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"Don't Go down the mines, Daddy..."

My Uncle Joe was one of the many who didn't get taken off the beaches at Dunkirk. Uncle Joe was one of...

Sergeant White

White was about to through another grenade after him, but before he could the German turned and fired. My...

Harry Holt's Poem

Tracks and courses, pencils and charts, thoughts of home and aching hearts, Everything gathered and out to...

Going Overseas cont'd

Also since that time I refuse to travel anywhere by ship or go on a cruise, In my army career I think...

The Academy: 46th Royal Tank Regiment in Greece

When the Greek government asked Mr Churchill for help in suppressing the warlike activities of the...

The Last 8 Months of the War

We had amphibious tanks that were to go up over the Dykes to cross the river Isal. The Royal engineers had...

D-DAY Gold Beach - Letter Home

He served in Egypt, Malta, Scicily, Italy and finally took part in the D Day landings in 1944. We were...

Cont.3 Friends One Survivor

Whilst at Richmond Park I was able to go home at week-ends to Welling in Kent.However this was not without...

"MY WAR AS A DISPATCH RIDER IN MAINLAND EUROPE"

I have three medals the King George VI War Medal 1939-45, the France and Germany Star and the 1939-1945...

Friendly Fire: A Dreadful Accident Remembered - Holland 1944

Sarge`, don't leave me Sarge`鈥�....

County Regiment Ceremonial

The candles were lit and the Port and cigars were passed around the table... If the Colonel was happy with...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - volume 8

The other soldier was Jack Lightbown, a private in the 1st Battalion Manchester Machine Gun regiment -...

My Preparation for Army Service

I arrived at Sutton in Ashfield at tea time. I had to catch a bus to Sutton in Ashfield then I was...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: An Army Regular in Perth and London

I left home and joined as an army regular at the age of eighteen in Perth, Inverness, Scotland....

Coming Home: 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regt in France 1940

In May 1940, at the time of Dunkirk, my father, Eric Cattley,aged 32 at that time, was serving as a junior...

The Fall of an Ace

At about noon the lookout reported three German Tiger tanks approaching. The whole operation took 12...

My Father's War

One of my late father's golfing partners was the late Andrew "Gunner" Rankine, Solicitor, ex...

The Morning After

We assembled with our weapons into columns of three abreast and marched onwards through a road lined with...

Sentenced to Death at Singapore

As soon as he was old enough, he joined the army, and was quickly dispatched to the Far East 鈥� or as...

A Dunkirk Hero

My story is about my late father-in-law Johnnie Cowan he was a bren-gunner, and his platton officer, a...

'Mad Aberdeen's' War [J.Aberdeen]

The identification on the sides of trucks was an oval- after Osborne biscuits which were oval... At Tunis...

Meeting at Farmer Giles Milk Bar

On the first big air raid on Sunday night November 24th 1940, I was waiting for a bus in the centre to...

The Military Medal

My grandfather, Corporal William O'Rourke very skillfully landed 5 bombs along the crest, no more fire...

Le Paradis: The murder of 97 soldiers in a French field on the 26/27th May 1940

Angus Cain 1st battalion of Royal Scots Age 27 was killed by Germans in May 26/27 1940 this is his story...

My Grandad's experiences in India

For most of the War my Grandad was based in India and I can vividly remember him telling me of how he...

Onwards to North Africa with 10th Battalion Green Howards [D.Ormsby : Part 4]

From Yorkshire my trail led to Scotland, bound for Algiers. The ship I travelled on was the...