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War memories:My experiences in the 71st battalion Befordshire and Hertfordshire

They decided to move out of Sandy and up to Oundle near Peterborough, on Christmas Eve morning, leaving me...

The Survey Course - Larkhill - Army School of Survey

Guns are defence and the eventual onslaught have to be surveyed in and recorded on to the Divisional grid,...

Aftermath of the war via Northern Ireland to the Middle East.

During my time at Aldershot I was detailed with some other lads to guard the detention barracks. The...

D DAY Landings - (Part 4)continuation from A6380453

The lads eventually had to go back to Germany, Joyce back to Birmingham and I was posted to a new camp...

An alternative D-Day diary

We arrived at Damascus late in the morning and were shown into a hotel where we saw our colleagues from the...

The Glory and the Pig in the Poke

George and I, both sergeants in the Signals, have been detailed to forage for a pig to provide Christmas...

My Wartime Memories and Army Service

We lived about midway between Portsmouth and Southampton and about the middle of 1940 during the bombing of...

FRED'S WAR - PART 2, Chapter 2

The next morning I paid my usual visit to the Station Officer's hut to give him a report about the...

An Ordinary Man

After training as a Military Police Officer, Edmund ‘Mitch’ Mitchell was stationed in Regent...

Royal Navy Wartime Posting To Iceland

World War II Story of a British Royal Navy Sailor and His Wartime Duties in Iceland....

UNBELIEVABLE! A FAIR DEAL AT HIROSHIMA

I made it clear to him that I did not believe I suffered from Hyperwhatnot and laid the blame for my early...

Guardsman Harrison’s War Story — Part One

Bert Harrison comments on the state of the BEF at the time, “People never knew the truth about the...

Thankyou

Brigadier Scoones, who commanded 254 Indian Tank Brigade, and others, had been instructed to attend a...

A gardener in the desert

Ernest was still a private soldier with the 15th and 19th King's hussars, a regular regiment expecting...

Life before, and after, capture, by a P.O.W

September 1942, our Colonel volunteered to go to Kufra Oasis, the headquarters of the long range desert...

Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 3

On the 12th June Sgt. Elton and I made an attempt to get to the Dock Office started, Cpl. On the 5th...

A Month of Friday 13s

A variety of boats on a nearby river were ‘requisitioned’ and set off westward to the other...

THE FORGOTTEN ARMY — GENERAL WILLIAM SLIM’S 14th ARMY IN BURMA

It was the only occasion in World War Two where a Japanese field army was beaten and this was achieved...

A Prisoner of War Story

When we got there, we only found crepe paper, and a wheel chair, so one of the lads took off part of...

Your story edited and categorised

My friend spoke to the old lady in Arabic, and the doubtful looks that she gave me made me wish that I...

Tom Rostron

This battalion formed on 3rd May 1940 was Tom Rostron's choice as each soldier would be kitted out with...

RASC by Robert Nelson White, Part 2 of 2: Call-up after the War, RASC, Germany (Occupation), Demob

Call up after the War, RASC, Army of Occupation in Germany, Berlin Airlift, Belsen, Demob. As a coppersmith...

Jimmy's Jungle Journey

Jim Nimmo escaped and for some time proceeded alone but he was then betrayed by a headman of the nearby...

A Home Guard in the 71st Manchester Heavy Ack Ack Battery by Joe Carley

Joe mentions a lot of his comrades in the unit by name with character sketches of each man, including...

The Glory Hunter

Captain Jefferies decided on a tank action and it fell to Sergeant Jackson to transmit the necessary...

My wartime experiences. Chapter 2 - Norway and Capture (part 1)

A submarine periscope was sighted and depth charges dropped, On entering Molde fjord a German...