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Gateway to Rome

Sailed January 1943 first port of call Freetown Sierra Leone, we were not allowed ashore, but at Cape Town...

Radio Cairo

It seems that the Russians had quite illegally used Cairo's wavelength with some station down by...

Dad's War story

When the wood was clear my dad and his mates were able to get clear of the area and head for their...

"Guinea Pig Porton Down"

Went for a medical at Bath Street in Mansfield, passed A1.Joined to Army Jan 15th 1940 - 1946, went to...

The 26ers

I suspect that I was the original Silly Boy as per Dad's Army but was part of what was called The...

The Travels of a Tele-Communicator

The work we were doing in Sri Lanka was the same as we were doing in England but the building was on...

Life in the KDG's Final part

2陆 years out in this country, 2 years of sand, sand and more sand and we can have 4 days leave in...

Italy Part 8; To Rome and the North (iii)

My car had had to go out during the day so I rigged up an extension to someone else's bivvy as well...

60 years nightmare

Our Dutch friends had driven us to various Cameron battle grounds and taken us to visit various War...

A letter from Singapore October 1945

This is a letter from my Uncle Ron to my Grandparents Arthur & Daisy Collins, his parents written a few...

'SCENES FROM MY EMERGENCY' A poem of My impressions

Moville on Lough Foyle was unique: grandstand view of Allied fleets; naval personnel free to land in full...

Withdrawal to El Alamein

A GUNNER AND PRISONER OF WAR (STALAGS AND THE LONG MARCH) by Doug Hawkins: Part 3 of 3 - After the Long March, and 60 years on

A GUNNER AND PRISONER OF WAR by Doug Hawkins: Part 3 of 3 - After the Long March, and 60 years on....

Voyage to Egypt

There were 3 sittings to every meal held in the great dining room with a map of the Atlantic facing us, a...

My Father's story

1st Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment which was attached to 4th Indian Division and the 8th Army during...

From Birmingham to Burma and Back

At this time leave for 14 Army was confined to Calcutta but by some chance a party of 4 of us managed...

Fighting From the Skies

I wrote to the recruiting office in Belfast and was enlisted into the Wiltshire regiment, where my training...

Egypt Invaded 1940

War Story

Our task was to prevent the enemy escaping from the Arakan through the town Taungup, which was the Japanese...

OTS, DEHRA DUN, JANUARY 1945

Now McCulloch's dead of a bug, like Rupert Brooke, and I, like a pie dog, have my tail between my legs....

Bomb disposing and allied events.

Whilst maintaing the radar for the Anti Aircraft defences of Cairo I became friendly with a bomb disposal...

Fat men went to slim men, slim men kicked the bucket

One weekend they said you're going abroad, so that weekend I hitchhiked from Ludlow to Bridgnoth which...

JUNGLE TRAINING, SUMMER 1945

In the pouring rain, booted and gaitered, in jungle-green trousers and Garhwali hat, bare-chested and...

Harry Martin 1st/5th and 2nd/5th Leicesters

The Leicesters took part in the tough 1st Italian Campaign, Harry was wounded for the second time on the...

Last Look at Tobruk 1942

We were marched, in column, from the town up onto the escarpment, passing, on the way, burnt out lorries...

My Journey through the War Years

In the winter we had a football team and we used to play on Eastbourne College Ground, which was known as...