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Leslie and Maurice.

My Parents received a Telegram to say that their Son had died on that railway on March 24th 1944, and...

A Tank Experience W W 2

However I was after a numberof test's following further training selected as a driver althoughas faras...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: Sailing Home and A Family Reunion

My honorable discharge shows that I was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished...

Rise and Shine

I was 12 and my brother Ron 8 when we were evacuated in September 1939 to a schoolmaster's house in...

Coleraine man in the Signals Corps

I moved out of a Battery of AA guns and into a battery of Field-guns in this particular regiment in the 8th...

Billet With a Belgian Tax Collector

In the afternoon I wandered around the town and had a coffee and a cognac in a café with a blonde and...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: Inducted in the Army

So they got in Dad's ’37 Chevy sedan—my sisters Margie and Eileen, my Mom and Dad, and my...

Yuan verses the Yen

In order to keep the countries currency stable, printing had to take place 'on the spot'. To...

Life as an ATS Despatch Rider

I was posted to 913 Convoy near Liverpool but was attached to CRASE 4th AA Group at Preston to become a...

Combined Ops Training

But the landing craft were wanted first for North Africa, then for Sicily, then for Italy and then for...

FROM TINS TO TIMEPIECES

During our time in England we were adopted by the people of Amersham. I made collars for Officers’...

Damage Reports

Any Japanese aircraft shot over the next few days were brought down by anti-aircraft fire from the guns of...

The Driving Test

In a couple of months the results came through and in my case I was to report for tank crew training at...

Jesuit Chaplain to the Brit Army

Fr Michael Morrison was a teacher at Belvedere, a Jesuit school in Dublin... He volunteered as a British...

THE HORSE PARTY

Well, our English hunters, racehorses and polo ponies etc. had never seen such a terrified spectacle in...

Cocoa and rum after Ack-ack

So we went out to Ceylon for four months in a cocoa plantation in Candi — great — and then the...

My War Experiences 1942-1947

From Sicily to Italy further up the Adriatic coast to Termoli, where we were told to drive up in front and...

The liberation. of Athens.

The war time event I took part in was being in a ten man team from 40RM Commando who landed on the...

Go to Bed - That's an Order

Captain Warren came to us on the third morning and told us to leave the workshop and go to bed... Three or...

PLENTY OF GRUB IN THE COOKHOUSE

I joined the Army at Nelson Barracks, Norwich in 1942 and served in the Royal Norfolks from 15.5.42 to...

Sherwoods in Africa & italy

Firstly, in North Africa, where we saw the Hun off, to the final rake-in of prisoners at Cape Bon, after...

Maltese stories

German prisoners of war were sent to Malta, where they worked around the fort or on the air sea rescue...

Driving, D-day and beyond

I was then sent up to the Midlands, near Stratford on Avon, and I was then driving Brigadier Temple, who...

A Royal Visit

The Queen's obvious compassion and visit was like a ray of sunshine in that tragic scene, and both she...

Bergonzoli and Me

He came across and started to play hell with us, but Sergeant Jones stood up for himself and us, pointing...

American at the Gate