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"Always Read The Small Print" Chapter Five

My experience in the Army as a young English recruit among the Scots made me very wary... He was...

Tommy's War Part 6: North Africa

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 7

On the 6th, I was Battery Orderly Sergeant and spent all the morning on various duties, then cleared...

A Radar Operator in Singapore, Sumatra, Japan - and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to Sheffield

Typical Japs didn't come out at all so the Dutch army set fire to the oil plant at Palambang I think I...

Escape from Dunkirk

It is headed, the retreat through Dunkirk. listen to me and I will tell A story great and true Of a mass...

On The Lighter Side

Private Merrythought's Christmas Christmas 1944 and the Platoon positions were amongst the ruins of...

World War 2 - Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.

Monty is remembered more for his exploits as the Commander of the 8th Army in North Africa and the never to...

The Tamarind Crucifixion PART 2

While the lightning zipped and crackled and the thunder rolled in giant drumbeats, Lewis was intently...

Dispatch Rider BEF Fall of France

The German officer jumped back in the armoured car and it roared off, leaving my dad on the track with a...

Seven Years of War - Part 7, a continuation of story no. A4292462: India - Deolali, Gaya, Dimapur, Kohima, the mountains.

I joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was told that we were now in the First Indian Infantry Brigade, which...

D-Day

A FootSloggers Story: 1st Buckinhamshire Battalion in Normandy

I had often thought of my old colleagues in C Company 1st Bucks who had landed on the Beaches on D-Day 6th...

Life in Wartime Austria: 4th Queen's Own Hussars July to August 1945

July 1945 After a good day's work on the Staghound went with George to hear a Beethoven recital by...

Fire Orders Chapter 4

The next day the destroyers again swept around in searching circles as the U-Boats were thought to be still...

When the Shells Started Falling - - - - - -

Narrow Squeak number five Our first camp was near a village called Laxton in East Yorks, On our night off...

Royal Dragoons and the German Retreat in Lower Saxony

From Langenbrugge we could look down on the village of Bodenteich in the distance 5 k away, and could see...

Peter Pearson's War Story

Colonel Roger Welchman came up quickly, along with Boyd, and there was another officer with him who I think...

Remembering the War

In August 1939 I went on holiday to Herne Bay in Kent and one day walking along the front I heard the...

Jack Merewood: To War with the Bays. Part 4

Afterwards we learned that the crew had strayed off course on their way back to the barn and had run into a...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 2 'Arrival in France'

Gerry soon found us and opened up with mortars, missed us, but hit a French ammunition truck which went up...

Diary Extracts RAPC the first few weeks in Malta

Food collected from canteen and went places named below:- St. Andrews, Birkirkara, Balza, Lia, Altara, St....

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 5

I really wasn't believing I was home until we were going between where we landed at Wing to Amersham...

Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers in France

Over in France, the BEF and the French army were failing to hold against the fast-moving German armoured...

Why the 'Y' Service?

Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...

Letter 4 of 4: Brussels and beyond

The previous day the Germans had tried to move them to Frankfurt with the other prisoners, but the Belgian...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 4

The scenes on my return to the harbour were not what one considers to be quite up to the standard of a...