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Just an Ordinary Man: Extract 1

I was a member of HM BEF within a Regiment of Royal Artillery during 1939/40 based in Le Havre France......

My Dad's Dunkirk

He witnessed the sinking of two of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ships, Monas Queen and King Orry,...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

It details his actions at La Panne and Dunkirk, which led to the award of the military medal. We arrived at...

More Food for Thought !

The farmer said we has stolen his pig and that we were as bad as the "Tedeschi" Jack at first...

Japanese Prisoner of war.

1941, he left Freetown and went to Cape Town and then on to Bombay, where he stayed at a rest camp at...

Recollections

After we had broken through Cassino and were on our way to Rome we went through a small town called Alatri,...

Dunkirk Diary: 1st Searchlight Battery

The 1st and 2nd S/L Battery formed the 1st S/L Regiment. The 1st S/L regiment had been the AA S/L defence...

German ‘Tip and Run Raiders’ over Hove in 1943

The best book I know on this is "Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers over Britain - The Tip and Run Campaign,...

Glimmers of The Far East

Being born in Salford, my dad was "Billited" in a Mill in Littleborough just outside Rochdale.So...

My Father - A Soldier in Burma

When World War 2 broke out the three oldest sons undertook civil duties, but Fred and his nearest brother...

Ice cold…. But NOT in Alex !

We rarely had a chance to see a thermometer but when the petrol froze overnight in our vehicle...

The Army at Sixteen

Around 20 tanks were lost on both sides and supporting the Canadians and the 51st Highland Division we...

The Desert Rats, Sicily Landings, D Day and beyond

The 8th army held the narrow strip of desert from El Alamein to the impassable sands of the Quattara...

Food Preperation

Not too much of either water or diesel and you would have a cooking stove which would last till either the...

From one war to another

This was the premier run for picking up new bombs, because it was where the Luftwaffe jettisoned their load...

Role Reversal

Two British Army doctors were captured in the same battle and taken to a German casualty clearing station...

Some Things are Meant to Be

Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...

Old Soldier

Born in 1890 in Brighton Sussex Harry Cowley's early memories are of a Victorian England so...

The Postman with the Telegram

So one dark and cold morning the postman knocked on my Grandmothers door with the dreaded telegram the war...

Fall of Le Havre 1944

By 2nd Lieutenant James Wareing, 141 RAC, The Kentish Regiment, 79th Armoured Division, 2nd British Corps,...

My Life during World War 2

But anyway, they plucked up courage, and, if you know the history all around Tripoli, and places like that,...

The Other Side of the War

John Gillies, was born on a small farm in the small village of Longniddry in Scotland in 1923. His...

Addendum to 2nd German Counter Attack.

London N.6 was acting as O.P. OFFICER in support of the Gordon Highlanders. Captain Jupp's wireless...

"My Longest Night" sailing to the Normandy Beaches.

The next morning found us anchored off the Isle of Wight, waiting for the rest of the convoy and our...

BEF/Dunkirk

When he signed up he was promised a posting to the Middlesex or one of the Kentish regiments, when he...

Surviving Dunkirk: With 2nd Super Heavy Regiment, R.A.

Harry went as a driver to France, crossing from Dover, on the train ferry to Dunkirk. Harry was lucky as...