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Soldier or Sailor

By March 1942, I had reached the rank of Bombardier and after a succession of interviews at a War Office...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART II

We were marched on again to another camp, Wompoh, and we had to leave more lads by the wayside to die. The...

A Mother's Heartbreak

My elder brother Arthur, her firstborn, was born in January 1919 and although a normal baby was not exactly...

American "K" Ration Packs

The ''Kpaks were really for the Infantry, but we used to like them as we didn't always have the...

The return home from Malta

Trouble when an Italian sea man was caught stealing tins of jam, milk etc... More stories and pictures...

Food for Rotterdam

Towards the end of World war 2, Germany was short of food, and Holland, in the year or so before the...

Chindits

Today, Friday 5 March 2004 is the 60th aanniversary of the start of the 1944 Chindit Operation, when at 6pm...

For Our Tomorrow

I was called up in May 1943,after initial training at Brecon I was transferred to the Royal Welch...

The Normandy Veterans: Lest We Forget

During the period October 1998 to September 2002 I worked upon a documentary photographic project with...

THE UNCLE I NEVER KNEW

Mother's youngest brother, Arthur Gordon Gadsby, joined the Sherwood Foresters, eventually being sent...

Memories of V.E Day Outside Buckingham Palace by an Ex-Guardsman

Myself and a mate put in an application to go to London for V.E day, it was turned down, in spite of...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 16

There were sweets, soap, a packet of soup powder, cigarettes, toilet paper and what I thought were oxo...

Leonard Fagan, Sergeant, Royal Army Service Corps.

The image above shows my great Uncle, Len Fagan. Sadly the rest of his service story which took in North...

Dad's Story

Unfortunately Dad lost his best friend at Dunkirk, he was a very athletic person, good at all sports but he...

2 Brothers

When Italy he was placed at Monte Casino, but did not fight there so simply waited behind British lines....

Driver Jack Couzens' story part 2

I found myself all alone on the boat and saw hundreds of men in the water struggling I saw one lifeboat...

With the RASC to Capetown

As a fully trained soldier with the RASC in Alfreton in 1940 I was put to work at a place on Highstairs...

When I Went to War (Poem)

At the outbreak of World War Two he was working as a coal miner at Walkmill Colliery, Moresby Parks......

'They Fell off the Back of a Lorry'

This meant a constant stream of these lorries coming out of the sea, up the beach and through the town of...

My Army Service

After completing the course I went to an ammunition sub-depot in Thorpe Perrow Snape near Bedale in...

With the Home Guard: The First Step Towards Service with the North Irish Horse

The unit was based in St. Hilary's Church Hall, home of the 15th Wallasey Boy Scouts. I was Scoutmaster...

Jack chooses the right direction: A Royal Signals soldier at Dunkirk 1940

When the retreat to Dunkirk began, Jack and his fellow signalman were told to stay with their wireless...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART IV

Stopping at Port Saez, one of my regiment said his family had recieved a telegram to say he was missing,...

The Real Heroes

We travelled East towards the River Irrawaddy, and, apart from a few minor scuffles and blowing up the...

1944 Diary - Section 3

In village caf茅, drinking beer! 23rd after Trinity Weather lousy. had to go back to Beringen at night...

South East Asia Command

A second special job was at Camilla, an isolated area with a grass airstrip.We drove the top brass...