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Attack on Barbee Farm and Vendes 16 July 1944

The Hallamshires were to attack the village of Vendes and the enemy held strong point of Barbee Farm. D Coy...

Memories of a 2nd World War Infantryman

As the 2nd World War approached, dad was in fairly settled employment as a clerk, but he was also in the...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 26 - Bamboo, Our Drunken Captain, & I Swim to a Short Freedom

If a rat were trapped in the end of a long bamboo, and made to tunnel its way through the sections to...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 14

The rations from the Russians were no better than we had had from the Germans whilst prisoners. He chose to...

Memories of WW2 in a Cotswold Village

The bags were then stacked to make a wall in front of the downstairs Police Station windows, the latter...

Eight Days in Arnhem

My father, PFC Len Moss of the 11th Parachute Batallion, 4th Parachute Brigade, flew in on the second day...

Eight Days in Arnhem - part 2

Moss and Kent head off together, slithering down a steep slope and coming to rest by an abandoned German MG...

12th Casualty Clearing Station: France 1940

A very real danger was fast approaching — the Germans were coming and the French were taking up their...

The Lost Years - Chapter 9 (2)

I couldn't believe it, but on checking with a Squadron Office clerk found it to be true and it had been...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 3

I was in the dance hall when Jack came running out, saw me and said" some 'so and so' on the...

Village to Village: From Poland to Britain

After 6 months training in morse code, I was able to take down German army messages at the highest...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 23 - We Cross The River, & Camp is Flooded, Trucks Fuelled by Wood

An old timer in the hut told me of a spot in the camp boundary where Thais came along at night to...

Ray Heslop's War Diary

Ray, one of three children, was born on 19th September 1916 of Robert Heslop and Helena Lily in Darlington,...

Diary of a Colonial Administrator

Lots of little boats kept coming alongside all day and flying boats were continuously taking off and...

Eight Days in Arnhem - part 4

Moss hauls Vulliger out of the trench and help him towards the hotel in search of medical aid. Moss peers...

A Soldiers Story Taken from His Taped Record: A POW in China and Japan

At Stanley we were to help protect the coastal guns which were firing inland and inflicting casualties to...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 11 - Introduction To Jap POW Life

The Japs passed in a few tins of biscuits, and told us to be ready to move off at nine a.m. We...

A Normandy Veteran by Jim Ratcliffe

Norman Waterhouse- the first British soldier to enter Bayeux I spoke to a bloke in Normandy in 1994 called...

part 7 Manston 1941

Aircraft of all types used Manston for emergency landings. The nearest civilian enterprise to the army...

Eight Days in Arnhem - part 5

A German MACHINE GUNNER attempts to run up the same path used a short while earlier by Moss. The German...

BEF Memories 1939-40

Our vehicles and guns were parked under trees as camouflage from the air, and we were ordered to dig slit...

Artillery Training, Anzio and Italy

One man in particular was singled out consistently to bear the brunt of Churchers’ offensive insults...

To Sleep Perchance Not to Dream

Jeffrey Parker was a friend but he was different to our usual motley gang because he was the son of the...

My Experiences - May 1940 - August 1941: A POW in Poland

He was true to his word and returned with a map - very up to date and containing the new German and...

Miscellaneous Memories: Royal Armoured Corp

Having arrived back from hospital we had to take the old Shamans to the Stadium in Brussels as we were...

POW in Poland

Although shortly before the German offensive in the Ardennes in 1944 there was a big build up of rail...