France

Two Evacuations by "Phil": France 1940 and Java 1942

We left the Clyde on about 8th December 1941 for an unknown destination, via Freetown, Durban and the...

Arromanches to Hill 112

I have a keen interest in the D Day landings and the Normandy campaign, my brother George served with the...

Seaforth Highlander - P.O.W. Diary

June- Leave Meppen for Eastern Germany Berlin, Breslone , Lamsdorf. May 10th —Left Leznity get lift...

Things Remembered

The Geordies, the Scousers, the Scots or the Taffies from Wales... The biggest German aircraft was a six...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 1 - The Raid on St. Nazaire

All the demolition parties from the docks in Cardiff and Southampton left for Falmouth, in Cornwall, where...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 4 - Sabotage work of Major C V Clarke, 'Operation Josephine' raid on Pessac Pow

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part Four — Sabotage work of Major C. V. Clarke;...

HMS NITH. Normandy and the Far East.

On reaching Bombay we undertook preparations for the Rangoon landings. Leaving Macasa we went to Singapor...

Tom's Army Days

Thomas Morgan Williams, Prince of Wales Company, 1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards. Whilst at Cheux, I was...

Leaving Dunkirk:my father's diary account

After spending a cold and cramped night in a ditch, with fitful sleeping disturbed by shell fire in...

Ultimate Sacrifice.

And so in June 1944 after a massive build up the allies returned to France at the beaches of Normandy.At...

A Narrow Escape

The rim of the wartime British Army steel helmet was smooth and bevelled but, when I gripped the brim of...

My Story: On a London Barge off Normandy

The port was like. . . . well the nearest I could say to is its like being at Aldborough in a...

Coming Home: With the RASC in France 1940

He never said much about the war, but I remember him comming home from Dunkirk telling me about a nuns...

Moving and Marching

At twelve, six German JB87 Sooker bombers appeared over the village and started dropping bombs on us... I...

My Time with 271 Squadron Chapter 2

Billy was a black and white smooth haired terrier who was picked up as a puppy on an abandoned airfield in...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 6

Other divisions had been clearing the Germans from Antwerp to use the port for supplies, rather than...

1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment C company

He was always disparaging of the prisoner of war films made after the war as they always portrayed the life...

A German POW in France - and a resulting Friendship

One grandfather, having lost an eye in the North African campaign and later surviving eight years in a...

Experience of a POW Chapter four

We barely made it before the Germans closed in around us in tight pockets, one stretching from Boulogne in...

Letters Home - August 1944 - Part One

We then assembled them onto a road just outside Lewes in Sussex; ready to proceed to an embarkation Port...

(Banger) Bert Hall One War Hero

Banger still refused; the officer asked Bert why not. Unluckily for Bert, when the officer saw him he said,...

Memories of Normandy- Hill 112 and 361

- Captain Fields killed later - Lieutenant Sinclair was wounded in a concentration area along with his...

Remembering Events in the Vichy Zone of France during World War Two

On 11 November the Germans invade the French unoccupied zone in the South of France. Jean-Pierre was...

Evacuation from Dunkirk: 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Evacuation from Dunkirk: 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. During the night we...

My nightmare teenager years.

On the night of June 23rd 1943 the air raid sirens sounded in Hull, I was 16 yrs old and living at...

The Sinking of the Lancastria. (1940)

This we did; along corridors up staircases, along corridors, up staircases, etc, until we found we were on...