France

My Unsung Hero(s): France 1940

My story begins as a child aged 3 years old named Loretta Jackson and is about my Dad: James Frederick...

Dennis Chaffer -Experiences on Sword Beach

Our Captain organised a competition to see who could find our landing beach... German planes dropped...

Boulogne Dalliance

My father, John Martin, coming up to 18, joined the RAF within weeks of the declaration.He had been working...

A family memoir: 92nd Field Regt R.A.(T.A.)

His bride had originally worked at the London Zoo, but as the Zoo closed for the War and the animals...

RAF Airfield Construction Units in Northern France

I REMEMBER…………………… Many people do not appreciate that not...

The Great Escape: In North Africa

He switched his engine off and swiftly turned it round, took it back down the long dusty drive and...

My Fathers 'Retreat' Experience

When daylight came the Officer came round and told us to make for Dunkirk which was about 40 miles away, he...

Not a Lot of War: A Rifleman's Story

They were landed on the beach, and during the evacuation helped many injured soldiers to get shipped out on...

Dad's Awful Memory

My father, Frederick Yates, was at D-Day... A quiet, unassuming man he was never very forthcoming about...

Walking Back Across The Sea

The training was conducted in various locations and Lcpl Alex McVeigh was the driver/pilot of the royal...

My Parents's House Was Near a Barn in 1940

Later, the farmer and my uncle returned to the meadow and its cowshed to have a look to the cows... Guy...

The Important Offer of that Drink

All the equipment and weaponry had been destroyed and left on the road and the only main weapon my...

Dunkirk: Provost Company Cross Keys

Late in May 1940 I was given a few days leave, my first since September 1939 but on arrival at home in...

Family History Report

There was a man called Mr Walter Taylor who was 80 years old and he served in the D'Day landings......

Le Havre

It took us about 2 hours to come to the main streets of the bottom town, firing was still continuing when...

Smiler's War - The Forgotten heroes of Bolougne

So with one rifle and 23 shovels, Smiler and his 22 army colleagues and many others went to France to face...

Before and after Dunkirk: Royal Signals

Eventually dad gave me some snippets to what had happened at Dunkirk after I found his army record because...

3 Wartime Memories

Imagine my delight in getting a leave in December 1944 to a snow covered Paris to find myself at a concert...

Jock Taylor at Dunkirk, did you know him?

In 1939 had been living in married quarters at the Didcot army base with his wife Annie and sons Derek and...

Mick's War

In the Spring of 1967 I moved into bedsit accommodation at No.6 St. Anne's Gardens, London NW3... Mick...

My Brother Charles

When the Germans overan Belgium and France his regiment was directed south and went through Abbeyville then...

Posted to France - The Consolations of Food and Wine

I have just started receiving letters from Normandy from my son, Lieutenant G.W. Myrddin-Evans of The...

Dunkirk retreat: With the East Lancs Regiment

The boat started leaving with my grandfather filling the machine gun for the fat sargent... After Dunkirk...

Visit to Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery France

My father Gordon Beddows served in the Royal Navy during World War 2 aboard an armed merchant cruiser HMS...

My Dad in the War.

My dad was a bren gunner and came from Sheffield, he landed in France on D-day plus seven without incident...

My Experiences on "D" Day

These were big landing ships with room for 30 Sherman tanks on the lower deck and a lift to enable lighter...