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In Suspense (Addendum to Parts 1 and 2)

Part 2 is at: A4474244 George........ Born 5 April, 1919 Army Number: 4615196 Accolades andService: AA...

Re: Happy Italian POWs Singing English Songs

They were singing English songs especially Lily Marlane because it was popular across the world....

51st Highland Division service

154 brigade evacuated at Lehavre, then evacuated Cherburg, present at Alemein, Sicily, later Europe....

Being rescued by the Japanese

The description of the loss of the S.S. Transylvania on the 4th of May 1917 was written by my father Sidney...

Combined Operations - Ramree Island 1945

The Royal Succession

Again,how could a soldier charge cheerfully into battle for'King and Country'knowing that king was...

Ration clerk

As the CSM's Orderly Corporal one of my duties was to requisition rations in accordance with the number...

The First Man in the country to be natrualised

I was in 3rd Independnet Bridging Troup attached to the Indian Army... When daughter wanted to join...

Army Records - or Not

V.E. Day and The End Of Comradship

I was near Bremen on V.E. Day with five or six other officers when the word came through about the...

Active Service Family

I had three brothers in the army and my father was in the Somme. He got shrapnel in his leg, took his...

Removed from Editorial Desk

Once old enough he joined the local division of the territorial army, the Beds and Herts.When war was...

Nursing in Caves and Tents.

Nursing in Caves and Tents. I was working as a qualified nurse as a WAF when, in 1945, I was posted to...

Desert guard duty ?

Kill or be killed , and you couldnt aford to lose food or equipement....

A Memory of Korea.

After my initial training at Cattrick I was sent to Korea as a member of the Royal Signals... During the...

19 Wireless Observation Unit

Charles Page was a member of a wireless observation unit, which meant he advanced ahead of the main...

Life AS An A.T.S. driver 1941 -1945

A (VERY) YOUNG MAN IN BURMA

MY DAD, IVOR DOUGLAS JOINED THE 2ND BATTALION MANCHESTER REGIMENT IN 1937... IVOR WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE...

Leaving

My mother booked a room in a hotel in Coutherstone near to the camp... From Coutherstone he had travelled...

From Cricket to the Desert Rats

I joined up and was in the desert for sometime - Desert Rats - one of the chaps knew that I had...

A Desert war

"One night we were woken at 1am in the night to do a suprise attack on the Germans... The Germans had...

MIKE BEACH

We were told that we were to go to the embarkation in March, and that we would be going up...

Codeword Cromwell

Robin Charley was on duty one night, manning the telephone, when a message came throughgiving the codeword,...

Taken prisoner, shot and left with one bullet

Uncle Tony lived at the Magnet Hotel in Kingsholm, Gloucester, before it was pulled down to build flats....

Fightened Youth and Tramp

In the Home Guard with the Royal West Kent Regiment I was on guard duty with a former WW1 soldier at...

Riding a horse up the steps

I was at the Royal Military College doing the training, and Addison was the first man, it's a tradition...