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From South Africa to India

Mollie Kaye's husband, Brigadier Hamilton bought Kipling's house in Sussex and came of a Frontier...

JUST BEFORE THE BEGINNING

The drill-hall on Chenie Street was the home of the First Battalion Rangers, KRRC. The moment of truth is...

The Testimony Of A ´óÏó´«Ã½ People's War Story Editor

There are without doubt, some harrowing details in these stories and when one couples this with those seen...

Operation Corkscrew - Chapter 3

By D+2 the bulldozer drivers had performed in their usual invaluable fashion which, together with much pick...

Singapore Peace and War 1938-1945

As an armament artificer, repairing optical electrical and mechanical instruments, I was quite familiar...

Recollections (joining forces and training prior to invasion of Normandy)

The training lasted until June 1940 and consisted of marching from billets to breakfast at Bampton Manor,...

George Walker, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - A story of my service career as requested by those who I hope enjoy it. Part 4

your training

If you are being gripped by somebody you can stick your thumb into the corner of his mouth and slit his...

OPERATION TORCH - NORTH AFRICA 1942

It was not as successful as it should have been because the Allies under-estimated the effectiveness of...

Hitting Them over the Heads with Beer Bottles - A Soldier's View of the War

We had no idea how to fire it or anything, but that was all we had down on the beach there, down...

Serving with ENSA Part 1

This little adventure gave us a claim to fame back home with a headline in the Wimbledon Borough News,...

From Dunkirque To Victory In Burma

Just how true that was came home to us in April when German aircraft bombed Le Touquet airport... In...

Army Life - Part Two

None had been neglected; in fact the British cemeteries were still being cared for by the ex-British army...

Dad's Story Chapter 6

As a postscript to this happy occasion, I can explain that my parents came up from Reigate and were fixed...

How I nearly missed the war

By the 6th June when the boys were fully’ occupied in Normandy I was sitting outside Southampton...

I was selected to train as a coder!

Doris travelled with the others in a Dakota, whilst I eventually flew by Liberator, via Casablanca, Oran,...

Moonrakers 6

We met a few more of our lads who were looking around, and they told us that two press photographers were...

To all the girls

My battalion was suddenly called upon to move from Beegden down to Louvain to hold the line, where the...

Volunteering to go abroad and to join Combined Operations

These Captians had all been troop commanders in France in charge of a sevction of four guns, coming on this...

Memoirs Of A Butcher/Cook

There was a Canadian squadron there, but to come back to Pete, I came home on leave, after my initial...

Memories of Nursing Life in the War Part 1

Now one can train as a probationer in the Army Nursing Service and qualify. Sisters hold the status of...

Dunmother Castle

The deck was occupied except for one gangway with mess tables which had a shelf underneath and a shelf...

GOING TO WAR ON THE TUBE - CHAPTER 5 BATTLE FOR MANDALAY HILL

The night the sewer assault was to go in the Japanese withdrew from Mandalay. As Mandalay fell to 19 Indian...

"MY WAR MEMORIES"

By May the British Forces were retreating towards Dunkirk and the generals decided that four thousand...

First Two Days In The Army

The Sergeant and Corporals have got army top coats and capes on but we are responsible for the rain, so the...

Troopship to Bombay

Was able to cable Paddy before leaving Suez....