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Acting Italian

As I speak a little Italian and am dark I should not have been noticed so easily, but my South African pal...

Recollections of Operation Overlord

It was a member of the Maquis, and as my new friends had a wounded man with them he took us to...

My Father's Memories

I was take from the beach by the Grimsby trawler 鈥淐ambridgeshire鈥� to the 鈥淥ronsay鈥�...

Memories of a Macedonian Partisan Commander for the Members of the British SOE Mission in Macedonia, November 1943-May 1944

This story is submited by Goran Cekov who has translated from Macedonian into English the memories of his...

Harry's War

I, in fact, took to the language so well that I went on to get my degree in German and now I...

Memories of My Uncle John's War by Sheila Moorby (Nee Lea)

My Father looked down the street and said "It's a telegram". My Mother said "I bet it's...

Yesterday: Leave in Brussels

Standing on wet feet in a muddy hole, my hand holds the remains of an army biscuit which was as appetising...

Removing a Leg, With a Penknife

I am going to begin this story in about 1960/1 when I was about nine years of age, my father had taken...

Under the Indian Sun

There was a lot of conflict in the India at the time between Muslims and Hindu's. I was actually in...

France 1940

We spent a few months near Bristol and in the in the spring of 1940 moved to France where we were billetted...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 49

For a few hours we were in a 'No man's Land'situation, until eventually the forces of Russian...

Homecoming from Dunkirk

The family in Sunderland were alerted to Jims failing health by Rachel when she wrote to her brother in law...

Ron's Grand Tour

In the fond hope that other folk have trod this path with me, I now give Ron's Grand Tour, 1942 to 1947...

I Join the Army (The Sherwood Foresters) Fred Hirst's Story Part 1

I Join the Army Fred Hirst's Story Part 1. Fred Hirst was called up at the age of 18 and joined the...

With the Suffolk Regiment in France

I was in a mortar platoon at the time, and we landed on Sword Beach at 9.30 on the 6th June 1944......

Fighting for Boulogne

My father, Arthur Colin Guest, was serving in France at the time of the German Blitz Kreig in 1940....

Rape: An interpreter in Occupied Germany

There I found two Germans, one an elderly man and the other a middle-aged woman, trying in vain to convey...

The Hut

All windows down, cigarette tips working up a fug, after-lunch chatter and Lieutenant Knowles stood by the...

Dunkirk: With the Royal Engineers

A few days later they managed to get a boat off the beach, got to Ramsgate, were given tea, cakes and...

My Dad's WW2 Contribution: Worcester Regiment

Moved into Belgium 13.5.40 and took up positions at Waterloo fighting retreat back to Wormhoute where we...

鈥淣ow the Carnival is over鈥�

With the poor weather and severe lack of food many people fell by the wayside but the sledge proved to be a...

My 21st Birthday: 1 June 1944

I was a Lieut in the 25th LAA Regt RA 50 Div which we all know was an assault division in the...

Memories of Service in the NAAFI

Because I was working in a NAAFI things never got too dangerous, although we did get bombed by planes going...

Italy Part 5; Crossing the Gargliano cont'd

From Picilli, we went back to Casa Luce, another town with no remarkable qualities, and from there to Sarno...

Prisoner of War: Captured at Anzio

So apparently they wanted to pull away some of the German troops from Montecassino so they put in an...

A Truly Remarkable Coincidence

Mike obviously came from Lancashire and when he told me he lived at Nelson I replied that I had often...