Usually coming in from the wrong direction, constantly in and out of Japanese lines with about fifteen or...
In November 1943 the Battalion left Malta and moved to Palestine and absorbed the remaining handful of men...
We didn't really realise how dangerous it was to go in there, so my driver, two German police and I...
I trained them in small arms, rifle Bren gun 2" mortar, sten gun & grenades. whilst in Cardiff, the...
Yesterday instead of going back to Camp for tiffen, I went to the Homestead and had a snack and a sleep and...
But there was trouble in Iraq when we got there, Price Rasid Allah was in co-operation with the Germans, so...
I remember Syria and Palestine being mentioned, as well as Cairo and there were some happy memories of...
Officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and Guardsmen of the 3rd Battalion WELSH GUARDS-in...
The following is taken from some of the postcards and pictures Arthur Campion sent to his wife during the...
We worked at Changi and also built a sea wall at Tangongrue, which disintegrated at the first neap tide,...
Some of us were blown to mincemeat, to smithereens by the German guns. Because of the Geneva Convention we...
The recruiting office beckoned me; to there I made a dash, A kilted Sergeant sat in there, bedecked in his...
We were halfway across the Indian Ocean as part of the force to invade Malaya, when the bombs were dropped...
My Dad, who served in the 1914/18 war in the Dorsetshire regiment became a Sergeant in the Home Guard...
The Germans then loaded us 60 at a time into cattle trucks bound for Germany....
Joan and Cyril Botterill celebrated in June their 64th wedding anniversary... Only an occasional meeting...
So I celebrated my Birthday with cake and wine, in a slit trench, in the front line, even Jerry cooperated...
When Singapore surrendered all the British Officers of the Indian Army were separated from their men,and...
On arrival at Officers’ Training School, Mhow, in Central India I was given a room along with a none...
The Cadet personnel were mobilised, loaded into an ancient civilian truck, and provided with a rifle and 20...
To cover their withdrawal Maltby ordered "D" Company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers to the mainland to...