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A Soldier Goes to War Part 2

The army was beginning to sort itself out and within a short time I found myself back at my Brigade HQ,...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 10

From Buq Buq onwards the water had been 鈥渂rackish鈥� but at Tobruk it appeared that the...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 3

The responsibility was laid at the door of the officer who had failed to ensure that all vehicles were...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 22.2

After reaching Moosburg the first 2 days were grim, no beds, little food except Red Cross parcels, we slept...

Anzio Landing

Major General Lucas inspected the Regiment after the full scale practice and so after weeks of rumours and...

The Missing Bomb

As he listened to the crump of exploding bombs and the sharper crack of anti-aircraft guns Jim found...

Fire Orders Chapter 14c

As luck would have it the Worcesters' 6-pounders were loaded with the sabot shell, and as the leading...

Liberation of Walcheren Island

Soldiers were dying on the beachhead and vehicles were being shelled by the German defences so best get off...

A Japanese POW and the Bridge Over the River Kwai

Going into Singapore we were attacked by the Japanese aeroplanes up the Malaka straights which was not very...

"Always Read The Small Print": Life in 2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

His four sons as they became of age enlisted as Boy Soldiers in The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, and...

The Two Times I Saw Paris

This was just before Christmas 1944 when he chauffeured his Commanding Officer, Major E.R. Hargreaves, from...

Christmas in Hospital - Algiers 1943

Minna wrote of her delight at my Christmas parcel which contained the 'mystery gift' I had promised...

My Memories

I am about to leave the wife and kiddies to go into the army, the Coy has been formed by R.G. Tarran...

I Am the Son of a Scottish Soldier

My Father, William McCabe from the Wishaw Area, managed to survive D day and all its horror, only to be...

Harry Blood's War Part 7: Serving in Naples, 1943-45

They are: - Harry Thompson, Cpl., from Stoke; Clem Simpson, Mansfield; Tom Cousins, Leeds; Bert Foster,...

Not Going Anywhere Fast

1904 On the 23 April 1904 Francis Rodney Eglen was born to James William and Maud Mary Eglen in Hull...

Fire Orders Chapter 3a

I stayed on the forepeak as long as I could, for it afforded an uninterrupted view forward and I was keen...

The Secret Wartime Journal of Frederick Jude - Part 1 - Nothing Good about G deck

Frederick Charles Jude September 3rd 1939 it was precisely at 10.30 am that my Father called...

North Africa & Italy Wartime Experiences with the 8th Army

I was born on May13th 1911 in 34 Beech Road Horfield Bristol and was the first born child of Fred &...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 19

We all considered the German bread ration was bigger and better than the Italian, I enjoyed it and used to...

Operation Shingle: Chapter 3

That same day a cruiser, HMS Janus, was bombed and sank in 20 minutes with the loss of her Commander and...

Normandy Veterans Remember World War Two

Jim has been Secretary of the West Cumbria Branch of the Normandy Veterans since 1989. Members, family,...

Diary of a Cherrypicker

Soon our Colonel Bill Wainman arrived and he was invited to light the Sqdn's vast bonfire, and...

Calais: With the RAOC 1940

In a hail of bullets which missed me but peppered the back of the Bren truck, I flung the Boys in and...

Dedication of the Normandy Veterans Memorial Seat, Whitehaven

The story of Gunner Harold Drake, Royal Artillery, a Normandy Veteran. As well as Mr Drake, Mr Jolly and Mr...

Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part I

Both the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse had been sunk by torpedoes launched by Japanese aircraft when...