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The 53rd was part of the 8th Indian Division and supported one of the three brigades of Indian Army...
We were making our way to the ZOO a few miles out of Town. This incident didn't endear us to our...
On the one hand the Jews wanted to leave shattered Europe and set up a new home in Palestine, whilst on the...
Doing short monkey runs I made for a shallow ditch which we had passed along when advancing from the river,...
Francis Donnelly, a Roscommon man attached to the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, was awarded the...
It looked as if the survivors were shortly going to join the swimmers but fortunately a couple of small...
One evening, while taking the air outside our pub I was accosted by a young French officer who invited me...
I was in the second wave of troops to land on "Green" beach, just south of the little seaside...
I had a young Irish lad named Clancy in my team, who said 鈥淐an I borrow your Tommy gun...
'Oh, I see,' she says, 'My son in law, Bernard, is in the army... I've watched him standing...
We will stop about half a mile out from Tobruk, and land the commandos in two waves from small boats, one...
A stay at Duff House In the summer of 1942 it was decided that we, along with the 4th Battalion, would...
Granfa's ship had to negotiate this stretch of water in order to land. Granfa was lucky enough to land...
Flight Sergeant 916592 Jack Maurice Nissenthall was a Jewish Cockney born in Cottage Row, Bow in the East...
A huge extent of beach stretching to Dunkirk appeared and I started walking along the edge of the sea...
Journey continues on to do Chindwig, Basoli Bayaan, Kohima, the 'Basin', Imphal, Snipers Triangle,...
Before we went to France, the king to came to inspect us at Cookham crossroads, near Aldershot, where the...
It had been decided that Regimental Head Quarters, together with 'C' and 'D' Sqdns were to...
Out of the morning mist appeared a destroyer escorting a cross channel steamer the S.S.Malines which tied...
At 3.00 pm that afternoon the London Irish were to pass through the Inniskillings on their attack, but...
By the time he was repatriated, shortly before me, we could converse fairly easily in a strange mixture of...
The Regiment also covered the landings on Reggio di Calabria, Italy, on 3 September 1943, after which the...
Mr. T.C.R. Harrison has handled the contacts with Mrs. Heenan on our behalf and I have appended his letter...
On the move across Europe As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium...
Having studied the Battle of Caen as part of a French language course while staying in the city, I...
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