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Dunkirk Comes to Rochdale

My other memory of Dunkirk concerns my mother's brother, my uncle Jim... About six in the morning Joan...

From Schoolboy to soldier - Ken Joyce

There was nobody else in the office so I dashed to the front window and saw a German bomber at roof top...

It aint half hot, mum.

We continued our journey, the survivors were put ashore at Philipville in Tunis, and we sailed on through...

Il Dottore (the Doctor): Bright Light of the Royal Artillery in Africa and Italy

Tommy was by then proficient and medically well stocked and was known in the Volturno area as 'Il...

The Invasion of France as I Saw it: With the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

The Invasion of France as I Saw it: With the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. My father, Sid...

Seven-Day Wonder

My own unhappy predicament at this time, in company with the thousands of other troops waiting to...

Local Hero Lofty Peacock

Lance Corporal Clarence Peacock, 1st Battalion The Green Howards showed conspicuous gallantry in action in...

Joining Up

Hitler seemed to be bombing us at will - mass bombing raids on all our towns and cities but in 1941 Germany...

Combined Ops Training

But the landing craft were wanted first for North Africa, then for Sicily, then for Italy and then for...

Surrender in Algiers

This coincided with the feast-day of Jeanne d'Arc and brought Algiers out in a flurry of bunting and...

Retreat to Dunkirk

Grandad said he would see one man drop into the water behind and then in front from the gunfire from the...

Second Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles. D-Day Landings

We landed on Queen Beach which was divided into three sections: Sword, Juno and Gold. The Canadians landed...

War Diary- May 1940

24th May Told going to Calais, got prepared, went out of village via Pontamahon, Lille, Armeliers, Buaill...

world war II

The unit I joined was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 & stationed in Yorkshire for a time & then to...

Blazer to Battledress

As part of the overall plan to make units self sufficient, various members of the unit were sent on courses...

Lest I Forget

In recent years, I have written to the local paper reminding readers of the disaster, and after good...

An Outline of the Life of a Conscientious Objector to War

After a further period of dangerous service these same five men again volunteered for the Parachute Brigade...

Dispatch Rider's Diary Pt 1

I got a lift to Huddersfield at 04:00 hrs I then slept by my bike in the hut till breakfast time and...

The Tank Suit

We went NE from Sittard and got to a place called Echt because there was a hold up there.We went forward...

Bodies in Burma

Bodies were common; as were shortages of food and water... They were the bodies of Japanese soldiers that...

86or 100 or desert sweeping: Memories of Tobruk

It was from here that the Liberator bombers took off to bomb the oil fields in Romania, shaking out tents...

An Easy War (Or So He Told Us) -continued

My father always spoke of being evacuated from the beaches, so my guess is they then made their way to Malo...

Coventry to Caen (Part 3)

We got to the village of Beauville and went in to an old barn,knocked out all the glass windows and waited...

Another April Shower

We left the start line at dawn on ‘Operation Destroyed’ to clear the Germans from the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 46

Following an air raid warning during the night, it was pitiful to see all the old folk doubled up by the...

Len Smith's Bomb Disposal Experiences During World War 2

Liuetnant Brevis managed to move the bomb into the shaft and get it to be pulled by the Derrick cranes......