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A Cyphereen's Story Parts 1-5

Dorothy and I were introduced to the other members of the Embassy staff: Mr Stevenson, the Ambassador, Mr...

Robert Fleming Watson - Scottish Signalman

After we moved up from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, as it is now, I was sent on a train...

The Brickfields Story OR The Lost Platoon

Our Platoon Commander and his runner had dug themselves a slit trench halfway between us and the Coy HQ...

A Militia Man in the Army…….

A Poacher Goes To War

They started to wade out towards the boat, Eddie was only 5'7 tall and as the water came up to his neck...

Parachute training at R.A.F. Chaklala

Atomb Bomb

One has to wonder how the Squadron Leader had come to be accepted, but at the time I was just pleased to...

"D" Company, The Royal Rifles of Canada and The beginning...

As Japan's army raged through China slaughtering thousands of men, women and children, leaving a path...

A PRIVATES WAR

Jerry planes came over and dropped flares, the officer gave orders to go to the other side of the road and...

Alan Crockford's varied WW2 experiences

I started work in early September ’39 when I was 15 in one of the largest garages in Brighton, which...

Desert Rat to D Day landings

The convoy was bombed by a German plane but my lorry wasn't hit, while the mess wagon that I had been...

Protecting Port Gaverne

In spite of any reluctant sympathy that any of us may have had for Hitler's testicular condition, it...

The dangers of 'careless talk'

When he came in he told me that he had been in the Colchester Garrison Officers Club the night before and,...

Ken's War (1940-1945)

How she got to know I don't know. They pointed me out to her and as she neared my bed she said...

CROSSING THE IRRAWADDY RIVER

The Company Commander's boat had sunk too, and the water ahead was dotted with bobbing heads. Further...

Manoeuvres in Britain and the end of my army career.

In Baythorne End our main job was to patrol the Suffolk coast, because we were expecting our old friends,...

On the Road To Mandalay 1944 ~ Cyril KIRK

'On the road to Madalay' Submitted by David Kirk 16th October 1944 Regt joined DTP at Monah where...

Christmas 1944

Are thee serious Titus - dost want thee name put down - cos I'm not laking about lad, once tha...

Hard Landing - Hard Biscuits: a Paratrooper's Perspective of D Day

You had two of these, one for each day, and you had biscuits and one or two things, little tablets for...

TANKS FOR THE MEMORY

I carried Cliff along a dried up river bed, and found it full of German bodies... We'd found a British...

Arnhem Bridge part 2

A’ troops Bren was still covering the ramp and footpath and was manned by Cpl ‘Canadian’...

A Panzer and a Sherman 'duel of shells' (Part 2)

I think perhaps only Bert and I were brewing up; and you and Ted Tirbutt, the wireless-op, had stayed on...

Call Up 1939-45

My Alamein — Platoon B9

Soon, with your eyes studying the ground for mines and both eyes and ears taking in the positions of the...

A FERNHURST LAD’S WAR

Charlie came from the East End of London and was a London bus driver. It was after this that we were told...

STC

This was a most unusual job, we had to report to the Army movements at Le Havre Port in France, we normally...