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They watched waves of German Stuka bombers blasting a route through the final minefield and the troops...
I was 18 years old on D-Day, and a member of the 9th Parachute Battalion. I was part of a special volunteer...
I was moved back to Bulford Camp to prepare for the invasion until a signal was given for the the other...
In fact, the Germans had broken through to the coast south of us and the only way out of the trap was...
Singapore itself is an island about twenty miles long, separated from the province of the Malayan mainland,...
My father-in-law, Allan Wolfe was a Bren gunner in the 6 Btn Royal West Kents in May, 1940. The older...
A" squadron had been chosen to run the camp at Ulm, about l5O miles north of Munich and so off we went...
This brief account about Field Hygiene work of the RAMC in Normandy after the Normandy landings of 1944 is...
Ian had acquired an officers coat and beret from I don't know where, put them on and said lets drive to...
The church was empty but I peopled it with Cavaradossi, jealous Floria Tosca and the scheming Scarpia who...
After that I stayed on the beach as the Canadians advanced inland... We stayed on for a week driving all...
They asked you where you wanted to go but they decided in the end, I wanted to go into the Navy, but...
What follows is Brian Asquith's memories of the battle of Calais and subsequent capture. When we...
Private, 27th Searchlight Battalion My father Arthur James Henbery was born on the 5 May 1901 in Fulham,...
In fact, the Germans had broken through to the coast south of us and the only way out of the trap was...
My Uncle was killed in France on the 29.08.1944 aged 21 and I have located three surviving members who went...
Returning years later Exactly 50 years later in 1994, Martin Reagan, who was a Sgt Tank Commander in 284...
One day the captain came and asked if I could billet some officers and two batmen and one cook, as they...
At the Navy's insistence two only ‘official’ drivers were to be allowed to road or sea test...
My wounds were dressed at the Casualty Clearing Station, it was there I found out I had been hit in the...
One of our drivers was called Fred Watson, nick-named Gabby, he was on guard with our electrician Dennis...
It was during our sojourn in Strassburg, Carinthia, Austria, in 1946 that "B" Squadron, of the...
As we moved through Caen and then into the Falaise Gap following a Guards Armoured Division and supplying...
The spy I am referring to was Driver T Schurch of the Royal Army Service Corps, who served in the same unit...
Goering's nephew on my ward In due course I was given my orders to report to the matron of Nutley...
I get over there and asked a couple of soldiers where the camps were,they told me to go down this road to...
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