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Part9 Life Had Returned to Normal Routine of Army Life

Obviously the soldier lad looked genuine to him and replying said that the Cilicia was tied up at Symond...

Part 4 Painting Things White

At least the lad is not alone this time; the majority meets the sergeant's requirements of being called...

4 Bn. The Border Regiment

Instead of being flown by glider into Burma to remain during the monsoon period, whilst the other brigades...

In the Army Now

As we, the First Armoured Division, were pulling in and the Seventh were pulling out, the Germans started...

Teenage Memories of World War 2: Part 3

In April 1944 the Japanese mounted a big offensive in the Naga Hilla in Assam, crossing the Indian frontier...

Called to the Colours

From the Preliminary Training Corps at Beverley those of us selected for posting to the Royal Armoured...

Called to the Colours

From the Preliminary Training Corps at Beverley those of us selected for posting to the Royal Armoured...

Long Range Desert Group

An Ordinary Man's Involvement in the Second World

This area had been colonised by the Italians before the war and they had built a good coastal road and a...

Grandad's War

Dick also got friendly with Charles, part of the original French army when Algeria was a French possession....

The Stove in Barracks 3

Sam's War

GLIDER PILOT ORIGINS During this time Winston Churchill was mightily impressed with the German raid on the...

France, 8 June 1940: 2nd BEF - 5th Battalion of The Highland Light Infantry

I asked the sergeant why he had been on his own previous to meeting the two others and he told me that...

Travels of a Captain R.E. (Searchlights)

The terrible war in France, Belgium and Holland, with the German Panzer Divisions racing through the top...

Memories of Anzio

In September 1943 the Italians left the war but the Germans fought on and in Italy occupied Rome. By the...

The Lost Years - Chapter 4 (2)

By Christmas we had covered about 500 miles forcing the Italians ever-westwards and Wavell's force had...

War Memoirs with the 12th Lancers — May 1939-Dec 1941

I remember being detailed to drive a prototype Scout Car which steered on all 4 wheels, having a little...

My Trip to France in 1944

Next day we took another trip to St Omer, this time we visited of one the lads who is in the Canadian...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 1

In the morning the proper driver took over and I finished the exercise in the office P.D. We moved about...

Memoirs of a Chindit

At the same time enemy forces were infiltrating into Vichy Syria, even closer to the British rear, so this...

Part 11 Boarded HMT Thalma in Taranto

There had been action with a number of casualties and was ordered to patrol the area looking for any...

Experiences as a Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany

We all very quickly assumed a horizontal position and one fellow crawled across the floor to lock the front...

The Swiss Red Cross

'The Will To Live': Chapter 27 - A Very Fine Leader

There are several varieties of this parasite, some also cause the dreaded ‘black water fever’...

First 24 Hours: Middlesex Regt in Normandy

Barney is to day buried in the St. Manvieu War Cemetry within a hundred yards of the spot where he was...

Rommel meets a Jersey man

Bogis Rolfe, I later learned that a Sergeant Issac had been cut off by the rapid advance of the German...