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D-Day beaches to Berlin with a recovery vehicle

Once on manoeuvres we were supposed to be Germans who had landed at Dorchester and we were coming up round...

Lochcarron man's fantastic tale of war

In between times, Seaforth Highlander Johnny Matheson of the fourth battalion, a native Gaelic speaker and...

Legacy of El Alamein

Bill endured the evacuation of Dunkirk in June 1940, after which he and Mamie were married, and the...

'Memories of Past Years' CHAPTER 5

After getting through the battle lines at El Alamein and the noise of war seemed to have passed our guns...

Ted's War, the Beach at Aramache, June 1944 and after.

This was D-day plus 11 and we were waiting our turn to drop down onto the beach, up out of the bowels...

StanEllis9

I was a soldier in the Army firstly in the UK, then in North Africa, and finally in Italy and Greece. Italy...

World War 11. Memories of 1939-1945 in and around Bootle, Liverpool - 6

An Italian adventure

He was taken to Italy as a POW and seems to have spent time in Rezzanello, Montalbo and finally...

Personal Memories

The Regimental Museum is a part of 2 Heritage Trails :- 1 The Lancashire Lad which traces the progress of...

Six years in the army

And then I picked up my own friends in the field at the bottom of the garden and we all discussed what...

Experiences in the WAAF

This included silverware and a beautiful Lonsdale belt with a miniature portrait of Lord Lonsdale on the...

For the Duration- Gordon Nisbett

It was not long before we realised with trepidation that we had drive on to an unmarked German minefield,...

My Life With The Yorkshire And Lancashire Regiment

June that we landed on Juno Beach, which was six days after the first landings, and we landed there because...

Adventures Of A Dispatch Rider

Soon after, my British convoy arrived at the village and the Italians arranged for the officers to stay in...

Basic Training Budbrooke - Learning to drive in Blackpool

Next morning on collecting papers and travel warrant I found that I was to report to the Army Driving...

Being called up, then meeting Bob Hope - D Scott 2/3

When the 8th army were pushing the Germans from El Alamein and coming down through Tripoli and along there,...

War Work-Part Two

The St. John Officer, who was also in charge of all surgeries at work, managed to fix me up with a lift...

The Way Home (chapter 8)

There was Horace, Ralph, a friend of Ralph's and myself... He and his friend paired up and Horace and...

Thin soup and bread rolls lead to a cunning plan!

When the orderly with me in tow, had disapeared into the ward, Mick, who had been positioned stratigically...

My A. T. S. Experience part 2 by W. M. Haviland (now Stimson)

Every year in July, over 400 of us Ack Ack "girls" meet for a weekend reunion at the Royal...

Off to France, September 1939

Lorries were requisitioned from local removal firms, given a coat of green paint and joined the army...

Len Shuttleworth's Strathallan Story

It has been estimated that after the nurses and other people had jumped into the water after the torpedo,...

A Woman Doctor (Part Four)

So, he bought lorry loads of men in and transport brought their three tonners; we packed patients, beds,...

Being a tailor as a sideline!

We were then posted as trained gunners and drivers to the DLOY at Llanion Barracks, Pembroke Dock, South...

My Story By Jeff Brereton Part3 Greece

The German Commander replied that as their were only R.A.F. personnel in the Peloponnese he could not trust...

Dunkirk Memories of William Marshfield

The Dunkirk Memories of William Marshfield....