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May 1943 we landed in North Africa, and then on to the Salerno Beaches... In September of that year we...
I left from Bristol bound for North Africa where we disembarked at Algiers. We were told that we were going...
My father was taken prisoner by the Japenese when they took over Singapore. Ronald Searle the cartonist was...
If they stopped off in a town somwhere he would always try to buy a jigsaw puzzle of the place and remove...
My uncle Allen Cooper was awarded the Polish gilver cross for his bravery at Monte Cassino, but he had to...
At the end of the liberation of Rome, although fighting was still going on in Germany and Northern Italy, I...
I was with the 2nd Dorset Regiment and we returned home from Burma arriving in Southampton. My wife, Joan...
Our job was to release vehicles to go to the 8th Army, and replace them with horses and wagons....
Afterwards he was returned to England to be demobilised in December 1945....
When you were in the mud, that's where the leeches were — in there, and they'd get through...
I was a wireless operator in the 49th Light Ack Ack Regiment who were in the 78th British Infantry...
The Sergeant Major sent me to the front of the patrol as a scout to locate any enemy... The Sergeant Major...
Corporal Frank Bunting, a military police officer from the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Gaurds was my...
Keith was 18 years of age when he went from being in Blackpool Corporation of Transport to Preston for a...
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