France

Escaping the Beach

After being harried across France and Belgium, his motorised unit, part of the Lancashire Fusiliers, was...

My Father's War

After returning to England on the boat, he caught a train from Hastings. It stopped briefly at Redhill,...

51st Division: France 1945

1 The British lads are fighting o'er the channel the 51st division on their way to revenge what the...

Life in the Trenches

World War 2 memories from Harry Barnsley as told to Christine Pearce of Neath Port Talbot Library Service...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

My German Killing

Grandad opened his eyes and saw a bloodridden Nazi lying dead. My grandad saw that he had shot him twice in...

Lucky to be born: Dunkirk 1940

My father, Tony Baldwin, joined the army in 1937 to fight fascism He was a subaltern aged 25 in the British...

T. J. Plumley

No 14585500, T.J. Plumley, Durham Light Infantry. I landed at Arromanches on D + 10 and served as rifleman...

Army Service of Charles Lacey

My father joined the army at th age of 14 in January 1922 and in 1924 went to India as a bugle...

Ron Hancock: "Cuckoo" the German Panther in Service with the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards

Ron Hancock: "Cuckoo" the German Panther in Service with the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards. After...

An English Corporal on Omaha Beach

Unable to fly as the result of a burst ear drum, he was sent to Omaha, Normandy on secondment to one of...

My Grandad's WW2 Story: In France 1940

He was then sent to find a different army group fighting the Germans in Belgium but he never found them...

Dunkirk Experience: With the Royal Engineers

He went with the BEF to France and, in due course, was ordered to retreat to Dunkirk. Later, on the beach...

The Longest Day

It was the year 1944 june the 6th as the the royle navel went over the channel to france there was five...

Border Regiment

After a short period of time at Carlisle we were sent abroad to France to camp near Rouen... We were...

No Where: Kings Own Scottish Borderers

I have no idea what this story is about, except to say that my Dad went to France with the BEF, in...

David Thomas Cope - Royal Signals

He was knocked unconscious but another soldier wrapped his arm up with his silk scarf and got my father...

Capture at Dunkirk

The following was my maternal grandfathers account of his capture at Dunkirk: A small group of M.Ps...

Mother Story - Salvation Army

In the 1930’s she was a songster in the Liverpool Congress Hall Salvation army. When the war started,...

Going the Wrong Way: 8th Worcestershire Regiment in France 1940

My grandfther was Staff Sergeant Oliver Sealey of the 8th Worcesters, a light anti-tank unit. After Dunkirk...

D-Day Memories of George Layton

Mr George Anderson Layton was born on 21st July 1921 and married to Doris Goodrum at Crosshill, Codnor on...

Water Supply

After D-Day they were billeted in a chateau, with the officers below in the family's accommodation and...

Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Mary Mulry & 2nd Lieutenant Malcolm Morris of the Reinforcement Holding Unit

Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Mary Mulry & 2nd Lieutenant Malcolm Morris of...

Protected by the French Resistance

David Mathews joined the 51st Gordon Highlanders when he was 18 years of age... The German gave David a...

Dunkirk / St Nazaire

I beleive he went to the Depot at Didcot,from where I beleive he went over to Belguim - just wherabouts I...

5 Lost Soldiers

We decided to pull back to Lille, picking up a french soldier on the way... The Germans surrounded us, and...