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A Teenager at War 鈥 Part 3icon for Story with photo

When the time came to leave this place, I was dejected to find out that I would be leaving on my own...

Memories of My Life Born in 1918 to being a Soldier in the Second World War Part 13

He shouted "Stop, or I will order the gunners to open fire".A British officer and the Red caps came...

Chapter 2: From England to Africa, India, France and Germany

It was not cooked by the Army cooks but prepared and served by an outside Indian caterer called Salig...

Grandad's Story: Part 3

The following morning one of our group who could speak Italian found out from a farmer that we were only a...

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64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 21

At some time during the day I heard the King's speech about the second front, but much more exciting to...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 4

The following day, a Sunday we all took part in 鈥淏oat Stations鈥 drill at 0900 hours as usual...

A Prisoner of War's Story: Part 2

Though the Japanese helped and fed themselves to the food of these parcels, there were times when they...

Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part IIIicon for Story with photo

10/5/45 No. 12 Camp Miata village, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, South Japan. Three weeks to...

A soldier's Dairy From 18/04/1944 - 31/07/1944

SATURDAY 6TH MAY 1944 - Arrived Pasco Nord 1.15a.m Foggia and return Bari Centrali 5.30p.m. No mail...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 5

Again Reg and I were on our own and we never caught up with the others, all of whom got back to...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 18a: Sousse by the Sea - July 1943

Sousse: Butch joins workshops platoon, mends lorries and sells tea. So at the specified date and time the...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 7a - Harry Woodicon for Story with photo

With our limited German, we deduced that she had a very sick child and had braved the curfew and the...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 11icon for Story with photo

Three months later, General Bill Slim's 14th Army invasion of Burma was pre-empted by the Japanese 15th...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 6 (Chapter 8 first part)

The bit we knew was certainly arid and nothing whatsoever grew there other than the odd patch of camel...

D-Day Normandy 1944

Exit from the Stirling bomber was through a rectangular floor aperture at the tail end of the aircraft. We...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 15b: Lieutenant Baker thinks ahead - then leaves Butch in the desert

Lieutenant Baker led `A' platoon in a convoy to the docks at Bone, an Algerian port near the border...

The Reluctant Conscript: Joining the Royal Signals

This was a bitter-sweet pleasure for me, bringing Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke and Co straight from home...

DIARY OF THE TREK OUT OF BURMA 1942

It looks as if we shall be in TAMU for sometime as coolies are unobtainable at the moment, owing to the...

The Army medical, and , the Curly Enigma

The words of Mike Sambrook are a fitting introduction to his recollection of the regimental padre Curly,...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Preface, Chapters 1 and 2

One of these single vehicle trips took driver Bickerstaff, with me as co-driver, to Biggin Hill... In...

The Black Cats: Part 3

Left the East Yorks. on August 24th bound for the Cipper operations course at the signals training centre,...

Prisoner of the Germans - 5 - The March and Release

Russian prisoners were treated abominably by the Germans, and they did not have the protection of the Red...

At war, with 168 brigade Part 4

The same old route, Foggia, Naples, Caserta, etc. but this time we travelled beyond Rome, past the leaning...

Wartime Memories 1939-45

My claim to British nationality is tenuous: my father had been born in BELIZE, British Honduras, the eldest...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 35 - Wounded Soldiers, Aussie Friend, and Twice Poisonedicon for Story with photo

A party of Japs appeared from the station hut carrying buckets of rice, which they placed beside the train,...

France 1940

Soon Edwin and another man were sent by the Sergeant to fetch an ammo box containing the magazines for the...

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