Germany

Stalag 344 and RSM Sherriff -- "Camp Leader"

"After being taken prisoner with the remnants of the Battalion, the germans appointed him 'Camp...

My Call-Up -Part 4

He pranced around yelling at me as the ball came in my direction "come on, come on" I promptly...

My Great Grandad The POW

I don't know that much about my Great Grandads time in the army as a normal serviceman or like many a...

My Grandfather

My Grandfather...

Escape from Stalag Luft Eight

My uncle was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft 8. He was one of two prisoners with the surname...

My time in Germany: Memories of the German Army

His reply was that he was not a spy for the Germans and he didn't intend starting as a British spy....

Champagne at 6am in Bremen

The Germans always started their attack at daybreak, so we always got up an hour before daybreak, in...

Blackpool to Hannover

I did my training at Squiresgate in Blackpool which is now Pontins!.. I was married back in England in...

Alf O’Neil-My Time In The Royal Navy (Between England, Greece and Germany).

Alf joined the Navy primarily because he was interested in travelling to America, as his brother had been...

Lancashire to Washington DC part 6

We arrived at Greenock, changed at Glasgow, at Preston and Blackburn and arrived at Burnley at midnight to...

Last Stand at Wesel on the Rhine

On 9th March 1945,I was one of some 100 men who were sent to try and make safe the way for tanks...

Willy's search for Alwin Muntz

In response, I contacted Willy Birkemeyer a fellow pupil of my time in a Primary School, Germany 1934. The...

My Father-in-Law

My name is Sue and along with my husband David am trying to build a history of my father-in-laws...

Lower Saxony: Family Life 1944/45

During the night there was a major British bombing raid and the family had taken refuge in the basement,...

Crossing the Rhine

I was a blacksmith, and began with my father in Barnet, London... Then I was in the Wessex Infantry 43rd...

Power Cuts in Germany

The war had ended the electricity supply to our billets came from Helmstadt in the Russian zone, it was not...

Diary Of A Teenagers Experiences During The Blitz In London

I was at the tender age of fourteen, when, a string of bombs dropped over the area of Kensington in London...

Stamping Out the Bombs

His Lancaster was hit by flak as they made their bombing run over Berlin... Seeing that if the bombs were...

Home for VE Day

I was flying over the channel in a Lancaster bomber at the actual time that Churchill announced victory in...

The "Volkssturm": A Comic Situation

However, my father was continually harrassed by the local party officials, who had risen from nowhere and...

A Welcome Find in Hamburg

We were immediate follow up troops on D-Day, and went up through France, Belgium, and into Holland towards...

Golf Balls

A week or so after, I was travelling with an RASC officer, Arthur Beardmore, through Blankenese, a high...

Shot Down over Germany

David Watson Maffett born 14th November 1920, the son of David John Maffett of Farrankad-Greenwood and the...

10,000ft Fall without a parachute

Born just after the War I read all the usual Comics that abounded at the time and one of the stories that...

Captured, free beer on VE Day!

So, in our usual battle formation on one section first, followed on the other side by the small platoon...

Admiral Doenitz' Arrest by Jacqueline Brooks (nee Kathrens)

At the end of the war, my Father was serving in the Intelligence Corps, rounding up Nazis and important...