Postwar Years

Daddy's Coming Home!

Ordered in the sense that if you needed anything it was a simple "ask Mum". Suddenly it was "I...

Hollins Family at War:

My father-in-law, Captain Bill Rowe, of Brockworth Lodge, was a British Army Dental Surgeon, attached to...

Return to Normandy (Part 2)

Lion sur Mer, Luc sur Mer, Langrune, St. Aubin, Courseulles, seeing in the distance, a few miles inland,...

Harry Blood's War Part 9: Postings in England, 1945-46

The Monty Club was a Royal Palace; the Hotel Metropole was the biggest hotel in Brussels with its own...

Immediate Post-War in Lower Saxony and Local Relationships

Since the end of the war, the Royal Navy in co-operation with the British army had been transporting to the...

Arromanches to Hill 112

I have a keen interest in the D Day landings and the Normandy campaign, my brother George served with the...

My Hero

As a little reward for his kindness and knowledge I asked if he would like a flight in my aircraft and...

1939-1947, an ‘interesting’ experience and my 15 minutes of fame.

It was also used in 1993-4 by the Museum of London for its Peopling of London Exhibition at the Barbican;...

A Holiday with Pay, Part 3

Fernyhough, Brigadier A.H. History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-1945. From Oasis into Italy; war...

Serving on "H.M.S. Volage" in the Mediterranean 1946 by Leslie Atkinson

On leaving Cyprus, it was back to Malta, to stock up on stores, then back to Haifa to resume our patrols....

Granville Davies' Story

Granville Davies 4 ME I have recently resumed contact with three of my old school friend - Donald Barton,...

Post War Stories of WW2: Childhood Memories of RAF Cardington

Other Grey/Blue lorries transported extremely large "Gas Bottles" that the local kids always...

The True Story of the Bombing of Bradford -Part 3

LUFTWAFFE AIR RAIDS ON BRADFORD -WORLD WAR 2 I am in receipt of a letter you sent to the National Secretary...

Experience of a POW chapter Thirteen

I was signalman at Docking on the Kings Lynn Hunstanton line until December 1957 where I left railway...

The Lost Commando

My fatherwho died in 1987 was one of a group of 10 commandoes who were dropped by parachute in Normandy in...

Cumberland Miners' Representative in World War Two London Victory March

One of my uncles was Tom Ritson who represented the coalminers from the county of Cumberland in the World...

My Grandfather is now in Poland....Asleep

Big party was planned, my grandmother - Nelly, was there with all her banners declaring love for my...

Torteval, Normandy 1944 to 1983

Her brother in law, Jack Snell, a sergeant in the South Wales Borderers, had liberated these missals from a...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 4)

Ground crew and other staff awaiting demob were flown in Lancasters from our base in Upwood, Cambridgeshire...

Uncle Jim - a second postscript

Then Andrew photographed me and Philippe beside Jim's... As I explained to Philippe, on my previous...

Return to Normandy Beaches

The party consisted of Brigadier E.J. Montgomery, now 5 L of C Sub Area, who was formely A/Q of 3 Div and...

Comments from researching the Lancaster Crash at Rebréchien

Sir Arthur Harris himself acknowledged this in his 1947 book Bomber Offensive, “There are no words...

65 Year Quest for Archive Footage of an RAF Aircraftman Missing presumed Dead

The official report of the Heligoland battle stated that ''The laurels go to the Wellington...

Demobilisation and return to the U.K. by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

There were only six of us in the W.A.A.F. who were home for demobilisation, the rest being A.T.S. girls, so...

Family Reunion

We had German prisoners billeted too, girls that became friendly with them were ostricised... We were aware...

American Veterans Return to Normandy

As we stood in the cemetary a German man who recognised my client's cap badge came up to him and said...