germans... The Germans had...

Visit to Buckingham Palace, Spring 1946

I accompanied my husband, Bob Tracy, to the Palace whilst he received the D.C.M. medal, awarded for his...

The Day I Was Called Up for Army Service

With my elder brother Harold, already serving in Burma my mother cried and dad tried hard to hide his...

Harry Darby, Too Young to Serve

Later in life Harry worked in the maintenance stores at RAF Norton and in the control room at the Sheffield...

Called Up - and Demobilised

I was in a Territorial Unit and got called up in thirty-nine, so I was in the army until December...

Dunkirk Meeting

On the beaches back in Britain Bill started a search for my father,you can imagine the joy when he found...

My Grandad in India

My grandad is a soldier of the 2nd world war he was fighting in India against the Japanese... But they ran...

Return from Dunkirk...?

'Soon after the Dunkirk evacuation began, orders were issued for all we Sidcup warriors to parade in...

Another Hero: Dorsetshire Regt at Dunkirk 1940

HE WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION HAVING SPENT SOME THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH THOUSANDS OF...

Dad's Army

This story was told to me by my father when I was young, I think it was after his barrackswere blown up...

Interpreter

Jim our main gunner a Londoner really did keep our moral up, although he perhaps did not realize it, he...

Tojo, 1943

One day at dawn in 1943, off the South West Coast of India, after scrambling down rope nets into landing...

Last Ambulance From Dunkirk

I was one of three ambulances ferrying wounded from a Dunkirk Dressing Station, and the Germans were only...

Getting There: 13th/18th Hussars on D-Day

Getting There: 13th/18th Hussars on D-Day...

POW in Japan

During the second world war in a little place called long eaton lived a person who thought against the...