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What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 9 (Chapter 10)

Such was the importance of this commodity that it was with real resentment that we learned that the British...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 27: Itzehoe to Essdorf tank barracks to Hamburg

When she sang "Unter den roten Laterne von Saint Pauli", fixing her gaze up at Butch he was...

The War for River People

They had worked for Hay's Wharf for years, my grandfather since 1912 - at the start of the war he was...

They Came at Us Yelling 鈥� Bansai鈥� Waving Swords and Charging

April/May 1942 I joined the convoy at Liverpool and had a 9 week voyage via South Africa to Bombay Spent a...

My Mother got Two Telegrams, One was Bad Enough.

Two brothers, Robert and Joseph Casson were killed within days of each other during the Battle of Normandy....

War Memories of W/CPL Dennis William Shaw (WWII)

The 5th Army had already arrived at Cassino. W/CPL Dennis William Shaw Attached to 97th HAA 10th CORPS 8th...

The Black Cats: Part 1

As one couldn't write exactly where, due to our mail being censored, I was to tell them that if it was...

British Legion Pilgrimage

50 years later April 7th 1994 I once again landed at Dimapur, this time as a civilian carrying a camera not...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 8

They told us that these bastards, the Germans, had turned their guns on British troops and they were now...

My Experiences with the N.W.E.F/Diary April-June 1940

In the early hours of the morning of Wednesday 15th, an enemy fighter plane skimmed the roof of the R. A....

With the RASC from Capetown and Onward: To Sicily and Italy

A most vivid memory of leaving Capetown by boat was that on the quayside as we pulled away a young woman...

Advance Towards Bremen

On another occasion we were heading towards a town called Xanton, once on the outskirts we bgan the...

Four personal years of WW2

The Opawa went out via Jamaica-Panama Canal to Sydney then on to Aukland and returning the other way via...

One Man's War

1940 During Dunkirk evacuation, Third R.T.R. sent on 鈥淔orlorn Hope鈥� to Calais. Machine gun...

James Glew, Sapper, 1st Division, Florence

By August 12th, the 1st Division had gained a foothold on the north bank of the Arno east of Florence... In...

DAD'S WAR

Dad could all too readily relate to the climate and terrain challenges Vietnam soldiers faced, along with...

John Welsh's War Diary

German guns and tanks bombarding Tubruk. Out of Egypt and into Libya, Mersh Matruh, Sidi-Barani, Hellfire...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 15a: Algeria: Blida to Constantine to Medjez el Bab Tug Wilson's diving lesson

There were British, Empire and Commonwealth fighting troops there, French and American troops nearby, as...

1. A World War Two Memoir

I joined the Army in January 1942, by going to Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, the home of the Signal...

One of Lady Astor鈥檚 鈥楧-Day Dodgers鈥�

My Dad was William Leslie Renney from Cockermouth and known as Leslie. In 1946 after being discharged from...

Keyman - A Somewhat Soldier (Part 4)

The personnel at the reception camp were a mixed lot; apart from the Greeks there was an Austrian who had...

Dunkirk to Auschwitz and Home

We were here for about 14 months until late December 1944 when the Russians had started breaking through...

Prisoner of War

It was the summer of 1938 and all the talk those days was would Germany try to grab extra land to help...

Leonard's Diary

March 16th there are Xmas parcels, getting them issued tomorrow, we have 50 cigs tonight, everyone is...

Mediterranean P.O.W

These are the notes made by Sgt. Constantine Mason, Durham Light Infantry, whilst it captivity in the...

War Time Reflections of a Norwich Man

The following two years were given over to gun practice on a mobile Bofors Anti-aircraft gun and an...