Italy

Return to Cassino

Shortly after arriving at Cassino station I had negotiated with a local cabbie to take us first to the...

A Gordon's Story

My unit the 6th Btn Gordon Highlanders who were attached to the American 5th Army commanded by Gen Mark...

The Green Howards: From Egypt to France

After surviving Sicily, Ernie and the Green Howards took part in the invasion of Italy. The Green Howards...

WW2 stories related by R C Taylor shortly before his death in 2004

Charged with maintaining a communications line stretching west-east from an HQ in Bagnacavallo to Ravenna,...

Charlie 4 Is Not Answering My Signals

Because of the difference in size of our Stuart and the Kangaroo I was reminded of a tender pulling...

In These We Served

A sturdy British Brigadier, A Nippon bayonet at his rear He struggled with his tangled gear And a little...

Far East and Italy Memories

In 1944, Audrey Hepworth`s father Charles Leslie Broxholme, then living in Bradford, received a letter from...

Pictures Purloined at Predappio

But Predappio had another 'claim to fame'. It was the former boyhood home of Mussolini, Il Duce......

Italian Campaign: John Side 6

When we got to Algiers, the war in North Africa was finally won, and we were sent back to Tripoli, to...

Church Service at the Front

At this point, in an unspoken prayer to God I asked Him; "Oh, God, if I should die today, give my...

Travelling Down to Como

Duly ready and waiting at the appointed time , in that agreeable Romeo and Juliet city, I was staggered to...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 15

The usual Red Cross Christmas parcels had not arrived so we had very little to work with, but were given 60...

The War of Two Sailors part three

One which landed close to LST 63 caused minor damage but Harold and other members of the crew were able to...

The Day the Telegram Came - Part 3

The telegram said "We regret to inform you, that your son Geofrey Stringer has been seriously...

Royal Engineers

In April or May 1942, the Workshops Section Officer of 231 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers in 11 Corps...

Il Dottore (the Doctor): Bright Light of the Royal Artillery in Africa and Italy

Tommy was by then proficient and medically well stocked and was known in the Volturno area as 'Il...

Siege at Cassino

I was in 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers in Italy and we were involved in the siege of Monte...

Building Air raid Shelters to Italy (Green Howards)

When war broke out my grandad was building air raid shelters in the London area during this time he met my...

A Polish Hero's War

My Grandad, Zygmunt Piatkiewicz, was born in Novogrodek in 1917, a time when Poland did not exist... It was...

Adventures with the Royal Artillery Part 2

MONTE CASSINO AND ANZIOWe were at Monte Cassino - down by river, the river was fouled with dead bodies. The...

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

Our advance party, which had gone on to Capadichino, Naples airport, returned and are off again to Bari on...

Cooks Perks

During the Coventry Blitz he provided field kitchens to feed the bombed out people and remembers many...

The Bittersweet Grapes of Salerno

It is difficult to catergorise and compare these incidents, whether it was a direct hit on our ship, HMS...

Fred Hirst's Story Part 4 An Escaped POW in Italy

Fred Hirst had been serving with the Sherwood Foresters in Tunisia when he was captured by the Germans....

All for a Lemon in Sicily

The Prince Albert was part of a flotilla of five former Belgian cross channel ships, which were converted...

Pip:The story of a Suffolk Soldier in Northern Italy 1943-4

He was then moved from camp to camp until escaping one day when the Italian guards left the camp and found...