Germany

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part Three

Often Russian lorries ‘intrude’ into the English zone in an effort to find a solitary...

"Hanging Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line"

Just before Bremen, after we'd moved into Germany we saw a British officer walk up to this house with...

Seaforth Highlander - P.O.W. Diary

June- Leave Meppen for Eastern Germany Berlin, Breslone , Lamsdorf. May 10th —Left Leznity get lift...

Agnes' story part2

The bus was flying the British flag, but the German Youth Movement ignored our Heil Hitler sign as we...

Sir Charles Jessel's War Memories

I remember seeing 15 parachutes in the air these were pilots that were either British or German who were...

Memories of the RAF: First Africa and Then Berlin

We flew from England, via the Bay of Biscay to Morocco in North Africa, then across to Cairo in Egypt....

Peter Allwood, Lancaster Pilot

The members of his crew were Leslie Bown, Ray Lord, Richard Parkinson, Stephen Sheldon, Ernest Farley and...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 6

Other divisions had been clearing the Germans from Antwerp to use the port for supplies, rather than...

A German POW in France - and a resulting Friendship

One grandfather, having lost an eye in the North African campaign and later surviving eight years in a...

Working in Occupied Germany in 1945 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Amongst other places that were visited during my stay in Germany were Dusseldorf, Bad Harzburg in the Harz...

Liberation by Four Cossacks April 1945 To

Containing a coal or wood burning stove, a hotplate to brew up or warm up any food that came mainly from Rd...

Diamond Wedding (June 2nd 2005) - 6 years POW could not keep my parents apart. Part 2

We stayed in France a while and finally we flew home in a Lancaster Bomber the day before V.E. day. My girl...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 5 'News of the Invasion'

George Bradley from Bradford and I forced the lock on a grill and slid in through a vent and used to steal...

Maurice Jennings, Prisoner of War and the Forced March: Stalag 8B at Lamsdorf

Eventually, we were moved to our own English camp; Stalag 8B at Lamsdorf....

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part One

Friction is still latent amongst the French speaking ‘Walloons’ and Flemish speaking...

Gerda Anne Honey nee Ruhl (2)

The girls raced home,storming into her flat my mother shouted to my grandmother"Here are the...

Personal Experiences of a POW

At one point, they crossed the Rhine and the Nazi soldiers began trying to collect their tin helmets for...

ENSA in Normandy

Before the war Phyll had been trained as dancer at a leading ballet school and performed in various London...

Dad's Journey

Dad said their situation was so bad because the Italians had so very little themselves, that he...

The Black Bull

Joined 13th Royal Horse Artillery after Operation Goodwood as part of the soon-to-be-famous 11th Armoured...

Mum and Dad's War

To my mum and dad though, it was new as yesterday and my mum was always keen to tell my brother Howard...

A W.A.A.F. in Buckeburg, Germany 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Mary's story, together with the war story of her husband, Harry Blood, was transcribed onto a floppy...

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 5

When driving in convoy on the road to Flensburg, my flight commander was sitting beside me as he always did...

Experience of a POW chapter eight

Some one close by had some scraps of paper and a pencil so hurriedly I scribbled down my name and address...

Irish Guards Held Prisoner - Thuine Near Lingen Germany

From the small windows at ground level in the cellars they could see an open sided German Army truck with...

P.O.W. Pussy

He knew I was Tom Barker of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and not the real Harry Tenny. But whilst...