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Keep Your Shirt On

When I held it up for our lads to see they all thought it was hilarious, Captain Baker came to see if...

Central Italy - Joining the American 5th Army - searching for a missing husband

This time in stages with night stops, via Perugia, Arrezzo, Florence and Lucca to a small village called...

From Dublin to Dunkirk - and back!

From Dublin to Dunkirk - and back. After we came back from Dunkirk and all the rest of it, we were in...

Working on the Thailand railway - Part Two

Because obviously the Japanese where in China and the Japanese were very cruel to the Chinese from about...

V.J.DAY

Having taken part in the Normandy landings on D-Day, and being fortunate enough to survive unharmed, I was...

Country of Genghis khan joins the great war.

1st Batt South Wales Borderers 1942

An Unheroic War

I saw a crashed German aircraft smouldering with the pilot still inside. Then we moved up to Nordeney in...

THE TRUE STORY OF ANGELO ROSSI OF CAMPRIANO

The next day, I, as L/C Wireless Operator, on Mohawk, in charge of the Troop's wireless, had a message...

Nasty introduction to war in Burma

Then as we disembarked a chap...an MP or somebody ....said 鈥淩ight you report to Divisional...

An Army Nurse in transit through Cairo sees the sights

Abe鈥� our guide was excellent 鈥� he took us to see the new discoveries 鈥� hidden tombs, with...

Capt Cecil D Pickersgill, architect and designer of the Changi Lychgates, Part 1: A Prisoner of the Japanese.

Capt Cecil D Pickersgill, architect and designer of the Changi Lychgates, Part 1: A Prisoner of the...

Sergeant Hunt's Luck Runs Out

With their Bren gun carrier hidden as best they could behind a small sand dune, Sergeant Hunt and his C.O....

Belfast to Burmah

As there were no docking facilities at Accra, where we were to land, the disembarkation was done in small...

Improvisation Sir

The coastline around the town of Dymchurch and the area inland, Romney Marsh, was thought to be a possible...

My husbands WW2 experiences

Stan served in the Royal Artillery, as a dispatch rider, in England until 1940,when his Battery sailed for...

Dad's Army

They were in the heart of rural England and most of the Chard brigade were bakers, farmhands or other...

A tribute to Edward Arthur Patman, known as 鈥楶at鈥�

Present at the party were all the top names in the cinema world and Eddie's father was given the job of...

Who stole the bread roles? Part 1 - A picture of the hospital.

The story was enclosed with a letter that my Dad received from an old friend called George Powell, who he...

A junior officer's war with 43rd Division - Gunners

Several other battles followed, including one known as Mount Pincon, following which we moved east rapidly...

A passage to India

And so, sometime around the 20th of July 1945, while serving as a junior veterinary officer at a Remount...

Jim Miles in Dunkirk

I will tell you firstly it all started like my officer said to me come on Jim we have a recci job...

The Men Who Missed The Tide - 2nd Selection - Poem

Captain J.S. Earl has written a series of poems in remembrance of the war veterans who returned, and of...

Memories of WW2 ( attached to Guards Armoured Div.)

I immediately contacted the Great Western Railway and was taken on right away as a telephonist in Severn...

A RAILWAY AT WAR

When all regular passenger traffic came to an end in November 1933 on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire...

A Friend is Laid to Rest

UNDER THE COVER of darkness we reached the farmhouse by the side of the dyke, to establish contact with the...