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We travelled north from Liverpool, round the North of Ireland to the Azores Islands then on to Gibraltar,...
On one occasion we completed a twenty mile route march and were returning through Brecon when our officer...
Contrary to the reputation that the Scots were mean we found them to be the most generous and kind hearted...
1942, 159 RAF personnel and 28 members of No 4 Company RAOC, including my father Sergeant G H Jackson,...
The Germans had hit a large storage tank at Dunkirk and there was a great cloud of smoke and flames 500...
The others had belonged to my grandfather who had served with the Army in India during WWI. Thinking back...
For two days we pummelled away at the Italian and Libyan troops, holed up in their little desert outposts....
We were taken back to a little school on the outskirts of Tunis where a little German Lance Corporal said...
A month ago my Daughter, Annette Mary Jude was christened by our family parson at St. Andrew's Church,...
One day, after about a week, those of us that were off duty were working away on our trestle-table by the...
The Chinese women seemed to carry on with their daily chores right through the battle for Singapore,...
When I came to the sand dunes, I could see that Dunkirk was a blazing mass of burning oil and a battle...
In September 1962 he retired from the Irish Army and was appointed Parish Priest of Donnybrook, Dublin....
All we had to do was to secure the landing zones for the paras, and then belt off to Arnhem and the...
When the Japanese attacked Burma their lines of communication were widely stretched... After what had...
I was Orderly Sergeant while at sea and I would no sooner get back to my bunk when the ship's RSM would...
As days became weeks, weeks into months, and finally months into years, Alex's parents and friends...
There was one colleague, Archie Simpson, studying German who on exercises was invariably given the Bren gun...
Somewhere along the line we were standing in a crowded carriage when a little Girl pointed at me and said...
I was told by our Chief of Staff to take a jeep and a driver and rendezvous with Lt-Col Taylor, the CO...
The sixth and seventh battalions were coming back from Sicily to be assault battalions in D-Day and when...
We were tended by all Dutch doctors, sisters and maids, supervised by their German overseers and were in...
Private Stanton's tale 1937 I enlisted into the Territorial Army 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire...
During my time in the services I served in France, Peking, and India but my first overseas posting was to...
Although it was calm during the day, as we waited to land, the German bombers soon arrived under cover of...
After dinner we did a thirty mile zig-zag climb which took us to what must be the highest good road in...
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