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Ken West鈥檚 VE Day

After a most miserable journey we arrived at Victoria Station where normally every pass and paybook was...

Never too late

For 52 days Sergant J. Ivill, of Tyldesley Road, Atherton and Driver G.R Cant both of whom were recommended...

Home Guard Days

I worked in the steel works in Sheffield... We also threw thunder flashes at a group of soldiers, which in...

Ensa

Many had been prisoners of war and of course quite a few of the children were half Japanese, the results,...

Meeting Lord Louis Mountbatten

Mr Boyd joined the Royal Artillery in 1942, and served in SE Asia against the Japanese. The Gurkhas and the...

Back late from leave

After Dunkirk the country was expecting a German invasion, and a lot of time was spent building anti-tank...

Saved by my mule

One day when the Japanese were mortaring us very hard after we'd crossed the River Irrawaddy, I heard a...

Italian Volcanoes

When we finally went to Italy we landed in Naples. There was a courtyard where we were and in the air over...

Tom Birds

However, misfortune was not all bad news: when he was granted agricultural leave to help out on his sick...

Driving in the A.T.S.

My mother,and her great friend Hag, were drivers in the A.T.S. and first met at Chelsea Barracks around...

Back late from leave

After Dunkirk the country was expecting a German invasion, and a lot of time was spent building anti-tank...

Ronald Cavendish

Next morning, 6th April, Ronald Cavendish accompanied his unwitting captors onto the village square, he...

Never on a Sunday

An officer and I manned our observation post which was actually situated amonst the infantry dug outs...

My Army Service

Having spent 6 months there 鈥� and where incidentally I met my wife Margaret, being at War Office...

MONSOON RAIN

It was mid-May 1944 when the monsoon rain started and the whole of 2nd Division which had been reinforced...

A real rough diamond

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together Labelled...

My Journey Through the War

Our forces fought along the north coast of Africa until the Germans were defeated. Our next move was back...

Gibraltar 1940

This month I have seen so far 鈥淕ood Girls Go To Paris鈥�, 鈥淭he Saint in London鈥�, and...

Search For Water

Five of us, Myself, Cprl Roberts, a Gurkha guide and two others were sent to find water, we were gone for...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 20

My Grandfather in the Far East

Photo 24 Monuments in Hiroshima to war dead. Photo 25 Smudger Smith and my Grandfather in Kuri Barracks...

Having a wash in Normandy and VE Day

Petrol used to come in square tins and we used to cut them in half, one was filled with sand the other...

With the Indian 3rd Cavalry

In 1937 I joined the regular army and in 1938 I joined the Indian Third Cavalry Regiment and became...

Bennett Dawson

They embarked for India in April 1942 and Corporal Dawson was with, by then, Brigadier Cavendish in Burma...

France and the far east

We were sent to France and landed somewhere on a beach, it was awful the Germans were taking pot shots at...

Harry Berry鈥檚 Far East PoW Diaries found and published

After a long, tortuous journey via Manilla, Pearl Harbour, San Francisco, Chicago and Halifax, he came back...