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The Eve of D-Day

Dad was a member of the elite " Coup de Main" force sent to Normandy on the eve of D Day... After...

Getting Your Fingers Burnt!

Sometimes referred to as THE BUFFS, this motto attributed as having been given to the regiment by the Duke...

Memories of being a POW

In 1943 Edward was on the Greek island of Losbos when, because of an ammunition shortge Edward and his...

Story of three friends

This is the story of three friends, John Love,, John McMorris and my late father Robert McCrea. The three...

Leaving Dunkirk: With the 21st Anti Tank Regiment

It was a kind of diary, handwritten notes in a small notebook, beginning on the 10th June 1940 and the...

Mr W S Lowbridge June 1944

Leaving very early on June 6th from just off the Isle of Wight, the crossing was very rough; finally we...

Explosion at Krefeld

Went from Portsmouth and landed on the Mulberry harbours in Arromanches, and went on to Caen. Myself and...

Diary of a private soldier. Hill 112

Our position in an orchard was then 'visited' by five German tanks; we thought they were British!.....

Memories of Dunkirk: A Driver in the RASC

My brother, Leonard Lambert, was just 19 serving in France as a driver in the RASC when the Maginot line...

D-Day: A Memory of Landing at Ouistreham

My brother and I, were in the same regiment: "The Buckinghamshire Light Infantry" wichmade the D...

Lewis Edwards - Background

Name Age Place of Birth Status Current District Emma G. Edwards 24 Limehouse, London Wife Bromley, London...

A Story Among Many

When they arrived at the beach it was empty and the Germans were not far behind ,their brief was in this...

Prisoner of the Japanese

The Japanese had to treat us much better there because the French were Vichy French. It finished up at one...

Continuation of "3 friends one survivor"

Even as I climbed out of a top floor window of the hotel premises, which were our billets, with blanket to...

A Soldier's Life

Being too young for overseas service at this time, I transferred to the Royal Artillery anti-aircraft...

Dunkirk Retreat: Queen Victoria Rifles at Calais

We were ordered into the town to defensive positions.We had been sent to Calais to act as/create a...

Friends Of Arnhem

My name is Dougie and I have three brothers Ray,Peter,and Roger the youngest We first got involved with...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

From Dover he was transported by train to North London and an army depot. After 5 more years service in the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 47

The bombing of Dresden could be heard as very heavy thunder on the other side of those Erzgebirge Mountains...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: A Young Royal Engineer in London

My father was a joiner and worked on many of the big ships that came out of the Tyneside Wallsend ship...

Tin of Peas

In the parcel I was surprised to find a big tin of peas that was tinned in 1942, that I had given...

Getting the facts right

If you have read any of my stories you will see that I rely largely on my own diaries and an album...

Father and Son in the War Together

Luckily my dad survived the war but his dad was hit in the stomach by one of the guns on a ship...

D-Day - Off Gold Beach, Normandy 1944

My liberty ship arrived off Gold Beach in the afternoon, it had a motely crew, the skipper was English,...

The "Other Deception" Operation - Fortitude North....

We travelled through all the major towns from Kent in the South East through to the Midlands to Yorkshire...

Burma with the Warwickshire Regiment

Burma is about the size of Germany - and the Japanese forced us to retreat to North Burma and then on into...