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Do you remember my grandad?

The Japanise army were reeling in dissarray after the battles at "KOHIMA" and "IMPHAL"...

Lucky escapes

I was sent to Haernhem to join the Special Weasel Transport Platoon attatched to the 70th Brigade Workshops...

‘Trench Mouth’ - Vincennes disease

Trench Mouth’ - Vincennes disease. Although not a war wound, Bob had developed Vincennes disease, a...

Medical Orderly

Sapper Dave Barwell from Edlington, a miner by trade, was released from the army to return to work in the...

Enlisting in the 8th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

When I reported to the military in Darlington I was told to report to a school in the West End of...

The Most Feared Regiment in the British Army

My father James Black worked as a clerk at English Steel in Sheffield but during the war he was conscripted...

Jim's war story number 2

They were kitted up with army camp beds and were used to transport the wounded and sick down to Brussels. I...

A Nighmare to be Forgotten

I served approximately three months in South Africa at Clairwood transit camp in Durban, eventually going...

IF YOU NEED A MISTRESS RING THE BELL

We were billeted in the local Primary School, which was about 300 yards from the beach, and no doubt our...

From Middlesex to Madras with radar & radio.

From Middlesex to Madras with radar & radio. I spent my demob grant on retraining as a radio officer in...

The Most Feared Regiment in the British Army

My father James Black worked as a clerk at English Steel in Sheffield but during the war he was conscripted...

Cup of tea on a hot day

According to my mother, their fluid intake was limited to one cup of tea in the morning and one cup of tea...

Green Ink

In my last year of army service, as a Personnel Selection Sgt, I recall being able to buy a fountain pen......

HOME GUARD 1940

I WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 4TH 1938 AND MY FIRST MEMORY IS OF STANDING WITH MY BROTHER PAUL, I WAS LESS THAN...

Hitting the Deck

I was in the Fifth Battalion of the Royal East Kents. I was then sent to North Africa via Liverpool as part...

Life in the Bag

The deputy commandant, who prided himself on using his English to needle British offices, came by and...

Home Guard - a handbook for the L.D.V

'HOME GUARD - A handbook for the L.D.V By John Brophy — Parachute troops, Anti-tank Warfare,...

Valentine's War

A story "Working at Hawker" was also added on behalf of Peter's wife, Mrs Joan Valentine. The...

The Woody Woodpecker song

Each morning we walked back along the track to our billets to the tune of the woody woodpecker song, the...

The Officers

The Commanding Officer of the Regiment was Lt. Colonel William James Home, M.C., E.D. a veteran of WWl who...

My Tragic Journey

I was stationed in Brussels and asked to accompany L/Cpl Wilson on special detail together with a French...

Friend killed alongside me by enemy fire

Anyway we got pushed back and back, and on the way back to El Alamein where we held the line eventually,...

On Top of a Tank & In a Forward Position

I was in North Africa with the Royal Irish Fusiliers — the company was under attack... I was then...

Luckily, a Chinese Welcome instead of a Japanese one

There were lots of Japanese dugouts that were all empty except for a lot of Chinese people looking for...

Army Service, here and there

Because of the knowledge I had acquired from the short course, I was posted to Army Headquarters in...

UNCLE HARRY,S DIARIES

UNCLE HARRY WAS MY WIFES UNCLE THE DIARIES CAME TO US WHEN HE PASSED AWAY SOME YEARS AGO.THEIR ARE HIS...