France

The New Boy: Joining 66 Squadron, RAF

After joining the squadron which was mainly Norwegians,Poles and Australians, he took his aircraft for its...

The Desert Rats, Sicily Landings, D Day and beyond

The 8th army held the narrow strip of desert from El Alamein to the impassable sands of the Quattara...

The Camera Never Lies: Finds of an RAF Photographer

As the phoney war disappeared and more and more German aircraft were involved in combat with the Armee...

The Postman with the Telegram

So one dark and cold morning the postman knocked on my Grandmothers door with the dreaded telegram the war...

Fall of Le Havre 1944

By 2nd Lieutenant James Wareing, 141 RAC, The Kentish Regiment, 79th Armoured Division, 2nd British Corps,...

Addendum to 2nd German Counter Attack.

London N.6 was acting as O.P. OFFICER in support of the Gordon Highlanders. Captain Jupp's wireless...

"My Longest Night" sailing to the Normandy Beaches.

The next morning found us anchored off the Isle of Wight, waiting for the rest of the convoy and our...

BEF/Dunkirk

When he signed up he was promised a posting to the Middlesex or one of the Kentish regiments, when he...

Surviving Dunkirk: With 2nd Super Heavy Regiment, R.A.

Harry went as a driver to France, crossing from Dover, on the train ferry to Dunkirk. Harry was lucky as...

My Experience at Dunkirk

The floor of the lorry was all sand bags and we set off until we came to a road alongside a canal...

First Operation

I served in the RAF from October 1940 to October 1946, as a wireless operator/air gunner in bomber command:...

My Grandad in the War: With 398 RASC Company

This was ok till just before Christmas we were due for leave and at the last minute it was cancelled and we...

Reggie's War

A much happier occasion during Reg's time in Germany was a chance meeting with his brother Les whom he...

Belvederians Who Died in the Second World War 1939-45 (2)

Dudley Persse Joynt came to Belvedere in September 1924 from CUS and settled in easily. On 31 May 1940,...

How we Escaped from France in 1940

My parents, being British, decided it is advisable to get out of France quickly as the Germans are...

'Kenley Lass' and 'Phillipe'

After the pick-up time was delayed by bad weather, a bird arrived at her loft in East Grinsted at 16.30hrs...

Seven Years of War - Part 4, a continuation of story no. A4223431: Leaving France.

No postage stamp was required - we had to write B.E.F. or British Expeditionary Force in the corner of the...

The Lock Gates at Ouistreham

Ouistreham is the town on the north-west coast of France where the canal from Caen comes in to the sea, so...

Englishman in France Sept 1944

Letter to my Grandmother from Cpl Fred Nuttycombe (2132532) who was my Grand Uncle from 14th September 1944...

From D-Day to SEAC

After several years service in the Royal Corps of Signals,I was posted to Troon, in Scotland, to join...

A Very Small Miracle: Dunkirk 1940

My family, Mother Father and us two boys, lived with my great aunt, who was a publican and kept the Lion...

D-Day Telegram

Meanwhile Mum was at home with My Brother and myself like most wives, and had not heard from Dad for...

Dunkirk Evacuation: 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment

Somehow the driver managed to dodge the Germans and arrived on the perimeter of the Dunkirk beaches where...

A Poem from the War

The world felt a shiver of horror And stout hearts sickened with gloom And even the wisest of England Could...

J Armitage-Landing Craft Tank Experiences

After initial training at H.M.S."GANGES" at Shotley in Suffolk.Then, extra courses of balloon...

A COLD WINTER WITH FROSTBITE

We had the coldest winter recorded for many year, it was so cold some of the Airmen fitters, ringers,...