Italy

Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

My regiment was the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and I found myself and other young chaps like...

My Wartime Romance in Italy

We girls received the Italian Star Medal – the same as the men who had spent months fighting their...

Overseas Welfare

But it was marvellous on the troop ship; we had bananas and oranges, which we hadn't seen for ages When...

Mustard Gas

In order to speed up the rate of unloading, 6 cargoe vessels linked prow to stern in Bari harbour... The...

My time in the R.A.F

I joined the R.A.F in 1940 and did my first training at Skegness including square bashing, bayonet practice...

Mustard Gas

In order to speed up the rate of unloading, 6 cargoe vessels linked prow to stern in Bari harbour... The...

Cont.3 Friends One Survivor

Following the movement of the REME 622 Light Recovery Section to Milan we were stationed in The Lambrate...

Donald Delves' War, Part 6 : Italy, The litttle girl

As we got closer, we were shocked to see it was a very pretty little Italian girl in a white nightdress,...

Algeria to Italy in four years

Leslie was in Algeria for two years and moved to Italy where he became a staff car driver....

Donald Delves' War, Part 8 : Italy, Girls from a Concentration Camp

The girls then told me they had just come over the border into Italy after being released from a...

Searching for a WW2 RAF Crew Relative: 31 Squadron SAAF

I am looking for any family of Sgt Leslie Raeburn Royston Alistair PARKER RAF who was a member of 31 Sqdn...

My Italian Grandparents in WW2

Though the Italians then turned on the Germans but the Germans took over the Italians... Him and about a...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 40

Whilst in Camp 66 at Capua there were a number of Sudanese with their Sgt.Major and each morning they could...

Italian Farmhouse

In my mid twenties, my partner and I offered to take Dad and Mum on holiday there and to ferry them about....

Prisoner of War for Three Years

He was taken prisoner of war in Toubrock, N. Africa by the Italian Forces and spent some time iin a...

Donald Delves' War, Part 7 : Italy, Mule Train up a Mountain

I will never, ever forget the Mule Handler, calling out the Mule's name and as it got weaker and could...

Collapsible beds

The time was February 1945 and I was stationed at Rieti in central Italy being re-trained as a...

A child's view of German occupied Italy

The nuns told them that the children had already gone and the Germans didn't believe that a nun would...

A Short Marriage

Douglas Fawcett and I, Joyce Cowper, first met in 1937 and became sweethearts. We travelled together from...

Transporting Petrol

Just before the Salerno landings in Italy we acquired petrol tankers which were put onto the landing craft...

ATS aboard the Georgic bound for Italy.

ATS aboard the Georgic bound for Italy. I was in the A.T.S. and sailed on the Georgic with about 20 girls...

One Little Aussie at War

In 1943 as a qualified pilot, I landed in Scotland, posted to Brighton, farmed out to Peterborough, to do...

Hiroshima Saved My Bacon.

I was in the army in Venice Italy, my company the DWKwere waiting for orders to invade Japan. So...

Port Refurbishment at Brindisi: A Greek in the Royal Engineers

George was involved in the recommisioning of the port of Brindisi... God smiled and the cranes remained...

Donald Delves' War, Part 9 : Italy, Driving the Padre to the Vatican

The Regimental Padre, Joe Bown, used to preach at the Wesley Chapel in Redruth and when he heard that...

My Service History - from Sand Fly Fever to Mount Vesuvius

I served in the United Kingdom, Freetown, South Africa, Egypt, across North Africa and the Western Desert...