India

Why the 'Y' Service?

Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...

1939/45 War Experiences of Lieutenant Denis G.F. Gudgeon

10 January 1943: The battalion travelled by train to Shubri on the Brahmaputra River, thence by stern wheel...

A Japanese POW and the Bridge Over the River Kwai

Going into Singapore we were attacked by the Japanese aeroplanes up the Malaka straights which was not very...

Chapter 10 - Back Home - Peacetime Soldering and Civvy Street (Apr 1945 - Feb 1946)

She later married one of my workshop officers Peter Dodd a released POW from Germany... The ATS officers...

Burma before the Japanese Invasion

This went on for a few weeks until Dad attended a high level meeting in Rangoon one day and came home to...

The Black Cats: Part 1

As one couldn't write exactly where, due to our mail being censored, I was to tell them that if it was...

British Legion Pilgrimage

50 years later April 7th 1994 I once again landed at Dimapur, this time as a civilian carrying a camera not...

The Burma Campaign-Part 1-The Long Journey to Burma

Person in story: Dennis Bell Location of Story: UK , South Africa , India & Burma. Whilst in Bombay I...

THE CHIROPODIST

Now doesn't that tell you something about those so-called experts and the medical profession and the...

A Child's War -Part 20

Apart from the paid passage aboard the Nankin, we had travelled about 20,000 miles across the Southern...

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

We heard a large bang to the right of us then we heard the Japs walking right next to and over the...

Tweedale's War Part 12

As a reward for my services to King and Country I later received four medals and the appropriate ribbons:...

Nazis on the Playing Field

So I found myself posted to the 1st Battalion of King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, which together with...

The First Chindit Part 1

When they reached Singapore Jack even took part in the Oriental Olympic Games in 1937, beating several...

Wartime Romance Memories of an ENSA Ballet Dancer

Instead one of the teachers Sheila Elliot Clarke got me an audition with Jack Hilton; in order to become a...

A Bombardier in Burma

Just north of the River Irrawaddy we joined the 28th Jungle Field Regiment who shortly reverted to the 28th...

Captain Alfred Richardson ISO JP and his War in India

Captain Alfred Richardson ISO JP His story of wartime India in the Royal Corps of Signals....

War Service Abroad as a Wireless Operator

We sailed north past Scotland and onto Canada, landed some troops at Belize then towards Africa, we were...

Enlisting and the Journey to India

After our month in Durban we boarded a converted French liner, the Isle de France and that took us to Port...

Burma Road

From Calcutta we went to Dimapur and from there we boarded a lorry to take us to Imphal via Kohima. We were...

Happy Landings- the travels of HMS Largs

This became known as HMS Largs After a very enjoyable period working in the Loch Fyne region- a place now...

A Bride's War Effort - her husband's story

We found a boat, and he said, Tony said to his…, an officer, he said there's a boat there, we...

Escape From Singapore

In 1934 Fay started her education with the Sisters of the Holy Child in Mayfield, Sussex. In 1976 Fay...

HMS NITH. Normandy and the Far East.

On reaching Bombay we undertook preparations for the Rangoon landings. Leaving Macasa we went to Singapor...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Seven - Bombay

Recalling that I was held, temporarily, as a supernumerary on the strength of Air Headquarters, India, I...

My Wartime Childhood in Calcutta, India

The wide road which was like the Mall in London and which led directly towards the Victoria Memorial, one...