France

My Dads Reluctant Story Chapter 1

In addition to the normal crew of seven, 101 Lancasters carried an additional, special wireless operator,...

A short trip to France: RASC Diary

Went to café and wrote to Dilys in evening. In café with Dick, Bunny and Scotty in evening....

My Life in the RAOC During the War 1939-1945 Chapters 2 and 3

The army fought on until one day we were ordered forward again to send the ammo depot to places further...

A Marine's Tale Part 4

On one occasion we recovered a living being.He was an American pilot who came overhead in a very sick plane...

The War Years of F.N.Snowden

The college course completed successfully, I was ordered to report to the 12th Field Training Regiment...

The Dieppe Raid

Life in Occupied France

Chauny was targeted for its sail way connection We soon learnt that the Germans had ignored the neutrality...

Fire Orders Chapter 13a

They had just taken over their position, their P.I.A.T. mortars were still unloaded and their six-pounder...

My War

We left immediately to go to a town called Carvin half way between Lilles and Lens a coal mining town. The...

An “extra-ordinary” soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C — Part 2

Introduction ® Call up ® France and Dunkirk ® Furlough and hard times at home ® Staging...

My War Experiences Part 2 by Stan Rowley

We could only see a Military Police Sergeant with his snowdrop. There was something wrong and Captain said...

Escape from France

It was only now that I was told officially that I was in the Royal Army Service Corp and we were seperated...

Reg Gill: RAMC Training and Recruitment, 1939

I went there and reported to Sergeant radiographer who said "Oh you're that bloke from the 18th. I...

Serving with the A.E.A.F. in France 1944 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Christmas morning in the office was busy, as reports on bombing missions still had to be presented to the...

Reminiscences of a Roughrider 1937-1940

We were now to exchange our 13-pounder RHA guns for Swedish Bofors 2-pounder pom-pom guns, expand to three...

D-Day: Royal Navy Landing Craft

After initial training, we were drafted into “combined operations” ie co-operation with Army...

Prisoner of War Story/Gordon Highlanders Part 2

I started to explain in my "pigeon" French that I had no "Papiers" and that I was a Czech...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's End of War Memories

In fact, whilst I was based at Wuppertal after the war, I was on guard duty at the prison where Von...

War Diary of a Driver - Part 2

Our Xmas has been spoilt as we moved from GELEEN on Xmas Eve for ‘active ops’ on Xmas day, bad...

Phoney War and Dunkirk

One time Tina asked me to meet her and she took me to see her friend Jacqueline who lived in an apartment...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 2

We passed through a village and the French had put out buckets of water and some did give us food, but even...

Life as an RAF Codebreaker

I was told that with an officer, some wireless operators, cook and drivers, we were to be an advance party...

John Russell, OWL (Operator, Wireless and Line)

This insignia can be seen on the arm of a soldier in one of the most widely published photographs of D-Day,...

Dunkirk to Burma: With the Royal Artillery

My Father joined the army in November 1936 aged 18 and was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, based at...

Fifty Bomber Raids in Fairey Battles, Wellingtons and Lancasters

Unfortunately, I learned some days later that LAC Godfrey, the armourer, was included in the list of the 12...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 10

So great was the risk of fire and explosion, that the General in charge of port facilities flew back to...