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Thomas Emyr Davies - Memories of Service in WW2 (North Africa, Sicily and Arnhem)

Thomas Emyr Davies - Memories of Service in WW2. My husband, Thomas Emyr Davies, came from Neath in South...

Mosquito discipline

Each cot had its own mosquito net and part of standard orders was that the net was to be properly tucked in...

The Last Straw

I have never had a thing off a N.A.A.F.I. van yet in Germany. After initial training he was sent to North...

Training

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Ronald Parker and Father Major Maurice Albert...

Entertainment for the wounded

The following is a letter sent to my unclet and my mother plus friends in thanks for entertaining some...

Making lifelong friends in Greece during the war

After peace was restored in Greece a local family invited Frederick and a friend to their home for a...

Reasons to take German classes!

My mother wouldn't let me go by the Liverpool boat, because during the Great War a couple of them were...

Dale Carnegie鈥檚 鈥淧ursuit of Happiness鈥�, courtesy of Stalag XVIII

I see that at the end of July 鈥�44 I was again being called upon to act as interpreter for Lt....

Meeting the Enemy in Italy and on the River Maas

One day, whilst on the River Maas he was in the blockhouse with several other soldiers when a German shell...

Wartime in Italy stories - Isola and Luigi's story

Luigi came from the next village to ours and was in the Kings Army... Luigi walked all the way from Genoa...

Stapley and the American Transit Camp

The lorry stopped and Romel spoke to the driver... The driver said he could give Romel a lift but that he...

The Lake Superior Regiment

The Germans promptly attacked -- no German tanks, but lots of infantry, and the British were taking...

Making lifelong friends in Greece during the war

After peace was restored in Greece a local family invited Frederick and a friend to their home for a...

Building a hospital at Buseli

He told the officer that if he didn't drop this ridiculous charge, he would report to the Chief Medical...

Billy Dalton's leg

We crossed the chaung and I had no platoon officer, so I was acting as platoon officer with Sergeant...

The Jungle Bath Unit

For seven weeks in May and June 1944, the 7th Worcestershire Regiment helped to defeat the Japanese at...

MEMORY OF T.G. BAKER (Late Lieutenant, Royal Corps of Signals

This searchlight was one of many extending in a straight line from Oxford northwards to well beyond Rugby....

Cobbler at War

In Gib there were several of us cobblers workingin a large old wine cellar and we repaired hundreds of...

William Edmed - A Driver's War of Waiting

We set sail and ended up landing at Sword Beach after a short stay outside Sheerness. In France we soon...

The Middle East

As I was member of the ATC I didn't have any trouble getting into the RAF, my preferred branch of the...

Repairing tank engines

In early 1941, the 7th Armoured Division, now renamed the Desert Rats, had returned to the Delta after...

dispatch rider,s training for the ats

dispatch rider,s training for the ats...

Memoirs of an Exinfantry Man, chapter 1

Lil, my wife, got the letter and the cards the next day, so they must have been sorted on the station and...

Clearing up after WW2

The rejoicing was soon cut short when I found myself posted to No. 86 Graves Concentration Unit, R.A.S.C....

Desert-Rat 1st R.T.R

This story concerns an episode in Jack's war in France after the "Breakout from Normandy" at...

Read鈥檚 reminiscences

Walter, joined the Territorial Army at 15 陆 (1937), in his home town of Cambridge. Les has been a...