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Chocolate Soldiers

(part 3) First riffle

This button stick was the icon of the polishing army world, easily found amongst the other cleaning kit,...

A Motor Mechanic’s Memories of the Second World War by Jack Williams

One night on the way home from work, I stopped the Austin 7 outside the drill hall in Nottingham, and I...

Wartime Nursing in North Africa and Italy

At Sousse we worked extremely hard, admitting nursing casualties from Sicily and Southern Italy and spent 3...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 8 D Rothery: Monty Takes Centre Stage

On return to Oswaldkirk, we continued with our normal training, cross country runs and competitions, where...

Eight Days in Arnhem - part 3

As he digs Moss uncovers his water bottle and as soon as he realises what it is, he grabs at it greedily....

Travels of a Captain R.E. (Searchlights) - Part Two

Patton with the U.S. 9th army, was assembling in East Anglia - which news we now know led the Germans to...

Dad's Diary -Part 2 of 2

I was busy in the docks office when suddenly I was conscious of a terrific orange flash !.. I climbed into...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 7 D Rothery: Training in England 1940-42

It was here that we were to learn of our role in what was to be the 'Guards Armoured Division'. Our...

D-Day to VE Day - A Drivers Tale

We had to travel through Namur and Gembloux on our way to the D.I.D. It is very beautiful down here in the...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 34 - Bridge Repairs, Elephants, Air Raids, In Charge, Promotion

I was still in hospital when a trainload of wounded Jap soldiers passed through the station on their way...

THE ARTLESS DODGER (2)

Officers of the Army, Navy and Airforce, and all the Waafs, Wrens and ATS were accommodated in the top two...

Desert War Diary Extracts of Gilbert Wilson

Apparently the Germans came through a gap in the minefield, one army went north to Acroma — Tobruk...

Memories of My Life being born in 1918 to My being a Soldier in the Second World War Part 14

When I told Fred that I was being posted to England, he replied "Lucky Bugger".I said "Why am I...

XI. Crossing the Albert Canal, Belgium and Onward to Tripsrath, Germany

From Bourg Leopold the plan was an attempt to cut the Germans off in Holland, outflanking the Siegfried...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 5

I was on the court enquiry and it seemed that the sergeant in the Bren Carrier thought that the mines were...

Dunkirk by Ernie Holden

I was on guard duty during the night and as I stood by a haystack I watched German aircraft drop flares and...

Ronald 1940

We had already heard a radio massage that the German forces had broken through Holland and Belgium and that...

Mr Maynard's Wartime Experiences

When we went to go to work experience I put down for a firm in St Albans who made control gears for...

Incidents during World War II

Of course we got our own back on the Jap's in various ways, for instance, during the building of a new...

The War Years

Just after the evacuation of Dunkirk I was walking down Arkwright Street Nottingham with my mother when she...

Memoirs of John Fone Overseas in the Army

My next posting was as Staff Officer to Commander Army Group Engineers, part of 14th Army, which at that...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 15b

Hello, Fox One... Peter Three to Fox One and Fox Three, good luck, out....

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 6 D Rothery: Evacuated from Dunkirk

Two Coldstream Guardsmen returning from a night patrol had lost their direction and had wandered into our...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 4

My diary records that here Wellingtons, Whitleys, Ansons, Battles, Blenheims, Stirlings, Oxfords, Defiants...

The Search for Cedric

Brian then told us that his brother in law William Smith had been with the 1st Herefords at that time and...