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My D-Day

We reached Portsmouth Harbour station and boarded a paddle steamer, Merstone, with tall thin funnel鈥...

Pola Incident

Having advanced my age by two years to join the army at sixteen in 1942, I was sent to the Buffs barracks...

Lunch-time in the Sergeants' Mess

On the first evening in the Sergeants鈥� mess an old Royal Scots Sergeant-Major saw my shoulder...

To Osnabruck

Walter was called up in 1939, changing his job from chauffeur/handyman/gardener to Captain Barclay of...

El Alamein to Montecassino

I toured North Africa and Italy, including stops in: El Alamein, Egypt, Phillipville, Montecassino, Italy,...

George Dooley and Jim Tweedie, WW2 veterans with the East Yorkshire Regiment

During World War Two George and Jim served together in the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, a part...

My Grandad, the Engineer

My Grandad was an Engineer in the Leicester Transport Unit,. He was fixing an engine when another young...

My Experience in Reconnaissance Corps.

After some 8 weeks several of us were sent to the 46th Recce Regiment in Kent and I became a member of...

Life as a Gunner 1939 - 1940

We had been told the Germans would never get through the Maginot line, they came found it through Belgium....

A Love Story .......

One summers day when he was recovering, he was walking with a friend towards the village, when he passed my...

Grenade Attack: First Troops in Algiers

Driving overnight inland to Tabak where the Germans tried to destroy the bridge over the ravine. The...

The Retreat: Escape from La Panne 1940

2.00am Saturday 2 June 1940- We reached a place called La Panne, a seaside place further on the beach than...

Brothers at War

His brother,Will,sailed on a troopship to the other side of the world.Their convoy was escorted by brave...

You Have Got to Laugh,Or Otherwise You Would Have to Cry

My father was English , and my mother was Irish; so this is how when the war broke out in September 1939...

A Royal Signals Radio Operator, and the D-Day Landings

As a Royal Signals Radio Operator, after training from January 1942,and a period of time with the 79th...

The Man Who Was "Called Up and Demobbed" Three Times!

I lived with my parents in Birmingham and in March 1938, attracted by the two weeks鈥� paid annual...

It Seems like a Bad Dream........

For a start we were at Aldershot in a reception camp, and from there sent to Halifax to a divisional...

Enlisted

Bear in mind that 鈥淒鈥� Day was June 6th 1944 and that the Allied forces had reached Brussels and...

Christmas on The Duchess

On Christmas Day 1941 I was one of several thousand servicemen on the troop ship "Duchess of...

Dunkirk Experiance

A canal between us, an obstacle to them, but not to bullets, screaming shell, nor their maiming, killing...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 45

The only bandages available were of a crepe paper type, the proper bandages were sent to the Russian...

Journey into the Unknown

From there to Brickwall House, Northiam, North of Eastbourne, where on 15th September,1940 we had a...

You Must Endure

Joseph and his commrades became prisoners of war in Changi jail, where they and thousands of other...

Memories 3c

RHQ leaves the field where the DUKWs were unloaded, four long months ago, and which now has communicating...

Christmas Day on the Front Line (Taken from F for Fox)

Lieutenant Thresher supplies this version of Christmas Day spent in a farmhouse by the left section of the...

The Atomic Bomb - and V-J Day

My wife Minna, writing on the following day, had nothing to say about this: On 9 August the Americans...