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I arrived at Nottingham Station in the early hours of the morning and was fortunate to get a lift to...
My father was a medical orderly and after a year in Belgium under fire was finally in action on the Beaches...
A message flashed across the screen "would all territorial army personnel report for duty". My dad...
So we crawled through the wood to a hedge and then ran through an open space to some bushes about 20 yards...
My grandfather had served with the Middlesex Regiment in the First World War and was a member of the...
Crossing the Atlantic it sailed round the north of Scotland to anchor in the Methil Roads in the Firth of...
The company was sent to Bellahouston Park to erect fifty Nissen huts to provide the transit accommodation...
In the late summer of 1944 I was at an Infantry Training Centre in Maidstone, Kent... We landed up on the...
I had been corresponding with a French pen pal since i was at school to improve my French and Jean Fouquet...
At one stage guns from tanks opened fire, his car was wrecked, but they all got to the river without loss....
My father came from a family of 11 children from Bermondsey 6 boys 5 girls and my uncle john was the third...
Their part of the Italian campaign seemed to be going well so they felt that there was good reason to...
My Father-in-Law William Andrew Muckle was a member of The Royal Corps of Signals from 1939-1947 and was...
In 1943 I was an Army Clerk stationed at the South East Weapons Training School in Old Bunn Hill New...
Being in the 1st Fife & Forfar Yeomanry Tank Regiment our uniform was the same as everyone elses but...
My father, Edmund F. Scrivener served with 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, Air Landing Brigade, at...
As children my brother and I were brought up on the story of our Uncle Charlie's bravery. He was a...
I am aware that my father became close to a lady in BelgiumI believe. If I am unsuccessful in my serach...
Their military task was to defend a portion of the coastline which included the fairways and greens of the...
After the North African Campaign in the Western Desert was over, I went to Italy, where I was attached to a...
Thomas Beattie born in 1896 was a boy entry to the army and educated by them at Fort Rowner Gosport, and...
My uncle, from the Isle of Skye, told me this story about his experience at Dunkirk. In the dunes he prayed...
My 20th birthday party was held in a slit trench down in a gully where our mortars were positioned, almost...
In March 1945 we, the 1st Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment,had crossed the Irrawaddy and were pushing the...
An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with...
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