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Wartime Memories Part Two

When we left Larissa another raid was in progress and the town was alight and I shared the pavement with a...

My Dunkirk Evacuation Experiences: 91st Field Regt R.A.

In the early hours of 22nd May the Germans forced a way over the river between 13th and 150th Infantry...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 7 of 13 - The Invasion of Sicily, July 1943)

Meanwhile, back in North Africa, in comparative safety, while the 1st Airborne Division pushed on with the...

Fire Orders Chapter 6

My companions were Arthur, Les, Charlie and Harry, all signallers; and Bert, Ted and Ray, of the Company...

Commissioned Service to 1944

Their crews sprang into action and, with great difficulty and resourcefulness, managed to fix a towline...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 4

A stronger hint was the two page schedule of rates of pay for an officer serving with various branches of...

Cricket to Pluto - Stanley Tarrant

We left the station outside Kenley Aerodrome and arrived at Liverpool dock yard not knowing where we were...

An MC at Centuripe

Consequently at about 4.30 p.m. Battalion Headquarters move3 up to Point 640 and 鈥淐鈥� Company...

Memiors of a Gunner - Chapter 1a - Harry Wood

Whilst clearing up, I emptied everything into one dish and Johnny was bent down washing the plates in a...

Tich Rayners War Experiences

We finally met up with John Howard at the bridge and at about 0300 hrs the Germans started their counter...

Fire Orders Chapter 9a

Lieutenant Murdoch, our signals officer, who had travelled down from battalion H.Q. at Reykjaskoli to...

From a Letter Written by Sergeant Monty Banks after D-Day

Seeing England everywhere The deeper we travelled into France, the more I saw England. One of the fellows...

Tommy's War Part 4: Jericho and Palestine 1939

Private Robert Simpson in Burma

During the five years of war many letters home have reached the Nottingham Journal office from Nottingham...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 7

It was German Officers beer!.. When it left Danzig, it was full of German civilians, Navy Ratings and some...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 1 and 2

This did not sound at all good I knew that I had my work cut out to get the Battalion ready, but...

Preparing for war and joining the Royal Corp. of Signals

My dad was advised that the safest place for an air raid shelter in our garden at Beaconsfield Road in...

The War C.V. of Ossie Henderson

Ossie's friend Cyril Wroe met him because he had been in the dramatic society before the war They had...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.: 79th Armoured Division in Normandy

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

Dons Dunkirk: 32nd Field Regiment R.A.

A destroyer was loading men at the end of the Mole, Randolph and I managed to climb down a rope ladder...

An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥� soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥� Part 1

His devoted Mum and his lifelong hero his own Dad, to his Brother Arthur and of course his elder Brother...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 17a

The action we were about to take part in was a big one, because the Reichswald Forest was the last major...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 8

Each convoy was led by an officer and the meal lorry by a corporal... In his capacity as the War Office...

Sex in the City: Algiers, 1943

All went well until, as Minna wrote: 'He entered upon an indignant accusation against the...

James Glew, Sapper, 1st Division, 1st Army, North Africa

At this point the 1st Army was not yet an army in the full sense of the word, comprising as it did...