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Drink - anyone

My father, John William Griffin, was in the 8th Army during the 2nd World War... On being out and about for...

Colonel Peerymans rifles

My uncle Raymond enlisted into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1938 stating that he was 19 years old when in...

Army: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - 8th, 9th and 10th Battalions

The 10th battalion was raised in 1940 and was part of the Orkney and Shetland Defence Force before moving...

REGIMENTAL AID POST

I was stationed in a place called Venray where I was a Medical Sergeant responsible for the troops of the...

My Dad’s Story

My dad, Alfred Pembleton, was the son of Thomas and Sarah Pembleton. He was married to my mother Hilda May...

Army Service

I volunteered for the Army before I was 18 and in 1944 was passed to Marylies Barracks, Glasgow for...

VE Day in Greece

The locals bought us supplies and we had cherry brandy and Greek wine. We soon went back to normal duties...

Tank Driver

I was a tank driver and I went to Egypt - from there went up to the western desert, all the way...

Visit to Red Cross HQ

During the 1960’s, when the children had flown the nest, I became heavily involved with my local...

Thomas (Tiger) Harrison's War

I was 19 when the war started and working at Butterworth Dickinson in Burnley. I recall being sent to...

Red Cross in Geneva

During the 1960’s, when the children had flown the nest, I became heavily involved with my local...

Women On The Guns

I have never heard of women actually shooting german planes out of the sky and in her words 'getting...

Re: The piano in the piazza

They found this old piano inside the chambers and my father, who enjoyed a tinkle on the ivories, decided...

"What a turn up"

So the years passed and one thing that came about was visits by various groups such as " womens...

Tricking the Germans in Norway

It was eventually realised by the war office that they would never invade Norway, but the Germans did not...

What are the Chances?

But anyway, in a letter home I say, ‘by the way, this afternoon I was talking to a chap in the...

Dear Tommy

At the onset of war my Grandfather Thomas Harris was keen to be amongst the first to sign up for King and...

Confined to Barracks

Everybody was rejoicing but we were inside and were told “you cannot go outside as you are to be...

Actors Waiting in the Wings of Europe (incomplete)

Actors waiting in the wings of Europe we already watch the lights on the stage and listen to the colossal...

War Memories

I was in Korea, Japan, Italy, Naples. I had a medal for Cassino....

My Army Service

During the 2nd World War I joined the Army in 1942, starting in Wakefield, Yorkshire and having become a...

Ingenuity!

Flour, fat etc was produced and deftly Tommy moulded his ‘pud’; but what to boil it in?.....

Dunkirk 1940

When they were finally ferried to Dover the WVS ladies were unable to find clothes big enough to fit Hughie...

The Front Line

Since he told me that story I have never forgotten it, but I never asked him again. The story brought out a...

Anything to warn you

What they were, were metre lengths of bamboo, cut down and cut at the end, and cut again and sharpen both...

"We still could laugh!"

Arthur Fairbrother was mentioned in dispatches for general conduct as a warrant officer... Beacause it was...