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WITH THE DESERT RATS IN NORTH AFRICA

My dad was in the 8th Army with the Desert Rats. His service medals include The Africa Star with a clasp...

My War as a Prisoner Part 1

In September 1939, in a small French village called Rumegies 鈥� about two miles from the...

The Story of the Life-saving Grapes

The reason was simply that eight of the ten members of my squad were killed during my absence by just one...

Horror and humour in India and Burma

My father, William J.A Winfield served primarily in India and Burma in the 14th... He followed in the...

Memories of Captain Harry Rawkins Part One - 70th Battalion Beds. & Herts. in the Shetlands

Memories of Captain Harry Rawkins Part One - 70th Battalion Beds. & Herts. in the Shetlands. Because...

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Four - From Marseille to Timmendorfer Strand on the Baltic, part of the Occupying For

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Four - From Marseille to Timmendorfer Strand on the Baltic, part...

JOIN THE ARMY AND SEE THE WORLD

Following seven days leave and kitted out with tropical gear at Cottingham near Hull we travelled by train...

A Guernsey footballer serves in Africa and Italy

And we were in the Artillery by then, and we had done our training, at Yeovilton, near Yeovil, and we went...

Driving adventures (Owen Cleaver 2)

We stopped the first night in Aberdeen, the second night in Perth - in a wooden hut on the edge of a...

Totalitarianism (Wrenbury Remembers P.5)

Britain began rearming just in time to send troops when Hitler sent his forces into Poland and then the...

Shore Leave!

What a Lovely War

Before the war I was an Ophthalmic Optician and when war broke out the British Optical Association agreed...

My Free Trip Around The World

After a fortnight's rest in the Philippines, the British aircraft carrier HMS Implacable took us to...

From Gas Masks to Guns; A Long Way From Home

It was on the 13th November 1938, when we moved to Trinity Hall in Coventry. On September 29th 1940 we had...

A record of my service

While I was waiting in the 鈥渟lammer鈥� it was discovered that the telegram had been sent to the...

My War - Part 4

Picking up my porridge filled mess tin and enamel plate containing, youv'e guessed it, Soya bean...

A soldier's destiny

When we got to the grenade range we saw lots of unexploded grenades that had not exploded because the...

In the Home Guard

With HomeGuard Guarding Whitchurch Aerodrome The Dutch pilots, When the war was more or less starting,...

The British forces from Prudhoe

Once he had reached Belgium, German bombers were destroying villages and bombarding the streets with...

Birmingham Polytechnic - training to be a radio mechanic

What we saw in Normandy has prompted me to tell my experiences as a member of H.M forces in the Second...

Rennes June 1940

Fortunately for us, the Germans were bombing the French Barracks on the other side of the town. I was...

Friend or Foe

Those days were known as "the hungry 30's". Unemployment was rife, poverty the order of the...

I was Monty's Hat-man

This was not for Monty, the tank was going to be his showpiece with 鈥楳onty鈥� painted on the...

So Always Let the Toast Be: 147 Bridge Coy, R.A.S.C.

Now that V.E. Day is here, I feel such tremendous relief, such satisfaction at a difficult job well done,...

My Service Life in the Suffolk Regiment Part One - UK

I signed on at Chelmsford on the 20th October 1939 and came back to Woodbridge Drill Hall, from there going...

Stranded at Salerno

As a radar operator in the R.A.F. I was sent to Algiers in July 1943 and after a few weeks was posted...