Stories categorised in 'North Africa'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Armoured Command Vehicles Control of an armoured division at this time was provided by a group of six ACVs...
Curiousity getting the better of them the two airmen left the cab of the Bedford, drew their side-arms and...
It was decided to test the loyalty of the French population in Colonial French West Africa, and attempt to...
Pom-poms and Morse code After training I was sent to North Shields to erect guns on either side of the...
The night of 23 October 1942 was "Monty's Moonlight". A colossal artillery barrage opened up...
In 1944 he was shot down over Yugoslavia and with the help of partisans evaded the Germans and returned to...
As Ground Crew, my first Posting was to RAF Scampton, where 617 Squadron, who later became known as The...
They watched waves of German Stuka bombers blasting a route through the final minefield and the troops...
While maintaining the radar for the anti-aircraft defences of Cairo, I became friendly with a bomb disposal...
They asked you where you wanted to go but they decided in the end, I wanted to go into the Navy, but...
Private, 27th Searchlight Battalion My father Arthur James Henbery was born on the 5 May 1901 in Fulham,...
Then we marched to the docks where we boarded a troopship, the SS Rangitiki. Just a last word about the...
I can't give dates for these events as we only knew the year days and time were all one daylight and...
New 5.5-inch guns arrived and we fought with the 8th Army in El Alamein, Tripoli, Tunisia, Italy and Malta....
Tunisia was much better, there were fewer Germans there and a lot less resistance plus we were lucky to...
The crew consisted of P/O Eglinton P/O Hodgson and an Aussie Ron Browne from Townsville....
Palestine was a very busy little country then and used as a transit route for the British, Australians, New...
On a day of "rest", Paddy was sitting on top of the turret of his Churchill Tank cleaning his...
From the advert I had a reply from a lady in Canada, a member of the Anglo-German History Society, with a...
The first had enabled me to visit the so-called' Tombeau de la Chretienne' a first-century stone,...
Tide of war turns Near Wadi Faregh the tide turned and I had my first 'blooding'. G Troop was in...
Billie Roberts was my driving instructor on the drivers' training course in Cairo. We all five became...
I joined as a Nursing Sister with the Red Cross and seconded to the Air Force but then transferred to the...
This had a most unexpected benefit owing to the perspicacity of the Lance Corporal i/c the bathhouse, who...
Our task was to illuminate defensive German gun positions for Wellington bombers to hit - when our flares...
After the end of the campaign in Tunisia in May 1943, our Signals unit was rusticating in Boufarik, near...
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