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This category contains a story with photo15 Years in Uniform by Raymond D Swindell [6 stories]
1939-45 The War Years by F. G. Imm [5 stories]
1940s School Boy Memories by Alan Burton [4 stories]
64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery - V.C. Fairfield [31 stories]
A Bermondsey Boys War by Kenneth Alford Haines [9 stories]
A Boy at War by Charles S C Rockey [4 stories]
A Boyhood in a Wartime England by John Chappell [8 stories]
A Child's War by Michael Charnaud [20 stories]
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings [10 stories]
A Commando's Story by Denis Roby [4 stories]
A Disaster of WW2? [6 stories]
A Fateful Voyage: Convoy under Attack in the Atlantic by Bernard de Neumann [11 stories]
A Firewoman in Wartime by Jacqueline Wilde [14 stories]
A German POW in Britain by Herbert Heinemann [5 stories]
A Glider Pilot's Story by Bernard Black [20 stories]
A Gordon Highlander at War by George Stephen [4 stories]
'A Journey to and From Greece 1941' by Frank S.Paul (F11E) [4 stories]
A Journey to India- An Army Memoir by A Teale [3 stories]
A Lad Called Bris (One Sailors War) by Bill Gregor [6 stories]
A Lancashire Lad Goes to War by Kenneth Ashton Brooke [12 stories]
A Lighter Shade of Pale Blue by Reg O'Neil MBE [9 stories]
A Marine's Tale: William Cockburn's Memoirs [7 stories]
A Midsummer's Night Dip in the Baltic - Avro Lancaster of No.57 Sqdrn [3 stories]
A Naval Career by John Malcolm ("Jim") Hirst [4 stories]
A Night to Remember by Ronald Homes 101 Squadron [4 stories]
A Personal Account of Life and Action in a Tank Troop by George W Martin [10 stories]
A Prisoner of War's Diary from Stalag VIIIB - 1940 to 45 - The Photograph Album of George Irving Beck [105 stories]
A Prisoner of War's Diary by John Amos Taylor [6 stories]
'A Railwayman's War' by Ernie Crump [5 stories]
A Reluctant Conscript 1944-1948 - A Bevin Boy's Memoirs [9 stories]
A Rifleman in North Africa -by Kenneth Horseman [3 stories]
A Sergeant's Tale - Bob King's Wartime Experiences [3 stories]
A Slice of Autobiography (1939-1946) - Philip E. Marshall, and Photo Album [20 stories]
A Story of Escape..WW2 by Leslie Davison [13 stories]
A Story to Tell: In the Hungarian Army by Steve Guttmann [5 stories]
A Submariner's Story - Jack Darlington Bruce [25 stories]
A Teenager at War by George Marsden [3 stories]
A V.A.D. in India and Burma by Greta Underwood [4 stories]
A Veteran Looks Back - Bill Doran [22 stories]
A View from the Back: The Recollections of a Fleet Air Arm Observer 1941-1946 by Tony Inman [14 stories]
A Willing Volunteer by Kenneth Rawlinson [3 stories]
A Wireless Operator's tale by Jack Morley [9 stories]
A World War Two memoir - Dennis Hope's Army Experiences [5 stories]
'A Young Boy's War' by Graeme Sorley [6 stories]
Account of 'D' Day by Ronald George Lamming ASDIC Opperator [3 stories]
Adventures of a Far East Prisoner of War by Arthur Ronald 'Ron' Staveley [3 stories]
Airplane Crazy by Ron West [5 stories]
Alex Dickson - Memoirs [9 stories]
All Tanked Up: Headley Village in the War [12 stories]
An "Extra-ordinary" Soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C -by Douglas Charles Chandler [8 stories]
An Airman in South East Asia Command by Mr. Ken Armstrong [3 stories]
An Amazing Wartime Secret by Kennedy McConnell [6 stories]
An Egypt Tank Commander's Photo Collection - Stanley Painter [8 stories]
And I was in the Brownies - by Gwen Millward [5 stories]
'Another Door' by Tom Simkins MBE, Chief Radio Officer MV 'Pinna' [9 stories]
Approach of the storm by Thomas Arthur Russell [40 stories]
Approach of the Storm, Images of WWII - Thomas Arthur Russell's Photograph Album [41 stories]
Arctic Convoy - Donald Harman [4 stories]
Army Service by Mr A F Adams [4 stories]
Around the World in the Royal Navy- A Photo Album [33 stories]
Arthur Herbert Webster [6 stories]
Arthur Nicholls - The War Years [3 stories]
As I Travel Along Life's Sometimes Stony Path - by Stanley Ogilvie [5 stories]
At War, with 168 Brigade [4 stories]
Audrey's Wartime Adventures [10 stories]
Battle of Crete 1941 by Leonard Charles Eades [3 stories]
Bellum Vobiscum: Polish War Memoirs. [53 stories]
Belsen Concentration Camp - James Young's Photographic Record [11 stories]
Ben Cumming's War [5 stories]
Bert Vickery's War Memories [6 stories]
Betty's Little Book [7 stories]
Beyond Dunkirk by Corporal Edward Arthur Wilkins [6 stories]
Bill Clark's War [8 stories]
Bill Sanderson's Wartime Experiences as a Royal Marine Commando [5 stories]
Bill William's War [3 stories]
Bill Yoxall's War [2 stories]
Bill's memories by William Young [7 stories]
Birmingham As I Remember It [4 stories]
Bob Freeman's Photo Album [4 stories]
Bofors Gun - Cyril Perkins [7 stories]
Book Written At School In 1941 by Phyllis Lee (nee Brown) [9 stories]
Brian Dowden's Memories [7 stories]
Bulldog Spirit by Frederick Arthur Broadley [6 stories]
Burma Campaign, 1st Bn The Seaforth Highlanders, 23rd Indian Div [3 stories]
'Bus Stop' by Mike Hazell [15 stories]
Captain Frederic John Walker [32 stories]
Charles Cassidy 303rd Bomb Group (Hells Angels) 360th Bmb. Sqdn. [4 stories]
Charlie Pocock's War [21 stories]
Childhood Memories in Neath [8 stories]
Childhood wartime memories of living in Queen's Park, Bedford by Richard (Dick) John Hughes [3 stories]
Coventry to Caen - by Ted Bedford [3 stories]
Dad's War Diary [7 stories]
Danuta Juszkiewicz - Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland [4 stories]
David Wooderson's War [7 stories]
D-Day - 60th Anniversary by Bernard Peters [11 stories]
Diary of Two Nobodies by Kenneth and Jean Clark [3 stories]
Donald Delves' War [10 stories]
Don't Look Back (It's not there any more) by Edmund Cross [3 stories]
'Don't You know there's a War on ?' by Ann Marshall (nee Donhue) [4 stories]
Dorothy Collis' Story [6 stories]
Doug Bukin: A Child's War [3 stories]
Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot [15 stories]
Duncan Torrance's Army Memoir [30 stories]
Dungannon Boy goes to War by George Nolan Johnston [4 stories]
DWBD's War by Doug Dawes [18 stories]
E M Sommers by Molly Sommers [8 stories]
East Surrey Boy Bandsman then Japanese FEPOW by Frederick Austin 'Bunny' [5 stories]
East-End boy goes to Sea by Edward Lewis [4 stories]
Eight Days in Arnhem [5 stories]
'Eight Years in the RAFVR' by Suffolk Family History Society [9 stories]
Eileen Parsons Remembers [6 stories]
Else happened and I was in uniform by Geoffrey Dent [9 stories]
EM Shelley's Wartime Experiences [4 stories]
Episodes from an Uncertain Memory byEdmund F. Scrivener [6 stories]
Escape from Sandakan by Florence May Young [3 stories]
Escape from Singapore [12 stories]
Escape from Singapore by Brian Napper [9 stories]
Experiences of an FEPOW by Lieutenant AV Kent 129202 [3 stories]
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories [7 stories]
Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons [10 stories]
Fire Orders - by Doug Burdon [35 stories]
For The Duration - Tony Robins [13 stories]
Four Years In A Lifetime A Lifetime In Four Years by Audrey St. John-Brown Formerly Turner [9 stories]
Fred Beacham's War [6 stories]
Fred Cole's RAF Memoirs [5 stories]
Fred Smith's Desert Rat Memoir [9 stories]
Frederick de Faye's Photo album [28 stories]
Fred's WWII by John Fred Roberts [8 stories]
From Cornwall to Calcutta - A photo album [5 stories]
From Lofoten to Italy by Robert Meadows [5 stories]
From Rags to Riches - by Hans Alfred Nossky [3 stories]
From Schoolboy to Sailor - John Leslie Carter [5 stories]
George Adams Interview [14 stories]
German PoWs - A Photo Album [9 stories]
Goodnight Children Everywhere by Rose McNamara-Wright [5 stories]
Gordon and Joan Bourner's War [4 stories]
Gordon B.J. Levers' Photograph Album of WWII Unexploded Bomb at Lancing Road [19 stories]
Grandad's War by Stephen Simpson [5 stories]
Grandad's Wartime Memories by Charles Ireland [4 stories]
Greville (Freddie) Moss' War Memories [4 stories]
Growing Up in Wartime Britain by Elaine McArthy [3 stories]
Harold Wagstaff's War [7 stories]
Harold's War Operations - Harold Swain [4 stories]
Harry Lund's War [7 stories]
Hazel's War - Hazel Benney [6 stories]
Herbert Handley, R A S C Dispatch Rider - Photo Album [29 stories]
Hesketh Bank WW2 Newsletter [7 stories]
His Majesties Motor Gun Boat No. 21 by J E Quinlan [4 stories]
HMS Foylebank by Ron Walsh [3 stories]
HMS Hardy by F A Mason [10 stories]
HMS Hood - Collected Memories [11 stories]
HMS Implacable - A Photograph Album [6 stories]
HMS Queen of Bermuda by Brian Armstrong [8 stories]
HMS Volage by John Mills [2 stories]
Home Guard Memories (18th Battalion Bristol HG) by David Garth Pepperell [3 stories]
How AC2 Jepson met Mme Chiang Kai-shek [2 stories]
How I Remember the War, From a Child's Viewpoint by Keith Eldred [5 stories]
I Remember - Ronald Cox [7 stories]
I was There! Where? - The Naval Autobiography of Alec Kellaway [22 stories]
Images of war in the Middle East, Ronald Hornsey's Photograph Album [22 stories]
Imprisonment and Slave Labour 1940 - 1945 by Edward Hoult [3 stories]
Irene Cooper's Memories [15 stories]
Italy -by Norman Elsdon [7 stories]
J W Stanworth Memoirs of the Merchant Navy [7 stories]
Jack Burgin's Photograph Album [265 stories]
Jack Merewood: To War with the Bays [4 stories]
Joan Quibell's Diary [8 stories]
John Henderson's RAF Memoirs [12 stories]
John Mills - Memoirs [28 stories]
Join the Navy and See the World [19 stories]
Journey into the Unknown -William Ledbury's Army Memoirs [73 stories]
Just Another Family [7 stories]
Just Another Story by Edward L. Humes [7 stories]
Keith Underwood's Memories [4 stories]
Ken Bush's War [5 stories]
Ken Potter's Army Memoirs [12 stories]
Kristallnacht and how the Kindertransport saved Rolf Heymann's life [3 stories]
Lady Luck by Terry Hulbert [5 stories]
Land Army Tales by Violet Parnham [3 stories]
Laurie Dorin's Story [16 stories]
Leading Aircraft Woman Mary Elizabeth Frost (nee Geddis) - WAAF [9 stories]
Liebenau Internment Camp, Germany by Donald Berry [15 stories]
Life as a Teacher during WW2 - Enid Lydiatt [4 stories]
'Life in the Services 1939-1946' by John Bartlett [5 stories]
Life on Board the Destroyer HMS Relentless [5 stories]
Lined Up to Die in Hong Kong [3 stories]
Lisbon Maru sinking [4 stories]
Liverpool's War by James Carter [3 stories]
Looking for That Someone by Leroy Weaver [4 stories]
Lt. Col. Tony Shaw O.B.E. WW2 Memoirs [3 stories]
Maltese Childhood by Anita Sackett and family [7 stories]
'Marching on to Laffan's Plain' by Alan Shaw [12 stories]
Matt Guymer's Recollections [5 stories]
Maureen Blakey's Memories of an Evacuee [6 stories]
Mediterranean Salvage by Herbert Hall [3 stories]
Memiors of a Gunner - by Harry Wood [12 stories]
'Memoirs of a Misfit' by Jeffrey Jackson [8 stories]
Memoirs of a Sapper by Major C. R. Wampach [7 stories]
Memoirs of a Wartime Welder by Harry Sharples [4 stories]
Memories of a Bombardier 1940 - 1946 by Kenneth Shaw Prout R A [6 stories]
Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Lincs by Margaret Holmes [7 stories]
Memories of an English Childhood in Malta by Rita D. Salmon nee Gauci [4 stories]
Memories of Frank Lund [10 stories]
Memories of Frank Yates, Royal Artillery, Light Anti Aircraft Battery [48 stories]
Memories of the Second World War in Plymouth by Desmond John Taylor [3 stories]
'Molly's War Effort' by Tony Lockwood [9 stories]
Monte Cassino, 1944 by Romuald E. Lipinski [6 stories]
My Father's Story in the Sappers - Deryck (Dick) Reynolds [10 stories]
My First Prison Camp - By Ralph Corps [8 stories]
My Life - Born in 1918 then a Soldier in WW2 [15 stories]
My Life and Times as a 大象传媒 Engineer [5 stories]
My Life and Times as a 大象传媒 Engineer by Dennis Faulkner [5 stories]
My Life My War - by Bernard Hallas [27 stories]
My Memories of the War by Ronald S Cass [5 stories]
My Part in the Downfall of a Dictator by C Robinson [2 stories]
'My RAF Life' by Ossie Evans [6 stories]
My Service Story - WS Yates [5 stories]
My Story- A Family's Escape from Poland by Mrs Aldona Zakrzewska, nee Smolenska [2 stories]
My Time as a Prisoner of War by Les Allan [5 stories]
My Time with 271 Squadron - by Alan Hartley [3 stories]
My War - Neil Humphrey Jones [8 stories]
My War - Tony Hanson [15 stories]
My War -By Peter G Moody: Childhood Expreriences [11 stories]
My War Days with the Welsh Fusiliers [8 stories]
My War in Two Armies by Maurice Vila [10 stories]
My War Service by Micheal Maynard 30 Workshop Control Unit REME British Army of the Rhine [4 stories]
My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy by Peter Cook [4 stories]
My Wartime Memories of West Wight 3 [4 stories]
Naval History of G.T.H.Green [10 stories]
Navy Rum and Brown Sauce [8 stories]
Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruk [5 stories]
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride. AN RAF Memoir by John Maunsell [8 stories]
No. 8 PFF Group - An RAF Crew Interviewed [6 stories]
Nursing 1939 -1945 by Pat Lawrence [5 stories]
Nursing in India by Mrs. Gwyneth Jones [3 stories]
Odyssey's Wartime Memories [24 stories]
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - A Photo Collection by Harry Wright [15 stories]
On Stage in Stalag Luft 3 [9 stories]
One Child's War -by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin) [8 stories]
One Man's War: Robert H Allison's Life in the US Navy [19 stories]
One More River by Brigadier John Constant [9 stories]
One Small Suitcase - Anne Misselke [6 stories]
Operation Shingle: The Anzio Landing [6 stories]
Patchwork of Memories by Leonard Smith [3 stories]
Patrick Pocock's Photograph Album [108 stories]
Peckham to Burma & Back by Denis Gardner [3 stories]
Peter Dawbarn's Memoirs [7 stories]
Photographs of My Husband's Experiences of War by Olive Cooper [35 stories]
'Phyllis Briggs's War' [11 stories]
POW march across Germany, 1945 by James Badcock [7 stories]
Prisoner of War - 1940-45 - Mr Ron Bates [3 stories]
Pte. Leonard Chambers Photo Album [8 stories]
Quiet Heroes and Deadly Risks - and Account of the Dutch Resistance [3 stories]
RAF Pilot Training by Geoff Wright [5 stories]
Recollections of Colin Metcalfe [4 stories]
Recollections of Leading Seaman Herbert Bunting: A Photo Album [20 stories]
Recollections of My Military Service by J.F.Humphreys [4 stories]
Recollections of the Second World War by Brian Hester [9 stories]
Recollections of War Service by Tony King [4 stories]
Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper [8 stories]
Richard Beckett. WW2 Beckenham & Devon memories [3 stories]
Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag [5 stories]
RNVR HMS Wanderer and HMS Indomitable [5 stories]
Robert Duff ('Arakan Charlie') - Memoirs [5 stories]
Robert Lee's Wartime Photograph Album [33 stories]
Robert Odell's WW2 Story [3 stories]
Robert Richard James Corfield's Army Photo Album [7 stories]
Ron Redman - War Memories [19 stories]
Ronald Hindmarsh's Memoirs [27 stories]
Rowland William Button's War Story [5 stories]
Russell Billson's Memoirs [8 stories]
Russian Convoy PQ 16 by Herbert Hall [3 stories]
Sapper Alastair Mackenzie Wilkie's Memoirs [6 stories]
Saturday Night Soldier by Lt Grahame Nott-Macaire [4 stories]
Seven Years of War by Alec Lewis [16 stories]
Sgt Pilot Harold Orchard [5 stories]
Shot Down and the Long Walk Back [4 stories]
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories [8 stories]
Sid's Story - Sidney Read [6 stories]
Snow White Postcards [13 stories]
Some Memories of the Dynamite by Helen Ritchie [3 stories]
Sonny's War by Ashworth William Howorth [5 stories]
Spitfire Pilot, 92 Squadron, Desert Air Force (DAF), Italy (1944 - 1945) [8 stories]
SSEF and the Battle for Walcheren Island by Basil Woolf, Petty Officer [4 stories]
Stithians Parish Memories of World War 2 [4 stories]
Story of a reluctant SS-Pioneer by Milan Lorman [8 stories]
Stretcher-bearers (Extracts) HAB White [45 stories]
'Tales from Wartime Teesside' by Frank Philip Mee [15 stories]
Ted Cowling's RAF Memoirs [6 stories]
Ted Gordon's Life in the RAF [7 stories]
Territorial Army Despatch Rider during the War, a Photo album [4 stories]
Tex Smith's War [6 stories]
Thankyou cards from soldiers in North Africa [4 stories]
The Armourer's Tale [4 stories]
The Battle for Tanngouche by Eddie Burke [3 stories]
The Breakout by J.E.Davies [3 stories]
The Day that War Broke Out -by Eddy Neale [9 stories]
The Ewins' War Memories by William And Lillian Ewins [6 stories]
The Experiences of 'Taffy' by Sergeant Arthur Pritchard - 'Taffy' [6 stories]
The Factory in a Garden [4 stories]
The France and Germany Clasp by Ralph W Hill [2 stories]
The Goodman Family War by Eva Foster (nee Goodman) [5 stories]
The Heroic Story of Captain Perrin by Stanley Jones [6 stories]
The Hopkins Family [6 stories]
The Iron Phantom of the Desert by Joseph Ellison [19 stories]
The Italian Campaign by John Myers [2 stories]
The King's Shilling by Gordon Johnston Walker [17 stories]
The KSLI in Normandy - One Soldier's Story [4 stories]
The Lancaster Crash at RebrĂchien [6 stories]
The Lewes Lads: A Memoir of War-time Evacuation [4 stories]
The Life of a Conscripted Airman by Ken Armstrong [3 stories]
The Life of a Desert Rat by William E Alford [4 stories]
The Life of a Seasick Sailor by Norman Seal [6 stories]
The Lighter Side of War - by Reg Reid [36 stories]
The London Blitz [4 stories]
The Long,Long March To Nowhere by Sergeant Harry Hawthorne.5th.Bn.K.O.S.B. [12 stories]
The Memoirs of Walter Douglas Thain 1918-2001 [4 stories]
The Personal Account Of Ray Newlove, PoW [3 stories]
The Philadelphian by Joseph Patrick Gray [7 stories]
The RAF Escape Story of Sergeant Jack Marsden [8 stories]
'The Service Years' [12 stories]
The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major by Raymond Ernest Smith [6 stories]
The Story of Geoffrey Waterson's life in the 7th Armoured Division [7 stories]
The Strathallan Story by Les Jones and Robert Kennedy [26 stories]
'The War As I Knew It' by Jean Parker [3 stories]
'The Will To Live' by Len (Snowie) Baynes [42 stories]
The worst night of the War by Des Evans [7 stories]
The WW2 Rhigos Experience by Malcolm Mort [4 stories]
Thomas E. Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story [13 stories]
Three Landford Evacuees - Ivan Winter [5 stories]
Through the Eyes of a Child by George Corbett [6 stories]
Tin Hats and Toy Guns by Arnold Long [8 stories]
To Die for Mussolini by Carlo A. Armaini [4 stories]
Tom Kay's War [1 stories]
Tommy Mac's Glasgow Stories [13 stories]
'Tommy's War' by Tom Barker [1 stories]
Tom's Story HMS Collingwood & HMS Belfast [5 stories]
Travels with a Spitfire - by Lewis Abbott [2 stories]
Tweedale's War [23 stories]
Two Wars by Lawrence Donkin [4 stories]
Victor Flak's War in the RAF [5 stories]
Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces [8 stories]
Walthamstow Wanderers [6 stories]
War and a Family [8 stories]
War Days by Justine Dowley Wise [4 stories]
War Experiences in Poland of Joseph Kiersz [2 stories]
War Memoirs of Reginald Kenneth Probst [4 stories]
War Service in the ATS, A Photo Album by Hilda Briars [4 stories]
War Year Memoirs -Petty Officer Robert Harry (Bob) Simpson [4 stories]
Wartime Experiences of Charles Hague [8 stories]
Wartime Experiences of Stanley Reynolds [4 stories]
Wartime Memories - Bogeybuilder [12 stories]
Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948 [5 stories]
Wartime Memories of My Childhood in Bedford by John Vandepeer Clarke [4 stories]
Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin by Rebecca Cook [3 stories]
Wartime Reminiscences by Gordon Roscoe [5 stories]
Wartime schooldays in Pinner, North London by Mr. David Thomas Sharwood [3 stories]
We're at War, Boys, by Ray Berry [3 stories]
West Bromwich at War by J.M.Day [4 stories]
What Did You Do In The War Daddy? by Brian Hulse [12 stories]
When Bombs Fell - The Air-Raids on Cornwall during WW2 [6 stories]
When Bugles Call by Len Waller [4 stories]
When is Daddy Coming Home by Anne Vine [4 stories]
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - A Photo Album [22 stories]
Winged Chariots by Jack Millin [14 stories]
WRNS Third Officer Mary Shirley Bourn (nee Carr) [7 stories]
WW2 the Thornton's War by John Philip Thornton [4 stories]