France

Jimmy's D Day

When he was in the water near the beach his friend was shot and dying. He wanted a cigarette but the...

Getting out: Dunkirk 1940

When we arrived at Dunkirk, the germans were shelling the beaches. It was hard going, walking through the...

From LDV to RE

He was A. J. May and commanded the vessal Massey Shaw a fire boat located on the Thames which helped in...

Normandy Rendezvous

Two girls, Evelyn and Olwen and five boys, Tom, Fred, Ivor, Bill and Glyn. Four of us boys played brass...

Jack is Wounded in Tilly sur Seulles

On one of my leaves I did go to see Sapper Lacey's widow and small children who lived in a cottage not...

The Long Walk to Freedom

I had dysentry, semi-recovered from the dysentry, I was dropped out of the march and was picked up and put...

Tales from a US Navy Ships Radio Operator

We were preparing for the landings in Sicily, the harbour was full of invasion craft and a certain young...

Part of the true Dunkirk spirit: With the Royal Engineers

Hardy and the Royal Engineers remained in Dunkirk trying to give as much time as possible for the...

My escape from Dunkirk: With 92nd Field Regiment R.A.

I am also one of those, who in June 1940 was fortunate enough to escape capture by the German army, which...

After Dunkirk: With The South Wales Borderers

Dad continued with the story, telling me that the mixed bag of luck continued when they reached the port. I...

Dunkirk recollections: Royal Army Service Corps

On June 4th an officer was seeking anyone with experience of rowing with out asking why he volunteered and...

My Father's War: Making Do and Saving Food in the RASC

Dad was in France during the phoney war when some very amusing incidents occurred centred around a young...

Taken off the Beach and Sent to India

The convoy got within a few miles of Dunkirk and met with a massive traffic jam of British Army lorries....

From Sgt to 2nd Lt and Back again

In the prevailing situation prisoners were a problem but Andre volunteered to conduct them to a place of...

Sgt to 2nd Lt and Back Again

In the prevailing situation prisoners were a problem but Andre volunteered to conduct them to a place of...

Noor Inayat Khan

The birth of Noor Inayat Khan took place on January 2nd, 1914 in the Kremlin; a strange place indeed, for...

Recollections of Operation Overlord

It was a member of the Maquis, and as my new friends had a wounded man with them he took us to...

My Father's Memories

I was take from the beach by the Grimsby trawler “Cambridgeshire” to the “Oronsay”...

HMS Skipjack - Bill Silby

My Grandad John Silby joined the RNVR in 1938 as a Chatham sailor, aged 19. He went on to serve in the...

Harry's War

I, in fact, took to the language so well that I went on to get my degree in German and now I...

What happened to the B.E.F.after Dunkirk?

With the 51st Highland Division and what remained of the other Units, we formed a great fighting force...

France 1940

We spent a few months near Bristol and in the in the spring of 1940 moved to France where we were billetted...

Homecoming from Dunkirk

The family in Sunderland were alerted to Jims failing health by Rachel when she wrote to her brother in law...

With the Suffolk Regiment in France

I was in a mortar platoon at the time, and we landed on Sword Beach at 9.30 on the 6th June 1944......

Fighting for Boulogne

My father, Arthur Colin Guest, was serving in France at the time of the German Blitz Kreig in 1940....

Dunkirk: With the Royal Engineers

A few days later they managed to get a boat off the beach, got to Ramsgate, were given tea, cakes and...