Stories categorised in 'North Africa'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
In seventh heaven I had already made friends with another young chap, whom I had first met back in England...
On another day a friend and I went to look at a German 'Stuka' dive bomber that had been shot down....
I had only gone a few hundred yards when I heard the anti-aircraft guns down at Tobruk harbour open up and...
The Siege of Tobruk, by Charles W Blanks In drab army lorries we drove past the waves, 'Til we entered...
Celebrations of the feast-day of Jeanne d'Arc, 8 May, 1943 - Senegalese askaris in front of the...
This fellow Gillespie he said there's a doctor in Aldershot who wants to see you, Jimmy McKillop, he...
In March 1943 the Eighth Army's pursuit of the Afrika Korps had halted at the combined obstacles of...
I served in North Africa until the war ended and then went to Italy, to Bari, Brindisi and Rome. We were...
My father, Herbert Thomas Goodchild, known as "Pat" for obscure family reasons, was a member of a...
I joined the RAF in May 1940 having just completed my apprenticeship as a typewriter mechanic - the...
An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with...
My Dad was in the Royal Artillery in North Africa 1941 - 1942... But, also, my Dad hadn't been hit by...
We were bombed by Stukas and machine-gunned by their Messerschmitt 109 escorts. The pilot dipped his wings...
I was taken to the Medical Officer, then to Tobruk hospital... The dentist took needles and pliers and...
The rapid retreat by the 8th Army from El Agheila was christened 'The El Agheila Handicap'. The...
My father told me that he and a few men from the 12th Lancers were baking in the hot Algerian sun when,...
Was in the R.C.S. He was a Sergeant no: 2349204.. He also served in Africa....
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