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A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 5

Again Reg and I were on our own and we never caught up with the others, all of whom got back to...

Nursing from Bangor to Bombay and Beyond (Plus the Colditz Hymnbook)

D-Day Normandy 1944

Exit from the Stirling bomber was through a rectangular floor aperture at the tail end of the aircraft. We...

France 1940

Soon Edwin and another man were sent by the Sergeant to fetch an ammo box containing the magazines for the...

Fire Orders Chapter 13c

Hello, all stations Peter One....

A Jewish Hero in the SOE Part 1

Marcus Reginald Bloom was born in Tottenham, North London, on 24th September 1907, into an orthodox Jewish...

Prisoner Of War Story/ Gordon Highlanders Part 3

Another British fellow, Cabey, was working on the same lines as myself for getting away, and eventually we...

Memoirs of Army Life From Canterbury to Cologne.part 1

MEMOIRS OF ARMY LIFE FROM CANTERBURY TO COLOGNE Part 1 O by A.N. PILCHER. It was comical too, as the...

The Lancaster Crash at Rebréchien - Chapter 5

Sergeant Thomas Crane "Smiler": The Bomb Aimer and Front Gunner A Tribute to our brother. Two...

Bills Story 3

When we had waterproofed all the vehicles they all had to be tested and this meant going into...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 20b: D - DAY! D - DAY! - 6th June 1944

The LDV then returned as fast as it could to England with Butch and the other pick-up driver, an...

Memoirs of an Ex Infantry Man, Chapter 2

I got landed with the ‘boys’ anti-tank rifle, it was about six feet long, and fired a half inch...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 11 D Rothery: Wounded in France 1944

There you are, they are human after all'. After idling our time away here for a few weeks all...

225 Field Coy Royal Engineers at Dunkirk

All Royal Engineers Units were given the job of making improvised piers by bridging across the top of the...

What did you do in the War Grandad? by Ralph Martin

Perhaps my only claim to fame was landing, as a Private, on the Beaches of France on “D” Day,...

Experiences of a Young Man

1940 Having spent the previous Christmas with my Grandparents in London and the "Blitz" having...

Experiences of a Volunteer Pilot (260 Squadron)

Eventually, training continued but now flying Kittihawks which was the aircraft I would be expected to fly...

D-Day Memories: 12th Devons

Having trained so hard to master the tactics of going to war by Glider and landing behind enemy lines, I...

A Sapper's D-Day: 184 Field company, Royal Engineers

We discovered that we would be landing on Juno - Nan Beach, right in front of Bernieres - Sur - Mer, and...

War Diary of a Driver - Part 1

Now I have had the pleasure of seeing ‘jerry’ graves, maybe I am a little hard, but after...

A Jewish Hero in the SOE Part 2

It reveals that her immediate postwar research and interviews with German war criminals and eye witnesses...

A Soldier of the 2nd World War. The Death March.

I was carrying a Boyes anti tank rifle, anyway, so what happened, they were shelling and mortaring, they...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's D-Day and Beyond Memories

The plan was to push the Germans back all the time, starting in France, then into Belgium, Holland and...

Norman's War

We spent many a long night in the shelter, as the bombers would follow the River Severn to the Midlands but...

My War by Bob France

I was then told to guard the reservoir at Tufnell Park, in North London, Many years later when I was on...

From Aberdeen to Cairo via Dunkirk

We knew there was much telephone and Morse code activity, and were told eventually that the German advance...