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54 days to get home

The captain naturally put the Indian soldiers on the upper decks, with the British troops on the lowest...

Under fire in Tebourba, Tunisia

The East Surreys had not had time to dig in and withdrew through the guns; the twenty-five pounders of...

Five years in Africa and Italy

Winston Churchills wife saved my life

This is a brief description of my fathers war: Green Howards posted with Desert Rats to North Africa and...

MONTY MEETS WEARSIDER

The citation reads as follows:- ROBINSON, RICHARD, Pte., M. M. 21st October 1943 6th Battalion The Durham...

The Hypnotist

Before I knew it I was told to get off the bed and realised it was me who was the hypnotised one...

Letter from the Front [Helen English]

Neither Heslop nor I had a pistol so I told him to run and get one quickly; he was away what seemed...

The last day of the War

The Stolen Sheep

I remember one such occasion: I received a telephone call informing me that I was required to defend two...

John Simm - from Miner to Soldier

As part of 140th Field Regiment I became an ammunition lorry driver with the 7th Armoured Brigade of the...

Cambridge and Bethnal Green Boy's Club, The club that produced heroes

I have already told the tale of Jack Nissenthal I would now like to tell the story of Donnie Carlton. D....

Reconnaissance Corps

I started off in Algiers, went to Tunisia, went down through the Sinai Desert to Palestine... We were sent...

Under Fire at Katha

On the 12th of March 1944 a group of Japanese fighters attacked the strip at Katha. The Japanese, suddenly...

Near the End

The Japs had abandoned the city, retreating north to Prome and the Sittang River. We only stayed a short...

War Memories

Enemy air craft were coming near Edinburgh, from Germany, trying to bomb the Forth Road Bridge. I was in a...

JOSEPH JOHN BANKS DCM (Burma)

5187360 Lance Corporal Joseph Banks 1st Bn The Royal Welch Fusiliers. During the attackof "A" Coy...

scotland 980 iwt

They put me on a battery in Lyme Regis, in the company office, not on the guns I had been trained for....

Esprit de corps

Whilst in action in North Italy, we were laying a road on the river bed between two wooded hills, with the...

Morton — At War

Eventually when the regular army moved off in search of these resistance fighters us kids were kept in the...

Training and preparing for a foreign "draft"

At the end of the course we had a written exam about anti gas procedures. I was promoted to full sergeant,...

1944 ? So long ago I can hardly remember.

Whilst in Holland, somewhere near Eindhoven, being in Air Formation Signals, two of us had to drive out to...

My experiences abroad during the war

We started off 4 days in Capetown, then Tahae Egypt, we were stationed there behind Alamein after that we...

Brother lost

Catania Cemetry contains burials from the later stages of Lentini northwards... We have a copy of the plots...

We Gave Our Today

I was a member of the Prince of Wales's volunteers, but when the Prince of Wales abdicated we changed...

Knocked off Tracks

I was the loader and I was lucky because the side door wasn't blocked and I could open it... All 6...

Pembroke Dock 1944 The Marine Craft Section goes to Church Service - Almost!

Warrant Officer Harris was taking the parade, and had just received last minute orders that the M.C.S. must...