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Tommy's War by Tom Barker

鈥淗ell鈥 Alamein

We didn't know what to make of it --- two or three nights ago, one of our patrols was meant to have...

Robert Hill's War

Our advance party to be the D. C. R. E. Major Tolhurst, the Garrison Engineer, Captain Wood, Warrant...

Tommy's War Part 10

P.O.W.Tottie Howkers

For a second or two all was still then the German Officer who had shot the big bloke started blowing a...

The Front Line

On the morning of February the eighth the Squadron Sergeant Moodier had us on parade to tell us that later...

Tommy's War Part 9

Raw Recruit to Red Beret

The containers were designed to carry weapons and ammunition, these being carried with parachute attached...

Part 6 change for Cardifficon for Story with photo

All doubts about who they were disappeared as they moved towards door but before they could reach it, the...

Memories of World War II: Royal Army Service Corps

I was to travel on a flat-bottomed landing craft and had to supervise the loading of vehicles of all kinds,...

'Journey of the Globetrotters' by Dennis March

The Officer was Major Lowe, a daredevil type of man and Sergeant King, the most notorious N.C.O. in the...

Alf's War in the Army

Again it was three Barnsley lads Wall, Wilson and Wood, the other five were from Liverpool; I only remember...

Memoirs of a British Soldier: 4th County of London Yeomanry and 1st Royal Tank Regiment

The tank I join was a Cromwell designated 5 Able that is to say 鈥淎ble tank in 5 Troop,...

Evacuee to Front Line Soldier,My Teenage Years

My orders were to pick up the platoon Officer and Sgt, with their wireless operator, and take them out,...

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Singapore to Japan

During our first few weeks as P.O.W. the food supplied by the Japanese was mainly rice and we had boiled...

Tommy's War Part 8: Sniper on Crete

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