Germany

Mary Fitzgerald: an Irish woman in Bergen-Belsen

It is an extraordinary coincidence that when Fr Michael Morrison SJ, a teacher from Belvedere College who...

'Three Lights Equal a Gap': Soldiers Under Fire in Germany

As a young lad my father who fought on the Somme, with the East Lancashire Regiment 1914-18, used to tell...

Anti Nazi

His obviouse reluctance and antipathy to the Nazi cause resulted in his conscription to the infantry and to...

From Ukraine to a Munitions Factory in Hamburg

I have kept friends with many of the girls I met on the farm, they now live in Australia and Poland, and...

156 Squadron,Nuremburg Raid and POW

My father, Squadron Leader Philip Robert Goodwin joined the RAF when he lived in Plymouth in 1940... Philip...

Shot Down Over Berlin

Sure enough,Laurie's twelfth mission, on 20 January 1944, with 102 Squadron, was over Berlin, and he...

1st 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne

On reaching the coast of England at Orfordness, at 800 feet, it was obvious that we could not make the...

J A Martin DFC - Losing a good mate over Berlin

Berlin was like flying down Royal Avenue in Belfast, all the lights were on, everything was as clear as a...

Prisoner of war (POW)

Prisoner of war my grandad was very young when he joined the army in 1937. but very quickly he was captured...

'H' Hour for Operation PLUNDER, Crossing The Rhine

The Rhine crossing would involve Twenty-Nine Divisions,a total of one million men.The objective was to...

Operation Varsity

He achieved the rank of staff sergeant and served with 'B' Squadron, No 1 Wing the Glider Pilot...

SANDBOSTEL

David was introducing Alan Wicker Humphrey Littleton and Lord Peter Carrington,regarding their War...

From Flushing to Stalag XIB

My father Thomas Hook from St. Boswells was in D Coy 5th KOSB and went to the low countries on 21st Oct...

War in the Lowlands

It was D-Day +22. My regiment, the 362 S/L Regiment, left Southampton Docks and landed at Utah Beach Head...

Berlin (1)

On Saturday 16th of Jan 1943 however we were called to the opps briefing room,were I was busy following the...

Born In A Labour Camp

However, my mum went to the commander who said that when I was born, dad could be released into the labour...

Stalag 8b

In July 1943 whilst a prisoner in Stalag 8b, a friend and I escaped through a short tunnel dug beneath our...

Bob and the Rhine Crossings.

After the attack on London and the south by the 'Doodles'my old work mate Bob Barnes, who was a...

A Military Medal for Corporal Ernest Spye

He was with the Lincolnshire regiment in the second wave of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, from where...

NORDHAUSEN WITH THE RAF

In 1945 Nordhausen was a very small town in the Harz Mountains of Germany. The Nazis had set up a...

ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS

I was then transferred to C.S.E.U. and became guitarist with “THE ASTRACHORDS” — the 30...

The Firing Squad

It starts in Hamburg February 1946 where I was stationed with my unit 2nd Batalion Scotts Guards on the...

Frenchman in Germany

After France capitulated in 1940, he got engaged with Yvette but was soon to be sent to Germany in order to...

Mr W.F.Lowbridge: Crossing the Rhine 1945

On March 25th 1945, the assault over the Rhine took place at Rees and our Engineering Company was in the...

Beast of Belsen

I was wounded twice, once on the Dutch- German border and the second time I was gravely wounded at Belsen...

Experience of a POW chapter Twelve

I felt very fortunate, after hearing of others misfortunes as POW's after the war where prisoners...