Stories categorised in 'France'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
A huge extent of beach stretching to Dunkirk appeared and I started walking along the edge of the sea...
Journey continues on to do Chindwig, Basoli Bayaan, Kohima, the 'Basin', Imphal, Snipers Triangle,...
Before we went to France, the king to came to inspect us at Cookham crossroads, near Aldershot, where the...
It had been decided that Regimental Head Quarters, together with 'C' and 'D' Sqdns were to...
Out of the morning mist appeared a destroyer escorting a cross channel steamer the S.S.Malines which tied...
The Regiment also covered the landings on Reggio di Calabria, Italy, on 3 September 1943, after which the...
However, the heavy defences at Brest, supplemented by the anti-aircraft guns of the two warships, made...
On the move across Europe As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium...
Having studied the Battle of Caen as part of a French language course while staying in the city, I...
We, the crew of LCVP 1028, i.e. coxwain Pony Moore, stoker/driver Arthur, deck hand Rohmey and me, were on...
On one occasion we completed a twenty mile route march and were returning through Brecon when our officer...
After Paris was liberated my unit was transferred to S.H.A.E.F stationed in Versailles and several units of...
The Germans had hit a large storage tank at Dunkirk and there was a great cloud of smoke and flames 500...
When I came to the sand dunes, I could see that Dunkirk was a blazing mass of burning oil and a battle...
In September 1962 he retired from the Irish Army and was appointed Parish Priest of Donnybrook, Dublin....
The sixth and seventh battalions were coming back from Sicily to be assault battalions in D-Day and when...
Private Stanton's tale 1937 I enlisted into the Territorial Army 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire...
Although it was calm during the day, as we waited to land, the German bombers soon arrived under cover of...
Realising we needed a different set of francs for money and with nothing much to do I went into a shop and...
On the 3rd September 1939, the day that war was declared, I had just finished the air gunnery course, and...
To Milan and back in a Mark I Halifax For our first operational sortie we were given a very elderly...
In England, the battalion returned to its base at Canterbury before moving to Rhyader, Wales, to guard the...
Although in Normandy the allies had control of the air, German fighter bombers carried out numerous...
The French Maginot Line became ineffective as the Germans with their tanks and motorised units went round...
In August 1946 Stan Wrighton, myself and two others on a forty-eight-hour pass visited the Mohne Dam, and...
Royal Army Medical Corps, 30 October 1939 British Expeditionary Force: 1940– Joined no.1 Casualty...
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