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Washing in the desert

The Company made water filters from empty petrol can... The water was then relegated to a vehicle radiator...

I never saw a road; nor anything that looked like one!

They used bullock-carts, and of course mules. Airfields were often very bogged down because of the mud, so...

The GI's Need Melons!

In December we sailed from Liverpool to Oran in North Africa in a converted mail boat, which had previously...

Guns and guard duty in the Home Guard

He was a member of the North Staffs regiment and was stationed at Uttoxeter... The joke was that you would...

Kettering LDV

We had to stop all vehicles after dusk, and check both identity papers and contents of the vehicle. We also...

Jungle accident

While going over a narrow wooden bridge the African driver went too near the edge and the tanker overturned...

Home and abroad

I joined E Coy Essex & Suffolk Area ATS at Bury St Edmunds Gibraltar Barracks on 08 08 1939... In the...

Under Attack ...

Even under heavy artillery bombardment from the British 6" and 9.2" guns of the 8th Coastal...

Limavady Man in Egypt, Underage

The first nine-to-ten months and then eventually Italy came into the war and that heated things up for us...

World War II

A part of my life I would not have missed out for all the world and made so many friends, you had...

a queens lancashire regiments sergeant majors stories to his son from italy and beyond

a queens lancashire regiments sergeant majors stories to his son from italy and beyond hi and thanks to all...

World War II

A part of my life I would not have missed out for all the world and made so many friends, you had...

The Gunners

Pull through the Lewis gun, six men and sergeant clamber over windowsill and set up gun to face roadway....

Quiet words, strong spirit: ATS volunteer Egypt

I joined the Royal Corp of Signals, being a sergeant supervisor of Army Telephone Exchanges... I was...

'A Conscript's Story'.

We crossed the Chingwin River on the Pontoon Bridge and on to Mandalay. Most of the river beds were dried...

Warime Wanderers

For the next six years, as gunners in the 53rd Field Regiment of the Bolton Artillery, they face some of...

Boots

My boots were under the Charpoy. I put my foot in the left boot this was O.K. I then put my foot...

Taken Prisoner

I rolled down a hill and when I landed at the bottom a German with a machine gun was covering me. They...

Convoy Driving At Night

I had the unenviable job of driving the 13th truck and having the Artificer Sergeant Major with me riding...

World War II

A part of my life I would not have missed out for all the world and made so many friends, you had...

Around the world in a war

From Scotland we moved overseas on a liner called ‘The California’, we thought we were going to...

India's independance

In 1945 I was shipped to India to join my unit, who were being re enforced after great losses in Burma,...

Can you help

This was I understand merged into the 2nd Battalion Middlesex 3 weeks before outbreak of WW2. Moved to...

PENNYPOT LANE CAMP

British Army were just civillians in uniform and all men employed on desk jobs should be given some heavy...

V E Day Memories of Christopher N. Hobson (then Lieutenant CN Hobson, Durham Light Infantry)

I was serving in Home Forces as a Training Officer at Brancepath Castle, County Durham, having been posted...

Officer Training at Shrivenham

I spent the idyllic Spring and Summer of 1942 as a Cadet at the Royal Artillery Officer Training Unit at...