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Memories of a Desert Rat by Albert Newton

Albert told Chris Comer, from Stockport libraries, about his rescue of the crew from a heavily armoured...

Sheila Eastwood. Life in the Wrens

So when the Queen Mary was in Greenock, the Elizabeth was in New York and vice versa ... We used to go...

Snippets from My War Service

These are a couple of extracts from an oral tape Eric Ellis recorded for the RH7 History Group Memory Bank,...

Husband Lost at Tobruk

My other son the twin boy ended up chairman and complete charge of a computing firm in Melbourne... Their...

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Miracle in Algiers, 1944

One such, a Pole, was sent to Brigadier Rabino in his capacity as Banking and Currency Adviser, British...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 12

Whoever had done had left a pole resting on some trestles the length of the trench they had dug, and that...

Sinking of HM Minesweeper Ouseicon for Story with photo

The Sinking of the ' H.M. Minesweeper Ouse' Document M08044/41 Ouse sailed from Alexandria on...

'Mad Aberdeen's' War [J.Aberdeen]

The identification on the sides of trucks was an oval- after Osborne biscuits which were oval... At Tunis...

The Military Medal

My grandfather, Corporal William O'Rourke very skillfully landed 5 bombs along the crest, no more fire...

Onwards to North Africa with 10th Battalion Green Howards [D.Ormsby : Part 4]

From Yorkshire my trail led to Scotland, bound for Algiers. The ship I travelled on was the...

Story of three friendsicon for Story with photo

This is the story of three friends, John Love,, John McMorris and my late father Robert McCrea. The three...

Banana Ridge

While the boat was coming into port at Algiers we were dive bombed by the German aircraft subsequently the...

Dad's War: In France and North Africa

My father, Arthur Thomas Brock, born in Swansea 29/09/1920 died 18/10/1991 in Cardiff, South Wales, was...

Mareth from the Wrong End

I have been in the Mareth and Wadi Akarit battles as an artillery Lt. in an Italian Battery of old 75/27...

Into Action: Royal Artillery in North Africa

We eventually transferred to Landing Craft for our entry to North Africa and we landed in Algiers. Someone...

The Journey to Italy, Palestine and Egypt: Service with the Royal Scots

After approximately nine days sailing we reached Naples in Italy where we disembarked and joined a holding...

A Family's Travels During WW2: Cairo, Kenya, Uruguay - and a Near Miss

We embarked in Mombassa and first sailed to South Africa, then on to Freetown in Sierra Leone before...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 29

They had been taught such a lesson by the gunners of 155 Battery on the previous day, that they now decided...

Mind Work

I volunteered not once, but twice to come to this forsaken land And how I could murder a scotch, no ice As...

Destroyer Blew Enemy Out Of Water.

This was a night whenenemy ships were sunk by two British destroyer's in action the night before the...

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...

RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner Egypt (2) - Baltimoresicon for Story with photo

The turret on the Baltimore used point 5 guns which made the ammunition a good deal heavier and the linkage...

My memories: In the 7th Armoured Division

My name is Noel Barwick and I was known as nobby, I was a tank wireless operator in the Middlesex Yeomanry...

Round the World

When I arrived in India I was stationed in Ahmednagar but spent 4 years duty travelling around India......

Richard Victor Cleaver's WW2 Experiences

The following is a transcript of my dear Uncle, Richard Victor Cleaver's war memories, as written by...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 25

Gunner R.S.Hitchen, one of the "F" Troop gun crew who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal,had a...

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