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My Teenage War Years: Adult Threshold

Our A.T.C. squadron was lucky to have picked this particular week for their camp, because during the week...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 4

The arrival of Sandy Stewart, who had dropped rank and been posted as Major to an R.E. Field Company and...

FRANCIS GEORGE CARTER HEATH

Elizabeth Donald and Francis George Heath met when Liz was only sweet 16 and Frank 18 years. Liz wore White...

Mike Sambrook: a Collection of Wartime Stories as Told to Alan McVeigh

So began Mike Sambrook's life in Kilkeel -- a journey that found him love and marriage, a journey that...

Epilogue

This was despite having a younger brother in the Merchant Navy throughout the war mostly on Atlantic...

My Dad's War Memories, Fifth and Final Part

Anyway they finally got it completed and were able to spend one night in it because we were relieved on 16...

My Dad - Sgt Leslie Millard

After that we were lying along our defences, on my left were two machine guns which kept us from getting to...

Escape from Germany 1945 by Arthur Berry

He said that there was no food available on the airfield but a 鈥渃how鈥� wagon would be along in a...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 17c

Some time later, with the barrage continuing with unabated fury, and as we bumped slowly and laboriously...

Memoirs of Army Life From Canterbury to Cologne.Part 2.

I was driving my jeep accompanied by an officer, and we hadn't got 200 yards into the town before the...

Donald Fewkes' memory of Dunkirk

There were no officers or N.C.O's in charge of us, fortunately there were a large number of vessels...

1940-1944. A Conscript's Story

The first exploded about 100 yards short of our guns, the second bomb fell right inside the next gun pit to...

My War

We went all the way down the French coast, past Calais 鈥� the Germans were still in Calais 鈥�...

Operation Shingle: Chapter 1

58 years ago Anzio was a small fishing port and holiday resort for the Romans, its claim to fame being the...

The Teutoburger Wald Story 9AD and 1945 Part 2

It is not often recorded in books written by Officers and other ranks of the Allied forces of the reaction...

RAF Reclamation Squad

ON occasion we were stationed on USAAF 8th Army Air Force bases in Essex and Herts, and the difference, in...

A soldier's dairy 1/8/1944 - 1/11/1944

TUESDAY 15TH AUGUST 1944 - Job finishes just hanging around, wrote green envelope to Ethel sent 2 photos....

Tommy's War Part 5: North Africa

How My Dad Spent His 21st Birthday

British and Indian troops had defeated a Japanese offensive during the ferocious defence of Kohima, in...

Prisoner of the Germans - 4 - Christmas

November 12th: The German sergeant-major gave me some bird picture cigarette cards, which I still have. The...

Norman Macleod: Memories of Life in the Infantry and a Wartime Wedding.

And we had a club just after the war finished and we had a German band, a dance band - four blokes-...

X.Crossing the Seine and Onwards to the Liberation of Lille

The German infantry must have been thankful for his enthusiasm... Later I learnt that they told him that...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 6

My mother always greeted us with the news of neighbours鈥� sons who had been promoted to corporals,...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 6b - Harry Wood

The next morning Lucy was back with one of the officers, it appeared her family wanted representatives of...

WW II Battlefields in the NE of India

To the southwest the Japanese and Netaj Subhash Chander Bose's Indian National Army advanced, up the...

Dunkirk Remembered

I did not see my friend Cecil Lee until about early June and I asked him when did he leave Dunkirk. Earlier...