It was toward the end of June 1944 we anchored off the coast of Normandy the valley was at 0500 hours we...
I remember a lot prior to that day in June.My father's face with his wide grin and twinkling eyes as he...
Comment This card with its message hastily scrawled on the wrong side, was written by my Uncle Joe on the...
In June 1940 at the age of 21, I was at Chatham Gunnery school, when we were asked to make crews to...
I was with them when they landed on Omaha beach at about 6.30am. We spent about three weeks going over to...
All the English were trying to get out of France and my parents packed some of their belongings and set off...
Emerging from the ruins of the town, and from various hideouts on the sands, swarms of military personnel...
The soldiers were pushed onto the beaches of Dunkirk while being barraged by bullets and bombs. Most of the...
I was commissioned in the Spring of 1940 and sent on a liaison officers' course and from there was...
This is my father's account of his D Day: "We embarked from Southampton, joining a vast armada,...
But when he spilled hot tea over his legs one Sunday all those years later and had to quickly take off his...
The captain of the ship took us in to land as far as he could but it was still too deep for...
Many British troops were trapped outside the perimeter and retreated back across France figthing all the...
Dennis who is a Palatine High School old boy attended the school when it was a technical college in...
I saw the woods of Cambes appear In the light of early morn And riflemen waiting to advance Across the...
Sword beach/Red 3 Div my fathers name is Robert Gardiner and at the time of the war he was a Royal fusilier...
Arrived off Sword Beach at Dawn... I was holding a rifle with front pouches of grenades, 2 bandoliers of...
My father, Raymond Phillips, served with the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment having joined them from the 10th...
He though initially as a reconassaince mission, wrong, the aircraft open fired and bullets began to...
As the remnants of our shattered army was arriving in British ports my father received the dreaded telegram...
As a young child I can remember him telling me that he was in a regiment with many of his friends from...
One of my greatgrandad's friends in the army had his legs blown off one night in a raid and they needed...