Postwar Years

Testing Civvy Street After 13 Years Army Service in War and Peace - Chapter 1

After the interview, Mr Shepherd informed me that I was to start work on the following Monday morning at...

The Normandy Veterans Association (West Cumbria Branch No 51)

The Branch has regularly commemorated Normandy Landings and the Anniversary of the Armistice of World War...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 15

Looking up I said "Tell the drivers I wish to see them tonight, when they are finished". Then...

Recollections of WW2: In the Royal Artillery

George and Charles became civil servants and I worked at Dunlop Clothing & Weather Proofs. This meant...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 17

He checked his book "Yes, that is right". I said "One vehicle did not turn up, that is why I...

Lycee de Eugene Guiliame Montbard France

We were visited several times by Security complete with a Rottweiler and a German Shepherd ,however we...

Engagement and Marriage in occupied Germany 1946 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Elsie's dress was taken care of by the W.A.A.F. Welfare Officer, and as Frau Voigt's daughter had...

Jack Nissenthall- The VC Hero Who Never Was: Part 2

AFTERWORD In July 1997, the author spoke to Jack's daughter who described how after the war Mountbatten...

The Veterans' Association Always Brings Back Memories

He has been an active member of the Normandy Veterans Association since 1989 and he is also a member of the...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's End of War Memories

In fact, whilst I was based at Wuppertal after the war, I was on guard duty at the prison where Von...

Testing Civvy Street After 13 Years Army Service in War and Peace - Chapter 3

A man by the name of Suk Piper, drove for another Coal Merchant by the name of Tommy Sharp. At Christmas...

Mr Mackinnons War

Then again there was this great puzzle, our rulers who had consistently supported Hitler and his kind in...

Epilogue

This was despite having a younger brother in the Merchant Navy throughout the war mostly on Atlantic...

Montgomery of Alamein.

Monty is remembered more for his exploits as the Commander of the 8th Army in North Africa, better known as...

In the living years (part 2 of I've got a million things to tell you)

When Sheila was 3 months old, Vera fell pregnant with Ewart's child. In the final days of Vera's...

Meeting Bill Stafford, my future husband, in Bad Eilsen by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Prior to the R.A.F. taking over Bad Eilsen, the German Air Force had occupied it, and it was not long...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home - Afterwards

Leo and his son Peter came to England and stayed with us, but Herta and her daughter were not allowed to...

Power For Peace

The latest R.A.F fighter, a Gloster Meteor F3 and the diminutive Twin-Boomed De Havilland Vampire,...

Post War: Chapter 1

I met an Officer on the aircraft who was returning to Aden after some home leave, and asked him about the...

Andrew and Edward Mackin of Whitehaven, Cumbria

Andrew Mackin died on 3rd July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy and is buried in the Commonwealth War...

Memories of My Life Born in 1918 to being a Soldier in the Second World War Part 11

I had been talking to some Redcaps, the Military Police, at the High Court at Dusseldorf and they told me...

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...

“We Found All The People In Bayeux Were Really Friendly”

Joe and me, we have had a lot of involvement with the British Legion and the Normandy Veterans, although...

The Dam Buster Pilots

Ann Tallis: I became interested because there was a plaque in Sherbourne Church commemorating one of the...

Round the world at government expense Chapter9: With the RAF in Japan

Iwakuni airfield had been a major Japanese airforce base both for landplanes and sea based aircraft... The...

I Am the Son of a Scottish Soldier

My Father, William McCabe from the Wishaw Area, managed to survive D day and all its horror, only to be...