India

Service in Two World Wars.

My Grandfather Charles Prince was a regular soldier in August 1914 as was his older brother Frederick......

Wartime Memories

When war was declared between Great Britain and Germany by Mr Neville Chamberlain on Sept.3rd 1939, I was...

Indian memories of World War 2

The British Police were hiding in the tops of the trees just waiting to shoot any of the Indian soldiers,...

Experiences with the Royal Signals

Whilst he was in India he got dysentry three times and looked like a Belsen victim in photographs that were...

Harnam Singh

Got training at 3 centres at Lucknow, Babina and Ferozpur under Command Colonel H.M.Tallaq and colonel...

Women’s Auxiliary Corps (INDIA) 1942

In Jhansi, North India I stayed with my Uncle Dr Albert Gomez for a year... I received my first two...

My Great Railway Story

I was travelling to Bombay on the ship Caernavon Castle, from Liverpool, we sailed out at the end of 1944...

Irene Agnew's army life in Calcutta

The army paid for me to take a six month course, and I became a hairdresser in Calcutta, my home city....

From Shop Assistant to the Forgotten Army

We were bombed several times as France's largest submarine, the Surcouffe, was anchored in Sound. We...

A Journey through the War

My journey through the War took me to Catterick, Aldershot, Liverpool where we boarded ship to Bombay,the...

A Flight Engineer in India.

Most of the memories I have are of accidents - there was one time in India when a Lancaster crashed - my...

My Dads memories of 67 Squadron on the Arakan Penninsula

Imagine the anger of the squadron from CO to the lowest erk when on the following monday the Calcutta...

In the Navy

Being an island, here, we needed the Merchant Navy and all the convoys in the atlantic to come over. There...

From Pembroke Dock to Burma

He was initially posted to Pembroke Dock in Wales where he worked on Sunderland Flying Boats... This...

Childhood in Calcutta India

The Japanese bombed the city every night at that time as it was an important city and capital of the...

Panagar - India

There were only 7 British persons manning the signals office ,myself,. two bods deciphering coded messages,...

A CALCUTTA EXPERIENCE DURING WORLD WAR II

The Japanese released bombs all over Calcutta and a goodly share of them fell over the area in which our...

Going Deolali 1939-41

I was sent to the military hospital at Deolali and became personally acquainted with the place that gave a...

My Memories By Steve Kitching

I Went from Blackpool to Lynton-on-Ouse and from there to India in 1941... I was also stationed at Dum Dum...

Battle in Imphal.

We were flown into Imphal as reinforcments for the 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in 1944,...

My Grandad in India

My grandad is a soldier of the 2nd world war he was fighting in India against the Japanese... But they ran...

Tojo, 1943

One day at dawn in 1943, off the South West Coast of India, after scrambling down rope nets into landing...

A Shaft of Wit!

We had just clambered down the netting at the side of the troop ship and when we looked down we had to...

Lateral Thinking

My father requisitioned boats in the Irriwaddy Flotilla and sent my mother south down the delta to the...

Royal Army Medical Corps, My Exeriences

There were soon vacancies in a laboratory at the General Head Quaters in New Delhi and I soon had the...

Our surprise reunion in Bangalore

I went to India on the Winchester Castle. We were sent down to South India to Bangalore....