大象传媒

An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥� soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥� Part 2

Introduction 庐 Call up 庐 France and Dunkirk 庐 Furlough and hard times at home 庐 Staging...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 8: Military Prison-Fort Dahlen Barracks, Chatham.

One day Butch noticed a RAF prisoner walking, staggering rather, with two full buckets across the square. A...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 21 Continued

In this camp Red Cross food was used in the same way as at Bologna that is, the parcels were handed over...

My War Experiences Part 2 by Stan Rowley

We could only see a Military Police Sergeant with his snowdrop. There was something wrong and Captain said...

Escape from France

It was only now that I was told officially that I was in the Royal Army Service Corp and we were seperated...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 15

After we had retrieved our arms, the train started and we were soon in Belfast; catching our connection for...

Reg Gill: RAMC Training and Recruitment, 1939

I went there and reported to Sergeant radiographer who said "Oh you're that bloke from the 18th. I...

My Life in the RAOC During the War 1939-1945, Chapter 1

How he got in the R.A.O.C. I do not know as it was a Non Combatant Corps at that time Yes, we...

Alexander Mallet War Journal

I saw a lot of cruelty by German troops to the people of Greece while marching to and while waiting at the...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home (4)

We were to assist the Russians as the Germans could have broken through Turkey, making for the Suez canal....

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Three - From Bone, Algeria as reinforcement for the 56th Black Cat, London Division a

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Three 鈥� From Bone, Algeria as reinforcement for the 56th...

MISSING - PRESUMED P.O.W.

Next morning we carried on and by this time we were very hungry having been without food since the previous...

Reminiscences of a Roughrider 1937-1940

We were now to exchange our 13-pounder RHA guns for Swedish Bofors 2-pounder pom-pom guns, expand to three...

Burma with the Royal Artillery

In April 1942 very early in the morning Len found himself with thousands of other men marching on to the...

Italy 1943

The fighting was furious with continued shelling, mortaring and firing, this lasted two days then we heard...

George Daily's War - Part 2

The next blot on our horizon was the arrival of the first Canadian Division on the outskirts of Camberley,...

Waffler's Tales

During August 1940 the German air raids intensified and I arrived at No 6 B.D.S. with a 3 ton Dennis lorry...

Fire Orders Chapter 5

We did turn in eventually, but with the greatest reluctance, only when the Orderly Sergeant came on deck...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 14

Good beds, chairs to lounge in on deck, an issue of 50 De Reske cigarettes and meals such as liver and...

4. A World War Two Memoir

The 8th Army had already landed at the Toe, and we were going to land at Salerno just below Naples....

Jack Nissenthall- The VC Hero Who Never Was: Part 2

AFTERWORD In July 1997, the author spoke to Jack's daughter who described how after the war Mountbatten...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 3

The German Officers in the camp took photos of men, one on a visit showed Buckingham Palace with the German...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 5 'P.O.W.'

They knocked hell out of Offlag 79, fortunately before I arrived, but a considerable amount of damage was...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 3 - Harry Wood

The Iti's noisily clamoured for 鈥榓qua fresco鈥� and the Germans remaining aloof in a corner,...

A Soldier Goes to War Part 4

The situation was exacerbated by the fact that there was at Porton quite a number of officers and warrant...

Prisoner of War Story/Gordon Highlanders Part 2

I started to explain in my "pigeon" French that I had no "Papiers" and that I was a Czech...