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The Virgin Soldier - A Love Story

Having completed my initial military training by April 1941, my first posting as a Gunner in the Royal...

My Grandads Story

Grandad did many jobs in Changi, one of those was a "Batman" to a Japanese Officer, I think that is...

1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment C company

He was always disparaging of the prisoner of war films made after the war as they always portrayed the life...

From Herne Bay to Poland, Prisoner of War (Stammlager XXID)

A conflict of information has arisen as a book entitled 'Prisoners of War British Army 1939-1945, has...

David Camp, My Jewish "Sister"

He received a visit from an Austrian Jewess who needed help in getting her younger sister out of Vienna and...

Royal Ulster Rifles at Sword Beach & Cams Wood

We lost 182 men in Cams wood by crossfire and sniper and tanks....

Experience of a POW Chapter four

We barely made it before the Germans closed in around us in tight pockets, one stretching from Boulogne in...

Diamond Wedding (June 2nd 2005) - 6 years POW could not keep my parents apart. Part 2

We stayed in France a while and finally we flew home in a Lancaster Bomber the day before V.E. day. My girl...

Letters Home - August 1944 - Part One

We then assembled them onto a road just outside Lewes in Sussex; ready to proceed to an embarkation Port...

Summer of 1940: A 13-year-old's View of War - Catford and Reigate

My 3 brothers Dudley, Dennis and Kenneth were all in the forces, Dudley and Dennis in the Army and Kenneth...

(Banger) Bert Hall One War Hero

Banger still refused; the officer asked Bert why not. Unluckily for Bert, when the officer saw him he said,...

Memories of Normandy- Hill 112 and 361

- Captain Fields killed later - Lieutenant Sinclair was wounded in a concentration area along with his...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 7

At the point where the South African Engineers subsequently threw over a massive Bailey bridge, and...

From Siberia to Arnhem via Scotland

In January ’42 Franek is accepted into the army and travels to Kraznodzk and then by oil tanker...

Rijkevorsel Road to Arnhem - "Hell's Highway"

There was approximately 35 men, no transport, no medical persons, 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 2 Corporals and 3...

El Aroussa Memories (56 Recce)

We were at El Aroussa 2 or 3 bloody times, we were all around that area Sidi Nsir, Medjez el Bab, Mateur...

Active Army Cadets

At 13 I lied about my age and joined the Army Cadet's, you were supposed to be thirteen and a half......

Evacuation from Dunkirk: 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Evacuation from Dunkirk: 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. During the night we...

Experience of a POW chapter Thirteen

I was signalman at Docking on the Kings Lynn Hunstanton line until December 1957 where I left railway...

In the London Blitz

My family lived in Leytonstone, in outer east London... We travelled by Green Line coach, part of the...

Pendaophos

This was going to be a peaceful journey as we were in what was quite seriously called 'Free...

Home Guard to the Real Thing (in India)

One or two old soldiers said ‘Christ knows where we're going,’ and pulled in at Durban,...

Peace in Italy - Service in Austria 1945-46

We had twenty empty water cans in one of the trucks so we went to ask the driver if he would run...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part One

You may be astounded to know that your Public Enemy No 1 of Germany is NOT Hitler. This man would even...

The Sinking of the Lancastria. (1940)

This we did; along corridors up staircases, along corridors, up staircases, etc, until we found we were on...

A Short War with the BEF in 1940

Bernard always said he arrived at Dunkirk many weeks after the main evacuation because he was in the...