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EAST AFRICAN RIFLES IN CEYLON AND BURMA by Alfred J Birkett, Part 3 of 3: Odd Events in Burma

THE RACES So we left Lucknow not only under a cloud but also without much money because my friend had got...

WW2 Memories - David Scott

May — June 1944 — with 557 Assault Squadron RE, equipped with Churchill tanks and doing...

Memories of Mrs Cheeseman a F.A.N.Y in Reigate

In 1943 I was a F.A.N.Y stationed in Reigate and my husband was flying with the Navy on Atlantic convoys,...

LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL BAGSTAFF's MEMORIES

After three days a Catalina aircraft of the Royal Dutch Airforce came over and landed on the sea and,...

Our introduction to Yugoslavia 1944 -S.O.E.

I put in the broken up pieces of vine roots poured over some petrol and covered the stones with some of the...

william silvester

Shortly after returning to Gebeit the battalion moved to Port Sudan from where we began the advance into...

MEMOIRS TO GRANDSON PART 2

Next letter Grandad tells that he is going on a wireless course for a week, then so many of the men will...

Howard Woodcock - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Interview With Jack Shaw, Part Two.

So really, the big battle of Burma was won on Indian soil and we were at Kohima, which is a very Christian...

StanEllis12

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

Dateline Ardennes January 1945

We've just arrived down in the Ardennes to relieve the Americans who had been taking a bashing from the...

From Barnsley Town Hall to Dept. Propaganda and Psychological Warfare

From Barnsley Town Hall to Dept. I was called up at age 42 and felt a bit annoyed at that, as I...

Pat O’Brien: a West Cumbrian who went to war and found a wife

It was while he was in Athens that Pat met and fell in love with a beautiful young Greek girl by the...

Balloon Site at Bury Farm Marchwood

My three brothers Frank, Edward and George, were in the T.A. Engineers, the Hampshire Regiment regular army...

An Embarrassing Moment in Italy, and Other Reminiscences

We landed in a place called Anzio for the invasion beyond the Germans... A lovely thing about Italy was...

A GUNNER AND PRISONER OF WAR (STALAGS AND THE LONG MARCH by Doug Hawkins, Part 1 of 3:A gunner and Prisoner of War in Italy

ARMY TRAINING I did basic training in Chester and then was transferred to a place in the Isle of Anglesey...

After one was shot, the rest surrendered...

We landed on ‘Sugar Beach’ and man-handled weapons; water, etc. up to 507 metres overlooking...

The Devil's work

I hurriedly collected his papers, maps and driver's logbook - that was always a good source of...

At War With The Royal Engineers - 1943

On 23rd January 1943 with Sgt. "Titch" Jarman he went to the Middle-East School of Military...

My War

The Royal Engineers — Fortress Company — we worked the searchlights — Coast Defence we...

Cliff Gascoigne's Desert Experience 5

As I was about to leave I informed them that I was a corporal fitter armourer and that I had already had...

An Innocent Abroad

6 in. by 2ft 6 in. and 3ft deep. got a palliasse And pillow case, filled them with straw and put them...

The Story of a Prisoner of War Part I

THE STORY OF A PRISONER OF WAR Frederick John Mills — Gunner Written by James Boyd Jnr USA. The...

Watch Out Jerry - We're coming back (part two)

The beds could be supported on Compo boxes which also made handy 'bedside cabinets', We rigged up a...

StanEllis11

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

The Tale of Two Pistols, chapter one

1t was my final"Oi that did it, that was the signal they needed; it was though they were jugglers...

Monte Cassino - "Smoke Trains".

The idea was to fill the valley in front of Cassino so the Germans could not see our troop movements and...