France

My Dad's WW2 Contribution: Worcester Regiment

Moved into Belgium 13.5.40 and took up positions at Waterloo fighting retreat back to Wormhoute where we...

D-Day Memories

Mr L Isaacs of Hanford, Stoke On Trent Ex Able-Seaman Landing Craft Tank, 954-44 flotilla. On the return to...

My 21st Birthday: 1 June 1944

I was a Lieut in the 25th LAA Regt RA 50 Div which we all know was an assault division in the...

My D-Day

We reached Portsmouth Harbour station and boarded a paddle steamer, Merstone, with tall thin funnel…I...

The Quiet Commando

The original intention was for the first flight of assault troop consisting of the 8th Infantry Brigade to...

The Depot Ship

Digging latrines by day, and being shelled with anti-personal missiles by night didn't seem to be a...

Life as a Gunner 1939 - 1940

We had been told the Germans would never get through the Maginot line, they came found it through Belgium....

Resisting a bit in France, being sent

As she was asked to tell where he had gone, she lied by saying he had left to see a cousin with...

The Retreat: Escape from La Panne 1940

2.00am Saturday 2 June 1940- We reached a place called La Panne, a seaside place further on the beach than...

A Royal Signals Radio Operator, and the D-Day Landings

As a Royal Signals Radio Operator, after training from January 1942,and a period of time with the 79th...

A Medical Officer at Dunkirk: With 9th Field Ambulance

We held them at first but the French gave way and we slowly had to retreat to the Dunkirk area and perhaps...

It Seems like a Bad Dream........

For a start we were at Aldershot in a reception camp, and from there sent to Halifax to a divisional...

Dunkirk Experiance

A canal between us, an obstacle to them, but not to bullets, screaming shell, nor their maiming, killing...

My Dad's D-Day: Landing and Playing Cricket on the Beach

ON THE BEACHES SOMEDAYS LATER HE WAS UNLOADING ORDNANCE WHEN HE SPOTTED SOME ENGLISH SAILORS TAKING A BREAK...

A Gunner’s View of D-Day

The regiment was equipped with heavily-armoured “Priests” — basically an American 105mm...

escape from st valery

The highland regiment continued to fight a hopeless battle at st valery when the battle had obviously been...

Don't get caught in the Cold

Now we know that conditions in the PoW camps were not that comfortable and one in northern Poland would...

Tanks and Parachutes [B.Barney]

It was chaos and badly planned; only one tank got to Arnhem bridge. Working for Bertrum Mills and the...

Normandy to the Baltic

Our Sgt Holland from Burton on Trent had a very entertaining flight against an American Crew Officer crew...

Brief account of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW2

The 2nd, 1/7th and 8th Battalions were part of the BEF in France and Belguim. It soon became clear that the...

A Quick Dip: Dunkirk 1940

The German Army has swept all before them, the British Expeditionary Forces forced to retreat until there...

My grandads diary: With the Royal Signals in North West Europe 1944

He went trough France to Belgium and ended in Holland near Eindhoven. Later on in live she marries my dad...

Just an Ordinary Man: Extract 1

I was a member of HM BEF within a Regiment of Royal Artillery during 1939/40 based in Le Havre France......

My Dad's Dunkirk

He witnessed the sinking of two of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ships, Monas Queen and King Orry,...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

It details his actions at La Panne and Dunkirk, which led to the award of the military medal. We arrived at...

Dunkirk Diary: 1st Searchlight Battery

The 1st and 2nd S/L Battery formed the 1st S/L Regiment. The 1st S/L regiment had been the AA S/L defence...