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Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home (3)

Some of the lads were talking of trying to get back to Stalag 8B but Bluey and I had other ideas, the...

D-Day Memoirs: Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

We were to organise temporary dumps of ammunition, petrol and food in the sand dunes to back up immediate...

A Woman Doctor (Part One)

Coventry Cathedral was bombed and burnt to the ground. The train could not get into Coventry because the...

When the Saints Went Marching: The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Part 3)

Advance through Broederbosch wood In mid-February we were on the move again, this time to Hunsberg, then...

Ted's Turn: Death of a Friend in Italy

Ted was not sanitary orderly material and when Harry picked him you might say he picked a 'right...

An Infantry Officer at Dunkirk and in POW Camp

The road on either side was littered of course with abandoned vehicles and things upside down and so on and...

With the Guards in Flanders, 1940

All around we saw the belgians in their first world war helmets and long coats in full flight Westward and...

Kutuzov

A large roadside sign in the shadow of the shrapnel-pitted Brandenburg Gate warned in English, French and...

Rearguard at Dunkirk

Yorky Holme's gun crew C4 consisted of Phil Plevey, Bert Tanner, George Bradley who were all killed,...

A Soldier Goes to War

Arriving finally at Le Havre we collected our vehicles, formed a convoy and headed for our destination,...

11th Arm. Div D-Day Landings

In this excerpt, I describes my part in the D-Day Landings on Juno Beach and being wounded in action. Once...

Jack Place's War-Part1

Behind the tanks were a mixture of Italian and German infantrymen, an Italian pushed me over and kicked...

Stan Rowley's Experiences with the Manchester Regiment

The German plane dropped two bombs that landed near the Odeon cinema and all the windows and emergency...

Arthur Turner's Dunkirk

There wasn't much food in France at that time, and French civilians were always ready to 'make an...

Operation Bunghole - February 1944 (Part 2)

Our sergeants McCulloch, Newman, Morrison, Hill and McMillan were billeted together at the northern edge of...

Keyman - A Somewhat Soldier (Part 1)

Next on one bright June morning, armed with a travel warrant, I and others journeyed by train to Weymouth...

D-Day, Normandy, 1944: Burying the Dead

Reposted to join a new battalion A few days before embarkation, however, I and a number of others, mostly...

Eric Cottam's Dunkirk

Bulford Barracks and bren gun carriers I joined 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 6th of foot -...

British Tommy: With the Royal Norfolk Regiment on D-Day

Here's a British Soldier who landed in France on D-day....

'The Will To Live': Chapter 18 - In Changi, Singapore

Very nearly broken-hearted, I ran into the nearby sergeants’ hut and asked if anyone had seen an...

The Ouija Board at Chungkai Camp Part 1 by Arthur Lane

We arrived at this most notorious and dreaded camp after travelling for days through dense jungle where...

Bob Littlar's D-Day: 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry

At the end of that I joined the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, which at the time was...

Chapter 7 - Staff Job East Africa Command (Aug 1942 - Jan 1943)

The net result of sleepless nights and wet towels was that I finished up with a Divisional EAEME strength...

Dalmation Islands, Yugoslavia

While we pitched our tents round the outside of the wall surrounding the churchyard, the British force,...

The 11th Armoured Division's D-Day Landing

Capturing Bridges Across the Oder and Oden Rivers On or about three weeks after D-Day we, that's the...

D-Day and beyond with a Scottish Artillery regiment: June 6, 1944 to February 27, 1945 revisited.

The cemetery is on land given by the German nation to the British War Graves Commission. The ceremonies...