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My Dad's D-Day: Landing and Playing Cricket on the Beach

ON THE BEACHES SOMEDAYS LATER HE WAS UNLOADING ORDNANCE WHEN HE SPOTTED SOME ENGLISH SAILORS TAKING A BREAK...

Our Sergeant Major: Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

When we were in Germany, Titch Burbridge often used put to us on guard duty, which entailed patroling...

Mess Waiter at Totland Bay Military Hospital

Watching us from the windows was a line of nursing sisters probably wondering what this intake had brought...

La Bijude Crossroads

Timmy was not the only member of the family to serve, indeed, I know of Micky, Georgie Davy, Joey; he...

VE Day After "Operation Goldflake"

Butler,myself,our clerk,Private Thomas and our Driver,Jock McLeoud,left in a convoy for an unknown...

A Gunner鈥檚 View of D-Day

The regiment was equipped with heavily-armoured 鈥淧riests鈥� 鈥� basically an American 105mm...

The Day War Broke Out

In 1943, we were stationed at the Royal Engineers鈥� depot at Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon....

A War-Time Visit to Canterbury:

One Saturday in late October 1942, my friend Ginger Middleton and I then stationed at Lyminge in Kent with...

Wartime Rescue

My Grandfather and Mr Grignani took 5 prisoners at a time by train to the Swiss border. When they reached...

escape from st valery

The highland regiment continued to fight a hopeless battle at st valery when the battle had obviously been...

Ray's European Experience

All the way through Belgium and Holland they were liberating the local villages and the inhabitants...

The Lighter Side of War CHAPTER 4: - Vauxhall (Bedford) engine plant, Luton July-August 1940

Her sister was going out with an Irish lad, a lorry driver intending to join the British Army. Friendships...

Don't get caught in the Cold

Now we know that conditions in the PoW camps were not that comfortable and one in northern Poland would...

Tanks and Parachutes [B.Barney]

It was chaos and badly planned; only one tank got to Arnhem bridge. Working for Bertrum Mills and the...

The Lighter side - Life in Darsham

Although we feared enemy activity because of the radar station being so near we were extremely fortunate...

Sand Dunes

The beach probably about a mile in length was bounded by huge sand dunes. This didn't prevent a bunch...

Joining Up Enthusiasm, Cardiff, 1939

In the middle of the feature film a notice was flashed on the screen requiring all Territorials and...

Joining-Up Under Age

After that I took part in the landing at Walcheren Island off Antwerp which we had to capture because it...

Poor Italian Boy.

Therewas no desire on my part to go out on my first day of arrival having just come off a ship and...

Nipped in the bud: 46th Royal Tank Regiment in Taranto

I asked the Trooper in front what was happening and he said that there was a 'Flap on' because a...

Brief account of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW2

The 2nd, 1/7th and 8th Battalions were part of the BEF in France and Belguim. It soon became clear that the...

The Road To Rome

As we crawled through the flattened remains of a town called Cassino we looked up to that mountain crest...

A Quick Dip: Dunkirk 1940

The German Army has swept all before them, the British Expeditionary Forces forced to retreat until there...

My grandads diary: With the Royal Signals in North West Europe 1944

He went trough France to Belgium and ended in Holland near Eindhoven. Later on in live she marries my dad...

Memories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,R.A.S.C.WW2

I'd like to share with readers some meories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,Royal Army Service...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt4

As things happened, my two mates and myself were walking along the docks making our way to the town when a...