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Assembling Lorries In The Persian Gulf

Crates from America used to come with lorry chassis and all the bits stacked round them and we used to...

Crossing to France

I joined the Royal Scots Guards 8th Battalion, 15th Scottish Division, the Ladies from Hell the Germans...

Fighting Up the Mawachi Road

The Japanese were trying to keep the road open to enable stragglers from all over Burma to escape Siam. I...

Discovering Belsen

When I was serving in the British Army in Germany towards the end of WW2, we were all told that information...

Music in the Royal Artillery

John C. Larkin's War

I was captured with the Eighth Army on the Marath Line in Egypt and taken as a prisoner of war. I came...

Trooper Tom Canning, a photo at last!

I simply could not let this website become a sealed archive without letting all and sundry see a decent...

Journey into the unknown.(contd.)

Just before we moved in May, 1940 my Brother who was in the R.A.S.C.had been transferred from Catterick,...

One Drink Too Many Saved His Life

My husband joined up at the start of the war and served as a Captain in the Army Dental Corp. He was...

Dogs and Morphia.

He had a great, big, mangy Irish Wolfhound and was determined to take the dog onto the boat with us......

Frightened Youth and Tramp

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

A Niece's Pride

Called Up on My Wedding Day

From the 43rd Royal Tank Regiment when we were drafted to the B.E.F. in France, Trooper Stockdale, Trooper...

Scotland to India

I was wounded at Goch on the Dutch/German border and returned to Dreghorn barracks. I signed on for the...

The 1939-45 war in Spennymoor by Lt Col. F Phillips TD.DL - Part 2

There was our Troop-ship, a converted Dutch Liner, the SS Johann van Oldenbarnevelt, some 26,000 tons,...

ANYBODY SEEN MONTY BANKS

A group of us were delivering eight special cartons, something to do with radar to Liverpool docks and we...

The Finest Soldiers

I was a member of the Girls’ Training Corps in York....

Jaundice Saved My Life

We'd been through France and Holland where we spent Christmas 1944. We went back into Belgium and...

VE Day in Hamburg

I was in the Royal Signals, attached to the 7th Medium Artillery Regiment part of 30 Corps and at the end...

1939-1945 with the 111th field regt RA.

George Blackburn was an 18 year old Miner when he left Castleford in West Yorkshire to join the Royal...

Poem

Among the hills in valleys sweet The trees are green with every leaf In the night when darkness creeps...

An Interesting Find...

It had belonged to a member of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who must have served in the campaign against...

When I joined Up.

I went off sooner than I thought I would and was sent up to Scotland to join the 51st Highland Division......

Cooking for Winston Churchill

I was the personal chef for a high ranking British Army officer who told me that he was expecting some...

Wiltshire Regiment Christmas Party 1946

After serving in the Normany campaign and fighting their way into Germany, the Somerset Light Infantry...

An Army Convoy On The Move in Italy

Any one who had the pleasure of serving in the Army in wartime will have had the experience of driving or...