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Sacrifice, Welcome and kindness

This is a very brief note on my service — Called up for 6 yrs Army Service 1941 — 47, which...

Prisoner of War

The local Larkhall reported on 31st August1940, that Private Thomas Anderson, who was reported missing in...

My War experience

I trained them in small arms, rifle Bren gun 2" mortar, sten gun and grenades. whilst in Cardiff, the...

We Desert Rats

When we can, if we can, we sleep on the sand The mysterious East, the Promised Land It's 'oh!'...

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Raving Lunatics

Usually coming in from the wrong direction, constantly in and out of Japanese lines with about fifteen or...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster - 8th Battalion

In November 1943 the Battalion left Malta and moved to Palestine and absorbed the remaining handful of men...

Skiing, invading and tracking down war criminals

We didn't really realise how dangerous it was to go in there, so my driver, two German police and I...

My War experience

I trained them in small arms, rifle Bren gun 2" mortar, sten gun & grenades. whilst in Cardiff, the...

EGYPTIAN JAPANESE GARDENS

Yesterday instead of going back to Camp for tiffen, I went to the Homestead and had a snack and a sleep and...

‘War time memories’

But there was trouble in Iraq when we got there, Price Rasid Allah was in co-operation with the Germans, so...

The Memory of My Husband, Stan Denton

Anti-Tanks to London Irishicon for Story with photo

I remember Syria and Palestine being mentioned, as well as Cairo and there were some happy memories of...

Commanders Speech Italy 3rd May '45

Officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and Guardsmen of the 3rd Battalion WELSH GUARDS-in...

Life in the Army: Postcards and Pictures Sent to His Wifeicon for Story with photo

The following is taken from some of the postcards and pictures Arthur Campion sent to his wife during the...

Experiences during WW2 of Corporal Samuel Marks

We worked at Changi and also built a sea wall at Tangongrue, which disintegrated at the first neap tide,...

Walter McKinlay's War

Some of us were blown to mincemeat, to smithereens by the German guns. Because of the Geneva Convention we...

The Volunteer - Scottish Soldier

The recruiting office beckoned me; to there I made a dash, A kilted Sergeant sat in there, bedecked in his...

Five years with the 19th KGV Lancers

We were halfway across the Indian Ocean as part of the force to invade Malaya, when the bombs were dropped...

The Beginning 1939icon for Story with photo

My Dad, who served in the 1914/18 war in the Dorsetshire regiment became a Sergeant in the Home Guard...

Aberdonian dodges death in Italy and Germany

The Germans then loaded us 60 at a time into cattle trucks bound for Germany....

From Desert Days to the Green Green Grass of Home

Joan and Cyril Botterill celebrated in June their 64th wedding anniversary... Only an occasional meeting...

My 21st Birthday in the Front Line

So I celebrated my Birthday with cake and wine, in a slit trench, in the front line, even Jerry cooperated...

From Darjeeling to Downunder ( synopsis )

When Singapore surrendered all the British Officers of the Indian Army were separated from their men,and...

Officers' Training School In India And My First Appointment

On arrival at Officers’ Training School, Mhow, in Central India I was given a room along with a none...

Shelmerdine- Vignettes 2 -Ramsgate May 1940

The Cadet personnel were mobilised, loaded into an ancient civilian truck, and provided with a rifle and 20...

The Winnipeg Grenadiers to the Mainland

To cover their withdrawal Maltby ordered "D" Company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers to the mainland to...

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