Italy

Leonard's Diary

March 16th there are Xmas parcels, getting them issued tomorrow, we have 50 cigs tonight, everyone is...

Mediterranean P.O.W

These are the notes made by Sgt. Constantine Mason, Durham Light Infantry, whilst it captivity in the...

War Time Reflections of a Norwich Man

The following two years were given over to gun practice on a mobile Bofors Anti-aircraft gun and an...

Tank War

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

Operation Shingle: Chapter 2

6th US.Corps, that the immediate intention of our 1st Division was to land at Anzio on Peter Beaches red,...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 11

In Italy we were issued with three kinds English, Canadian and New Zealand and one period we received what...

Goodnight Algeria - Good Morning Italy

Some of the more thoughtful among us in Algeria had suggested, half-seriously, half-jokingly, that...

In the Mountains of Aquila

Just as well because soon after we saw a lot of Germans who were apparently the crew of a large naval gun...

The Beginning: A Soldier in the Royal Engineers

In the event the CO at that unit was incredibly pompous and having been indulged by the WW1 officers at...

Bill's War With The Royal Armoured Corp in Egypt and Italy

Maurice's tank had pulled off the road onto a grass verge to let a squadron of tanks through, and hit a...

Mother's letters - 5

There were grocery stalls, flowers, fruit & vegetables, a work stall, white elephants and a most...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 10

The arrival of the contractor improved things a bit, he was responsible for supplying goods other than that...

Operation "Shingle"

With the coming of daylight, the Germans had got themselves organised and had brought up his 88’s...

Patrick Devlin - A Granddaughter's Recollections

Grandad was captured by the Italians and held in a prisoner of war camp. When the Italians surrendered he...

Royal Engineers

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

Coming Home (1)

Our register office marriage in 1937 was worthless in the eyes of the Church. I glanced at the Forum and...

My Memories of the Italian Campaign

The sad part of this Christmas morning was when an orderly came round with our little gifts and in a bed...

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...

5. A World War Two Memoir

Although Gigli is considered the Tenor there was another and his name was Giacomo Lauri Volpi and these two...

The War Diaries of 1232581 - L.A.C. Jack Lucas R.A.F.V.R. (PART-THREE)

We heard on September 13th that the Italian Fleet had surrendered at Malta, news came that a safe landing...

Memories from Members of Stanford Bridge Day Centre, Worcestershire

My friend John Coneili who is now buried in Rushford, Tenbury was awarded the VC in Italy. AUDREY JENKINS...

Marriage in North Africa

Anthony was able to get a posting to Douera in the Algiers area and he wanted us to get married there. The...

A HOLIDAY WITH PAY (Part 2)

Dad was among the crowds who witnessed the bodies of Mussolini, Clara Petacchi and entourage strung up on...

Rome 1944: I go back to School

No. 8 Command Pay Office, Centocelle, Rome, had commandeered a school building. Sergeant Vatcher was a...

HK Dimoline and the Battle of Cassino

Tuker, also a strong character — advocated by-passing Monte Cassino around the adjacent mountains and...

Wartime Romance Memories of an ENSA Ballet Dancer

Instead one of the teachers Sheila Elliot Clarke got me an audition with Jack Hilton; in order to become a...