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My Grandad wins the Military Medal

My Grandad was successfully led a bayonet charge against the enemies machine gun nest. capturing a key...

Crater of Death

One day we found a dead Japanese in a Chaung, there was a terrible stench of dead bodies, so we did was...

A Move that Saved my Life.

One of the soldiers, a Shetlander called Robertson, started eating his rations and I told him not to. When...

Dunkirk Evacuation

We were directed to the railway station where long trestle type tables were manned by who I presumed were...

Z-craft Lighter

I was on a Z-craft Lighter which took part in two landings on the West Coast of Burma, one 35 miles between...

Commandos

Since the age of 10-12yrs I have been interested in the war years and the way soldiers and thier families...

Field First Dressing

Contents: Two dressings in waterproof Covers, each consisting of a gauze pad stitched to a bandage and a...

Dock Strike Scotland 1940

During the war in 1940 we lived in the Barlow Nickle Jarvis Hotel overlooking the valley at Aberfoyle in...

Army discipline

I was in Maidstone, Kent. We had a Taffy - came from Cardigan - couldn't speak a word of English - and...

Sorry your Majesty !

The City of London Yeomanry had been an Anti-Aircraft Regiment before the war equipped with the latest...

Army Ration Allowance

They used to say that the Army moved on paper, certainly when I look through the bits of memorabilia that I...

Cookhouse memories

I was stationed at Deerbolt Camp, Barnard Castle, Co... Durham I was then sent to work with Whitby Driver...

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

Little did we know that I.G.Farben, a multiple corporation complex of European and worldwide accompiices...

My Unforgettable Memory

My most unforgettable memory was being detoured from West Africa to Singapore to pick up THE VERY FIRST...

Western Desert Mechanics by Albert Newton

This is my short story about an S.A.S officer and a few of his men with their jeeps... I heard it when...

Victory Parade in Salisbury

At the end of WW2, it was decided to hold a parade in Salisbury. This was to be led by a visiting...

Prisoner of War in India.

On the 18th April 1942 I was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese at Yenn ang Yunn... 750 of us marched...

The Lincolnshire Battallion 2 nd Regiment in Holland 6

Being a very cold and frosty night not a sound was heard until midnight, then the Germans fired everything...

Chain gang

I was at El Cantara and some prisoners were being brought over from Greece and they were in chains. The men...

MY FIVE BROTHERS

I had five brothers - three of them were in the Army during the war and one was in the Navy. My...

Adder bite

During the war my grandfather's farm was partially taken over by the army as a live ammo training area,...

Royal Signals

Then I was posted to Whaddon to operater Windy Ridge. Information obtained at Bletchley Park code breaking...

Lost at Sea

When we tracked down more information we discovered he'd been taken a prisoner of war from Egypt and...

First day in the Army

We got back on the train which was supposed to stop at Tisbury but the driver forgot to stop and we had...

Training

In this job I did a lot of office work, but my main job was working in the food store. In the...

Transporting The Crazy Gang

I also remember seeing the first ‘frog suits’ being used by both the army and navy as they...