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My dad, Humphrey Corten

This is just a short story about my dad, Lance Corporal Humphrey Corten, Royal Engineers. He passed away in...

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My Great Grand-Fathers Wound

It was during his service in North Africa that John was seriously injured in the right arm where a bullet...

VE Day - one of the least memorable days of my four years in the Army

I was serving with the 1st Battalian Kings Own Scottish Borders, 9th Brigade, 3rd British Infantry Division...

Return to Alexandria

We arrived and there was a man standing directing the traffic on the desert tracks and funnily enough it...

Boy Soldiers

The others being my Father, three Uncles,and a cousin served in the Q.O. Cameron Highlanders commencing as...

Looking for Uncle Christopher Denis Hemmings.

Football

The Camber road from Rye was out of bounds and controlled by Military Police. Because my father always...

LANSDOWNE, SUMMER 1946

Straw Huts in Kumaon and Albert's There Again. It's sticky here, but Captain Gallup and I swing...

A Fateful Encounter

On arrival, we were unloaded from the ship on stretchers by Prisoners of War; coming out of the darker...

WAR TIME CAPTURE

I was in a group of men who were in a jeep and I had a red cross arm band on my...

My Grandad in the war

My name is Ashleigh Grigg from Marden High School and I am entering this story on behalf of my grandad John...

Memoirs of an Army Nurse: from Bristol to Venice, part two

MY FATHER GOT THE DCM FOR BRAVERY IN THE FIELD

He had been taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans... He surrendered himself to the Germans and was put...

Giving Tea to the Soldiers Returning from Dunkirk

On my twelfth birthday, 27th May 1940, I was down at Folkestone harbour watching the boat trains... I went...

VJ Day at Haverford West - August 1945

At this time I was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers working in the RTO at Haverford West Pembrokeshire. My...

The Good People of Darvel & Newmilns

I was billeted between Darvel and Newmilns with the Royal Engineers — we were the first soldiers to...

Indonesians Independence

The British troops had to go out to Malaya after the war and try to halt the uprising by the Chinese...

Captured, Tortured and beaten!

I am writing this story on behalf of my Great Grandfather, James Baird. In December 1942, my great...

Volunteers for Machine Gunners, 3 inch Mortars and Radio Operators

I had 2 mates, Billy Green and Smudger Smith and we all got together and fancied volunteering. But Smudger...

Unofficial day off please Serg

Some of the blokes would say can i get away and see me new baby Serg , or can i get away...

Riots in India

Mountbatten took over as commander of India, and in Delhi, we had to keep the riots down... I liked being...

More Memories of Burma

Alex Garden was a Tank Driver with the 116th Regiment — The Royal Armoured Corps which was a Gordon...

Journey to Egypt: Aden

At Aden, our next port of call, we paid but a short visit....

The Uniforms Must Fit

The troopship Almanzora made its stately way from Liverpool towards Bombay with three thousand men abroad....

V E DAY memories of Herbert Thompson (4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment)

My camp was hit by RAF bombers and 304 British prisoners were killed. At Dresden we had to work in another...