The Invasion of France as I Saw it: With the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. My father, Sid...
There I hoped to meet Louis Moreau the son of a farmer that had assisted our escape from France during...
Grandad said he would see one man drop into the water behind and then in front from the gunfire from the...
We landed on Queen Beach which was divided into three sections: Sword, Juno and Gold. The Canadians landed...
My mother contacted some Belgian officials and as the frontier with France was closed, to stop that exodus...
24th May Told going to Calais, got prepared, went out of village via Pontamahon, Lille, Armeliers, Buaill...
In recent years, I have written to the local paper reminding readers of the disaster, and after good...
My father always spoke of being evacuated from the beaches, so my guess is they then made their way to Malo...
We got to the village of Beauville and went in to an old barn,knocked out all the glass windows and waited...
Our 40 Typhoon bombers were supporting our drive for the Arnhem bridge and the Germans knew this. Very...
After the liberation of Middle Beers we spent 2 days travelling to Arnham, this was longer than we had...
Grouped in an orchard, the soldiers witnessed a Germany anti-tank battery that was holding up the movement...
Sister Elizabeth told her story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. I...
Dad had to carry on in the direction of the enemy until he could find a place to turn the vehicle round...
In recent years Sangatte, a village situated a few miles west of Calais has become associated with asylum...
Grandma Giganti, as with the majority of my French family of the time, was a member of the resistance. She...
Then there was Tubby what happened to him and of course Wilbur so it goes on there was Milson four years in...
Among other things we had to collect requisitioned lorries from central vehicle parks so we slowly became...
I did odd things like unexploded bombs, stopping parked cars and vehicles going into the road like with...
D Day, when the Allied troops landed in France once again, was on 6th June 1944 and at that time I was...
When he eventually arrived at the Dunkirk beaches German fighters were machine gunning them, officers were...
My transport company received orders to make for Dunkirk, but we first had to go to the NAFFI supply depot...
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