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Wounded in Tunis

At 12 o'clock a whistle was blown and suddenly all hell was let loose with bullets whistling back and...

War Memories

At 12 o'clock a whistle was blown and suddenly all hell was let loose with bullets whistling back and...

War Memories of Leonard Young

At 12 o'clock a whistle was blown and suddenly all hell was let loose with bullets whistling back and...

War Memories of Leonard Young

At 12 o'clock a whistle was blown and suddenly all hell was let loose with bullets whistling back and...

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Stuck in Tobruk June 42

The staff officer, whose name Bill recalls bitterly, would have known that the German front line was...

The North African Campaign; Tripoi

Weeks of scorching hot sum, camping on the burning sands, Kamseen winds which made it almost impossible to...

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, captured in the desert

Overseas

Embarked 04/12/41 on the ANDES and sailed on06/12/41.The ANDES was the flag ship of the convoy. We docked...

Tales from Tobruk

During the first unsuccessful attempt to break-out of Tobruk, we were in a small truck reeling in the...

Salt Water Saviour

Prior to this, the British Army had put in a new water pipeline from Alexandria to Alamein... The day that...

condoms

When Tripoli was about to fall a rushe order went down to Cairo for thousands of Sheaths Prophylatic,...

Red Bikini

WW2 Memories; Andrew Durdan Eccles;. When we were in Tripoli in the middle of the desert we saw an arch way...

a desert rat in north africa

This is a true story.My dad was in the north african desert during ww2 the soldiers only had one pint of...

Meeting with Rommel

Meeting with Rommel...

R.E.Taylor lost and eye in Italyicon for Story with photo

My uncle Ed from Ponteland lost an eye in Italy....

Diamond in the Sand

But then he looked in the sand and there was his tiny diamond....

A poem written during the Seige of Tobruk

This poem was written during the Seige of Tobruk by a serviceman with the Advanced Ammunition Depot when it...

Potato picker to Suez Soldier

During the war we would go potato picking and saw doodle bugs flying over head going towards the Bourne...

Rommel's HQ in Tunisicon for Story with photo

Rommels Headquartes Tunis North Africa July 4th 1943. This picture from the R.A.F.press field censor was...

Mystery Photoicon for Story with photo

On the back is written: D Griffen "Walters" Wadhurst, Sussex. Does anyone know any of those in the...

A cold day in hell

A cold day in hell...

Prisoner's travelsicon for Story with photo

This contribution was submitted by Mrs. Sylvia Hampson from her late husband's Red Cross diary which he...

Mealtimes in the Desert.icon for Story with photo

Mccartney, daugher of Alfred Flint-Hartle who served in the Third Royal Tank Regiment with the Eighth Army....

Cafe Cairoicon for Story with photo

Dennis Higginbottom — Served in North Africa in 1941 — travelled across the desert and...

Cairoicon for Story with photo

Dennis Higginbottom — Served in North Africa in 1941 — travelled across the desert and...

East Africa, Eygpt, England R.C.S (Accountant)icon for Story with photo

East Africa, Eygpt, England R.C.S. Cyril with Army mate Africa, Kenya....

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