´óÏó´«Ã½

African Sunset

We were in the second invasion of Algiers, 3am we got attacked by planes, The Windsor Castle ship used to...

The First of the Eighteens

I had to go on the train from my home town, Halesowen to Birmingham to pick up a connection to Church...

Moving Around - George Snell

Christmas 1944 we were in Nijmegen in Holland. We crossed over the Rhine at Arnhem and we were in Holland...

Capt Cecil D Pickersgill, architect and designer of the Changi Lychgates, Part 2: From Tanglin to Alrewas.

Capt Cecil D Pickersgill, architect and designer of the Changi Lychgates, Part 2: From Tanglin to Alrewas....

Yanks & Jerries

In North Africa, at the bottom of Wadi Acra, the detachment that I was with — a combined detachment...

Conscripted to France

Safe back in Dover and after reformation, I found I was doing radar courses in central London, Regent...

ATS coincidences

After a dreadful journey, and carrying such a lot of kit, plus two thick blankets, which were issued to us...

War Memories

I was working at the kennels in Kennilworth and from there joined the army. The night the Germans bombed...

This a summary of a recorded interview

We did not travel in a convoy, but we stayed close to the coast of Africa, because of the threat of U...

Edwin Longworth Part 4

Once there was a concert with Lauritz Melchior, Owen Brannigan and a lovely Danish soprano. Transcribed...

Knocking us into shape

"A squad of 12 men was paraded on the esplanade running along the sea front... The squad was at least...

Knocking us into shape

"A squad of 12 men was paraded on the esplanade running along the sea front... The squad was at least...

What I did in World War 2

The water in the Nissen hut was frozen solid and the field mice would creep in and try to get into our...

Tableau (Wrenbury Remembers P.40)

Thankyou

We left our guns in Sicily for another division to continue the struggle through Italy and I returned to...

The Memories of Sergeant Harry Fraiser.

After the war had finished Harry travelled towards a village on the Danish boarders, to get there they had...

Ready and Willing

We were however sent to Germany, where there were still pockets of Nazis causing trouble, but our main job...

From Hanley to Naples

Two of us went in the South Stafford's and one went in the Navy, we left George, who joined the navy,...

Sleep Johny Sleep at Cassino

I have just read the story written by Haydn Green, relating the experience at Monte Cassino, when he was...

The War 1939-1945

I looked up and there was a jeep above and sitting on the back seat was Richard Dimbleby describing the...

Escape from Singapore

I was living with my parents in Singapore when the Japanese invaded the island, my father being stationed...

Home World War2 experiences of a young soldier

I was a heliograph and flag lignalln and laying telephne cable from kloren back we had no reaction at that...

Screaming Stuka

The idea was to beat the Germans to the port of Tunis, but they made it first and we ran into them...

Making vehicle springs in the desert

The harvest of derelict vehicles had produced a quantity of particularly heavy duty spring steel of Italian...

Taken ill with Malaria

About a month later I suddenly collapsed with Maleria my 1st bout of 2, I suffered a BT and an MT, my...

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

Of course my brother was then working on the same airfield that we had to go on to; quite often he would...