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My Uncle Cyril

My Grandad and therefore Uncle Cyril's dad, was informed of the death and that there were some...

My Experience at Dunkirk

The floor of the lorry was all sand bags and we set off until we came to a road alongside a canal...

Experience of a POW chapter Fourteen

Sgt Tucks increasing panic attacks created animosity with the so-called care staff and he was transferred...

Kasserine Pass

Up to that time we had been fighting with Valentine and Crusader tanks which were no match against the...

The Clyde Coast Artillery

I found myself exchanging my Duke of Wellington's cap badge for a Royal Regiment of Artillery one and...

My Grandad in the War: With 398 RASC Company

This was ok till just before Christmas we were due for leave and at the last minute it was cancelled and we...

Italy and Back Again

Location of the story; London; Kent;Italy. After doing my initial training in Kent, we set off for Italy...

Reggie's War

A much happier occasion during Reg's time in Germany was a chance meeting with his brother Les whom he...

Band of Brothers - Service Records of Ten Brothers

FRED: Joined the Kings Royal Irish Hussars in 1933-served in the U.K, and Egypt discharged to the Reserves...

A Boy’s View of the War in Suffolk by Stan Miller

The milk round I was 11 when the war broke out, I lived in a little village in Eyke in Suffolk... When...

Revenge for Supper

It had windows back and front and there, silhouetted between the windows, I saw two German soldiers pumping...

Militia Call-up, 1939

Merriatt, incidentally, was pronounced locally as 'Mrrt', 'r' being treated as a vowel, as...

The Story of a Young Grimsby Conscipt After the War

We had moved to Millstat in Austria as army of occupation... We stayed in the Hotel Cortina, one of the...

George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part II

Left Sullum 2am for Mersa Matru, travelled all night and next day through terrible sand storms, road...

Seven Years of War - Part 4, a continuation of story no. A4223431: Leaving France.

No postage stamp was required - we had to write B.E.F. or British Expeditionary Force in the corner of the...

Englishman in France Sept 1944

Letter to my Grandmother from Cpl Fred Nuttycombe (2132532) who was my Grand Uncle from 14th September 1944...

From Liverpool to Egypt on the SS Andes, 1940 - 1941

"After survivor's leave, I went to Oswestry and thence to Liverpool, where we embarked on the...

George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part IV

Tobruk getting bombed heavily and planes flying over our heads. Left Bagush for 1st Armoured Division 30...

Memoirs of a Sapper — Part 5 - Humour and Horror

Our Division had captured the paymaster of the 5th SS Panzer Division — a Baron Oberst von Slachen...

From D-Day to SEAC

After several years service in the Royal Corps of Signals,I was posted to Troon, in Scotland, to join...

My Second Evacuation - from Greece

I transferred to my officer's, Lt.Fairbairn, staff car, which we had hurriedly to leave when German...

Frank Conway Prisoner of War

We were there for 3 weeks until Bob and I were captured and taken to Germany to Stallag 4B Prisoner of War...

Mission to Jugoslavia

Radio operators and officers, from both 23rd Hussars and 24th Lancers, were asked to volunteer for a...

A Very Small Miracle: Dunkirk 1940

My family, Mother Father and us two boys, lived with my great aunt, who was a publican and kept the Lion...

Operation Woodchopper

The first day in the woods was quite a revelation as we were not to actually chop down the trees as the...

The Story of a Young Grimsby Conscript

I was still driving the stretcher jeeps and was based in a little town in the mountains called Castel del...