I looked after German prisoners of war in Egypt....
Royal Family of Norway and thier rescue. My grandad was in a group that, according to the story that I...
We were working the docks in Bone. We were unloading bombs when one 200lbs bomb fell off the hook and...
A party of ten was taken into the pryramid by an Egyptian guide, carrying a candle, and I was the last of...
The picture shows the adjutant Captain P Hodgson Sergeant Wild and myself. Behind the jeep was a trailer...
The Royal Engineers had a Nissan hut in Queen's Avenue, near the Fire Station. Near the Bucknell...
After 6 weeks initial training at Brancepeth castle in County Durham I was transferred to the Royal...
When we left Bombay our battery became part of an Indian Division that was going to Iraq... It seemed to...
Douglas Kent from Little Eaton went out in a troop ship, passing through Durban ans suez, before landing in...
I was wounded three times - twice of which happened in Italy... In my opinion there was really only one...
As Tank commander of the 23ed in the battle of El-Alenieim and the invasion of livley and laty grounding...
I have been aware for a long time that my grandads brother fought near Singapore. i have personally read...
Job - driver, Royal Army Service Corps Infantry division troup, 521 company....
In 1944 I went back into the infantry. In 1945 I was appointed, still an infantryman, as Librarian No. 6...
On 16th June 1944, my father, was wounded whilst serving with the 2nd Durham Light Infantry in Mao Songsan...
159 Sweetheart letters written between 1940 when Reg Ward of Carsington, Derbyshire was called up and 1944...
I met some Army men who had been in North Africa... They said to us “ hey you limeys, where's the...
Again we did not know his whereabouts, but there was a picture in the Daily paper of British troops...
Was in the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment based in Iceland for 2 years guarding the North West...
I don't particularly remember VE day, it didn't mean anything to us in Greece, but I do remember VJ...
I was a wireless operator and one day we were crossing a river in a dingy. We were being bombed and shelled...
My father told me that he and a few men from the 12th Lancers were baking in the hot Algerian sun when,...