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鈥淚 Wanted to Join the Navy but I Ended Up in the Army鈥icon for Story with photo

Before I was called up to the army, I worked for John Laing at Sellafield for a short while in 1942. The...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 12

They had even more to talk about a few days later when I received another 9 parcels and Charles Woodbridge...

Ben Cumming's War - Chapter 4: Venezia Guilia, meeting Sofia and farewells

The Officers gave many farewell parties in the Chateau and Sofia was an honoured guest at them, she was so...

The Cross Channel Guns of Boulogne

On the cliffs overlooking the town of Boulogne a battery of German naval guns had made life unpleasant for...

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A Rifleman in North Africa : Part 1 - Capturedicon for Story with photo

Morning came and we broke laager as usual at first light and pulled about half-a-mile away from Brigade...

James Kenna - The Story of A Prisoner of Waricon for Story with photo

Stalag IVB, along with its various surrounding working camps, was eventually liberated by the Russians in...

IX. A Near Escape and a Successful Shoot

Montilly was a village behind Tilly-sur-Seulles and the object of the offensive was to surround the Germans...

The Tamarind Crucifixion

Lewis of the 5th Brigade, the 7th Indian Division, the 14th Army, relaxed squirming downwards and breathing...

Letter Home Following D-Day Landings

Our first month in Normandy was quite peaceful from actual enemy action, just the noise of our guns which...

The Story of a Young Grimsby Conscripticon for Story with photo

This was a new experience for me, we were transporting supplies with jeep & trailer at night sometimes...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 1b - Harry Woodicon for Story with photo

Mine was the 74th Field Regiment from the Gunners 50th Division, but of a regimental strength of 600, only...

A Highland Chindit

At dawn the next day Lieutenant Duncan Menzies volunteered to take a four-man patrol back into the village...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 10 of 13 - Operation Market Garden continued)icon for Story with photo

Parts of the town were ablaze as the Germans brought their flame-throwers into action and Arnhem was fast...

My War Years: In the Royal Artillery from Dunkirk to Italy

However the Government announced that due to world conditions they would initially call up men aged 20-21...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 18a

Telling me to keep a sharp lookout for possible signs of the enemy trying to retake the village Captain...

Experience of a POW chapter seven

Fortunately for us there was a disturbance at the rear of the column created by a French woman offering...

Lili Marlene, the 鈥楧-Day Dodgers鈥 and Lady Nancy Astoricon for Story with photo

Lili Marlene, the 鈥楧-Day Dodgers鈥 and Lady Nancy Astor Introduction. Sometimes when I see these...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 31

We've had our days of feasting In the army in the past But this Christmas at Gradisca Is for most of us...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 9

You had to walk home from a town called Whitton in Middlesex to my home in Mortlake in Surrey, which was...

The Evacuation of Palambang and Javaicon for Story with photo

The day after we arrived at Palambang 2, several of us were detailed to stop at the drome as a servicing...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 3icon for Story with photo

I left this camp some weeks later with a party of prisoners of war and Japanese guards; we walked a...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 11: Attleborough, Norfolk Mid September - early November 1942

Amidst the increasing military activity Butch, Brotherstone and Powell did get time to go to the seaside;...

An Irish- Italian Romanceicon for Story with photo

Had there not been a Second World War my father John Logue of Campsie, County Derry would have lived...

D-Day Part 1

My Brother was lucky because when War broke out he was already studying fulltime at an Aeronautical College...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 17 and 18

At 4 o'clock they came, the Italians had opened the front gate but no others, the Germans came in the...

Dunkirk Diary

Fri-16-Feb-1940 Left home for London with Marj to visit Kath, Marg. and Jack. Sat-17-Feb-1940 Kath, Marj...

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