France

5th June 1944

The 5th June 1944 found me at Hurn, an airfield near Bournemouth, with 604 sqdn, a night fighter squadron...

Refugees from The Netherlands. Part One- Breskens to past Amiens.

My British parents. and I,are living in Breskens,Zeeland,Netherlands and my grandparents, one aunt and one...

One Man's War

He said that was our best chance of escape; the lines of soldiers on the beach waiting to be picked up by...

American Veterans Return to Normandy

As we stood in the cemetary a German man who recognised my client's cap badge came up to him and said...

Dunkirk, 1940

On the 28th May our modern destroyers were withdrawn from Dunkirk and losses that day H.M.S Wakeful and...

A War Veteran's Experiences Remembered.

We as bomber crews never had fighter protection on any of our night bombing raids and our own squadron...

A Guardsman at Dunkirk

Once a bloke realised he was being fired upon on the beach… fired at by bloody Stukas…being...

Memories From The Invasion of France D-Day June 6th 1944

Memories From The Invasion Of France D. Day June 6th 1944 By Sydney Charles Wagstaff B E M HMS Fury. After...

From Norwich to Hamburg with the Royal Artillery

The Germans had a habit of tying wire across the road at head height to get us dispatch riders. We were the...

Hill 112 and the Death March

My seargeant Offord was hit and i put my whole pack of bandages in the hole in his stomach. I went to...

From one beach to another...

Nothing much needs to be said about our position; there were thousands of British soldiers on the beach,...

An Easy War (or So He Told Us)

The British rumour/propaganda machine had managed to convince him that the enemy were, malnourished,...

A Coach Driver's Experience in Normandy

I decided to have a coffee and sandwich at the Mme Gondrée's café alongside Pegasus Bridge...

Doctor at Pegasus Bridge

My father was a doctor in the Sixth Airborne Division, 12th Battalion The Yorkshire, Dr Thomas M. Wilson....

Life in the war: Lander's story

Lander recalled that the rations his wife had were hard... Landers experiences of evacuation were that his...

The Advance into the Low Countries by the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

Eddie Frazer, our wireless operator, a Scot, was told to dig a trench and be ready for the enemy. Eddie...

Memories of a Linesman

Also our more military gear had been issued: Battle Bowlers, Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifles WW1 pattern....

War Diary of a Driver- Part 3

The past week has seen us in very hard fighting, the worse since Normandy days from the Rhine where we...

Percy's War

Within a week I was in France with the B.E.F. We arrived at Amiens and were posted to various railway...

Memories of a Linesman

Also our more military gear had been issued: Battle Bowlers, Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifles WW1 pattern....

Arthur Sawyer's War - as told by his son John

My name is John Sawyer and this is my Dad's story - 4919457 Pte. During training he became friends with...

Dropped into Occupied France..An SOE story

When the Germans invaded the Islands in 1940, most young Channelmen were already in England, and fighting...

For a Better World

The Division moved hurriedly to Iraq, as at that time, the Germans were well on their way to the oil wells...

Father Fernand, the curate of Allenc, France

Before World War Two, Fernand Nogaret became a Roman Catholic priest and had been appointed as curate to...

D-Day a bird in the water

I would be guiding up to twelve landing craft full of Canadian and British troops for despatch to Juno...

A Wartime Story from St Malo

In early June 1940 my parents and grandparents, who were all still living in St Malo, were given warning by...