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Jan 44, I was assigned to 14Ptn, D Company

We landed at Taranto and were then transported to a village called Aquadelleviva,, where we were told which...

prisoner of war

I would just like to mention a few other officers there — they were the 51st Highland Division and...

Further Training in India - Combined Operations Bombardment Unit

Egypt, Italy, Sicily and Cassino.

Royal Engineers Decorations: Campaign Medals 1939/45 Star Africa Star 8th Army Italy Star 8th Army Campaign...

My VE Day, 1st May 1945, by Fred Hirst

Suddenly one of the guards, along with our German speaking British Camp Leader, came rushing along the...

A Burma Incident

A lonely little platoon of British soldiers almost lost in the deep, deep jungle of Burma... However the...

The SS, the POWs, the Partisans and the British Liberation

We found refugees from Hungary staying at our farm, German deserters hiding in the hay loft, and a troup of...

Messages to 71st Field Company

To the United Soldiers, Sailors, and Airman: Through your combined skill, valour and fortitude you have...

Mr Ruff's Wartime Memories

FEAST OF COURBAN

Arthur and Jack, two teleprinter operatives at BAO in the RCS invited me to go with them to the house of...

The Pick and Shovel Brigade Goes to War

He said he would be one of my Sergeants in 201 Company Pioneer Corps and yes, I would be alright provided I...

My wartime experiences. Chapter 1 - Call to war

Bishop Auckland was only four mile from Shildon, so we went there on our off duty hours... After a few...

24 Hours I Will Never Forget

The infantry of the garrison, mostly four Australian brigades, were so weakened by the German assaults at...

I met my wife in Austria - D Scott 3/3

When that settled down again we got shipped back to the other side of Italy and went through and finished...

Better Born Lucky Than Rich - Basra and Palestine

On our camp notice board it said “ If anybody would like to go to TELAVIV for a swim at the weekend...

Three Convoys

I spent my 7th birthday on board SS Otranto steaming through the Red Sea bound for a port in England that...

Part 1 -The Siege of Malta

I belonged to the Malta Amateur Dramatic Society and we put on a series of concert parties to entertain the...

My Duties as an Air Frame Fitter

Each transport took us to the aerodrome which was about 5 miles from Setif, it was the French Air force and...

One eye on the past.

Smudger Smith, radio operator with gun loader, Cried out from inside the turret behind me and, through the...

Far Away from Home

As we left the airfield in Singapore we saw so many of the poor souls who had been imprisoned in Changi...

Three Convoys

I spent my 7th birthday on board SS Otranto steaming through the Red Sea bound for a port in England that...

John Court

I can distinctly remember looking from the driving compartment of the tank and seeing the German army...

Royal Navy Meteorologist (Basic Training)

A Petty Officer wren rounded us all up on the second day we were there, like a sheepdog with a croaky...

"One Fear is Greater than Another"

When I went on to Officer Cadet Training Unit in the Isle of Man — they always pick at a student...

One eye on the past

San Felipe Pt 2

In all that chaos of hundreds of casualties stretched across the whole peninsula so late at night, I had...