Italy

Harry and his Military Medal Citation

At about 1830 hours on 25 April 1945 at TRECENTA in Northern ITALY Corporal GOODFELLOW was in command of a...

Nursing in the Middle East and Italy

My mother, ‘Billie’ Kenny, served with the TANS and later the Queen Alexandra's Nursing...

RAF Bomb Armourer Harold Hilton

Harold Hilton from Farnworth was born in 1915 and served in the Second World War from 1939-1945. An...

Memories and Dates

I relied almost entirely on my memory of those sad days, checking only the dates of the sinking of the...

Eruption and Explosion

My mother, Margaret Brown, worked in an ammunition factory in Newark on Trent... One night a damaged RAF...

A Near Thing

In 1943 I was seconded to the South African Army.We were stationed at the recently acquired Breda Machine...

Donald Delves' War, Part 5 : Italy - Meeting a Friend from Home

It was one day in Italy that we were about to cross another river that I met Clifford Hailey on the river...

Monte Cassino - The Galliant British War Reporter

I will never forget the one sunny day in May 1944, when strolling through the usually tranquil, small...

War in Italy and Greece

I remember that there was a great debate as they wanted to bomb the Germans but we were in the way... While...

Lieutenant J P Walker, Bdr Edward Terence Boon (14395076) and Gnr Charles David Goodey (14306491) - 11th Field Regt RA

Goodey who served with the 11th Field Regt RA and both of whom died in the same shelling of their battery...

The Battle of Monte Casino

The evil that corrupts this land, is plain to see at every hand, films that doth afflict the mind, of young...

Sadness

The evil that corrupts this land, is plain to see at every hand, films that doth afflict the mind, of young...

My Time in the Royal Engineers: Service in Tunisia and Italy

I served my time in the docks in Cardiff and London, then in November 1942 we shipped abroad to invade...

830 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, Malta

So after a few months with the holding squadron at Dekheila, he was posted to 830 Squadron in Malta....

Escape by Train

I was flown to Italy and put in a POW camp in the “ Toe “ of Italy. When Italy fell I...

War Story of My Grandfather, A Eccles

Early on in 1944 my Grandfather went over the Mediterranean to Italy where he fought in the famous battle...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 18

Looking around our new office, the Captain took over what used to be the bank manager's office... The...

My Father in Laws Military Medal - 20th November 1944

My father in law died in August he very seldom spoke of the war or his part in it -but my mother...

Glasgow Woman Finds Love in Naples

I was a member of the ATS/EFI when sent by convoy from Liverpool to Naples, Italy in 1943 to work as part...

Cassino 1944

The section were located in what was left of the schoolhouse, with an OP in a Sanger consisting of a Lance...

A Trifle Intoxicated

Tom, Mitch and I had been busy repairing vital radar sets and we were returning to base very tired, after...

When I Was Cut Off in Termoli

As we were moving up the leg of Italy, an officer told us to go ahead of the column in our wireless...

3 Friends One Survivor. Cont.

With the End of WW2. occuring in May 1945,being in Borgo-san-Lorenzo north of Florence,we were involved in...

Heartbreaking News

My very earliest recollection of WWII is the day my mother and brother received the news that my father,...

Partisan encounters

My grandfather, Max Hofmann, thought that by the Spring of 1945 he had done enough in the service of the...

Get a Light from Etna Volcano

He also spoke of lighting his cigaret from the volcano Etna which I must admit, up to reading it on this...