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A First Taste of Army Rum, and, the Commander and the Clown.

The colonel, however, came up with the idea of bringing the rum back to Kilkeel and splitting-it between...

"That's Amore"

I am a Methodist by religion while the wife was Catholic but that was sorted out, but permission to marry...

Transformation from Gunner to Trooper

This turned out to be in Rieti in the exact centre of Italy, and I spent the following three months...

Tom's Army Days

Thomas Morgan Williams, Prince of Wales Company, 1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards. Whilst at Cheux, I was...

Leaving Dunkirk:my father's diary account

After spending a cold and cramped night in a ditch, with fitful sleeping disturbed by shell fire in...

The Secret Wartime Journal of Frederick Jude - Part 4 - Vivo Englessee!

To police the area of Yugoslavia, not thus far agreed by conference, but we hope Gorizia, Trieste and Pola...

Ultimate Sacrifice.

And so in June 1944 after a massive build up the allies returned to France at the beaches of Normandy.At...

Gordon Dickenson-Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford

Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford....

Sir Charles Jessel's War Memories

I remember seeing 15 parachutes in the air these were pilots that were either British or German who were...

A Narrow Escape

The rim of the wartime British Army steel helmet was smooth and bevelled but, when I gripped the brim of...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 18b: Sousse: Couscous then where to next? Italy? Blighty? The Riviera? A Restcamp?

Frej, the lad who worked in the army cookhouse, heard that Butch and two friends had had couscous at the...

Crisis? What Crisis?

Cook-house tent had to go up first and we all wanted to help with that.Our cook Fred West, was an...

Bernard Holland's War Diary

We left El Le Hag on about the 15th October 1941, travelling by lorry, Geoff, Morley, myself and a few...

Italy Part 6; To Rome and the North (i)

Eventually, we leaguered some miles from Rome with the silhouette of St. Peter's just appearing above...

My Story: On a London Barge off Normandy

The port was like. . . . well the nearest I could say to is its like being at Aldborough in a...

Attack at Salerno and Sighting the Cassino Monastery

Well into the voyage we were informedthat a landing was being attempted at salerno, but about halfway...

9 Border and "Pots and Pans"

C Coy less Revells platoon still down the road, set off to escort sappers, who were to sweep the road for...

Moving and Marching

At twelve, six German JB87 Sooker bombers appeared over the village and started dropping bombs on us... I...

Don's War

I was then transferred to the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st British Infantry...

Jack South's Story

According to the IRC records this happened in Tunisia on the 19th of December 1941 and it took 2 months to...

A Holiday with Pay, Part 3

Fernyhough, Brigadier A.H. History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-1945. From Oasis into Italy; war...

A Gay Soldier's Story

PETER TATCHELL tells the moving story of a gay soldier during WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Having risked his...

Battle of Britain 1940: My Dads D.C.M. at Buckingham Palace and the day I saw the King.

3. A World War Two Memoir

The 8th Army had already landed at the Toe, and we were going to land at Salerno just below Naples. The air...

Memories 3

Take one look at the crowded hammock sleeping quarters on the lower decks of the 鈥淒uchess鈥�, and...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 6

Other divisions had been clearing the Germans from Antwerp to use the port for supplies, rather than...