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Dunkirk's Epic

A miracle happened, a slim little chance Was to take us away from that hell hole in France, As our navy,...

My Grandfather鈥檚 Place in History

My Grandfather was a lawyer and as such he was required to act as a Defending Officer for several Nazis...

War in Europe, Serving with the Queens Own Royal West Kents

We spent 4 days in Cape Town and were told that we weren't aloud to go into District 6 of the city...

The Epicasco Saga

The Battery Sergeant Major gave his opinion that we should send a large truck with six fairly hefty men and...

Blinded in Action: With 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment in Germany 1945

My father-in-law, Johnnie Cowan was blinded in both eyes by German heavy machine gun fire on the April 15th...

The Italian Connection: Vesuvius and the RASC

Full title after training at Alfreton, Derbyshire, Lance Corporal, B. Platoon, 7th Infantry Brigade...

Chemical Warfare in WW2

At the end of our training the Company was despatched to Porlock ,in Somerset, to carry out practical...

Just an Ordinary Man: Extract 3

Further spoils from the RASC Depot Armoury had supplied us with several new small-arms including machine...

More from "Pots and Pans": 9th Borders in Burma

POTSANGBAM or as the British soldiers of 17 Ind Div said "Pots and Pans" This is a short account...

Ben Cumming's War - Appendix: Lyrics to "The D-Day Dodgers"

Eighth Army skyvers and the Yanks, Sixth Armoured Divi with their tanks For we are the D-Day Dodgers, the...

My Bit Of Excitement

Reaching Bombay, we spent a few weeks at Deolali, before moving across India to Calcutta... Boarding a...

My Grandfather: Royal Artillery

My Grandfather: Royal Artillery...

A FAMILY AT WAR-ALBERT FINDLOW

His lads were William, Arthur, John, Harold, Albert, Wilfred, James, Fred and Frank. Between the years 1940...

Mr W S Lowbridge: Beyond Falaise

Following the german break out from Falaise Gap we were again detached from our division and sent in...

My Father's War; 1939 - 1945

Along with his best friend Don Taylor, at the wedding with Joan Bushell, they found a farm belonging to...

Life without my Husband

I lived in Bridgewater while my husband Ernest Lloyd was stationed there with the Army in 1941... After the...

Grandpa's Story: 600 Miles Through Poland, Checkoslovakia, Germany and France into Bavaria

Grandpa's Story: 600 Miles Through Poland, Checkoslovakia, Germany and France into Bavaria. We started...

DUNKIRK REMEMBERED

When there were no boats about we went back into the dunes for protection from the Stuka bombers. The...

My Grandparents War Experiences.

When war broke out my grandfather, Richard Elliott was 16, and he enlisted himself into the army, and was...

My Rank was a Trooper

At the mouth of the River Scheldte were the islands of Walcheren, N. Beverland and Schoewenn, held by the...

George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part III

Moved to El Adam, stayed here one night; could see Tobruk being bombed. "Black Joe" bombed us...

Royal Engineers, 1940 to 1946

Mr. Davies then showed the interviewer his four medals he was awarded for his service: the 1939-1945 Star,...

Return from Dunkirk: With the RASC

He was placed in the Royal Army Service Corps because before going into the forces he worked at Tate and...

Captured at Dunkirk

In 1985 my father went back to Maastricht and met the two Dutch nurses who had cared for him and who almost...

A Child's War at Home

My mother had two work in an enginiering works makeing parts for planes, so I had to go to my granparents...

The Glove

Agnes laughed, but gave me one of her long silk gloves that she had worn on her and Les' wedding day....