France

Kenley Lass and Philippe

Phillipe'now carried 2 Pigeons with him and being a Frenchman was familiar with the area and knew an...

Six years with the Royal Army Service Corps

When D-Day finally arrived Ernie was to drive a Rhino fuel vehicle ashore on Gold Beach... Following D-Day,...

Journey to the Beach

The journey through Hampshire, Surrey and then the outskirts of London, hte Despatch Riders of which I was...

D Plus One

The truck was backed in and these young French lads helped my men get the bodies on to the ground... The...

Journey to Freedom

A. Sobotowski was fighting with the Polish Army at the Battle of Warsaw. when it became apparent that the...

D-Day Landings: Third Landing: Service with 706 Company RASC

We had not cleared the Germans out of Caen until the RAF had bombed it in their 1000 plane raid, they then...

Just an Ordinary Man: Extract 2

The Officers in charge took the initiative by detailing two senior NCOs and about twenty other ranks,...

Experiences in Iceland and Normandy

Orders came and the landings commenced into France and as he called it 'chasing Jerry'. Arriving at...

Driver Jack Couzens' story Part 1

We were supplied by a Naafi in a field with all the goods a Naafi sells the company marching sound to each...

My Grandpa-World War II

After arriving in France, Grampa travelled, in a Churchill Tank, through France, Belgium, Holland and...

My Uncle Ted's Story

The next morning i told my kind hosts i must rejoin my regiment but they said 'no, no' explaining...

Sinking of the Lancastria, 17th June 1940

My father Albert John Firbydied when I was six years old, but my mother told me that he walked for several...

Dusk Bombing, July 1944

Dusk Bombing Raids On July 16th the enemy began a series of dusk bombing raids and we spent an electrifying...

D-Day and Boredom! A Sailor’s Story

Near to his ship was HMS Belfast and the Captain had just enough time to warn them that the barrage was...

My Grandad in World War 2

My Grandad landed at Arromanches in France 2 days after the D-Day landings, on his 19th birthday. In...

Harry Holt's Poem

Tracks and courses, pencils and charts, thoughts of home and aching hearts, Everything gathered and out to...

The Last 8 Months of the War

We had amphibious tanks that were to go up over the Dykes to cross the river Isal. The Royal engineers had...

D-DAY Gold Beach - Letter Home

He served in Egypt, Malta, Scicily, Italy and finally took part in the D Day landings in 1944. We were...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - volume 8

The other soldier was Jack Lightbown, a private in the 1st Battalion Manchester Machine Gun regiment -...

Coming Home: 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regt in France 1940

In May 1940, at the time of Dunkirk, my father, Eric Cattley,aged 32 at that time, was serving as a junior...

The Fall of an Ace

At about noon the lookout reported three German Tiger tanks approaching. The whole operation took 12...

The Morning After

We assembled with our weapons into columns of three abreast and marched onwards through a road lined with...

A Dunkirk Hero

My story is about my late father-in-law Johnnie Cowan he was a bren-gunner, and his platton officer, a...

Le Paradis: The murder of 97 soldiers in a French field on the 26/27th May 1940

Angus Cain 1st battalion of Royal Scots Age 27 was killed by Germans in May 26/27 1940 this is his story...

The Eve of D-Day

Dad was a member of the elite " Coup de Main" force sent to Normandy on the eve of D Day... After...

My Grandfather's War Record

My grandfather, Daniel McMullan, served in the RNVR during the War... My great grandmother told me of how...