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Stan Martin's WW2 story

We were all in the water now but hanging on to what was left of the boat, and being swept along by...

Memories of WW2

All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...

The Forgotten Fleet

Eight of the fastest launches in the Water Transport Companies-- the 45ft Range Launches, GROUSE, KESTREL,...

James M Spence, Autobiography 1939-1940

By now, a 25 pounder battery of ours came into action directly in front of our OP and for hours played...

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A Soldiers Tale: A Gunner in the Middle East

Then the convoy gradually climbed upwards through rockier terrain, that took over from the sandy desert,...

Part 5 Defaulted Againicon for Story with photo

It was near to first light; the officer looked at the snow-covered sentry and gave him a bit of an...

SNAPSHOTS OF MY PAST - R D Stubbs

Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...

Remembering the 40s - before and during the waricon for Story with photo

Land-mine descends on parachute, settles on a hedge in the village, fails to explode, Royal Navy Bomb...

Count Your Blessings

Of course every thing that could be useful to the Germans had to be rendered useless which meant...

James McQuarrie and The King's Own Scottish Borderers

We were now told that the Division was being evacuated and the Battalion had been given the honour of...

5 Years a Prisoner of War

While we were resting one day, one of our lads ran out into a building, just off the road, about one...

Tommy's War Part 7: The Battle For Sidi Barrani

My Battle With World War 2

The job was loading tinned jam and meat onto the train for the Germans fighting at the Russian front. For...

My Dad's Story

On the 23rd March – Les's 22nd birthday, they reached Nattalin where a rice mill had been...

The Day I Joined the Army, 1939

Well, after a lot of talking our officers made the Germans go to the steel doors. Our Captain Harrison was...

XVII Roll of Honour

Son of R.Q.M.S. F. R. Cox, Royal Armoured Corps, and Sarah Cox, of Catterick Camp, Yorkshire. Son of George...

Snapshots Of My Past

Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...

Part 10 Goodbye to Cape Townicon for Story with photo

Egypt eventually appeared, at least it was solid land, but now flies added to the discomfort of the daytime...

Piddington Transit Camp 42icon for Story with photo

The ship's movement lifted the deck below their feet even higher, then with that roller coaster delay...

Piddington Transit Camp 42icon for Story with photo

The ship's movement lifted the deck below their feet even higher, then with that roller coaster delay...

Transcript from the War Diary of Driver A. Surry 2115302

Just my armoured truck and 6 sappers attacked a copse infantry fashion and out came 40 Jerries with small...

Soldier's Tale of Wartime Marriage and Defending a Gunsite in Epernay

The RAF officer had arrived to act as our escort for our convoy to lead us to the future gunsite at Plivot....

From Hendon to Hiroshima

Far more Japanese were killed in the bombing raids of Colonel Curtis Le May, Commander of the American...

His Story The War Years of Frank L Scott

These have included frequent employment in a medium artillery role, action in an anti-tank screen, and the...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 13

These are for all Allied Prisoners and the Germans had nothing to do with them except for the guarding of...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 2icon for Story with photo

The Adjutant was Captain C.Stoker Sheriff, the senior Field Engineer was Lieutenant Tony Vinycomb, a...

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