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A Bill Brown Experience - Chapter 1: Joining the Grenadier Guards D Rothery

During this period there would be no talking or smoking, and if I wished to go to the toilet or replenish...

Unlikely horseman

Our transport arrived and we began our journey across France which I found interesting if uncomfortable as...

Ubique and Unique - the story of the Lincolnshire Gunners

The Germans had almost over-run their positions when two British tanks appeared, hull-down, to give the...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 33 - Bridges, Oxen, Tigers, and a Javanese Lad

The Japs kept their meat ration in the form of live pigs in an enclosure on the edge of the camp, and...

Part 12 The Poor Padre

The poor Padre almost dislodged from the seat was now almost finding a quick way through the windscreen and...

Memories: 1st Border Regiment

HAVING STOPPED, A GERMAN SERGEANT JUMPED UP ONTO THEIR CARRIER, AND KNOCKED OFF THE MAGAZINE ON THEIR BREN...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 10 D Rothery: France 1944

Our Platoon officer Mr McEwan was inquisitive about a small cottage standing on its own to our right, so he...

Honouring Two Adopted 鈥楽ons of Cuverville鈥�, Normandy

While I was in the Caen area during the 60th Anniversary commemorations of 'Operation Goodwood' in...

Arthur Rose

One day I was detailed to drive a car commanded by a Lieutenant to Beccles Aerodrome to collect Major...

Harry Blood's War Part 2 - Voyage to North Africa Part 1, April - May 1941

It is a fine scene on the river here; the town and harbour on one side; on the other, scattered grey stone...

Wally's War - Chapter 1

IN THE early days of World War 2 my mate Snake and I were watching a newsreel in the Odeon cinema,...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 13

Instead I was working in the Naga Hills at altitudes of a few thousand feet, a most refreshing change.The...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 2 D Rothery: TRaining with the Grenadier Guards

A scruffy individual Corporal...louder, etc.etc'. We had learnt the rudiments of rapid numbering from...

A Line Mechanic's D-Day

The voice of the officer in the front of the vehicle suggested we wait until the water entered the inside...

鈥淥f Course, 鈥楽aving Private Ryan鈥� Was All Based On Fact鈥�

But we never saw a German aircraft during the Battle of Normandy. The first time we went to the Omaha Beach...

D-Day to VE Day: A Driver's Tale (Part 2)

On the 1st of October we moved up a bit nearer the front, but after all the work my wagon had done...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 1

There was a railway warrant and we were met at York Railway Station by soldiers and an officer. They took...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 3

Sergeant Holmes took out his Gammon Bomb and was just about to throw it, when they spotted him, so they...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 8

Our other Workshop Platoon and one of our four Park Platoons was based at China Bay, Trincomalee, another...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 12

About two hundred of these unfortunates were placed under 345 Company command and occupied additional...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 5

I could hear Jack saying, 鈥淲alt, weer ah tha? We found out that one was a German officer and one was...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 2

One day, a truck pulled up and a man shouted, 鈥淧rivate Hobson, you're wanted at H.Q.鈥� So I...

THE ARTLESS DODGER (3)

Our searchlight site was between an anti-aircraft gun battery, and the naval station; on a beautiful...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 4

I gave him a hit and one of the blokes said 鈥淭here it is Norman鈥� and he couldn't see so he...

Home Again: Warlingham, Surrey. 1945-47

I thought the task of preparing a worthy Christmas under conditions differing little from wartime was a...

Memoirs of an Ex Infantry Man, Chapter 7

Gammy told me that a Jerry bomber had dropped his bombs and straddled the Mole and that was what had blown...