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Conscript Heroes: Rescue at Divion

During the whole of this first eight days as a prisoner of war things were not so bad as they became later...

A Few Thoughts on the Event of October 18th 1944 and the After Effects: In the Royal Artillery

After three or four days, and another operation, I was allowed out of bed on crutches, only to find that I...

The Vienna Tattoo

As an old Cavalry Regiment the 16/5th Lancers,founded in 1689 by Queen Charlotte who also gave her name to...

Greek Campaign 1940-41.Brotherhood of veterans of the Greek Campaign, 1940-41.

Just six days later the Greek Army pushed the invaders back over the border, driving on to capture Koritsa...

Aldershot to the Sultan of Johors palace via Normandy

We were in the trench for 3 or 4 days before we started our job of ferrying supplies up from an american...

Jack Merewood:To War with the Bays Part 1

Radice was slightly wounded in the leg and Rowney in both ankles... The bumpy journey continued, and we...

Victory in Europe - as seen from Rome and from Surrey

Our cinema now screened newsreels of the ‘V-E Day’ celebrations in London — the...

Coventry to Caen (Part 2)

As I got on the ramp it broke loose from the landing craft and pitched me on to the beach,I didn't even...

Enlistment and Training

Edwin did not enlist on his own, his cousin David Cole joined him, but they were soon split up after their...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 22 - A Taste of What Was to Come

At the well it was a case of no bucket no water, so once again as the only one apart from our...

Fire Orders chapter 2b

Fashioned favourites, jazz, cowboy, love ballads, songs from the films —anything and everything, as...

Where are they now: HMS Fernie at Cherbourg 1940

In the middle of June we were ordered into Cherbourg to pick up stragglers, the main evacuation from...

The Story of Mr Harry Rowberry

I went over the Dolomites and when I got to the borders of Switzerland I thought the soldiers were German...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 12 D Rothery

Chapter XII - Afterthought Shortly after my transfer to Chelsea barracks from Pirbright, one of the barrack...

Chapter 10 - Back Home - Peacetime Soldering and Civvy Street (Apr 1945 - Feb 1946)

She later married one of my workshop officers Peter Dodd a released POW from Germany... The ATS officers...

From Youngster to Soldier in 5 Short Years

There we learned physics with Dai' lab, geography with Tiny Tim Meyrick, saw the smoke ascending from...

The Simple Faith of a Prisoner of War

This story is based on a diary my father kept whilst a Prisoner of War in Germany. Desmond Stephenson, Deb...

Reflections

We didn't know about Dunkirk, but in June 1940, we were evacuated from the port of St. Nazaire by a...

Sid’s Story - Finale

Continuing from Sid's Story Part 4 he says "We moved from this place into an orchard because the...

A Trip Around the World

The people who had travelled north from Singapore with us told us we had to build a railway. Lots of boats...

"CornCob" MS Innerton & HMS Despatch, 'Floating Mulberry Harbour'

CORNCOB’ MS INNERTON & HMS DESPATCH IN ‘THE FLOATING’ MULBERRY HARBOUR by William...

An Army Cook's Story

After six months, Herbert applied to Captain Scully for permission to marry Anna. The Captain said he would...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 9 of 13 - The Invasion of Europe-Operation Market Garden)

As winter slid into spring, with the invasion of Europe imminent, it was increasingly evident that it would...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 1

As Hitler and his Nazi party took control of Germany, the German Government complained to the League of...

Stratford D Company goes to War

We went to France on January 10th 1940, and came out, through Dunkirk, and the Warwicks. were the last...

Wartime Visit to Liege

Before we left England my mother said to me "John, if you ever get a chance, when you are in France or...