大象传媒

Prisoner of the Germans - 2 - Stalag VII

These parcels together with the rations from the Germans and what we could obtain by bartering with...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 11 D Rothery: Wounded in France 1944

There you are, they are human after all'. After idling our time away here for a few weeks all...

At war,with 168 brigade Part 2

I was asked to go with an officer from another brigade to access the possibility of recovering a lorry...

225 Field Coy Royal Engineers at Dunkirk

All Royal Engineers Units were given the job of making improvised piers by bridging across the top of the...

When Bugles Call - Italy

There were three cinemas in Catania, the San Giorgio, Teatro Lopo, and the Odeon, all showing...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 11 and Conclusion

The day came for our demobilisation and Dicky and I planned to travel together to the channel port stopping...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 13

A number of Bofors Antiaircraft guns were bolted to the deck and were in constant action against enemy...

Harry Blood's War Part 5: Serving in the Middle East, 1942-43

Just as I got nicely settled in Beirut I got posted, on 20th October, together with Taffy Evans to the...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 1

It must have been winter because it was terribly cold, so when one day a notice appeared on the...

Bristol Home Guard 1940-41

My unit - 鈥淕鈥� Section, No.11 Platoon, 11th.Gloucester Battalion - was very seriously involved...

Tommy Scott My Memories as a F.E.P

Depart Ambon for Japan early 1944 via Changi Singapore, Manilla, Formosa. Some of us put into Civilian...

What did you do in the War Grandad? by Ralph Martin

Perhaps my only claim to fame was landing, as a Private, on the Beaches of France on 鈥淒鈥� Day,...

Sarafand Rest Camp

Different Companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders did Guard stints and stunts, and operations...

A Soldier's Reminiscences of World War 2

Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...

Chapter 1 - Part 1: England to France with the BEF

The regiment consisted of the CO's regimental headquarters with its specialist officers in A, Q and G...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's Early War Memories

I returned to Ireland and on my next leave stayed at a hostel in Romford to be near to Audrey. After I...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 16

The Captain entered the office and asked " Have you arranged the Christmas leave?". I replied...

My Story by Mr Peter Summers

I was just parking my bike when a bomb fell in the road I usually cycle down it blew in to this...

Life in the Forces Psychiatric Service

10 鈥� Alec and Joyce Sheppard talk about their wartime: Alec, a trained craft teacher, as an artillery...

Two Wars -Part One

They landed in Algiers, Morocco and Casablanca- the aim being to trap the German army in Tunisia... The...

The Day that War Broke Out - Facts & Figures Pt2

For the whole time from this date until leaving the area on April 4th the Regiment was under Command 2nd...

Experience of a POW chapter nine

It did worry us during our short stop over in Germany seeing flights of German bombers passing overhead and...

To Singapore and beyond

Like thousands of other prisoners my father was put to work on the infamous 鈥淏irma railway鈥�,...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 15a

As we reached the road bridge over the River Waal we had orders to strike north up the main road to Arnhem,...

D-Day Memories: 12th Devons

Having trained so hard to master the tactics of going to war by Glider and landing behind enemy lines, I...

A Sapper's D-Day: 184 Field company, Royal Engineers

We discovered that we would be landing on Juno - Nan Beach, right in front of Bernieres - Sur - Mer, and...