India

The Incendiary Bomb, the Pot Plant, and the Maharaja

I was at Heston until April, and then went to work on Spitfires and Lysanders with 61OTU in Shropshire. I...

Home Guard to the Real Thing (in India)

One or two old soldiers said ‘Christ knows where we're going,’ and pulled in at Durban,...

Les Baker's Letter Home Part 4. Journey to Ceylon.

When the Japs landed in Java, there was nothing we could do as we had very little equipment and very few...

India experiences: Special Communications Unit

Towards the end of 1942 I, together with Alex Brazier, volunteered to go to India as engineers to be...

WW II Battlefields in the NE of India

The Allied soldiers' cemeteries commemorating Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus,...

Around the Cape and back through the Med

Leaving Freetown, we passed the Isle of St. Helena, and after some time we arrived in Cape Town, seeing the...

A Drivers Tale In India

After seven days we drove the lorries onto railway tracks and after 12 hours we arrived at Calcutta and...

Our Day Centre has lots of Memories

A Town Hall in London ANNIE TOOKE kept War Diaries of London when she worked at the Town Hall on Report and...

A Schoolgirl’s War in the Far East

In the spring of 1940, when the U.K. was being heavily bombed, he arranged for my mother, brother and me to...

A War Child in Hampshire

It was his brother in law, Jim Woolgar who was a sailor on HMS Barham which was anchored outside Liverpool....

Dost Going On Leave

As he worked for me I talked to him about this but his attitude was "It was the will of Allah" so...

Repairing Aircraft Engines in India

John Jackson — Repairing Aircraft Engines in India. Hitler wanted to come down through Egypt via...

Indian Army and Romance

It was in Egypt that Moray met his future Irish wife, Dorothy Kenny, then in the QAs. In fact, he appears...

Leading Air Craftsman Alan Chapman 1737663

Five days after VE day I flew Melbourne to Germany, taking in the demolition work which had been done to...

For a Better World

The Division moved hurriedly to Iraq, as at that time, the Germans were well on their way to the oil wells...

A Cooks Tour

Two elderly Singhalese gentlemen advertising the Island's best known product stood on the station...

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles (Bill) Pickering

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles Pickering. Later,I was part of the 14th Army which was to launch...

Fleeing from the Japanese

3rd September 1939 On board PO and O Steamer Viceroy of India in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta...

Maps, Messages and Adventures

At this time Peter was in India including on VE day, and then went on to Ceylon where he was for VJ...

Wellington bomber crashlands in Bengal

After crash landing in the waterlogged jungles of Bengal, the crew of a Wellington bomber braved the...

From West To East and Back In Uniform

On Easter Day I had arranged for the Chaplain to give me communion but of course, I could not see him and...

childhood in India 4

On the other side of the ship in the cabin opposite my brothers, my sister aged 10 and myself very nearly...

Memories of the War From a Young Woman in India by Joan Wakefield (nee Cambay)

To the reader this sounds not at all like war, there were lighter moments, for instance there was the funny...

It aint half hot, mum.

We continued our journey, the survivors were put ashore at Philipville in Tunis, and we sailed on through...

Joining the Indian Army

I'd always wanted to join the army and after our final exams I volunteered for an officer posting in...

Searches For Arthur-Desmond G Pastore.

Three brothers had been called up, one was in the Cheshire Yeomanry, one was in the Yorkshire Infantry and...