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BAD SPELLING

Eventually they got to the age of 20 to about 40 years old - civilian men that hadn't been in the army....

Landing Sherman Tanks in the Arakan

He and his Corps were sent to the Arakan to build bamboo bridges over seven valleys so that the U.S could...

CALLED TO THE COLOURS

Many of the items only aspire to the condition of poetry, and some are trivial, but I hope they justify...

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

We, the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were on the front line all the time of the battle but we had two...

Partying in Palestine, 1943

2 Mobile Anti-Gas Laboratory, Royal Engineers, Locations: Palestine, Title: "Palestine 1943" He was...

Memories of VE Day in Burma

From information obtained from the local Burmese the company of the battalion were ambushing an area which...

MY FATHER IN LAW IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

I AM PATRICK MC COLE NOW LIVING IN LIVERPOOL EX MERSEYSIDE POLICE OFFICER.I MARRIED PAMELA KING IN 1973 IN...

"D" Company, Royal Rifles of Canada Defense Deployment

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Ronald Parker and Father Major Maurice Albert...

'By The Left And Off You Go'

We marched through Bury in Lancashire. 'You have to go, that's that' Fully Fashioned Just...

India: the Old and the New

I was sent to India in 1945 with the First Wilts Regiment. My first experience was being burnt while on...

My Overseas Posting

On one leave I went to Jerusalem while I was there I walked along the Jerico Road to Bethany and on a...

British Expeditionary Force

I complained to the Sergeant Major and asked politely if the rota could be changed to begin with W and...

Memorable Morning

I had walked the thgree miles from the farm whrer I was a Land Girl, to the town... There was a continuous...

My father's experiences in Royal Artillery at the end of the War

But when the regiment arrived in Singapore, Singapore had just surrendered to the Japanese - so they were...

Beds and Herts to Seaforth Highlanders

In the first picture he was in the Beds and Herts and in the Second he was Major H.L.Harvey MC TD, 51st...

Messenger pigeons in the war

He was sent to Cairo and to Bagdad where messages were sent by pigeon to the Russian convoys... His...

Lost trousers

Marise Relf's boyfriend was called up and went to do his initial training at Saighton Camp –...

Hungry soldier tastes first peach!

So I've come from London to Normandy to Antwerp, and now to Germany. I can't remember the name of...

'Kitted out for civilian life'

All supplied by a depot - we were to be ‘kitted out for civilian life’ and that's what...

Lost Trousers

He was very worried because his trousers disappeared so he reported this to an officer. He told the officer...

My army career

One of my jobs was to drive a lorry carrying armoury from England over to France... I use it as a reminder...

Luxury Beds

When we'd been in Burma for a while, we worked out how to improve our beds - we used lengths of bamboo,...

Luneberg at the end of the War

After that I was sent to Germany and stationed in magnificent German barracks. After the war had ended the...

Another encounter at Waterloo

We were sitting on a bridge over the river monitoring the telephone traffic and as all was going well I...

Saving A Life Twice

Alexander Scott saved the life of a man named Albert Phillips twice during World War II... These memories...

Forgotten

There were approximately 13,000 troops that took on the Japanese army, and around the beginning of March we...