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December 8th, 1941

Pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japanese. Thirty-six Japanese bombers streaked across the blue sky at...

Four poems by Denis Knight (44th Royal Tank Regiment)

Let not those kind F-words be lost Of Aubrey Cullum at Primasole Bridge: Of my friend Hugh Bishop on the...

The Island

As it flows into Holland, the Rhine splits into two rivers, the southern branch being called the Waal and...

CHRISTMAS 1941

On Sunday, in company with members of the choir, I went to ST Paul's Church to a carol service and...

Khaki Day

My amry service was as a driver and then mechanic on a Vehicle Reserve Depot, collectng vehicles from...

Au Revoir But Not Goodbye

The poem was entered in The Royal Army Service Corps Journal in 1941, of which I had the original copy...

My war experiences with John Mills

The War Office decided that anyone under 18 should be transferred to Royston, Herts to the Searchlight...

INTELLIGENCE PATTERNS FROM WW2 TO 2005

First of all we had great upheavals in Europe, Muslim and other groups began to ethnic cleanse each other,...

An Irishman in the British Army

We had gone to Belgium with 1st Division British Army....

The Burma Campaign

We were based near Madras and were taken across the Indian Ocean to Burma on big landing craft —...

From 13 to 19 years old

For a few months nothing happened except that Russia attacked Finland and both Germany and Britain promised...

A Woman in the Engineers

And then we had officers training down in Windsor, in College Windsor... Then I was made education officer,...

V E Day Memories of Len Winter (then 14497795 Private Winter, Royal Ordnance Corps)

When we arrived Belsen had no water. I was at Luneburg Heath when the war ended, close to where Montgomery...

The W.D. Three-Ton Bedford and I

My first introduction to the square, snub-nosed Bedford 3-tonner was at Camberley, Surrey, A.T.S. Motor...

Infantryman's Patrol into Enemy Lines (extract from 'Biting the Bullet' my wartime diary

He in turn aimed at the German and his gun didn't go off either, so both of them stood looking at each...

Return from Dunkirk

On his return to England, on The Maid of Orleans, which resued him from the beach at Dunkirk, he was...

My Last Day and Night on the Front Line

We withdrew and got to a house hiding behind a hedge when Canadian soldiers suddenly came along protected...

Welcome Home!

Together with hundreds of lucky beggars, I was looking at the magnificent sight of the Schwedagon Pagoda...

Army: The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 2nd Battalion

The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel F.J. Lefroy, who had been cut off and captured during the...

Remembering Service with The 1st Cornwall Company A.T.S. - now lost in time?

Not all T.A. Colonels wanted to be saddled with their A.T.S. units during wartime, but Brigadier Banbary, a...

Wartime memories of a Policeman in Bedford Part Two - Call-up into the Royal Artillery and posting to Cairo. Return to Policing in Bedford.

Wartime memories of a Policeman in Bedford Part Two - Call-up into the Royal Artillery and posting to...

From Home Guard to secret Signals mission

I was in the home guard for two years, during which time we set up a signals section....at first we only...

There's No Place Like Holmes.

From there I was shipped abroad to Malta and went into action with the 24th Guard Brigade, 56th London...

Bill Smith - Crowborough

My family was in the Canadian Army as there was no work in Canada. There were hundreds of Japanese fishing...

Gun Shy

Cocker was completely untrained and the only job ‘Pledgie,’ could give him was on the...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster

Unit name: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster Force: Army Designation: Regiment Type: Infantry...