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Fred Spicer's Journey

After the liberation of Middle Beers we spent 2 days travelling to Arnham, this was longer than we had...

Z Company's Battle for Periers Ridge

Grouped in an orchard, the soldiers witnessed a Germany anti-tank battery that was holding up the movement...

Home from Dunkirk on a Coal Barge

Dad had to carry on in the direction of the enemy until he could find a place to turn the vehicle round...

A Soldiers Story

In this connection I quote an extract from a letter I received from my senior — then the Divisional...

Capture of the Cross Channel Guns at Sangatte 1944

In recent years Sangatte, a village situated a few miles west of Calais has become associated with asylum...

Building Air raid Shelters to Italy (Green Howards)

When war broke out my grandad was building air raid shelters in the London area during this time he met my...

Joining the Army

We changed trains at Durham and boarded a train to Brancepeth Castle... Whilst in Brancepeth I visited...

September

Then there was Tubby what happened to him and of course Wilbur so it goes on there was Milson four years in...

Raw Recruit in the Desert at El Alamein

An Intelligence Officer, Hamish Henderson of the Highland Division was nearby and heard the sound of the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 20

A German Afrika Corps Commander talking to Brigadier Graham many years after the war admitted that their...

My Life Changed Forever: With the RASC in France

Among other things we had to collect requisitioned lorries from central vehicle parks so we slowly became...

Desert Rat

IF JERRY'S GUNS AND EYETIE BOMBS DON'T FRET YOU - AND ROUGH ANGOLA SHIRTS, DON'T EVEN CHAFE....

Adventures with the Royal Artillery Part 2

MONTE CASSINO AND ANZIOWe were at Monte Cassino - down by river, the river was fouled with dead bodies. The...

In the WRAF and the Artillery - Kinloss and London

Americans, Canadians, Poles, Czechs, Free French, all brave pilots who volunteered or flew their planes out...

The Glorious First of June

Burma 1945, our Battalion the 2nd Worc's was fighting its way up hilly country, being shelled...

Cooks Perks

During the Coventry Blitz he provided field kitchens to feed the bombed out people and remembers many...

THE BRIGADIER

Four of us; Cyril Livesey, George Glover, Lehman and I made our way to where the stretcher column was being...

Burma (King’s Own Scottish Borderes.)

Lovely girls, Anglo Indian, Chinese, Burmese. Coming back on the boat there were lots of English people We...

My Life in the RAOC During the War 1939-1945 Chapter 5

D Day, when the Allied troops landed in France once again, was on 6th June 1944 and at that time I was...

Wartime Memories: Childhood Memories of Dunkirk

When he eventually arrived at the Dunkirk beaches German fighters were machine gunning them, officers were...

A Supply Drivers Memories of Dunkirk

My transport company received orders to make for Dunkirk, but we first had to go to the NAFFI supply depot...

Muriel's Sure Coincidence: France 1940

Then in 1943 I had a letter from the War Office to say his body had been found with another young man...

Intolerance

CSM Johnson was a Regular in a county regiment and had spent his time in the pre-war army, gradually...

In the Army

When I got my call up papers I went top Pembroke Docks in Wales. It took from 7am to 2am the next...

After War Sights

Later Dad hired a friend's mom to help with house work, Fr... Dad did try, he and Mom loved her as much...

Memories of World War 2 and the Effect it Had on My Family: Childhood Memories of North Camp

My Father was still away training new recruits to ride motor cycles and become dispache riders, it was a...