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MY WAR. by Barbara Hammond (nee Biggs) known as 'Dutch' or 'The Duchess' PART 3.

I was the 'Baggage Officer' for the A.T.S. contingent, and was walking down the quay in the dark,...

The Dunkirk Evacuation

On the night that the Germans invaded, Len's unit fell back to the emplacements that they had already...

The Jungle Journey

We also learnt that Jim Nimmo and Macrindle, who were no longer in radio communication with India, were on...

Norman's war part three

Once we got to France they amalgamated the Canadian army into one Corp, and then there was the British Corp...

The ENSA Years of ‘The Norris Trio’ - Part 2 - My Burma Story

We did a short tour of the munitions factories, first known as Workers Playtime, and then off to H.Q. in...

Dorset Woods

Brigade ordered an Officer patrol to go over the river that night to tell the Airborne to withdraw, if they...

Robert Cocking's War

We landed at Port Tewfic in Egypt where we stayed on the foreshore for some time and then driven to depot...

Supporting the Army in Burma 1944/5

The Army had cleared a large glade in the jungle of brush and rocks and had laid a large strip of heavy...

I Don't Want to be a Soldier; I Don't Want to go to War Pt2

One night Charlie said "You must come to our Christmas party, I'd like you to meet my eldest...

BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: The last few months of the war

I asked the Anglo-Indian gentleman who ran the club why all the Christians in India seemed to be Catholic....

Coleraine Man in the Scots Guards

The Germans had guided bombs at Salerno! At Salerno we landed to the north of the Sali river, the US landed...

The Breakout Part 2

Soon however, we were off again, finding ourselves outside Namur at Christmas time and then came the German...

The War Is Over - Army Life - Part Four

I went over and spoke to the driver, who told me he was with the 5th Bn Black watch and was waiting...

FACTORY WORK AND FIREWATCH, DISPATCH RIDER, D-DAY AND AFTER by Ernest Brown

The whole 11th Armoured Division coming from the Yorkshire area down to Aldershot. There was so much armour...

"THE WAR DIARY OF A ROYAL ENGINEER WITH THE FORGOTTEN ARMY" (Part 1: 13 March 1943 to 31 July 1944)

O.C. fell down and went to hospital, so Jack and I, were left to fix a camp up, as all officers were...

The Battle for Tanngouche

Despite the heavy barrage from our divisional artillery, the Germans had successfully combined the natural...

A Soldier's Tale

Our crew — Adam Baxter from Aberdeen, Anglo-Scot Eddie Anderson from Harrow, Welsh officer Roddie...

'Memories of Past Years' CHAPTER 4

I was driving a gun quad and two limbers or ammunition holders, so what I did, I jumped out and ran about...

An Aberdeen man's wartime experience, 1939-46

We travelled up the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea and landed at Cairo, where I found myself attached to RAF...

Promise Made-Promise Kept

Two close friends, Archie Taylor and Charley Holm, lost their lives as a result of this patrol on that very...

Victory Celebrations but NO Queen of Tonga

We tried for The Mall but it was so crowded we couldn't get through, and settled for a space outside...

Memories of World War II - Chapter 1

On one occasion it seemed that the local gendarmes had arranged the release of German prisoners from the...

How AC2 Jepson met Mme Chiang Kai-shek - Part 3

As I say, the AVG were going to be disbanded and the 14th Air Force was coming in, and the date of...

Make Me A Soldier, A Burma Soldier (Part Two)

When we got into the open plain, where they were, we surprised the Japs because we came up behind the Japs...

Claude Debussy/Brewaeys : "Des pas sur la Neige" ...those tracks in the snow are no lost tracks !

The picture inspired Bernard Heuvelmans to write the well-known book 'Sur la piste des bêtes...

George Walker, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - A story of my service career as requested by those who I hope enjoy it. Part 1