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ATS: Ack Ack and BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) England Belgium and Germany

ATS: Ack Ack and BAOR England Belgium and Germany. At the end of the month I was posted to Arborfield for...

Rennes Monday 17th June 1940

By now part of the 6th British Division, the 4th Battalion of the Border Regiment were moved back to the...

Army: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - 2nd Battalion

Fortunately an armistice was agreed between the British and Vichy French commanders two days later and the...

At War With The Royal Engineers - 1941

He had to wash at ablution benches in the open before marching to Shillingford to work on a new type of...

Capture of Tanngouche and Aftermath

The capture of Hideous, Longstop and Tanngouche had smashed the enemy's final main line of defence...

Italian Campaign Afterthoughts and The Fate of Poland

German forces invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939, which led to declaration of war by Britain and...

Jean McMenamin - A World War II Memory

The young officer in charge looked pale and distraught and rather surprised to see Diana and Carol... Back...

A Unique Journey, January 1944

When Sgt Yerwa was looking unhappy one morning and confided in me "One wife fine fine sah, two wife be...

German Invasion of the Netherlands

Bridges were blown up by the Dutch to delay the oncoming Germans, but there was no stopping them. They...

At War With The Royal Engineers - 1944

Before he left on 21st March for a Transit Camp near Port Said with his Batman and a Lance Corporal he had...

The Trek - Torpedoes in South Africa

When I got there, there were two boats down on the water so down I went to find that one of the...

Extracts from "My Wartime Story"

Now we were confronting an Italian army bolstered by the arrival of a German Afrika Corps commanded by...

A Cook's travels

The devils in the Army had given us brand new Raleigh bikes to cycle after the German parachutes —...

John Nield's War

Had the Japanese been victorious they'd have been through to India and would have linked up with the...

VISIT TO MEMPHIS

We saw the stone set up in the floor where people were executed for apparently this was more than mere...

A Royal Irish Fusilier in Egypt

We went across France to Toulon then boarded the troop ship 'Clanlamont' to cross the Mediterranean...

Escape from China [Part 2] Help from the RAF

Wuweiwas at the bottom of the 'pan-shape' of Kansu province, on the old silk road to Russia...

My Wartime Years - Part Three

Winter in Belgium was not an unpleasant experience, although we did get moved about a bit when the Germans...

One Man's War.

The Colonel found out that I played tennis and I was ordered by the Regimental Sergeant Major to report...

GOING TO WAR ON THE TUBE - CHAPTER 2 TRAINING

The Division moved north and 5 Recce was ordered to Wilmslow in Cheshire. 5 Recce incidentally went with...

Memories of an Artillery Gunner Part Three - From Coastal Battery to India

Memories of an Artillery Gunner Part Three - From Coastal Battery to India...

Home on the Duchess of Richmond

Japanese officers’ swords were in great demand... The battalion had a ‘loot’ trailer on...

Life In The 49th Infantry Division - Part 1

We saw a seller selling newspapers and bought one, and saw that the Armistice had been signed between the...

Italy - American Awards that never were, the end of the road for the 8th Survey Regiment

Command decided that the Chetniks were too near the Yugoslav border and they were to be moved down to Eboli...

Building Bridges

During the summer His Majesty King George VI came to Italy to visit the troops and I was present at a...

StanEllis8

Italy and Greece- Arrival in Italy and joining the Battle of Monte Cassino StanEllis8....