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A dark encounter in Northumberland

On one side was a warehouse, on the second side was the Salvation Army citadel. During the night the army...

I Drove Churchill's Decoy

It turned out myself and a colleague were being used as decoys, making the enemy think it was Churchill in...

William George Lofts' War

I was posted to India in 1941; then on to Arakan region of Burma. Whilst I was in Burma I recall a...

Ice Skating on Parade

I found the training fairly easy because I had been in the School OTC, the Home Guard and the Army Cadet...

Your story

Someone shouted, "All out". This huge station was so busy with army people. Getting of the train at...

War Years and After

My first action was in the fighting on the Hells Highway on the approach to Arnhem, after then in late 44,...

A Difficult Trek

Then came the Naga country people — they were very friendly, the women kept well out of sight, and...

A 'Stay of execution'

I have submitted a number of stories my self, and have appreciated the advice and criticisms from people...

Enlisting

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

Aboard the Orion

I plumped for that, had my medical, got my passport and was told to report to Canterbury, when I received...

Life in the Heavy Artillery

In 1942 went to London as a relief battery moving all round London as Doodlebugs and various types of...

Spending a well-earned penny

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Friends together A real rough diamond Labelled Love...

Ice-Creams & Atom Bombs

I was stationed in Thirsk, North Yorkshire in August 1945 when the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...

Serving in the Royal Tank Corps

Anyone for Blood?

Eventually a bumper amount of blood was given and it didn't hurt at all, unlike the vaccinations,...

Friend or Foe?

Following a Luftwaffe Raid on targets near York in 1943, two Heinkel bombers were shot down and their Air...

Donald's War

Then at Imphal Donald was wounded in the thigh by shrapnel and flown out to India for surgery. From there...

Sai Wan Bay Memorial Cemetery

Ronald Parker, 2001 There is a memorial erected on the island of Hong Kong, at Sai Wan Bay Cemetery... Just...

The War In Europe is Over

In the Summer of 1945 we were still fighting the Japanese Army in Burma we were preparing to go &...

Rfm. Beebe, Royal Rifles of Canada, December 20...

Earlier, the Japanese Imperial Headquarters claimed that Japanese troops had landed at three points and had...

My army life

The army dentist had once removed my front tooth, so I had a false tooth on a pallet put in. When I...

A1284211 - hungry soldier in the wood

This is a little story told me by my grandfather that fought during WW2 as private in "Regio...

Oldenzaal

I was given orders to take a truck back through Germany and into Holland to collect three new motorcycles...

Wallace Ivor Jones 's War

After I came out I was sent to Belgium with the British Liberation Army. I am now a standard bearer for the...

I will lift up mine eyes

Then he served overseas in northern Egypt, on an ambulance train in Sudan and, during the last three years...

A list of our dress and equipment

Jungle hat, jungle green battle dress, Thompson machine gun, I was a sergeant so I had a TSMG - Thompson...