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Love Hurts

According to my father, who was behind Geordie in the blackness, the sound of Geordie's bayonet jabs on...

A Reminder of Home

We reported these and next night, at about 7 o'clock, our artillery fired tracer shells at the railway...

'There There Lad I Know its an Awful Thing'

They were pinned down on the hill overnight and my granda kept the young chap as comfortable as he could,...

The Stick Man

I was a member of the Reconnaissance Troop which was part of Headquarters Squadron and we were housed in...

Catterick Camp

According to my father, who was behind Geordie in the blackness, the sound of Geordie's bayonet jabs on...

Ladies Please -ATS on the move

We, being ladies, were accommodated first class with officers only, on ‘B’ deck... Reader, do...

Ted's medals and some informaton about the guns.

The France and Germany Star — not the France and Germany medal... France and Germany Star was a...

Bang Went my Chances of Becoming a Field Marshal

Saturday May 9th 1942, the 9th Field Squadron climbed up the gangplank to the Monica Bermuda. The stench of...

Memories of a 2nd Lieutenant captured in Tunisia and life as a P.O.W. - Part One

It was hilly country about 1,000 feet, 2,000 feet high hills and the Germans attacked and got round us and...

How It Was For My Generation (Echoes of War P.7)

At the end of the war came the occupation of Germany and for me North German Coal control in Cologne......

The Soft Under-belly?

Within three weeks we were to embark on the first ever mass flight of gliders by the Allies, a 600 mile...

Strassburg Pt. 3

It was during our sojourn in Strassburg, Carinthia, Austria in 1946 when "B"Squadron of the 16/5th...

Sixty Bonus Years: a tale of survival

The following morning I was greeted by my "friend" CSM Wood, told to get my kit together and go on...

What did you do in the war, Dad?

The three services, Navy, Army, Air Force, some high ranking, with amongst them Canadians, South Africans,...

The Life of a British Military Port Sapper and Part-time NAAFI Piano Player!

Training completed - a letter home

So if you want to write to me at all, just add my name on top thus;- W.G. Poynor, E.R.A., Petty...

Journey to the unknown

I asked the L/cpl redcap to bring the MCO and when he saw me he said 'Why didn't you get off'...

The War Memories of Fredrick Dashwood

We had 200 Italian and German U boat prisoners. One Christmas the Germans told the prisoners they could...

Burma-1944 to 1948

At the age of 16, I worked at Shorts' Sea Plane Factory in Rochester Kent,. Having reached 18 years in...

Deadly Mushroom?Smiling Messenger.

Life in Motoyama POW camp comprised of near starvation, an ongoing aching gut and ten hour shifts doen the...

Memories of being in the RWF from Wrexham

During the second world war, I was everywhere- Egypt, Syria, Lebanon- places like that- and then I was in...

Six years at war.

With a close friend, who was determined not to become a prisoner of the Germans we managed to escape and...

Aged 6 Evacuated Egypt to Palestine and South Africa

Aged 6 Evacuation- from Egypt to Palestine and Durban and Home Again to England. The dates stated must of...

My 5 year story from 1942

Not very long after the British and American forces broke out from the bridgehead in Normandy and the chase...

A Delayed Delivery of a Message

I returned to my home in Newquay, but was never near Bodmin, and shortly afterwards moved to employment in...

'1942-43...Detention at Stake Hill, Rochdale'

When we arrived at Stake Hill Camp in Rochdale we were met by 3 large military policemen, who made me run...