France

The Millionaire Mob

On returning to Scotland and Inveraray in particular, I was again accommodated on the Southland with the...

The Front Line

On the morning of February the eighth the Squadron Sergeant Moodier had us on parade to tell us that later...

Memories of World War II: Royal Army Service Corps

I was to travel on a flat-bottomed landing craft and had to supervise the loading of vehicles of all kinds,...

Alf's War in the Army

Again it was three Barnsley lads Wall, Wilson and Wood, the other five were from Liverpool; I only remember...

Memoirs of a British Soldier: 4th County of London Yeomanry and 1st Royal Tank Regiment

The tank I join was a Cromwell designated 5 Able that is to say “Able tank in 5 Troop,...

Evacuee to Front Line Soldier,My Teenage Years

My orders were to pick up the platoon Officer and Sgt, with their wireless operator, and take them out,...

Memories of WW2

All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...

James M Spence, Autobiography 1939-1940

By now, a 25 pounder battery of ours came into action directly in front of our OP and for hours played...

SNAPSHOTS OF MY PAST - R D Stubbs

Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...

Remembering the 40s - before and during the war

Land-mine descends on parachute, settles on a hedge in the village, fails to explode, Royal Navy Bomb...

James McQuarrie and The King's Own Scottish Borderers

We were now told that the Division was being evacuated and the Battalion had been given the honour of...

5 Years a Prisoner of War

While we were resting one day, one of our lads ran out into a building, just off the road, about one...

Snapshots Of My Past

Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...

Transcript from the War Diary of Driver A. Surry 2115302

Just my armoured truck and 6 sappers attacked a copse infantry fashion and out came 40 Jerries with small...

Soldier's Tale of Wartime Marriage and Defending a Gunsite in Epernay

The RAF officer had arrived to act as our escort for our convoy to lead us to the future gunsite at Plivot....

His Story The War Years of Frank L Scott

These have included frequent employment in a medium artillery role, action in an anti-tank screen, and the...

Perlethorpe to Portsmouth part 2

Later, that morning we were to lay off Omaha beach to assist the Americans who were having trouble getting...

H.M.S. Princess Astrid: D-Day and After

A bombardment of our beach by Battleships Warspite and Ramelles, Five Cruisers and a number of Destroyers,...

Sam's War

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

Dunkirk: Onboard the Maid of Orleans

I was their Cricket Scorer for the Police Cricket Club since I was 12 years old. I told him about the...

France, 8 June 1940: 2nd BEF - 5th Battalion of The Highland Light Infantry

I asked the sergeant why he had been on his own previous to meeting the two others and he told me that...

My Trip to France in 1944

Next day we took another trip to St Omer, this time we visited of one the lads who is in the Canadian...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 1

In the morning the proper driver took over and I finished the exercise in the office P.D. We moved about...

First 24 Hours: Middlesex Regt in Normandy

Barney is to day buried in the St. Manvieu War Cemetry within a hundred yards of the spot where he was...

Rommel meets a Jersey man

Bogis Rolfe, I later learned that a Sergeant Issac had been cut off by the rapid advance of the German...

Attack on Barbee Farm and Vendes 16 July 1944

The Hallamshires were to attack the village of Vendes and the enemy held strong point of Barbee Farm. D Coy...