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Dunkirk: With the Royal Artillery

Dunkirk: With the Royal Artillery...

St Helier

Along with my comrades in the Cheshire Regiment I was waiting to board the last boat to leave Jersey...

Mary of Arnhem

Bill and others in the 13th Squadron were listening to music through an improvised amplifier, made with a...

From Kilburn to Downing Street: With the Grenadier Guards

My husband Harold Burgoyne came from Kilburn and worked for the railway at Derby, where he was a fitter....

Military Driver 2

I drove Officer's where they wanted to explore, like the River Fal and Helford and areas by the sea....

A Round Trip

Outside the German Air Force Camp we were occupying prior to "sorting out" the Japanese, ws an...

Normandy Landings: With the Royal Engineers

My husband landed at the beaches at Aramanch....

Enoch Johns - Cheshire

He was a desert rat with the 8th Army in North Africa and then a Chindit behind Japanese lines in Burma......

Net Curtains

My Father always told the story of how Major David Strangeways was rescued with his uint from Dunkirk by a...

Captured

Captured...

Evacuated from Le Havre

In actual fact I was evacuated from Le Havre. We were support troops for the 51st Highland Division - they...

An Army Instructor's War

I was the supervisor of the swimming pool in Brewery Lane and Bella worked with me before the war....

I had a Job to Do - Just an Ordinary Soldier

My job in the Army was a tank driver - it was a Churchill tank with a flame thrower attached. From Egypt...

Typically British

One day he was driving his Captain, Captain Millington, down a road in an Indian town, when suddenly there...

The Second the Ramp Dropped: With the Manchester Regiment on Gold Beach

The man infront of me, Jhon Applegrove had been shot along with David Jackson, another of my close...

VE Day Outside the Palace

My mother said that she would never forget the scenes outside the palace and all over London that day. My...

Listening to the 大象传媒 World Service

My uncle was captured at Singapore and was sent to work on the Japanese railway line at Sonkurai... It was...

Frogs at Dunkirk

My Grandad, Joseph Pannett, who died in December 2002, was a Dunkirk veteran... He did once tell me about...

You Should Be Dead, Man: With the Guards in Italy

My cousin was in a Guards Regiment, in Italy.Travelling along a road ,near a big monastery, the soldiers...

Monty's Relief Batman

One day an officer approached my dad and told him Monty's Batman was on a weeks leave and dad was to...

"Friendly Fire" Isn't New

The bombers were in the middle of the formation and escorted by fighters. As we watched one of the fighters...

Cycling Ashore - Landings in Normandy 27th June 1944

I was leading A Company of the 6th North Staffords on to Juno beach... On leaving the beach area we then...

Swimmers in the "great bit of lake" -- John Gibson

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission....

Invaders Have Mobile Bank

On D-Day+3, my father in law was sent out to France... The mobile bank had 4,750,000 francs or...

Canadian Soldiers

The Canadian Soldier named Ralph had a camera which ou family did not have, We were out to play in the...

THE TRENCHES: British Army in the Netherlands

I was on the frontline just before the river mars dug into the trenches. The trenches were dug in zig zags,...