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Checkmate

I remember a shocking capture of the German surrender — I was in a convoy of Freighter trucks, there...

Wilfrid Clarke's World War 2 Experiences

Wilfrid Clarke enlisted in the Territorial Army early in 1939. Second Lieutenant Clarke was stationed at...

To Whom It May Interest Part One

The experiences of a Light Anti-Aircraft Detachment In the North Africa Campaign 1942 – 1943 By...

Forgotten - NB Likely!

We have such laughs in our family about my service A/C 8788 Mobile Signals Units from Imphal ? to Rangoon...

A passage to India

When we got to Cape Town, all the English people came looking for the troops they came up and made such a...

Capt. R.T.Wood's War

R.T. WOOD Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The Second World War saw my father travel to Palestine, Sicily and up...

My War - Part 3

From there followed a 5 day train journey to Calcutta in East Bengal where, on arrival, at 12 noon, we had...

My experiences in the W.R.N.S..

After 2 weeks leave, my home was Moretonhampstead, all the Plymouth based girls met at Newton Abbot Station...

From Kohima to Imphal

Kohima — it wasn't in Burma it was just over the border in India. When the Japanese started their...

Baptism Of Fire - Imphal!

The Japanese were coming into Imphal even as we landed. But the Japanese were very skillful at being able...

The Butchery of the Armed Forces by the Government

In 1936, when the Germans marched from the Rhineland, from which the British and French were policing, the...

Badly Wounded in Action

He gave me a cup of tea and said "Well you've got it at last Harrold", as we had been together...

Janie Mills’ Story

I didn't know any German so I had no idea what he was saying, but I heard the enthusiastic cries of...

Mike Coyle - The First Militia July 1939

They fell us in on Cherbourg dock all shiny bright and new where we piled into carriages last used at...

Why I went from Inniskilling Fusiliers to Indian Artillery

The colonel said “I'm looking for 6 young officers to volunteer to go help train the Indian army....

Peace ?

Sir Charles Jessel's war memories

I remember seeing 15 parachutes in the air; these were either British or German who were shot down by the...

Kids Instead of Men

From Oran to Algiers was like an overnight sailing across the Irish Sea to Dublin... The 78th Division of...

War service of Sidney Conn (formerly known as Aaron Cohen)

My late husband, Sidney,enrolled in the Army in November, 1939, at the age of 21. The army discharged...

On Joining REME

I didn't know any German so I had no idea what he was saying, but I heard the enthusiastic cries of...

My Father-in-Law's Betrayal By The War

William Whyte was to serve with the Northumberland Fusiliers with the Eighth Army under Montgomery in the...

roguesoldier

Percy never got his money from this NCO because he was posted to Bordon soon after.Not getting his money...

In Suspense (Part One)

He'd written and told me that he'd been to Africa, where he'd landed, and he went on to...

Irish Military History and the Victoria Cross

Irish VCs, we've led the warpath on them... We put up a letter to Tony Blair asking for 250k quid so we...

Cecil Robinson - Winston Churchill's Driver

Cecil drove Sir Winston at the Yalta Conference. Later that year on 21st July 1945, Cecil drove Sir Winston...

My eventful life in the army

From S.A.we went to Suez,where our job was lifting landmines left by the Germans. On the night of initial...