North Africa

On Patrol at El Alamein

Either the other sapper or I went out with a patrol of infantry every other night during the above period,...

Drive to Tobruk: June 1941

We drove through a line of machine gun fire and drove ‘hell for leather’ for about 4 miles...

Fighting with Monty

Naples here we come We reimbarked on an American boat for Naples and were in Italy when Vesuvius blew up....

Tales from a US Navy Ships Radio Operator

We were preparing for the landings in Sicily, the harbour was full of invasion craft and a certain young...

Ron's Grand Tour

In the fond hope that other folk have trod this path with me, I now give Ron's Grand Tour, 1942 to 1947...

El Alamein to Montecassino

I toured North Africa and Italy, including stops in: El Alamein, Egypt, Phillipville, Montecassino, Italy,...

Grenade Attack: First Troops in Algiers

Driving overnight inland to Tabak where the Germans tried to destroy the bridge over the ravine. The...

Memories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,R.A.S.C.WW2

I'd like to share with readers some meories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,Royal Army Service...

Wartime Medical Studies: Southampton and North Africa

I prepared to study medicine and at the outbreak of war I had a short time in the Auxillary Fire Service in...

Merchant Navy Story

The entire course was posted to another armed merchant vessel which unfortunately was sunk on its first...

The Desert Rats, Sicily Landings, D Day and beyond

The 8th army held the narrow strip of desert from El Alamein to the impassable sands of the Quattara...

Food Preperation

Not too much of either water or diesel and you would have a cooking stove which would last till either the...

Kasserine Pass

Up to that time we had been fighting with Valentine and Crusader tanks which were no match against the...

From Liverpool to Egypt on the SS Andes, 1940 - 1941

"After survivor's leave, I went to Oswestry and thence to Liverpool, where we embarked on the...

JOHN HUDSON - First Casualties in North Africa (see also main story, Ref: A3878760)

British and American Infantry advance under shellfire to give the final knock-out to the Germans in North...

Extract from "One Man's War": 58th (Sussex) Field Regt R.A.

The Regiment moved around at this time, supporting the New Zealanders, the Free French and the 7th Armoured...

Letter home: From Mersa Matruh

Well the night came, Saturday and we moved up and Jerry was waiting for us with tanks and machine guns and...

East End Blitz and D-Day in North Africa

At that time we had bombed the French fleet so the Germans would not get them and the so the French were...

D-Day Dodger's War

In 1938 I was apprenticed as a joiner to J.W Waller of South Elmsall, West Yorkshire,a local builder.The...

A North East Tommy

Tom Moore's war as remembered by his son, Dave Moore Valentine's Day 1923 in Shildon, County Durham...

My war experience in the VAD( Voluntary Aid Detachment)

They were not taken to the basement as the Colonel said that the Germans are bombing us so what was the...

Tommy Wells' Second World War Memoirs

When he got back to England, Thomas was told that England was expected to be invaded, so the army went down...

Walter Bennett's Experiences

Walter Bennett, son of Mr + Mrs W. Bennett of 28 Stenhills Crescent, Runcorn, celebrated his 27th birthday...

The Glove

Agnes laughed, but gave me one of her long silk gloves that she had worn on her and Les' wedding day....

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 13

The PMC who is the officer in chrage of the mess, had heard from the lads that I was the best scrounger...

The End of the Tunisian Affair

Jock foresaw that that would be the next target, and made straight for the wall, broke through, and...