The Mayor greeted the POW's "Heil Hitler" their reply was"Heil Churchill". The Mayor...
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In Port Reitz you slept under mosquito nets and there were plenty of bananas鈥onkeys about pinching...
On Monty's return from Alamein he arrived at HQ 21 Army Group and this meant another posting for me to...
The Supreme Commander was Lord Louis Mountbatten who took Pandit Nehru, first to meet the Governor and then...
When the Regiment left Atbara I got on a Nile steamer to Cairo in Egypt on my own but then got a...
At the outbreak of the WW2 Joseph queued up outside the Army recruitment office with many other Leicester...
After Baghdad we went through Palestine to the Suez, where we had a workshop on one side and the guns were...
Joe turned up at the recruiting office at the appointed time clutching His Majesty's invitation and,...
We went to bed in all our clothes except boots, not only because we were cold, but because the interval...
Fusilier Youd from Kidwelly, South Wales spotted the gun flashes of one of the Jap positions and pointed it...
Lance-corporal Dalrymple's a potential officer: bespectacled, courteous, quiet and pimpled....
I chose to be Driver Trice 110416 - a very proud moment but a bit of a shock after being led to...
One evening it was broadcast that a Yank force of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and troop ships had...
The Germans transferred the crew to Atlantis and Uncle Alec and the rest of the wounded were put on...
It was a long journey over the canal and then further to the port of Basra where the Americans had sent...
MY ARMY NUMBER WAS 10143190 BUT A FEW WEEKS LATER THE MILITIA WAS EMBODIED IN THE REGULAR ARMY AND MY...
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