North Africa

On to Italy

Soon we were given our tasks and I found myself on the Rearguard party, to load all of the regimental...

HMS Barham - Bombardment of Bardia, 1941

The Italians are being hammered now in the Western desert as well as in Albania, and it seems that the...

JUST ME AND MY FAMILY: With the RAF in Egypt

I met my eldest brother Norman , now a Wing Commander and my third brother Claude ,an SIB Sargeant in...

Fred Hirst-Poetry

The author of this true poem is unknown but it has been taken from the book, ‘Memories of...

The Last Shell in Africa

When the tide of war changed in the Allies favour Dennis was part of that massive army chasing the Germans...

The Chicken Story

However, I went back to see how the men were getting on, whether they'd got their billets or not, and...

The Green Howards: From Egypt to France

After surviving Sicily, Ernie and the Green Howards took part in the invasion of Italy. The Green Howards...

WW2 stories related by R C Taylor shortly before his death in 2004

Charged with maintaining a communications line stretching west-east from an HQ in Bagnacavallo to Ravenna,...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 09

On the 5th of February the Battery set off from Bone for its final destination, travelling by land convoy...

Sgt. Brian Moss: 719 Bomb Disposal Company and 233 Field Company, Royal Engineers

In 2003, I followed Dad's footsteps from Gold Beach to Nijmegen... A week later, Dad became the victim...

Norman Pennington, Northumberland Fusiliers

Norman Pennington was born at 65, Arthur Street, Thornhill, Rotherham, on Christmas Day 1911. We all spent...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 11

We were picked up and put ashore in Tripoli in North Africa and sent to a transit camp about three miles...

Fife and Forfar Regiment

We went to Aldershot and we formed the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry. After we parachuted in near Tunis to...

Memories Told to Me By My Parents: In Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and North Africa

The story I remember of those times was: one summers evening she was on the last bus back to Leicester from...

Memories of the Fife and Forfar Regiment

We went to Aldershot and we formed the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. After we parachuted in near Tunis to...

HMS Barham - With Force "H": Part 2

Following a two-month spell at Scapa Flow during the summer of 1940, HMS Barham sailed to Freetown, Sierra...

LAC Eddie Ingall RAF

From here I chauffeured many high ranking government and military officials in and around London using...

Seven-Day Wonder

My own unhappy predicament at this time, in company with the thousands of other troops waiting to...

Surrender in Algiers

This coincided with the feast-day of Jeanne d'Arc and brought Algiers out in a flurry of bunting and...

world war II

The unit I joined was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 & stationed in Yorkshire for a time & then to...

86or 100 or desert sweeping: Memories of Tobruk

It was from here that the Liberator bombers took off to bomb the oil fields in Romania, shaking out tents...

A cold and a hot war-Part One

A single German aircraft dropped a stick of bombs on the camp. One day, in 1941, our aircraft was taxi-ing...

Raw Recruit in the Desert at El Alamein

An Intelligence Officer, Hamish Henderson of the Highland Division was nearby and heard the sound of the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 20

A German Afrika Corps Commander talking to Brigadier Graham many years after the war admitted that their...

Desert Rat

IF JERRY'S GUNS AND EYETIE BOMBS DON'T FRET YOU - AND ROUGH ANGOLA SHIRTS, DON'T EVEN CHAFE....

Captured in the Desert of North Africa

After about half an hour we reached the German lines, I was put into a temporary prison camp in a French...