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Thomas Heydon’s World War 2 service in Palestine, Egypt, Italy as well as Europe. — Part 1

Thomas Heydon's World War 2 service in Palestine, Egypt, Italy as well as Europe. He saw service in...

VE Day in Greece by John Clarke MBE

In November my Division, the 4th British Infantry, was told it was to leave Italy and go to Palestine for a...

End of the fighting in Arakan

We were up to our thighs in water on the Arakan down on the Satang river and of course there were no...

Peace in Wartime

A draft of Japanese prisoners arrived in our unit for an unknown duration of the conflict... At that time...

British Forces Involvement in Yugoslavia 1943-45

The Army Officer accepted the request from Churchill and a force of British Soldiers were landed there...

The Road to Dunkirk

The fighters dived with blazing guns, the bombers dropped their load whilst we with aching hearts and...

Ronald Spenceley's Prisoner of War Experiences

The Italians then capitulated but the Germans started taking over all the camps and shipping the prisoners...

Memories of WWII

I was deployed to various outposts including South Africa,India,Assam,Iraq,Russia and most notebly Egypt to...

Nonagenarian's Memories of Active Service

Advice was received that the Germans were about to land on Crete. We went back to Palestine to prepare for...

40 years on - a Discovery.

Later we set off again from Haifa to Castelrossa in the Dodecanese Islands, the convoy consisted of two...

Greek mainland

Together we moved over the mountains to the sea port of Patras, the only sign of the enemy was in the town...

Shelmerdine - Vignettes 3 - Ramsgate June 1940

The Cadets themselves were mobilised into general defence activities, and in particular became involved in...

'Escape On A Door

I was a Pre-war enlistment in the Army and I served initially with the 1st, Sixth Battalion Lancashire...

MY FAMILIES CASUALTY ROLL OF HONOUR

Unfortunately because of the extreme conditions that the prisoners suffered under Japanese internment, my...

The only two bullets shot in anger at Silloth in WW2

Being a crack shot with the Enfield rifle, Joe shot the light out with one bullet....

Shelmerdine - Vignettes 1- Royal Signals 1939

Off duty he was not averse to accompanying his non-commissioned officers to the local Naafi for evening...

Don's Luck!!

In next to no time I was in ensconced, in the gloomy carriage of the night train to Perth, where I was...

Burma Landings (cont.) Leptan Combined Operations

Regimental Signaller in training and VJ day memories

Even in the middle of the Monsoon season, this was a much better place with brick-built barrack blocks with...

POST FALL

All along I had the feeling that I had a lucky star looking after me, if I could survive the debacle of...

LEAVING BURMA

The clearing of Japanese between here and Rangoon had been given to the Indian Tank Regiment. It was like...

Sergeant - "There's A Bun In The Oven"

Synchronise Watches!

There was a lot of map reading and planning of operations, including high-level training on Cader Idris in...

Periods of Service Overseas

We drove up to Rome - it was horrifying to see the state of the country in the Cassino area. When in...

Bombing of Ford Airdrome

Clifford Copping was hospitalised for nearly a year during which time he had some skin grafting at East...

War Service 1939- 1946- an Extract

I enrolled on 24.11.39 and first served as a driver in the 1st London Motor company, F. A. N. Y, during...