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Close Calls

In digs in Birmingham: bomb in the road by Castle Bromwich aircraft factory where, outside, my brother...

VE and VJ days Extract from A Lighter Shade of Blue,

RAF Radar Unit 8020 AMES, GCI sited close to Lago di Patria on the west coast between Naples and Rome. V.J....

Steve Whitbread - Home Guard to Tankman 1940 - 1946

The diary my Dad, Steve kept from January to June 1946 as occupation troops in Austria, tells us much of...

Free French Sortie

As an AC1 transport mechanic with 46 Squadron Royal Air Force, we set sail from Glasgow one day in April...

A war that surprised me

I was then under the command of Sgt "Chinkie" Lee - so called beacause he had a chinese moustache,...

Tobruk Remembered

A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE AND BEYOND PART 2

We loaded hundreds of Arms, and much ammunition, aboard HMS SALWEEN, and returned to India, this time,...

WW2 in Beja

It was an emotional time for me to kneel beside the graves of my brave and gallant friend, Sgt. Frank...

From El Alamein to the Po River: Ben Instone's war

I have a photo of Ben receiving his medal in the field, local newspaper articles, a form letter from Major...

Start running Jerry - We're ready to come back, fully trained fit and efficient.

WHILST AT RAYNES PARK I VISITED WIMBLEDON THEATRE FROM TIME TO TIME AND SAW THREE OR FOUR GILBERT AND...

Dads story

JUST REMEMBERED WHEN I WAS STATIONED AT REDCAR WE WERE MANNING A BREN GUN ON A TRIPOD IN THE STREET...

OCEAN NEWS

The youngest editor of the Sunday Pictorial, who was destined to become Chairman of the Daily Mirror Group,...

Basics to Burma

Later we were sent to join the 1st Battilion Lancashire Fusiliers at Cawnpore. Suddenly we were travelling...

Norman's war part two

Throughout the winter months the Germans remained behind the frontiers while French and British troops...

PHOTO

When the bitter war is over and the guns have ceased to roar; And the gallant lads who fought and won are...

The War Years

From Bombay, we headed northeast, through the Arabian Sea and through the Arabian Gulf and finally...

The Yalta Aftermath

I use the term penultimate meeting as at the very last meeting of the Big Three,in August 1945, Rooseveldt...

A SAPPER'S STORY - 1939 TO 1945

Here I looked after the big diesel machinery that powered the powerful searchlights that picked out the...

Battle of Sidi Barrani-an officers story

Shelling is heavy and there is enemy machine gun fire in our direction-luckily not lower than head high-...

Watch out Jerry - Here I come (part three)

ALTHOUGH LA BAULE, THE NEXT LITTLE TOWN, WAS OUT OF BOUNDS I FOUND THAT THERE WAS A PUBLIC SHOWER BATH...

Infantryman's Patrol into enemy lines (extract from 'Biting the Bullet' my wartime diary)

We had tramped about 6 miles towards the German lines, led by Lieutenant Marsden who came to take over from...

Corporal Bob Davis's Wartime Memories

His platoon's job on this day was to dig pits for the mortar guns so they could support the attack on...

The Story of Number One Advance Landing Group

I was already on shore in Algezars and captured Maison Blanche for the petrol dump, then we worked our way...

War Time Experiences

In 1938 I worked for NAAFI and joined the Territorial Army - a Searchlight Unit at their depot in...

Armed With A Camera

With the uprisal of Mussolini in Italy, and Hitler becoming Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany, plus the...

I REMEMBER DAVE CHAMBERS

Reminders of the incident and Dave Chambers’ s life and death emerge in small ways which add up to...