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On a day of "rest", Paddy was sitting on top of the turret of his Churchill Tank cleaning his...
By Kenneth West The winter of 1944-45 in Holland is still known as the "Hard Winter" and we of the...
The first had enabled me to visit the so-called' Tombeau de la Chretienne' a first-century stone,...
Tide of war turns Near Wadi Faregh the tide turned and I had my first 'blooding'. G Troop was in...
On Sunday June 16th 1940, the rest of the unit departed for England, leaving 20 of us to run a signal...
Mam was in the Land Army and Dad was a soldier. That is my Dad's story, at least what I remember of...
Date -- 1945 Feb/March Impact point -- Building 416 at north end of present-day Derby Road, Greenford,...
By 1941 there was a severe shortage of men for home defence and this lack of manpower meant that girls were...
An impromptu football kick-about quickly started, in the course of which, a large Irish gunner named...
Kohima is a field service depot, with stores, bakery, tennis courts, hospital and the district...
She had a friend named Rochelle, who mentioned that she had a cousin, Alie Colman, who was serving in the...
We were stationed in North Wales and the equipment consisted of light A.A. Guns - Bofors, and 150cm...
We later moved Sedburg, climbing mountains with half hundredweight on our back, practising mountain...
At Cloushall in the Hertzberg Mountains we lived in barracks where Hitler Youth were trained. Just outside...
The funniest story about keeping clean in the field has got to be the one that concerns my good friend...
Berlin was divided, like Germany, and in 1948 the Russians imposed the Berlin Blockade, sealing off all...
The younger man, a private, appeared to be no more than a teenager and he, too, wore his anti-gas armband...
We offered English, Maths, History and Geography, as well as Modern Languages, Economics and Philosophy. I...
He asked quietly if he could walk me home but I told him no, I was walking home with my friend, so...
Tommy Wadsworth served with the RAF and was captured by the Japanese. In one camp I was pounced on by one...
I was tank commander with my binoculars surveying the countryside when in a cornfield too far away for the...
We then proceeded through Burma, and set up our radio station at Indangyi, which was in contact with the...
'The master of the household has received her majesties command to invite Mr Donald King to a luncheon...
Originally I used tiny diaries to record my life in the army, but I graduated over the years and I now...
At the outbreak of war, my wife and daughter evacuated themselves back to my wife's home in...
There were a few wealthy men in the Camps - these were the cigarette "Barons". Men who accumulated...
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