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Fighting with the Gordon Highlanders in Normandy

The Germans were on the other side of the River Odin, 1000 yards away. Although I don't feel proud of...

‘C’ COMPANY OFFICE

DINNER - Roast Meat and Chicken Roast Potatoes - Mashed Potatoes - Cabbage and Cauliflower - Sausage...

Walter Richardson: My Dad’s Incredible Journey

Dad obtained a three day pass, and without any money, rations, maps or directions, and only a few place...

Do you have a glass

Serving with B. Squadron, 16/5 Lancers in North Africa from Algiers to Tunis and then in Italy from...

PEOPLE'S WAR - FROM RAYMOND MOXLEY

The first Arakan Campaign was a bit of a disaster when the Japanese chased us to the frontiers of India....

The Best Years of Their Lives (Edited)

At the bottom of the deep blue sea

The Germans had done great damage to the ports, rendering them inoperable and our job as divers was to go...

Sidney Cox's War

Following this I went on to join the Home Guard Anti Aircraft, firing at the enemy aircraft bombing the...

My War years chapter 3

The next day saw us off to what was to be our permanent destination in Algeria - Maison Caree - a French...

Memories of Captain Harry Rawkins Part Two - 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in Europe 1944 and the Liberation of Ootmarsu

Memories of Captain Harry Rawkins Part Two — 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in Europe 1944 and...

Remembering the Auxillary Territorial Service

D Troop HQ at Welwyn Garden City housed the searchlight crew with three officers and about 25 girls. Five...

War, Wine and Valour (A8036859) Last Week

It was clearly understood in the regiment, an unwritten regimental law, that whilst one member of the tank...

Early Promotion

I sat at the table with Woodrow Wyatt, Edwina Mountbatten, the CIGS, General Sir Alan Brook - I had to...

Arramanches to Arras-1944

We were in a team of four, Major Corcoran, Major Rose, Flight Lieutenant Wilson. The ‘tent’...

Get off home quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part four)

ONE DAY I HITCH-HIKED OVER TO SOLINGEN, WHERE THERE WAS A LEGALISED BLACK MARKET, IT BEING POSSIBLE TO...

My War Years 1939 - 1945 pt 5

Military Police were everywhere telling you to keep together and make towards the end of the platform and...

Marriage and Malaria

We did all our training in Northern Ireland and then the Isle of Wight before going overseas and then on to...

The war in the desert and other memories

Ken Woolcott and Jose Woolcott, Wembley Ken and Jose were married in 1940 on Ken's first, seven day...

Journey with the Medical Corp

After Guildford we went to Greenock to join the Llangibby Castle, we were going through the Straits of...

RECOLLECTION OF EL ALEMAIN

My dad was in the 8th Army with the Desert Rats. His service medals include The Africa Star with a clasp...

Captain Lionel E. Queripel VC at Arnhem, September 1944

The written commemoration about Captain L.E. Queripel in the framed memorial on display at Egremont Royal...

At War With The Royal Engineers - 1939

At Faringdon those who were under 18 were posted - elsewhere and replaced by 32 Cockney reinforcements, who...

Cameo of an artillery soldier in North Africa

My father also named Fred Marshall was 36 when he was conscripted into the Royal Artillery and shipped out...

How the Ordinary Suffer

Finding Belsen and the horror in Hamburg. I remember speaking to some German fellas, who suggested that...

Don's Dilemmas.

One day I was leading some German P.O.W's to camp when an American civilian Ambulance driver came along...

One Fine Summer's Morn

The poor pigeon fell to the floor, the 303 bullet had blown his chest away and all that was left was his...