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Recollections of a Military Nurse

Mrs McGolrick served as a nurse during the war and was posted to a number of military hospitals, including...

age doesn't matter

I found myself as a Signals Corps trainee and sent to ex King Farouk's luxury villa in Kingston where...

I`m Not aHero

Eventually my 2 years National Service came to an end, I flew home in a Hermes aeroplane to Blackbush...

Captured by Communists in Greece: 1943

This was easy enough, but in the power vacuum following the German withdrawal, civil war broke out between...

One Fine Summers Morn

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

The Daines Family in War

When War was declared my Mother said 'My boys will have to go'. I joined the Army on March 6th 1941...

OFF TO WAR WITH A TYPEWRITER

On the way, at Wimeroux, I came across a group of Army officers who gave me a lift in their staff car...

Interview with Cyril Rowland

We stopped at Durban, South Africa a few days, then we stopped in East Africa because we were chased into...

Return to Italy September 1944

This whole area was overlooking the Lombardy plain and the way to Imola and then on to Bologna and when the...

So this is Algiers

Also tins of rashers of bacon, soya links, steak and kidney pudding stew, and many more tins of different...

Italy - An Offer from the CO and Demob

My father John Cory's story from his memoir 鈥淎 Span of Years鈥� as left to the family, edited...

The Daines Family During The War

When War was declared my Mother said 'My boys will have to go'. I joined the Army on March 6th 1941...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: I Visit A Castle

We unloaded the ships and I got to drive an armored vehicle from there to Oslo. Most of our time in Oslo...

A Londoner Abroad

My Dad was very relieved when the Germans were safely in custody as he and his friends had only one pistol...

Tom's Quiet War in East Africa

These are just a few of my recollections about the stories my Dad told me of the six years he spent in...

ON THE MOVE AGAIN

Then to Kingston-upon-Thames on a 2 week wireless operator course in King Farouk of Egypt's London home...

Joining up and the first trip overseas

I was fortunate in being educated at Cranbrook School in Kent and, as at most public schools in the 1930s,...

The Attack Continues ...

He saw the Japanese take Fort Sau Ki Wau directly in front of his position and his men were under fire from...

ZUBZA to MEREMA, A JUNGLE AMBUSH. APRIL 1944

One patrol spotted half-dozen Japanese not more than 10 yards away. Major Burrell was armed with pistol and...

A Scholar Abroad - An Interupted Education (Part 2)

I decided on Birmingham University as the Hankey scheme paid more than my other scholarships which were...

At Rest

It was an uneventual crossing, the Med. was on it's best behaviour and I WASN'T SEASICK! so I was...

Any port in a storm

The plan was to leave port in darkness, sail in convoy during the following day, and arrive in Tobruck in...

The Swimming Lesson

When the Suez Canal was dug a ledge about twenty feet wide was left along the side of the canal,the water...

A Soldier's Story

A young soldier's wartime story '39-'46

This Corps enlisted Pathan tribesman, with Officers from the Indian Army on attachment.They manned forts in...

John Brown's extended war

It was in Vilvoorde that we assembled piling gear for the Rhine crossing with Belgium civilians which had...