North Africa

Tank War

I was in 142 regiment Royal Armoured Corps - equipped with Churchill tanks; I sailed for North Africa from...

Desert Mail

Maybe a month later he would come back looking fit and well and burbling all about the belly dancer in...

Harry Blood's War Part 4 - Serving in North Africa, 1942

Lady Lampson, wife of Sir Miles Lampson, the Governor-General, is running a scheme giving parties of...

HMS Barham - Tripoli and Crete, 1941

HMS Barham — Tripoli and Crete....

2. A World War Two Memoir

The secret was to make your bed during the dinner break wrapping the blankets carefully and then placing...

North Africa Campaign

Luckily we only had one man wounded on our vehicle and we dropped him off at an Advanced Dressing Station....

Memories of Arthur Turner: Attached to 1st Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa

Now for a little trip from Alexandria by destroyer to the siege of Tobruk, putting me ashore in a small...

F/Lt J.R.Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM 155220 Part 2

Just to show the lads my new Lancaster I did a low pass past the flying control tower, in the summary of...

My Missing Uncle-113 Squadron

This was my other uncle, Bernard, who had gone to fight in World War Two, and had never come home again. By...

Dream Boat

Off the boat - lined up - Officer said: “this half to the Royals and the other to the Scot...

My Memories

We were all kept busy thawing snow for water to make tea, collecting fuel for the stove we had acquired,...

HMS Barham - Lead up to Matapan

Notable amongst the lucky airmailers are Jasu Pitts, Brian Stringer, Nuts Brodrick and Gerald Ellison(2)....

Royal Engineers

I travelled to London to see Joan and on my first day there we talked about getting married. After a few...

War Memories: Royal Engineer in North Africa and Europe

We had a victory parade in Tripoli marching down the main street behind bands of bagpipes, but after that...

Egyptian Waterways

The small contingent of British Officers, NCOs and men, like Len Harrow, scattered in little ports and...

The Last Phase: BOAC in Cairo

By the Eighth of October 1945 with licences in our hands we were flying the aircraft completing with a...

My RAF Life - Chapter 6

By the Eighth of October 1945 with licences in our hands we were flying the aircraft completing with a...

Experiences of a Young Turkish Cypriot

Whilst travelling through Palestine, there was an inspection by the British military authorities, where the...

A Letter From a Derbyshire Serviceman

Uncle Fred was a Collier in Ilkeston, Derbyshire and quite a character from what I have been told! Then I...

The Interrupted Voyage

The ship followed a zig-zag course - the usual manoeuvre to complicate the calculations of a U-boat...

Of Desert Dust and Auschwitz

You are now prisoners of the Third Reich”, announced a German Officer to a bedraggled group of us......

Reg's War: One Man and the War

In July 1942 we went by train to Glasgow and boarded an American banana boat at Gourock, we were seven...

HMS Barham — Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 3

6th November, 1940: On or around this date Barham sailed to Malta along with HMS Berwick, and HMS Glasgow...

My War Storys from North Africa to Normandy

Then we pushed them right the way back across Libya and then the Germans landed and their tanks were in...

My Experience in WWII

At one point, when taking refuge in a field hospital from German tanks outside Tunis, I was introduced to...

The 78th Div Goes to Egypt to Re-Train and Re-Form

Following my visit to Rome the rumours of a "big move" came to be founded on fact, and on July l8th...