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The Life of Stephen Darke

Stephen was in the teritorial army,he joined this war on 1st September 1939, he was brought up in...

What We Used to Laugh at

Aye up it's a flipping Jerry’ These mossies have got teeth like lions, they are more trouble than...

Ted's Turn

After traveling from Iraq we had at last pulled into our allocated Gun Site.That is the place selected to...

Dunkirk

Lots of people were machine-gunned by German aircraft... The day war in Europe finished we were in Lubeck...

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A Shaft of Wit!

We had just clambered down the netting at the side of the troop ship and when we looked down we had to...

My Dad's War: 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry

My Dad's War: 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry...

More Things Remembered

I watched the 'Holocaust Memorial Day' programme... These poor souls looked pathetic in their...

Tommy's Teeth

At the outbreak of the war my father Tommy enlisted into the army, but before leaving his home town he had...

Escape

My Great uncle George was caputured many times during the war and most of them were nere an occupied German...

Monte Cassino

Mu uncle Allen Cooper was awarded the Polish Gilver Cross of Merit 30 years after WW2, here is story....

Quiet Hero: Dunkirk 1940

His story is no different to the hundreds of men that fought in the war, but I would like to honour him...

A Remarkable Coincidenceicon for Story with photo

Walking along the River Rhine embankment at Cologne with the famous Hollenzale-Hollenzale bridge to my...

Journey into the Unknown

On the day on which I became 21 & eligible for War Service 23rd July, 1939, my sister Josephine and I,...

"If" you served with me when we were young

If you had a Sergeant from World War One And marched with his son You served with me. If what you sang...

The First Chindit Expedition 1943

He started out on the first Chindit expedition of 1943 lead by Orde Wingate, I am unsure of the objective...

Luxury Hotel

In Nejmegen, we were in an empty hotel surrounded by woods... When I came back I found that a German bomber...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 5

Apparently some of the British POW's taken in France turned out to be GEordie's and Rommel had said...

The Search Light

Whilst serving in the war in the 65th Search Light Regiment in Norfolk, I had a call out for an emergency....

Joe Oliver's capture by the Germans

He wasn't evacuated, instead he was captured by the Germans and taken prisoner....

Before the Troops Hit the Beaches: Bomb Disposal on D-Day

He was also in Brussels when the bomb he was about to defuse went off and it buried him alive for 2...

PHILLIPVILLE, ALGERIA, NORTH AFRICA

After the raid our officer, Lt David Smail, was called out to an unexploded bomb in a garage in the centre...

Close Shave in the Middle East

My late uncle Bill Tyrrell was an officer serving in WW2 in the RA in India at the outbrak of war and...

Harry's War

During the war at the age of about fifteeen my Dad Harry somehow got hold of my Grandad's ration...

Memories of Rifleman Dennis Roberts Stevens

DRS was in the 9th Btn B Coy 12th Platoon Cameronians who lost his life 25th March 1945 after the Rhine...

Uncle Harry's Poem

John's uncle Harry was in the Chindits,and this is one of the poems written by the Chindits during...

Artist in Burma

He never spoke about the war but he did return with some amazing portraits of Burmese "locals"....

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