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The mystery of Brie

After leaving Northern Ireland at the end of 1941-42, and after Normandy June 1944, we were eventually with...

Stepladder

They were very keen on teaching us unarmed combat in case we came into contact with a German parachutist....

Yelloew Fever

Alastair Howie's grandfather was knighted for his work he was a bacteriologist and assisted in the...

Wait for the Wagon

My Father was a driver in Dunkirk taking the men from the fields of Dunkirk to the ships and boats waiting...

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A Different Wake Up Call

My cousin Stan Price, who was in the same division as us- in the artillery, had a little 13 pound truck,...

Stuck in the Barracks for VE Day!

When we head that peace had become, we all thought we were going to go home, but we were on post the...

Civilian life as an 11 year old onwards until working with the NAAFI pt2

We got hold of a lot of those, climbed onto the pig market roof where we could lob them into bren gun...

Kenneth William Spencer

My Grandfather was a soldier with the Royal Leicestershire 2nd 5th Batallion during World War 2. My...

WW1

A few weeks later he cought maleria in the trenches and was transported with hundreds of others to...

Travelling With The Air Force

I travelled all over with the air force, from Iceland to Egypt, during the war... Officers and Privates had...

Fleas!

The station was actually built with four-gallon British petrol cans; each about twelve inches square...

the life of stephen darke

He never spoke much about the was at home to his family he only talked about the good times in the war...

Army Newspapers

During the war there were army newspapers which, as I understand it, were published under the auspices of...

My fathers story

From their he was put in the royal engineer's he was in the 42 section incharge of lighting, he served...

'Pinkies' in Benghazi, 1945. As told by his son Martin Doughty.

My father, Sgt. David Doughty, was in the R.E.M.E. and posted to Benghazi in Libya in 1945 when, luckily...

Clearing the Way

Bert was an 18 year old when he joined the RAF as a pilot. Many islands round about were full of mines...

A Fireman remembers a long wait in a siding

Dennis Mitchell tells Joan Armstrong his memories of a long delay while transporting military equipment to...

Fried eggs on Tank

A short one to start off but one which interested me was that they would cook eggs on the tank itself ......

My Great Uncle

He worked for the British army service. corps....

Washing Socks

There was fine weather as well as bad. There were days of great heat in the monsoon as well as the rain....

Labourers in uniform

The 82nd West African Division had been formed with the intention of having the ability to operate without...

A World Away

Three years back and forth through North Africa and in Tunisia before heading to Italy and a landing at a...

Casualties

At the base if you were not doing any other duties, we would go to the Company Office and have a look...

Lewis Gun in Victoria Parkicon for Story with photo

The Lewis gun was designed before the 1st World War, but is seen here in service on Victoria Park in...

Ramnee Island

About 1,000 Japanese soldiers were eaten by crocodiles. The Japanese soldiers who tried to escape from the...

"We'll Need You Chaps in the Autumn"

We went to camp in the July which was at Stockbridge in Hampshire... While we were there we went for a...

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