Belvoir Park, Belfast, was an ammunition dump at the time. Whilst there, I saw Winston Churchill, President...
They reverted to drinking and admiring the cafe owner's wife but one did speak frankly to Butch as the...
Around April 1943, as the First Army's campaign in North Africa was coming to an end, I was struck down...
When night came we could see lights from towns on the South African shore, first at Port Elizabeth and the...
We bashed up the vehicles and left them there so that the Germans couldn't use them. After the war I...
We were in the backroom of Joseph Degand's estaminet at the lower end of Moncheaux, a village in...
Andrew Mackin died on 3rd July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy and is buried in the Commonwealth War...
It seemed to be a hell of a long way to the beaches, then peeping just above the top of our craft...
Unfortunately the German Luftwaffe took over the bombing raids form the Italians. We started to feel the...
Those who had chosen to sleep on palliasses on the deck instead of in hammocks were being rolled slowly...
At that time the senior N.C.O.'s and Officers dined later in the day as only gentlemen should and thus...
We had three batteries of self-propelled 25 pounder guns, and were part of the 22nd Armoured Brigade of 7th...
In several of these letter Marie refers to George as Peter Precious- as she was a Catholic from Ireland and...
Captain Gripper in our platoon took his men in their tanks through long grass where the Japanese were...
There were stories of RSMs so besotted with [army regulations] that they saluted the telephone when an officer was...
The Italians only allowed a certain amount of timber into the cookhouse to cook the rations, so if we...
The Panda division was recently formed and, as I later discovered, was equipped with tanks of a new design...
I went out with him from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and on the Friday somebody had failed to...
Lieutenant Kitchen led us out in a 15-hundredweight truck, the sergeant Major marshalling the four guns on...
An assortment of Army trucks and civilian lorries had been awaiting our arrival for some time and they...
I had been talking to some Redcaps, the Military Police, at the High Court at Dusseldorf and they told me...
Next morning the German Colonel came again and said we would be taken to a prison camp somewhere in...
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