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Lady from the French Resistance

On a beach in Lanzarote, a couple of years ago, I met a French lady who had been in the French Resistance...

The First French Beach: 1st KOSB at Dunkirk

The second French Beach was Le on sur Mer, Sword Beach Normandy June 6th 1944 07.00 and there in lies...

Le Grand Bunker

Partly as a result of his many wartime experiences he became an indefatiguable campaigner for peace, being...

A Young Soldiers First Bitter Taste of War.France 1940

Coming towards us were a crowd of women all dressed in long black skirts with black lacy shwls over their...

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Them and Us

It was toward the end of June 1944 we anchored off the coast of Normandy the valley was at 0500 hours we...

A Daughter Remembers

I remember a lot prior to that day in June.My father's face with his wide grin and twinkling eyes as he...

A Post Card From Dunkirk

Comment This card with its message hastily scrawled on the wrong side, was written by my Uncle Joe on the...

Reminiscences of Dunkirk by a Royal Navy Leading Seaman: Robert Lawson

In June 1940 at the age of 21, I was at Chatham Gunnery school, when we were asked to make crews to...

Landing Craft at Omaha Beach

I was with them when they landed on Omaha beach at about 6.30am. We spent about three weeks going over to...

Journey from France to England

All the English were trying to get out of France and my parents packed some of their belongings and set off...

A Dunkirk Memory

Emerging from the ruins of the town, and from various hideouts on the sands, swarms of military personnel...

Rescue by Coal Barge

The soldiers were pushed onto the beaches of Dunkirk while being barraged by bullets and bombs. Most of the...

After Dunkirk: The Defence of Brittany and the Worcester Regiment

I was commissioned in the Spring of 1940 and sent on a liaison officers' course and from there was...

My Parents' D Day

This is my father's account of his D Day: "We embarked from Southampton, joining a vast armada,...

Caen My Father's Story

But when he spilled hot tea over his legs one Sunday all those years later and had to quickly take off his...

Normandy Landing 6th June

The captain of the ship took us in to land as far as he could but it was still too deep for...

The Forgotten Evacuation: St Nazaire and the Lancastria

Many British troops were trapped outside the perimeter and retreated back across France figthing all the...

Full Circle

Dennis who is a Palatine High School old boy attended the school when it was a technical college in...

Cambes Woodicon for Story with photo

I saw the woods of Cambes appear In the light of early morn And riflemen waiting to advance Across the...

Sword Beach Fusiliars with 3 Divicon for Story with photo

Sword beach/Red 3 Div my fathers name is Robert Gardiner and at the time of the war he was a Royal fusilier...

1st Wave on D Day

Arrived off Sword Beach at Dawn... I was holding a rifle with front pouches of grenades, 2 bandoliers of...

My Father and the 3rd Reconnaissance (Recce) Regiment

My father, Raymond Phillips, served with the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment having joined them from the 10th...

Daily Duties: A Soldier's Story

He though initially as a reconassaince mission, wrong, the aircraft open fired and bullets began to...

Captured at Dunkirk

As the remnants of our shattered army was arriving in British ports my father received the dreaded telegram...

A Lost Friend

As a young child I can remember him telling me that he was in a regiment with many of his friends from...

Shorty

One of my greatgrandad's friends in the army had his legs blown off one night in a raid and they needed...

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