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The Sinking of the Umvoti

THE SINKING OF THE "UMVOTI" In July, 1940, when imminent invasion was expected, I was posted to the...

Our First Night Was Memorable

After training we were sent to Scotland as part of a new A.A Battery on the Craigentenny Golf Course,...

Olga Gore's War

We had to do lots of marching up and down and were issued with our knickers - they were khaki and had...

Victims of German Atrocities

M. Casey, W/O A. Hake FILL T. Leigh, F/Lt G. Witey, and FIO P. Pohe It is of little satisfaction that,...

Final Letter Home

On our push inside we have liberated thousands of slave workers, PoW who when they see us jump for joy,....

MY NORMANDY INVASION

I purchased a guitar from a second-hand shop there for £3, taught myself a few chords and teamed up...

Sick of Getting His Feet Wet

My father, George Brown, now deceased, was a 24 year old corporal with the 8th batallion of the Durham...

Manchester to Athens, to Manchester

Their reason for wanting a Mancunian was that Vicky had been born in the Manchester area, but her parents...

In Respect to All that Served for Our Country

He was awarded the India star, Burma star, and France and Germany star, and two gongs. He would tell many...

Our Great Grandad

Ben had a history project to do on the second world war, Dad suggested that he talked to Nan and Grandad...

Home to Ramsgate: John Side 7

John Side — Home to Ramsgate During the Italian campaign things slowed a bit... Eventually Calais...

George Townson's Wartime Diary, C.1942

Barce is a quiet place with many arabs and Italian colonists. the Italians were very decent people, very...

Plum and Apple Jam, 1939 - Bailleul, Near Arras

The next day, we started to move by road to our permanent position in northern France, which turned out to...

An Artillery Piece Saved My Father's Life

And on December 10, approximately 6 weeks after his hernia operation, HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the...

Border Too Far for POW Escapee

He was found at the back of the farmhouse by the family of Nicola Garbasso and his wife Laura and their...

Driver L. Crabtree, Royal Engineers - 2123787

Written by David Crabtree, Truro, Cornwall and added to the site by Christine Wadsworth, Senior Librarian,...

I was There: East Surrey Regiment at Dunkirk 1940

We the Surries kept together and dug slit trenches around a large sand dune which we named Surrey Hill...

Memories of V E Day

I was a P.O.W. after the Battle of Crete, 1941, and was 4 years in various working camps, not being an...

I Was A "War Baby"

But I and my sister Lynne, who was born after Dad had finished his Army service, are very proud of the fact...

Bournemouth to Burma

After a couple of years back in Britain, I was sent out to Quetta to join the Indian Army. We were the...

Arnhem By James Lowrie

It was about 2pm on Sunday 17 September 1944, that the blood-chilling order, "Stand to the door",...

From Electrician to Mechanical Engineer

We sailed through the Mediterranean and once in Italy I travelled up through Tarantoi, Brindisi, Bari,...

After Five Hard Years Dad made His Way Home from Malta.

Embarked 1400 hrs on "Eastern Princess - cargo boat - converted trooper. When Dad arrived in the Clyde,...

Basic Training in the Army at Chatham [D.Ormsby : Part 2]

Basic Training in the Army at Chatham. The army training at Chatham came a little easier for me thanks to...

Arromanches Adventure

During the evening of the 5th of june we set of for normandy, in th company of thousands of other ships and...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 13

The PMC who is the officer in chrage of the mess, had heard from the lads that I was the best scrounger...