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Into Action: Royal Artillery in North Africa

We eventually transferred to Landing Craft for our entry to North Africa and we landed in Algiers. Someone...

A Lesson in Opportunism: With 141 Regiment RAC at Le Havre 1944

By 2nd Lieutenant James Wareing, 141 RAC, The Kentish Regiment, 79th Armoured Division, 2nd British Corps,...

The Boys in Khaki

As a school girl aged 13 at home with my parents, brother and sister we lived very near to Oldbury Hall...

Romance

My father & mother's story - At 19 & an apprentice electrician in Chelmsford, Essex Ken was...

The Journey to Italy, Palestine and Egypt: Service with the Royal Scots

After approximately nine days sailing we reached Naples in Italy where we disembarked and joined a holding...

An Episode of a Tense Moment

I was a despatch rider in the Queens Own Royal West Kents 1st Battalion and toward the end of the war I...

Toss of a Coin

In Lallighat, Asam, India on the Burmese Frontier and we were carrying out an operation called Operation...

We Must Not Forget.

After two years working as a butcher in my home of Newcastle under Lyme, I signed up for the Army... I left...

"A Good Cup of Tea"

It was sent to him by his very good comrade and wartime friend Captain John Webster of the 8th Royal Scots...

The Well Dressed Thai

Needless to say well-dressed Thais were not very thick on the ground around the jungle camps. One day I...

No beer for you, You're a gunner!

'Before his mate was killed he visited his home in East London and was surprised by the poverty and...

Mrs Bartlett: David Bartlett

My husband David Bartlett joined the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers when he was nearly 18 on 16th May 1931...

A Brief Encounter With A Boy King, Palestine 1943

I was always fascinated by my dad's story of his unusual encounter with the boy King Faisal II, whom he...

Prisoner on Crete

What we had to fight with on Crete: half of the chaps didn't have rifles, those with rifles didn't...

The Return of White Russians and a Chicken in War

As war was being declared German engineers were installing extrusion presses in the Banbury aluminum...

Two Weeks in Dock in Naples and Not a Wound to Show for it!

Two Weeks in Dock in Naples and Not a Wound to Show for it. When we arrived at Naples the city was...

My Memories of D-Day

Dad applied for the “Builder Volunteers” and was immediately posted to West Hartlepool where my...

A Trilogy of Verse - Italy

Salerno, Anzio and then Rock fortress v the flesh of men, Cassino, famous monastery A mount renowned in...

Memoirs of JR

He said "For you the war is over". The germans placed us in an Italian prison. From the Italian...

Stornaway Soldier Hits Rommel with Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Under the leadership of General Fortune we fought a brave rearguard action under the French flag in an...

Out of the Bag in Drag

In September 1943 the Germans took over the Italian POW Camp I was in near Modena and shipped us off to...

A Journey Through Italy: Life as a Gunner part 4

After our involvement in the defeat of the Germans in North Africa my regiment landed in Italy as the...

Sicily Landings: 235 Field Company Royal Engineers

Official historians record "50 Division was the only one in the 8th Army which had been continuously in...

Royal Signals River Crossing Almost 'Scrambled'

I also remember serving alongside a fellow Royal Signal named Leo Charles Augusta Parsons. Apparently after...

Spared By The Skin Of My Teeth...

It was by a sheer chance that my unit failed to be on the doomed ship, the Lancastria off St Nazaire,...

Davids Story

David and two other soldiers had been separated from their regiment, hungry and thirsty they called at a...