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War Diary of a Driver - Part 2

Our Xmas has been spoilt as we moved from GELEEN on Xmas Eve for ‘active ops’ on Xmas day, bad...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 5

I must also explain here that before leaving Cape Town the Regiment was split into two sections with some...

Phoney War and Dunkirk

One time Tina asked me to meet her and she took me to see her friend Jacqueline who lived in an apartment...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 4 'Five years as a POW

After three days in cattle trucks without food or drink we arrived at Lamsdorf Stalag VIIIB. This would be...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 2

We passed through a village and the French had put out buckets of water and some did give us food, but even...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 4

The way to try and fool the guards was that now, some of the Prisoners-of-War could speak and understand...

Phoney War? What Phoney War??

At Beaux Aires this was a four cylinder Lister diesel generator, rather than a searchlight lorry. On this...

John Russell, OWL (Operator, Wireless and Line)

This insignia can be seen on the arm of a soldier in one of the most widely published photographs of D-Day,...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 16b

Suddenly: "Take Post:" The stentorian voice came from the tannoy in front of the guns as Captain...

Dunkirk to Burma: With the Royal Artillery

My Father joined the army in November 1936 aged 18 and was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, based at...

Tommy’s War Part 3: Training at Stirling Castle and in Aldershot

Abroad for the First Time

There is no doubt that the Spanish civil war and the bombing of Guernica by the German air force a few...

Part 14 PO Valley to the final days.

The thing that puzzled the lad at the time was when the Polish elements were taken prisoner; the German...

Personal Recollections of WW2 by Ronald Marson - chapter 2

The 5th Division landed in and around Syracusa on the east coast with its objective the short northerly...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 9: Back with `A' Platoon at Broxmore,

Brotherstone, Powell and Rumsey Williams, and `young sods' mates, drivers Wheeler, Warhurst and Petty,...

A Rifleman in North Africa: Part 3: Transported

I should imagine there were only about four ships in the harbour of any size, apart from a destroyer, and...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 2 of 13 - Parachute Training)

Out of a batch of forty or more applicants at that time from the battalion, just two of us eventually went...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 10

So great was the risk of fire and explosion, that the General in charge of port facilities flew back to...

The Sinking of the Lancastria—1940

The Sinking of the Lancastria Stan Scislowski On Monday, June 17, 1940, the Cunard Liner, Lancastria,...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 22b: September '44 - January '45. The River Maas (Meuse) and the Ardennes. Our 1st Class Mecha

The German aim was for Dietrich's 6th Panzer Army to cross the Maas near Liege and make for Antwerp and...

V. Into action on D-Day

The landing craft were beaching to the right of the blockhouse and were clearly having trouble with the sea...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 3: Maryhill Barracks/Springburn Ministry of Labour Training Centre Glasgow Fitters Course Janu

He suggested that Stan went along with his brother in law, yet another Smith at Langford Hall, and with Reg...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 8

During one evening in the sergeant's mess, we took part in a long discussion on the various facets of...

The Liberation of Copenhagen, May 1945.

No virtually none, we arrived when the Germans had already packed in and there was fighting only some...

War Memories

She'd been 'naughty' in Brussels and she was well 'advanced' as we moved into Germany...

A Soldier Goes to War Part 3

The main military unit was a Royal Artillery battery of field guns consisting of some of the army's...