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One Man's War.

Our first port of call turned out to be Cape Town, then on to Delhi, then Egypt and finally the Desert in...

Called up and sad farewells

Eventually we did move...in requisitioned furniture vans and lorries with slogans like “Nextstop...

A Lucky Escape

As a very small child I am sure that I remember my Godmother, Marjory Roberts, holding me in her arms so...

I could have cried

In fact as a sergeant in the Royal Engineers I was supervising a platoon of sappers repairing a road...

An Uncomfortable Journey To Reach The Army In India

It took a lot of persuasion to be allowed to collect just my own meal until we had passed through the Bay...

One Man's War.

Our first port of call turned out to be Cape Town, then on to Delhi, then Egypt and finally the Desert in...

A Brief Historical Background

The English discovered that paying for china from China with cheap opium from India was much more...

Letter from Nachod

About five minutes later the town started All the czechs were on the main street, they were carrying their...

V E Day Memories of Bill Guest

At the start of the El Alamein campaign I was on night duty and remember looking at the stars and thinking...

Vic Stevens, 'on the march and the end of the war'

At about 10.30 we'd set off again and joined up with our column when Germans surrounded us, the whole...

Angry Colonel

My grandmother's cousin, Wilfred Shewell-Cooper was a well known gardening authority and had an...

It doesn’t finish like that when I say it’s a small world…

My other brother was a royal engineer attached to the Indian Army, and he went down to Rangoon to see my...

Dr Flying Officer Clark I Presume?

Having posted my sentries and whilst I was checking my maps, one of my sergeants came to me and said that...

Whaleboats.

We were issued with binoculars, compasses, and Thompson sub-machine guns. There were not enough of these to...

Seventh King’s: Liverpool

It was the Seventh King's Liverpool. At first, two years in England stationed in the south, Sussex, and...

Trying to help a dying friend.

The remains of John' regiment were on the beach at Dunkirk and they had been getting shelled and bombed...

An Englishman in India

After serving for eighteen months in the Coldstream Guard as an enlisted man, young Tom Cross, a greater...

Thomas' Army Life

We pressed on to Brussels we were held up by Jerry, and then we saw the airborne lads landing airmen in the...

'From Blitz to Burma'

As we moved out of there, there was an Indian fellow with a big bulldozer, with a great big blade on the...

Japanese Instrument of Surrender - Rangoon 1945

On the 18th September 1945 Sergeant Alfred Bates, of the Indian Army Corps of Clerks, who was based in...

Attacked on the German Border, 18 October 1944

RA who went to Normandy just after D-Day and made our way through France, Belgium and Hollan where we took...

Picked Up

We'd had instructions to do this before we left the ship because the Germans would have used those for...

The 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings Fri 4th Jun to Mon 7th Jun 2004 - Part 3

Madame presented me with a small book giving the history of the Manoir Saint Pierre and would take no money...

Snakes Alive !

Uncle Harry, wearing his Chindit hat, buttoned up on one side and strapped under his chin, looked up and...

Events of 18th October 1944

RA who went to Normandy just after D-Day and made our way through France, Belgium and Hollan where we took...

Repatriation in 1942

We went by sea to Cape Town, South Africa, stopping in Durban and Port Elizabeth on the way. There was a...