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A lovely cup of tea!

They had made extra kitchens up on the front and back decks of the ship and all the tea was made with...

The Siege of Malta

During the siege of Malta in 1940 to 44 I was serving in the Royal Artilery, anti aircraft Bofors gunnery,...

Alma Kent prisoner of the Japanese in Burma

Several women were raped and when they had their babies the Japanese guards ripped them from their stomachs...

Springboks

The Commonwealth has conveniently forgotten that South Africa was a British Dominion until 1961, and that...

My fathers' war - A brief story

In May 1945 he was involved in escorting the German surrender team which included General Admiral Von...

My Uncle Harry

My Mother told me of this story of my uncle Harrys exploits during WW2... Well off they all went and for...

A narrow escape

I was in the army, the KSLI- King's Shropshire Light Infantry... When we were in Germany, in a forest,...

Seventeen, and in the Royal Engineers

And after two and a half years, when I came back, it was actually a bit of a laugh, because my uncle,...

Always eat your dinner!

This is a story my grandad used to tell me and my sister at dinner times to make sure we didn't leave...

A Letter from My Father

Next time you have a cup of tea think of me,鈥� he said, 鈥淏ecause tea grows in Assam! He went on...

Mike Coyle - Milton at War

The Sgt. Major now thought he was getting somewhere so he bawled out again, 鈥楥ome aht here...

Mine Explosion in Florence

I served in the Second World War in Africa, Italy and Germany with the Grenadier Guards... I was fortunate...

george davies of llanelli "military medal"

DURING THE RECENT OPERATIONS IN ITALY PTE DAVIES HAS SET AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE 0F COURAGE AND...

Scottish POW Death March to Poland

I was a private in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, stormed the beaches on 10th July, 1940, at St...

Scottish wartime admin

There was one occasion when I went to Crieff for a dance... The following day the Sgt said, "I saw you...

GERMANS KILLED THEIR OWN WOUNDED

My Nanas Brother was living in Yorkshire at the beginning of the War and he became a Medical Officer out in...

A sorry story says alot about the man

Apparently his wife died from a hand infection from a insect bite in their garden , she died over a period...

Nearly Human Target Practice

My friend Florrie suggested that we should go out for a swim in the sea and so we went down to the...

A Voice From The Past

Whilst there he stayed a night with a family who had a 16 year old girl who spoke and wrote English very...

Bernard Oldfield

Bernard volunteered to join the Sherwood Foresters at Lincoln in April 1942 and soon found himself on coast...

Tom Bishop: A Sinai Journey

Army Life

I was twenty when I joined the Army as a member of the Royal Army Ordinance Corps. During my four years I...

Son of a Soldier

I did my training at Chester for three months, training on anti aircraft guns. I was transferred to...

VE Day in Burma

As a member of the 14th Army in Burma I was amongst an assortment of vehicles on the banks of the River...

Into Germany.

The last day of the war we were up the River Elbe, we'd already crossed the Rhine and we'd been on...

Brigadier's talk too much for Jock

The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme The war was over...