This time as a proper Scout Platoon in our Bren Gun Carriers, the Motor Platoons in their 15 hundred weight...
From the first days of the Normandy D-Day landings, Stanley Arthur Coo was the driver for one of New...
Today we packed up once again and boarded the Troop Carrying Vehicles and drove on for about fifteen miles...
Perhaps some old soldiers from 1914 expected them to "go over the top" when the whistle blew, but...
The next day we moved up to Basra, past river banks lush with green vegetation, which stretched inland for...
It was 1943 and I was thirty-nine, and the prospect of being uprooted and away from my wife and kids was a...
We received a lot of enemy shellfire during the day which screamed past our farmhouse and the battery...
On reporting to the officer what had transpired and showing him what had been salvaged, he naturally...
After Kreuzburg we continued to a small town called Konstadt and though there to a little village where we...
The searchlight site we occupied at the time was on the edge of a village called Airemyn, on the south bank...
We didn't do night guards, but had the unpleasant duty of patrolling the streets of Swaffham and...
The 11th Armoured Division and all its associated Armoured and Infantry groups had traversed across the...
Jack screamed 鈥淭his way鈥 as he ran towards Colonel Woods鈥 carrier, where the Colonel, who...
Rehearsals in preparation for the Trooping of the Colour were taking place on the barrack square, where a...
On reaching the stage of rapid deterioration the conversation then revolved round small rock cakes that...
Some Italians are certainly vain, and by entering the town by this method, the officer, I suppose, was...
By lorry about thirty miles to 7th Armoured Division H.Q. 鈥 my first journey on the Western Desert....
On the 6th our Division, the 56th, completed the first part of its tasks towards the final battle in Italy...
It was the 43rd Division, supported by the tanks of the 8th Armoured Brigade who smashed some of the...
The 6th Black Watch, 4th Division British Army now skirted round Monte Cassino to cut off the German escape...
At this time there was talk of forming a mixed column of infantry, armour and artillery to press on up into...
The time would be around midnight when I saw a figure walking casually down the road, but before I had time...
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