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The Lost Years - Chapter 2

There were other men also at the station bound for Tidworth, of those whose names I can remember was Gordon...

Near the end of the war.

The Lost Years - Chapter 6 (2)

In the evenings when not on patrol, a few of us would meet at the fitters鈥� truck where George, one of...

Grandad's War

There was also our Pathan officer and Indian then, who wanted me to go on leave with him up the Kyber Pass...

The Lost Years - Chapter 8

Hilda had been a member of the Land Army for a number of years and was based at the village of Stanwick......

The Lost Years - Chapter 7 (3)

The lads were still laughing when we decided to leave and as I had no footwear it was thought that we...

The Lost Years - Chapter 5

Whatever were the particular duties of a crew member everyone shared in the general work whether it was...

Mickey Mouse Mechanics

We were the only A.T.S. girls there; a few civilian girls were also attending. There was the Cameo Theatre...

Wonderful article

The British 2nd Army and the 1st Canadian Army were being used to clear German forces out of Belgium and...

The Lost Years - Chapter 9

A day or so after arriving at Burntwood, Dad and Hilda came up to see me and Hilda stayed on at a...

The Lost Years - Chapter 3 (2)

I think that it would have been the next day when about noon, I suppose, that we called at a petrol dump...

The Lost Years - Chapter 10 (1)

The Christmas dinner was a superb meal and served as was tradition by the officers; it was a most convivial...

Signals in the sand, at sea and back to Blighty

I found a short sojourn as Sergeant's Mess Barman, quite pleasant as it seemed that proper jobs were at...

Your story - The Darkest Hour - edited and categorised

An altar was introduced and although at first we were only able to present it with a wooden cross within 2...

My father's war

- The signallers Sergeants Pinfield, Barltrop and Cornford and fellow-officers Cedric Astbury, from Kent,...

The Long March Home Part 1

After ten days travelling about with the 鈥渃ock-a-hoop鈥� Germans, we were dropped at a church...

Operation Corkscrew - Chapter 2

Since 1937, when Mussolini forbad flying over the island or its "territorial waters", to convince...

The Lost Years - Chapter 6

As it was thought that there was no immediate fear of an attack by Rommel, 鈥楤鈥� echelon were up...

The Lost Years - Chapter 4

I travelled with what were known as 鈥榮pare crews鈥� who were based with 鈥楤鈥� echelon,...

214/57th HAA Regiment (TA)

Just eleven months after the 1938 crisis and here we were 1 & 3 Sections on a purpose built gun site on...

Royal Army Veterinary Corps at War.

The Sergeant in Charge of Veterinary Corps Records at GHQ Second Echelon Cairo had asked to move back to a...

Syonanto Nippon Rule to the end

Another strange chap we came across was 鈥淕ary鈥�, a tall lanky Japanese officer with an American...

1941-1945 Eastern Travels Part 2

The majority of Drivers and Dispatch Riders were Indians, with a few British. The Indian driver, hurrying...

With the ATS on a Search-Light Squad(Chapter Three)

The smaller wooden hut served as the site office, and the sergeant's sleeping quarters. Jessie smiled...

With REME

His duties included repairing equipment in the workshop, and also on site, travelling to such places as...

No Heroics

Getting guns across difficult terrain; practice in using scrambling nets, loading on to landing craft,...