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My memories

My friend Peter ended up flying Brewser Buffaloes off Woolworths carriers , a stop gap aircraft carrier, it...

GOING TO WAR ON THE TUBE - CHAPTER 1 1936-39

The nearest unit was the 7th Middlesex Regiment, a Territorial Army Battalion. In 1938, the political...

Extracts from memories of time in bomb disposal and Chindits

There were six of us, and each day we left Company Headquarters in Ealing in our own truck and drove to...

The Feelings of War: Detachment, Depression and Fear

On the 14th of May 1944 we crossed the River Gari, near Caserta, north of Naples, to meet up with some...

The Western Dessert 1939-1942 Part 1

The Germans were very good to us and they took us to a big base where I discovered the whole of Tobruk...

New Year's Resolutions Are Sometimes Kept

After a while, I was assigned to work for the commanding officer for the Home Guard in Berkshire and...

Hokkaido, Hakodate

On the 17th February 1942, two days after the evacuation of Sumatra, I was with a party of 36 members of...

A Potted History of My War Years Part 2

It was the largest of the stations in the UK and not only catered for about 300 male civilians, but also...

Read All About It! - Germany - France - Home (part one)

It was now September and we had the Germans on the run, we'd covered four hundred miles in six days...

My Father, Jack Richardson's, Wartime Experiences 1939 to 1945

The Germans, with their tanks, were picking off anything that moved, picking off the lorries that were...

Norman's war part four

During the whole period from the beginning of "Veritable" until the German withdrawal east of the...

My Wartime Years- Part Two

The R.A.F. movement staff were always linked with them and they had to fit in with army movements and the...

Moonrakers 11A

When the battalion moved up, two were killed and eleven wounded by enemy mortar bombs. I don't know...

Arabian Adventures

After approximately 12 months with 23rd Workshop Coy No 1 Base Workshop, I was seconded to NO 7 Vehicle...

The Lost Years - Chapter 4 (3)

The brief battle soon fizzled out after which I received a stripe and as a Lance-Corporal was sent down to...

George Walker, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - A story of my service career as requested by those who I hope enjoy it. Part 5

SEVEN YEARS OF WAR 17

Although we were not sure at the time if the Dutch celebrated Christmas, John and I decided to put on a...

Christmas in Italy 1943

We passed quite close to the island of Sicily and up to now we had been arguing between ourselves as to...

An Ordinary Man (Part One)

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

MIRACULOUS JOURNEY HOME

Darling Joan On Sunday we leave this frightful dump and go to Bangkok — the first step on our...

A Step back in Time 2

Before starting at the bakery I used to drive up to an airfield about 5 miles up in the desert to wait...

Training in Bothwell and Piddlehinton

After that pleasant stay we had at Bothwell near Glasgow, Piddlehinton Camp near Dorchester was a...

The Second World War and Me!: Memories of a Surrey Lad 1936 — 1946

During our journey we once again became mixed up with more refugees and other British and French troops all...

Cambridge Rowing Blue Never Gave Up (Part One)

Alan left Cambridge University in July 1939 with an Economic Special degree and Rowing Blue having won the...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1943 July to September

Germans said to have evacuated Smolensk in Russia, Our air force visited Germany again, and bombed a few...

Joining the Army at Walingford and Training.

On our second night there we met Colenel Gale who had been O.C. of the 4th Royal Berks Regt in France but...