France

dunkirk experience

Our job now is to protect the the men from the enemy while they get in the boats at dunkirk, good luck...

Leaving Dunkirk: With the 21st Anti Tank Regiment

It was a kind of diary, handwritten notes in a small notebook, beginning on the 10th June 1940 and the...

Mr W S Lowbridge June 1944

Leaving very early on June 6th from just off the Isle of Wight, the crossing was very rough; finally we...

Diary of a private soldier. Hill 112

Our position in an orchard was then 'visited' by five German tanks; we thought they were British!.....

“Who Dares Wins”: French SAS on D-Day

Sgt Contet was first trained at Largo near the Firth of forth in Scotland by Polish Paratroopers attached...

Memories of Dunkirk: A Driver in the RASC

My brother, Leonard Lambert, was just 19 serving in France as a driver in the RASC when the Maginot line...

D-Day: A Memory of Landing at Ouistreham

My brother and I, were in the same regiment: "The Buckinghamshire Light Infantry" wichmade the D...

A Story Among Many

When they arrived at the beach it was empty and the Germans were not far behind ,their brief was in this...

Dunkirk Retreat: Queen Victoria Rifles at Calais

We were ordered into the town to defensive positions.We had been sent to Calais to act as/create a...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

From Dover he was transported by train to North London and an army depot. After 5 more years service in the...

Landing on Utah Beach in Normandy

After training with the Royal Navy's Forty Fourth LCT Flotilla in Exercise Tiger along Lyme Bay and the...

Uncle Jim Part 6

ED473 was an Avro Lancaster Mk. III bomber, the 131st Machine of a production patch of 620 aircraft built...

D-Day - Off Gold Beach, Normandy 1944

My liberty ship arrived off Gold Beach in the afternoon, it had a motely crew, the skipper was English,...

D-Day Experiences in Normandy

I was a Paratrooper in the 6th airborn division and we landed in Normandy just after midnight on the 6th...

Life as an RAF Fitter IIE

I went to join the RAF at Padgate, Warrington from my home in Preston, Lancashire. Information and...

Dunkirk: Memories of a Gunner with 73rd HAA Regiment R.A.

When the Germans advanced into France he was instructed to destroy the guns so that they did not fall into...

How I Joined The Army

I was standing on the platform with my friend Tommy Rosser seeing family off on a train. So Tommy being a...

Dunkirk 1940: Evacuated Family from Lille

The British Consul in Lille had promised to let us know of impending danger, but he left quickly without...

Field Hospital Escape

Sidney my grandfather was in the hospital being treated for an ailment or wound when the alarm was raised...

My Escape: From Dunkirk 1940

The commanding officer on board the boat shouted out that the boat couldn't take any more men, it was...

The Other Invasion of France - 15 August 1944

With no German aircraft in the sky and the Americans from Northern France getting to the German border, we...

Jewish Doctor

Once, they were burning French Resistance propoganda papers in their chimney and large unburnt bits of...

Dad's War: In France and North Africa

My father, Arthur Thomas Brock, born in Swansea 29/09/1920 died 18/10/1991 in Cardiff, South Wales, was...

Fusilier R J Parker 14392179

The sea was very rough, so we had to stand anchored of the Isle of Wight until further orders... This was...

My Journey Through WW2 - Tony Peach

I remember that trying to land in Malaya was really difficult as the water was so shallow, and that the...

A Lesson in Opportunism: With 141 Regiment RAC at Le Havre 1944

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