Italy

Monte Cassino

We were at the front with the Royal Artillery Regiment Defence Force for the 15th American Air Force who...

Gateway to Rome

Next morning across the Messina Straits to Regio Calabria, handing over my charge and rejoining my platoon....

D - Day Dodgers of Italy

Many fallacies are spread as to origins of most things but the fact is that the 8th Army were more than...

Last page of Diary

Naturally, it had to be about my old stand-by, my Army Album and the photo to head it simply had to be...

Reminiscences of a Wartime Tank Crew Member

I enclose a photograph taken at LUNGO BRENTA a village situated a few kilometres south of Venice where we...

Dancing Girls - and Reg - in the Desert, and Aida Napolese style

THE D-DAY DODGERS

We went through the Straits of Gibraltar to Naples and luckily instead were diverted to a brigade workshop...

An encounter with a boxing champion

Now, all my childhood Primo Carnera had been the heavy weight boxing champion and he had come back to end...

One day in France

When we think of the great Pavarotti singing the “anthem of the Soccer World Cup - Nessum...

A Musician in War Time

I was a Sergeant Engineer on Spitfires, but because the RAF knew I was a musician, I spent a lot of time...

Liberation of venice

These enabled us to surprise the remainder of the German forces and advance across the Lake Comaccio marshy...

First troops in Venice

These enabled us to surprise the remainder of the German forces and advance across the Lake Comaccio marshy...

First troops in Venice

These enabled us to surprise the remainder of the German forces and advance across the Lake Comaccio marshy...

War's End

I think it was a matine performance of Tosca when in the midst of an aria, a small and somewhat rotund chap...

Royal Engineers and the Eighth Army

We went into the desert to build water points for the Eighth Army soldiers, so that they could get water....

My father's war in the 8th Army

He was in North Africa at Alexandria, El Alamein, Tobruk, Benghazi, Sidi Barrani, Cairo and Tripoli... From...

The Power Plant Attack

The Power Plant Attack...

The Red Cross Experience in BNAF and CMF

We were there for six months and then moved over to Naples just before Christmas of 1943... After Naples we...

DUNKIRK TO BLIGHTY TO ITALY

Harold paraded at Victoria Park with so many of the Dunkirk Veterans then was re-assigned. The Germans took...

From Electrician to Engineer

I was sent to basic training and then after a brief embarkation leave was shipped off to North Africa, on...

From Electrician to Radio Operator in the Royal Signals. (Accompanies story A7791500)

I witnessed the bombing of Monte Cassino and from there I think it became tank warfare. I had been an...

North Africa and Italian POWs

The Germans were driven out of North Africa and orders came for me to break camp and proceed to Oran for...

AN IRISH RIFLEMAN

That was bombed and then cut off: we took the Lira Valley over the River Rapido... We went up the Lira...

Naples Opera house

Some opera singers arrived from the San Carlo Opera House in Naples... My wife sent me an 'Opera...

Visit to the Vatican

One day we got a civillian wireless set to repair from the vatican city... He replied reverently. The next...

Recollections of German Generals signing surrender in Italy

Then I was told the first big news of the war — Berlin had been captured and unconditional surrender...