India

'Journey of the Globetrotters' by Dennis March

The Officer was Major Lowe, a daredevil type of man and Sergeant King, the most notorious N.C.O. in the...

Wartime Memories of a Nurse

The journey took us through Calcutta, which was where we changed to a train going east to Camilla where the...

Life in the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), 1945

Cocktails in the chief's cabin with Bill and David. Do you have a glossary that explains terms such as...

Ann Dear

Still I waited, listening to the dreadful news on the wireless, Malaya and Singapore had fallen, Rangoon...

4 Bn. The Border Regiment

Instead of being flown by glider into Burma to remain during the monsoon period, whilst the other brigades...

Teenage Memories of World War 2: Part 3

In April 1944 the Japanese mounted a big offensive in the Naga Hilla in Assam, crossing the Indian frontier...

Sam's War

GLIDER PILOT ORIGINS During this time Winston Churchill was mightily impressed with the German raid on the...

Secret Training on DD (Swimming) Tanks. Preparations to retake Singapore

This bilge pump also had to cope with the water that splashed over the screen and into the tank, a hazard...

Memories of WW2 in a Cotswold Village

The bags were then stacked to make a wall in front of the downstairs Police Station windows, the latter...

McCollum family World War 2 Memories

Mum was by then back in Newcastle, living with her best friend for the rest of the war, and that same time...

I Was Lucky: Memories of the Royal Army Medical Corps

An amusing incident occurred when I was in the Field Hospital, there was an outbreak of a disease caused by...

Memoirs of John Fone Overseas in the Army

My next posting was as Staff Officer to Commander Army Group Engineers, part of 14th Army, which at that...

Ubique and Unique - the story of the Lincolnshire Gunners

The Germans had almost over-run their positions when two British tanks appeared, hull-down, to give the...

War time in India with ENSA

Soon our company, including Anne, was ready for our next big wartime adventure, the thrilling prospect of...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 8

Our other Workshop Platoon and one of our four Park Platoons was based at China Bay, Trincomalee, another...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 12

About two hundred of these unfortunates were placed under 345 Company command and occupied additional...

As I Travel Along Life's Sometimes Stony Path - Part 4

It was with a feeling of great relief, when on the 5th of November, we boarded HMS ‘Thruster’ a...

Childhood Memories of a Family at War (Part 2)

Father went down with the SS Ceramic, which had left Liverpool with 600 men, women and children bound for...

Itinerary of one 14701281 Frank Wilkinson

Memorable points of the Med’ — - many days oily calm, - clarity of sea, all shades of green and...

Freeman to Prisoner to Freedman Part Two

Letters from Fred to his parents: Madras 3.10.1945 - from 916461 LAC Freeman F. EX-POW to Mr & Mrs FA...

An easy war in the Royal Artillery (Part 2)

I tried to explain this delightful situation to the Captain Q.M. who was to take over from me having coming...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 5

As in all Indian Army units Viceroys Commissioned Officers were interposed between the British officers and...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 10

Earlier in the year huge floods in Bengal's Damodar Valley put coal mines out of action and interrupted...

A Child's War -Part 19

We travelled in stately fashion in a comfortable sleeper across the huge subcontinent of India for 4 days...

World War II Battlefields in NE of India

As the Japanese were advancing towards India's borders in the North-East, the Allies were weaving a...

Tweedale's War Part 8

General ter Foorten commanded the 25,000 regular troops of the Dutch garrison, who were joined by the...