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D.C.L.I.

I joined the Army in 1944, aged 17yr 10mths, into the DCLI in Bodmin... From there I went to Farnborough as...

After The War Part 3icon for Story with photo

Church Music

Sniper fire holding us up, four of us went in to church climbed tower, but unable to spot him... One of the...

War In Africa

After the war in Africa finished, King George came to visit us, we were all lined up in our Tunics and Bone...

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Prisoners of Waricon for Story with photo

I looked after German prisoners of war in Egypt....

SOE

Royal Family of Norway and thier rescue. My grandad was in a group that, according to the story that I...

War In Africa II

We were working the docks in Bone. We were unloading bombs when one 200lbs bomb fell off the hook and...

The Dark Pyramid

A party of ten was taken into the pryramid by an Egyptian guide, carrying a candle, and I was the last of...

Last day of the waricon for Story with photo

The picture shows the adjutant Captain P Hodgson Sergeant Wild and myself. Behind the jeep was a trailer...

Changes in a small town

The Royal Engineers had a Nissan hut in Queen's Avenue, near the Fire Station. Near the Bucknell...

Reminiscences

After 6 weeks initial training at Brancepeth castle in County Durham I was transferred to the Royal...

Pressure on Turkey

When we left Bombay our battery became part of an Indian Division that was going to Iraq... It seemed to...

Douglas Kent - Little Eaton to El Agehliaicon for Story with photo

Douglas Kent from Little Eaton went out in a troop ship, passing through Durban ans suez, before landing in...

War Memories

I was wounded three times - twice of which happened in Italy... In my opinion there was really only one...

THE BATTLE OF EL-ALANIEIM,THE TANK BATTLE OF THE 23RD REGIMENT

As Tank commander of the 23ed in the battle of El-Alenieim and the invasion of livley and laty grounding...

Harry Ward - Wish to trace

I have been aware for a long time that my grandads brother fought near Singapore. i have personally read...

A young man at war - a poem by Tom McLeod

Job - driver, Royal Army Service Corps Infantry division troup, 521 company....

Army Rates of Pay

In 1944 I went back into the infantry. In 1945 I was appointed, still an infantryman, as Librarian No. 6...

Burma Coincidence

On 16th June 1944, my father, was wounded whilst serving with the 2nd Durham Light Infantry in Mao Songsan...

Reg Ward's Sweetheart letters 1940-1944

159 Sweetheart letters written between 1940 when Reg Ward of Carsington, Derbyshire was called up and 1944...

Meeting with the Americans

I met some Army men who had been in North Africa... They said to us “ hey you limeys, where's the...

An Island Military Family (Chapter 2)icon for Story with photo

Again we did not know his whereabouts, but there was a picture in the Daily paper of British troops...

Guarding the North west passage

Was in the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment based in Iceland for 2 years guarding the North West...

VJ day

I don't particularly remember VE day, it didn't mean anything to us in Greece, but I do remember VJ...

Light Wave Radio?

I was a wireless operator and one day we were crossing a river in a dingy. We were being bombed and shelled...

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

My father told me that he and a few men from the 12th Lancers were baking in the hot Algerian sun when,...

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