Ben was a Divorcee who was raising 2 little sons, the boys were to be cared-for and educated at a military...
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After Messina was captured and the whole of Sicily was in Allied hands, we started to prepare for landings...
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Having escaped from France to Jersey in June 1940 the platoon of soldiers of which I was a member were...
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My dad Mr David Reid was taken prisoner at St Valery in 1940... It was at this hospital that a contact of...
Desperate to let my mother know he was safe, as the train slowed through Staplehurst station, he handed out...
They were ordered off the main road to a lane off on the right leading to "The Bridge". They soon...
He spent time in Torre Annunziata and Pozzuoli and then in the landings, we know he survived in a foxhole...
I was trained as a driver but because I am just a little chap I had to be lifted up into the...
In 1942 we transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment and were moved to Catterick to train in Churchill...
My unit went to Holland later to invade a group of islands. Later on, in Holland I met a Dutch girl,...
My grandfather was John Gribbin and he and his two brothers were captured at Dunkirk in 1940. Next, it was...
Just before the attack on Tobruk my father was on sentry duty all night and when he returned in the morning...
You Londoners think you have taken it, but you have had nothing compared with some of the French people. I...
He wanted to be a driver, but there was a shortage of bakers, and my Dad had been working for his father...
On September 17th, ‘Operation Market Garden’ began with Allied troops parachuting into Nijmegen...
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