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There were several pictures of my 'Uncle Peter' during his travels around war-torn Europe - all of...
He remembers having to go to London to collect one lad who`s wife and newborn child lived in an area called...
I am not a religious man , but I honestly believe it helped me to get back". When Tommy reached Dunkirk...
During this debacle he had been reported 'missing believed killed'. At this time, my mother was...
"Having completed our first assignment, our landing craft did a U turn and we went back out to sea to...
This had a most unexpected benefit owing to the perspicacity of the Lance Corporal i/c the bathhouse, who...
At the outbreak of the Second World War the Manchesters were assigned to a beach defence role, which...
And so I continued the recce right through the Gothic Line, sometimes sleeping in an amiable Italian's...
David and his Regiment were eventually sent to High Wycombe in preparation to go to France but after...
It was a dark and foggy and miserable night and Alfreton being not only a garrison town but the...
During the dark days of the war I found myself in daily contact with the sleek grey brooding monsters of...
During my time in Burma I realised what a dreadful time the Burmese people had endured merely because they...
Many years later my Dad was at a reunion talking to a Veteran and he mentioned Lt Col C.A.R. Nevill, and...
My brother, Dennis Samuel Jones, worked in the waggon works at the Iron Forge at Ironville, Derbyshire,...
On the invasion of Sicily from Tunisia, we took off in our Waco glider on the evening of 9th July 1943,...
4 Troop on the North-Eastern road, penetrated beyond San Polo to the first main feature where they were...
On the 4th Sept., we moved at speed through Meurchin, Carvin, and Seclan and Templemars and we were quickly...
After the end of the campaign in Tunisia in May 1943, our Signals unit was rusticating in Boufarik, near...
THE MONSOON CAPE useless because when wearing it, you could do nothing, but ride a bicycle, which we did...
A letter from a member of the 11th Hussars, 3Tp D. Squadron, B.W.E.F. Shelled from Calais, bombed off the...
The day had started with my tank commander, Busty Thomas MM, going sick, I believe with an old wound, and...
We had three landing beaches, Gold, Sword and Juno. On Juno beach the Canadian Sappers were storming a...
The story of Albert George Heath Royal Artillery, An evacuation from Dunkirk, in his own words written...
In seventh heaven I had already made friends with another young chap, whom I had first met back in England...
My dad was a scholarship lad, and I've got the books he won to prove it, all with elaborate dedications...
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