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D Day 1944 鈥� Jack Tear

We had spent months painting each nut, bolt and welding with special rubber paint to make the tanks...

The Lighter Side of War -CHAPTER 17: Kairouan - A Holy City - June 1943

In the 7th century A.D. Muslim Arabs had conquered the Middle East and Egypt, then Okba, a companion of the...

Harry Blood's War Part 9: Postings in England, 1945-46

The Monty Club was a Royal Palace; the Hotel Metropole was the biggest hotel in Brussels with its own...

Memories of World War II (Part 2): With the Guards Armoured Division

The breakout from the Escaut Canal was led by the Guards Armoured Division, the leading battalion being 2nd...

Memories of Dunkirk

When we reached the front the unit was all lined up in column of threes ready to march along the beach to...

Immediate Post-War in Lower Saxony and Local Relationships

Since the end of the war, the Royal Navy in co-operation with the British army had been transporting to the...

All Things Must Pass

Although being a driver/dispatch rider, my main job was as batman-driver to our Signals Officer, Second...

Memories Buried In Their Minds, For Ever and Ever.

Liverpool: Meols: Farndon- North Wales: Tripoli- Libya and Marsa Matruh- Egypt. Liverpool: Meols: Farndon-...

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part Two

At this stage of the journey we were in the Russian zone and heading in the direction of Berlin, it was...

Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers in Holland

He informed us our destination was to be Holland, specifically Rotterdam, to blow up the large oil...

Letter 3 of 4: Vernon to Brussels

Just as we moved off again a party of German prisoners were marched in by the F.F.I. One wonders how they...

Back for a rest

It was then that we heard about the 鈥淏ig House鈥� and we were told that the old maid was a German...

A Merry (Murderous) Christmas in Algiers (1942)

On Christmas Eve there was a murder which made a stir in the world and would involve many coded messages...

More Active Army Cadet's

Regular Army officers NCO's and PT Instructors arrived from Brancepeth the DLI depot and set to work on...

The Sappers Story

As the flood waters receded this once 鈥榝loating鈥� Bailey gradually dried out, as the pontoons...

It just wasn't his day to die!

Gordon didn't like water or boats and joined the Royal Ordnance Corps at Old Dalby, Leicestershire,...

Wartime Memories: At War in Italy

We had several Smith's - one we called Smiddy, one Smidge and one Spud on account of his aversion to...

Fighting in France: July 14th-August 18th

He was in "A" squadron during the heaviest fighting of the Normandy campaign, transfered to...

Jack Place's War - Part 2

As a result a few days later when the slag train came rolling up to where we were working, the line on...

Dunkirk : Saved by The Manxman 1940

We only started the war in France when the Germans had started to attack Belgium. Later we found out that...

Albert Hedgcock D-Day Invasion

At that time we were preparing for the D. Day invasion and I was an anti tank platoon Sgt, which is next...

Grandad's Story: Part 4

During the morning the farmer came to wake us to tell us that some of villagers had informed on us and the...

Florence 1945: Ruin and Rebirth

In Rome I had the option of 'leave centres' at Aquino or Florence. Renaissance continued when,...

Memories of World War 2

Way below, looking like swarms of ants were Germans- vehicles moving back and front... Came across 2 marine...

My Parents and Aunty

You see he was Flt Sgt Middleton, the Captain of Skinners crew. They had been to Turin in Italy in a...

A Royal Artillery Battery's Preparations for War

At 1400 hours, the Battery formed up in the square and, for the first time since the beginning of the war,...