France

Muriel's Sure Coincidence: France 1940

Then in 1943 I had a letter from the War Office to say his body had been found with another young man...

Retreat from the La Basse Canal to Dunkirk

I went to Belgium with the BEF and was caught up in the retreat to Dunkirk, starting at the La Basse...

My D-Day Encounter

D.Day was our main task and it must have been around the beginning of June 1944 when we the 6th Battalion...

Remembering D-Day: In Roubaix, Northern France

My recollections of this historic event and the decisive days that followed are quite different to those of...

Escape from France

We took the route to Portiers and Limoges and through the Pyrennes, and after several days of nightmare...

My Grandparents Story

A Polish soldier, named Joe took a friendly shine to my Nan and was situated next to the door of the ward...

With the REME through France

I was put into the REME, and sent to Kent to the 13th Ack Ack Workshop. A German truck was sitting there...

Left in France: A Royal Engineer in Brest

After this Dad spent some time in Wales at the MOD site in Pendine, also in Belfast, before travelling to...

The build up towards the Dunkirk evacuations: 53rd Field Artillery Regt.

Meanwhile our Battery, as indeed all other artillery groups of 42 Div, along with a regiment of medium,...

When You've Got To Go, You've Got To Go

Our Sergeant Major was easy going as regards the trailer being coupled up to his lorry provided that the...

Dunkirk Spirit

Our unit, the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, part of the British Expeditionary Force, drove up to Louvain...

My War Experience

On 24th June 1940 I reported for duty along with many others at Bodmin Barracks and was proud to be...

Experience of a POW chapter six

The Germans stationed two 'E' boats just off shore, which were machine-gunning those troops on the...

Cherry Tree Cottage, Dunkirk and WW2

Norman subsequently served in North Africa travelling by cargo ship via the East coast of US, to avoid the...

Black Watch

We went to Preston Park, Brighton, and joined the Canadian 154 Brigade, 51st Highland Division... I went up...

Surrounded by 50 German Soldiers in Dunkirk

The first night we were there I was handed over a German spandau machine gun, which was in a position...

My Experiences in the War from D-Day: 2nd Devons

When the war started my younger brother was evacuated to Bridgwater but when the bombs started to fall on...

Normandy, 1944

In June 1944 my ship - HMS "Pearl", 600-ton Asdic Trawler of the Royal Naval Patrol Service - was...

Operation Overlord from the Eyes of my Grandad: Onboard LST 409

The following was written by my grandfather Leslie Dennis Rudge in 1985 for my sister, Samantha Durose, who...

51 Squadron Raid

Twenty-four Halifax bombers were to join with others from bases throughout England, making a total of 240...

France, July 1944

In 1940, the Germans invaded France, and most of the Spanish refugees joined the French Resistance,...

Pigs Blood and Potatoes

We got captured at Dunkirk and were marched across France to Germany. I remember that when we were in...

My Journey Through WW2

Were upon, after a brief spell on the deadly Churchill flame throwers, I was posted to the Royal Scots...

A Dad in the Pioneer Corps - A Tale of 2 Sons

These recollections were told to me by Mr Fox's sons, Barry and Raymond, at Old Harlow library during a...

War and Remembrance Anniversary in Normandy

But I have not told you my stories of the ' duty' in Normandy. The story of Derek Day who was there...

So This is War: France, June 1940

The great bulk of the BEF - the British Expeditionary Force - had been captured by the Germans or had...