France

From Dunkirk to VE-Day: With 73rd Light Ack Ack Regiment

Many years later, whilst sorting out his third wife's deceased husband's personal papers he found...

Dunkirk his Story by Pat Reeve 534742 Royal Signals

I LOVED FRANCE AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND I BECAME VERY FRIENDLY WITH ONE FAMILY,THEY TREATED ME LIKE A SON...

My Father's D-Day Geologist Role

Fred Shotton, R.E. Then he was made major and brought home on top secret work for the D-Day invasion,...

Seine Sign-writers

That at least, was the experience of Sappers A.H. Harding of Camberley, Surrey and V. Coles of Maidstone...

A Royal Engineer's Recollection of D-Day

At the end of May we received orders to waterproof our vehicles and then knew that the invasion was not far...

Memories of NW Europe Campaign

Empty shell cases made useful “Tankjohns” The co drivers job was to make the tea Ours was a...

Brits on the Maginot Line, France 1940

"In the spring of 1940, I was sent with a small detachment to the village of Woippy in Lorraine, near...

Milking Cows in France 1944

So after a while I thought to me'self I would have to get something to make it drinkable, being a...

French Wounded from Dunkirk

Those who wished to go home would be put on a British destoryer and taken immediately to a port on the...

Retreat to Dunkirk: With the Royal West Kents

Like all other soldiers caught in France, he was one of those who retreated back towards Dunkirk and, being...

Dunkirk Memories: With the Royal Engineers

The R.E.’s were amongst the last to leave the beaches, having rowed the small boats back and forth...

Preparation for D-Day: With an LCT Flotilla

The beach heads by this time were being shelled by Capital ships and what sticks in my memory as our...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

Whilst still in the army, he met a friend whilst shopping in the Naffi at Donnington, whom he had not seen...

Frenchman in Germany

After France capitulated in 1940, he got engaged with Yvette but was soon to be sent to Germany in order to...

Letter home from France

We are now about 8 miles from Dunkirk, the main force have retired, and all we have here are a few...

D-Day Memories - 284 Field Regiment

The unit same as all others building up for the Big Day.First before D-Day we were sent to the East Coast...

Humour among the bombs: La Panne Beach

Fairly constant air raids, mostly by Stuka dive bombers, are taking place up and down the beach....

Dick's War

Dick has been all over the world, he has fought in lots of different countries including Germany, Dunkirk,...

Falaise

After Mezidon the war office officer with a section of “Free French” took us to Falaise in...

Caen to Nijmegen

It was a silver figure of Christ, burnt heliotrope by the force and heat of the explosion which had wrecked...

The War Medals

Uncle dave actually fought in mainly a Whirlwind or a Typhoon, although he he did sometimes fly a Spitfire,...

The Day the Balloon Went Up

My grandmother Jeanne Michez had married Staff Sgt. Gordon Stanley in February – the first French...

Survival Through The War.

My Grandad, the person this story is about, was at Dunkirk. After Dunkirk, my Grandad stayed with his rank...

The Advance Party!

It was D+1 when I arrived at “Gold Beach” opposite Arromanches as a member of a gun crew with a...

My Wartime Experiences on the Merchant Navy ship "Samselbu" by Capt Michael Furlong

My Wartime Experiences on the Merchant Navy ship "Samselbu" by Capt Michael Furlong. There were V1...

A Moment in Time.

This was the scene on the beach at Dunkirk, with the British Army, and their French allies desperately...