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The Tunnels battle

I was in charge of a guerrilla platoon, and it was decided that the 2 tunnels which connected the road...

The Service of Five Brothers From Allithwaite

Fred and Mary Booker of Yew Tree Cottages, Allithwaite, now in Cumbria, but in the war still part of...

Hockers Folley

The only think Clark witnessed was the stall and the market trader being knocked over the stall as they...

A "Friendly Fire" Incident In The Withdrawal From Tiddim To Imphal

The first explosions were probably caused by ‘jacky jumpers’ and it emerged that no Japanese...

The War Diary Of Will S. Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF: January 20, 1943

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Will Seaton Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF and John S....

Len's war

I was first sent to fight in France in 1940 and during the war I went to Belgium, Holland and Germany as...

Waiting for the BOAT

In summer with sunshine of you are lucky Morecambe can be quite nice, Just befire Christmas in deary...

To Africa and back through Italy with the Paras

I was eight weeks on the ship when the convoy in which we were travelling split half the convoy went to...

Provost of Greenock Address

Our thoughts go first to the young men of Greenock who have so worthily upheld the good name of our town in...

The Japanese Continue to Advance...

Pushing quickly westward from the beachhead, along the North shore of the island, the Japanese 230th and...

My Father's War

He and his friend ‘Benjie’ Penberthy had been due to join a private yacht in Plymouth as crew...

The First of June

Tracers streaked overhead I looked around,so many dead A whistling mortar changed to a shriek A piece of...

Prisoner of war

During the war my family moved to Great Wakering but my mother died and my wife moved to Wakering to take...

Some Friendly Help With A Test For An Army Commision

I was sent to an army camp at Wrotham in Kent to be tested as a candidate for a commission. I had...

The Mademoiselle

Midnight approached, and as I escorted Nicole to the café adjacent to the village hall, and which was...

The Battles No One Mentions: Norway 1940

Well later I did march behind them on to the train and a sargent did collect the papers and early next...

Seaforth Highlander - wounded 3 times

I met Jack before the war began, he lived in Willington and I lived in Crook, and we were due to get...

My Life in HM Forces

We then returned to Base workshops at Bone on the North African coast, while I was sent out on detachment...

David Mowbray from Derry joins Parachute regiment

My father was already in the Army, my brother was in the Marines....

Four Men of Ilkeston

He took part in the Madagascar Landing, moved to Egypt, the Western Desert, Sicily and Italy. When I was...

6th LAA Battery - Coleraine

Robert McDonald, Robin Martin and Norman Irwin all lived in Coleraine, though they only knew each other by...

Thanks to a Kilt

My father, Major Fergus Cashin, was in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders during the 2nd World War. My...

War Service

So that meant we had to shut a shop in Cathcart St. After a while another brother got called up and he...

Experience in Italy, North Africa and Palestine

Mrs. Frassi and their two children Elena who was 10 and Piero who was 9. Mr. & Mrs. Frassi made the...

Dads’ Army’s Minders!

We all had to sign the Official Secrets Act and were issued with maps, a lot of information which would...

A Testament to Courage

In October of 1941, the Royal Rifles of Canada said their good-byes to loved ones and friends on the...