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The First and the Last: 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

27, was crewed by Reg Cox, Wilco Willets Trooper Stokes was the gunner, and the hull gunner was Trooper...

War-time Intelligence

Soon after this, the V2s started to fall, especially on London and the V1s were tailing off.My unit was...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 2 - Prisoner of War

On Easter Saturday we were taken to Rennes by hospital train and landed in a French prisoner of war camp....

A Sergeant's Tale - Part 2

Soon Bob and his friend met up with other British troops and were taken over the Rhine by night into...

‘5186379 - My Story’

From Bristol we went to Ludlow Shropshire, then out to France where I joined the fighting unit of the 5th...

Goodnight Algeria - Good Morning Italy

Some of the more thoughtful among us in Algeria had suggested, half-seriously, half-jokingly, that...

Exploring Algeria 1944: Barbaric Beauty by Starlight

It is to be a great affair, you see, and when the dinner is over you shall see the Ouled Nail dance...

Memories of Arthur Turner: Attached to 1st Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa

Now for a little trip from Alexandria by destroyer to the siege of Tobruk, putting me ashore in a small...

1943 North Africa

One afternoon Frank, Polly and I went into town, it was the first Arab town that we visited and it was an...

Arnhem Veteran And P.O.W. Remembered

PRIVATE ERNEST HAMLETT (4462122) DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY 1ST BATTALION, BORDER REGIMENT P.O.W. STALAG XIB,...

“The Comradeship Was What Won the War for Us�

It was a fellow called Joe Bainbridge from Whitehaven that got me to join. After leaving the army in 1947,...

Victor Walkley-Wartime Memories

Japanese printed their own money.The Burmese would carry all their money by way of valuables with them, and...

An Argyll's send off to France,June 1944

My father, Graham Douglas of Gateshead,was in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. We have a new chap...

Belvederians who died in The Second World War 1939-1945 (6)

Andrew Daniel Clinch Colonel, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Died 24 March 1942. Andrew is buried...

The Battle to Liberate Putot en Auge and the Sacrifice made by Thomas Henry Crutchley

The 13th battalion commanders received orders on the 18th to prepare for a night march and attack on the...

1944-1946. A Conscript's Story Continued

Caen was really bad and after that the Falaise Gap was really choked with knocked out German armour, dead...

The Life and Love of a British P.O.W, Germany, 1940 -1945

The Danish Red Cross worker's best friend, called Gunver von Born, was also a Danish Red Cross worker,...

Fire Orders Chapter 14a

Worcesters, at the time, and were with their forward platoon at their farm H.Q. After studying his map...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 6

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Truth is Stranger than Fiction

We heard a large bang to the right of us then we heard the Japs walking right next to and over the...

In the Mountains of Aquila

Just as well because soon after we saw a lot of Germans who were apparently the crew of a large naval gun...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 18

The Bosch claimed that the British had run away at Dunkirk, we had all had a raw deal,firstly from our...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 8 (Chapter 9)

Chapter-9- ‘The Nile Delta’ and ‘Port Fouad’ Then, I was detailed, as still the...

The Beginning: A Soldier in the Royal Engineers

In the event the CO at that unit was incredibly pompous and having been indulged by the WW1 officers at...

Bill's War With The Royal Armoured Corp in Egypt and Italy

Maurice's tank had pulled off the road onto a grass verge to let a squadron of tanks through, and hit a...

"How long shall we remember?"

The Service of Remembrance took part at the Normandy Veterans Commemorative Plaque in St Nicholas Church...