France

Dunkirk rearguard: Royal Sussex Artillery

This was a rearguard action to make Dunkirk possible.They held out for three days.They were non-combatant...

Pipes of Peace: Dunkirk 1940

Regimental Seargent Major Thomas R Jelley, my grandfather, spent his 20th birthday on the beaches of...

Dunkirk evacuation - RASC.

My Father, Fred Warden, joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1919 and served until 1925 when he was posted...

My Parents Contribution

Dad took part in D-Day and admits to being scared... But this was not to be, as one minute they were...

My father's war

According to his medical records, he became sick soon after landing in France and was treated first at No....

Home and Away

Reg Davies joined the Territorial Army in the 1930s then went onto become a soldier and bandsman in the...

Three Days in a Field: Dunkirk 1940

Unfortunatly thir marrige broke up in the course of the war and my mother destroyed the photographs she had...

Cassell

25th May to 30th May 1940 The British Expeditionary Force in France was made up of skilled and experienced...

Dunkirk---James' escape

Eventually James’ company arrived at Dunkirk beach... During the First World War he was a soldier in...

A Shocking Start to the War: Service with 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

We saw action more or less straight away, we were on a bit of a rise, the road was below and we...

War Years

There was a pill box in our front garden and there were also pill boxes at Cheyne, quay head and one behind...

D-Day: With the Royal Engineers

My father, Peter Headeach, was a lance corporal in the Royal Engineers during the war and took part in the...

Harry Pollitt and D-Day

Harry went over in a glider that time on D-Day, and he has taken us over to France and shown us where...

Dunkirk: Escape from De Panne

My dad was in southern holland with the BEF when he was told to get to dunkirk. on his way there he...

A Sergeant Remembers

I went over to France a few days after D-Day as part of Operation Overlord, providing protection over Le...

A Soldiers Story: 3rd Canadian Division on D-Day

After a relatively quiet period, Sydney was in Northern France, when the storm broke and the German...

Rearguard at Dunkirk

He apparently had to try to hold off the German advance towards Dunkirk to give the rest of the army a...

Ouistreham

It was during his short time ashore as he was securing a property near the beach when he came across the...

DLI on D-Day 2: The Bocage

My father, David Wallis, spoke often of the coincidences that he experienced during the war, the odd little...

An Introduction to "T" Force

Hitler had been long ranting, that his "Wonder Weapons" would snatch victory from the Jaws of...

Back from Dunkirk

On the way back to Dunkirk, Geordie Bull and six men under his command had finally reached the road which...

My Dads War: 6th Battalion KSLI and 181 Field Regiment RA

What I discovered over the following six years astonished me.Not only had my father took an active part in...

My Time in France

Instead of having the modern machine gun we had the old fashioned Lewis gun.We had battle dress, a tin hat...

Queen Alexandra Nursing Sister

Queen Alexandra Nursing Sister...

Dunkirk: A Royal Scots POW

This was indeed the case with my father and he spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in Upper...

I Remember: A Torpedo at Dunkirk 1940

My father never went into detail about the war, but one thing he often told was about when he was on the...