George Rayner was a wireless operator during the war. George Rayner R.I.P....
On the night of 6th August 1941 I was shot down homeward bound by a night fighter at Heeze, Holland as...
In late 1946 I was walking along the embankment of the river Rhine in the much bombed city of Cologne......
My father, Frank Waller, was the eldest of five children and was a rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps,...
Cologne Cathedral was heavily damaged - but there on the altar was the Reliquery of the Three Kings,...
I remember being shot in the groin area by a German during an attack... I was taken to a German farmhouse...
I went into the Army just after the war, I was in the Duke of Wellington's and stationed in Berlin......
Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...
Sleeping on makeshift bedding, on the floor in railway stations, church halls, schools... I remember as...
Hi i'm writing about a story that my nan recently told me about her brother. she told me that her...
In 1938 as a16 year old golf enthusiast I was asked to caddy for a gentleman at scrabo golf club...
I watched the 'Holocaust Memorial Day' programme... These poor souls looked pathetic in their...
My Great uncle George was caputured many times during the war and most of them were nere an occupied German...
DRS was in the 9th Btn B Coy 12th Platoon Cameronians who lost his life 25th March 1945 after the Rhine...
He also stood guard over the German soldiers and indeed the camp commandants, Irma Griese and Kramer, I...
We were told that it was the Americans that had caused this plague, that they had dropped the beetles in a...
My Mum's cousin, George, was one of the youngest tank commanders in the British army in the 2nd world...
My bedroom window in the hotel overlooked Hitler's house, the Berghof... These were billeted in the...
As he opened his parachute, the upward force caused his shoes to fall off, so when he landed, the Germans...
Our first job was to get the troops over the Rhine. If the lorry broke down, you had to just cast it...
The planes would come in from the west at an angle, so as to run up along the valley to destroy our...