10 January 1943: The battalion travelled by train to Shubri on the Brahmaputra River, thence by stern wheel...
Along the embankment leading to the bridge, soil was being carried in rough baskets, tipped and stamped...
Sure enough, during the night, one of the Italians burst into the hut and said 鈥淟atedeschi veni,...
All vehicles, primarily Commers and Austins, were to be exchanged for Bedfords to be collected from various...
Among the British troops advancing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands was one of my uncles,...
The pier was soon visited by Field Marshal Montgomery himself, and one of Dad's most vivid memories is...
Falkirk - Butch and Cheesborough can't compete with the dancing Welshmen. Rice' Cheesborough...
Thursday: To St. Paul's Bay, Mellieha, Shein Tufieha, Mosta and back in cycle... Back to Valetta for...
One night, we stopped an Ambulance, the Police said "No Ambulance". I stopped the vehicle and what...
I thus found myself, completely without any fore-thought, a Sapper in 313th AA Coy RE of the 29th Battalion...
Early one Sunday morning at Winthorpe Hall, George Bennett cast a joiner's eye on the heavy wine cellar...
There were many girls about in Bedford and one night there was a 鈥榙o鈥 on at the Dujohns...
There was no one in Mersa Matruh apart from British and Commonwealth troops and being only a few miles from...
Army Career: Enlisted at Acton into the Royal Artillery embodied Territorial Army and posted to Army School...
Not so the two naval officers who stood rigidly upright gazing disdainfully at the exploding vehicle...
However, Ronald did have a contemporaneous copy of 鈥楴orwood News鈥 dated 16 February 1945 that...
It was now entering the station and Fred was in the chicken shed choosing his victim... Fred forgot all...
We next meet Butch emerging from the Hamburg Police Headquarters, bowed down with kitbag containing twenty...
The Port of Antwerp had been captured, virtually intact, in September but its use was denied because of...
I think one of the reasons may well have been that in the British military hospitals nurses were given...
Some Allied troops moved and took Tunis and cut off the Germans who fell back to Tunis and surrendered......
BHQ was at Kilnsea Camp a few miles nearer Hull and probably the nearest actual unit to the point which...
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