Postwar Years

Verushka-A POW 's story

Major Lee was a friend of my parent's and when I was a small boy I kept my pony in Major Lee's...

4 Post War Stories from Mr Craggs

Matron, a full colonel, accompanied by the senior doctor, a brigadier were inspecting the junior...

All in a Day's Gardening

When I first started gardening as a self-employed gardener, I was employed by a lady in Norfolk Road,...

Experience of a POW chapter Fourteen

Sgt Tucks increasing panic attacks created animosity with the so-called care staff and he was transferred...

The Story of a Young Grimsby Conscipt After the War

We had moved to Millstat in Austria as army of occupation... We stayed in the Hotel Cortina, one of the...

Monte Cassino: 60 Years on

We soldiers of Poland For your freedom and ours We give Our souls to God Our bodies to soil of Italy Our...

Operation Woodchopper

The first day in the woods was quite a revelation as we were not to actually chop down the trees as the...

Whacker's son was a Lancaster pilot

I believe that Mr Richardson told me that the son had visited Spain in the war and had met up with German...

Not a Sound

Bran is given a magic cauldron by a grateful guest. Gulf syndrome, there's no such thing" or in any...

Role Reversal in Civvy life

The taunts flew, "I know we're not on piecework but I like a few bricks to lay to keep warm. "...

My Grandfather’s Place in History

My Grandfather was a lawyer and as such he was required to act as a Defending Officer for several Nazis...

Grandads war: Five Years in Hospital Due to a Factory Accident

In the week before he was due to leave, grandad had an accident in the factory....

In Respect to All that Served for Our Country

He was awarded the India star, Burma star, and France and Germany star, and two gongs. He would tell many...

What a Memory

At Hutton Park I had the job of putting radar in Whitley Bombers My wife came down for a holiday....

Meeting dad

By the time I was four he had left England and begun the great adventure of his life, sailing round Africa...

D Plus One

The truck was backed in and these young French lads helped my men get the bodies on to the ground... The...

A Dismal Day

On that day so long ago now, that my memory, as sharp as it has been for more than fifty years, now...

German Prisoner

My grandparents children, Kathleen and Reg my uncle lived at home, ironically my other uncle Ron was...

Willies War

My father came home from time to time with fresh cockles from a rocket range, or fresh trout from some...

From the Cellar into the Snow: Life in Postwar Holland

My Mum's War Memories

She remembers being told by her mum, Alice Wood that the planes that kept flying over Manchester were going...

MY JEWISH FRIEND

MY FATHER WAS A MEDICINE DOCTOR IN THE BACKLANDS OF A LITLLE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA.HE HAD A LABORATORY FOR...

The War of Two Sailors part five

August 28th 1948 Twenty three year old Harold Ernest Williams married Marjorie Edna King on the day before...

LCG&F Association

LCG 15 and 16 started from Belfast they ran into stormy weather and both sank off Milford Haven with the...

Friends Of Arnhem

My name is Dougie and I have three brothers Ray,Peter,and Roger the youngest We first got involved with...

J A Martin DFC - Postwar Flights Between UK and Singapore

Whilst I was with Transport Command, 51 Squadron flying between UK and Singapore we landed at Castel Benito...