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Bayeux Cathedral and the Occupation

As I looked around it dawned upon me that the place had been stripped of all furnishings. there was no high...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 09

On the 5th of February the Battery set off from Bone for its final destination, travelling by land convoy...

Still at Rest in Cairo "The Pyramids"

My visit to the Pyramids was memorable, I went to my pal Charlie,met up there with couple of other fellows...

Lessons for the Next Generation

After moving from requisitioned property my family lived on a council estate in an inner London borough. In...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 13 (Chapter 13)

A ‘Quad’, by the way was the name given to the vehicles designed to tow 25pounders though why...

Maps, Messages and Adventures

At this time Peter was in India including on VE day, and then went on to Ceylon where he was for VJ...

Persil Washes Whiter

The Icelanders had plans, delayed because of the war, to centrally heat all the houses in Reykjavik with...

Captured on the Road to Dunkirk

Later in the day the ambulance convoy set off towards Dunkirk, but during the darkness the convoy got...

Five Years' Absence: Memories of Father's Service in the 8th Army

He had photos of the then boy King of Iraq and has a wooden cover copy of the New Testament that he...

'A Walk in the Sun' (extract)

I looked back and my feet were lying in the crater from the bomb, I must have had my legs wide apart...

A Welsh Guards Tragedy

Have been attached to the Welsh Guards Training battalion based at Sandown Park race track near to Esher...

Far East and Italy Memories

In 1944, Audrey Hepworth`s father Charles Leslie Broxholme, then living in Bradford, received a letter from...

Sgt. Brian Moss: 719 Bomb Disposal Company and 233 Field Company, Royal Engineers

In 2003, I followed Dad's footsteps from Gold Beach to Nijmegen... A week later, Dad became the victim...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 24: Eindhoven - March 1945 Holland - Into Germany `Across the Rhine on the Twenty Nine'

Only five days behind Monty, whose front line troops crossed the Rhine near Wesel, North of the Ruhr, on...

Staff Sergeant Billy Marfleet GPR

Billy and his friend, and co-pilot, Vic Haines were now part of Operation Tonga and tasked to fly to...

James Glew, Sapper, 1st Division, Pantalleria

JAMES GLEW, Sapper, 248 Field Company, Royal Engineers Pantelleria Now that the whole of North Africa was...

Norman Pennington, Northumberland Fusiliers

Norman Pennington was born at 65, Arthur Street, Thornhill, Rotherham, on Christmas Day 1911. We all spent...

Bill and Jack and the K Rations

After much debate and fearful looks up and down the little village street for the British Military Police ,...

Memories - Bill Farrant

At about the age of 15 I joined Paterson's Engineering Company, Bow, East London to learn a trade....

Harry Blood's War Part 1 - Call up and initial training, 1940

From his call-up into the Army in January 1941 until his ‘demob’, Harry Blood kept a diary. I...

Pictures Purloined at Predappio

But Predappio had another 'claim to fame'. It was the former boyhood home of Mussolini, Il Duce......

A Rookie's Tale

In the early morning, a day or so after, a German light Observation plane came over, flying fairly low, no...

Ammunitions Box Returned after 61 years

Serge wrote to me afterwards and said that he had this small box and felt that it should be returned to...

Retreat to Dunkirk: With the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

My grandfather was part of the British Expeditionary Force serving in France in 1939/40 at the time of the...

A Letter to Frank Nolan

Billeted in school 14 kms from Belgian frontier. Guns dug in Mon 9th — Wed 11th — Wireless...

Dunkirk 1940: Insurrection

My dad always extolled the comradeship of Army life but, curiously, names were never forthcoming or if they...