France

A Long Sleep

I had come home from a history lesson and was talking about how we had learned about the importance of the...

Evacuation of Dunkirk: The Tugboats

My father John William JOSH and my two elder brothers William and Albert were all volunteers who assisted...

Saved from the Beach: With the RASC at Dunkirk

Mr Jones hopes to be able to return to Le Pan for the Anniversary -- he has visited Dunkirk since the War,...

Duration of Emergency

After the shortages of war we were on full rations, and the army wanted us fit - so we were transformed in...

David Reid M.M.

My dad Mr David Reid was taken prisoner at St Valery in 1940... It was at this hospital that a contact of...

Le Pont de la Guillette - a bridge to far ....

They were ordered off the main road to a lane off on the right leading to "The Bridge". They soon...

Twins in Tanks

In 1942 we transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment and were moved to Catterick to train in Churchill...

Normandy Rose: Onboard the SS Julia off Omaha Beach

The Belgian merchant navy were never recognized for their sacrifice and he always said the rose was his...

Letters Home - August 1944 - Part Two

You Londoners think you have taken it, but you have had nothing compared with some of the French people. I...

Beyond Prisoners in Dunkirk

He was the youngest soldier in England. Back in England David saw Gordon's father to tell him he had...

'Rocket Ships'

My late husband was a Sub-Lieutenant inthe Wavy Navy... After the end of the war in Europe they were towed...

The Three Terrible Twins: Gilbert, Simpson and Tranter: Dunkirk 1940

My Grandfather and Grandmother often talked to me about what they did during the war, especially the torrid...

Home safe and sound: Dunkirk 1940

Woods was my father, born in 1898, he served in WW 1 - after the war, he joined the Royal Artillary TA...

Old Man and the Eggs

But when they reached Dunkirk they had to dump the lorries and burn them to prevent the Germans getting...

Rearguard Dunkirk

He was with a small group from his regiment in the town of Dunkirk and the German forces were rapidly...

Memories of My Dad Tom

My Dad Thomas Yearsley of Cerne Abbas, Dorset joined the Dorset Regiment of the Light Infantry but was...

Leaving Dunkirk

My auntie, Barneys daughter has a diary Barney kept all throught the war and one of the frst entries is on...

D-Day: Royal Army Ordnance Corps

The boy lay, trembling, on the sand, crying for his mother; Rigid with fear, not daring to move, scanning...

My World War 2 Experience

I attended Latymer Secondary School, Edmonton. On a visit I met Mr Robinson again who was also a member of...

Jack Botoshaner: Captured at Dunkirk

The first night was spent in a field near the beaches and mindful of the German's distaste for Jews,...

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Untill this year i did not now how he died untill i read a book bye Marcus Cunliffe at the museum,in...

An ATS's memories of Overlord

We were the first group of ATS to be sent to Normandy in August 1944... When Brussels was liberated, we...

When My Dad Came Home

I was born 1/9/38The war started3/9/39.So i was only a baby when my dad joined up.He didnt need to.Because...

My Great Uncle: Sword Beach

On the 6th of June 1944, my Great Uncle Cyril, on my mother's side, faught on the beaches of Normady,...

Dunkirk Rescue

I understand that my father was cut off from his regiment and he and another person were trying to bring in...

RICHARD COBBLEDICK'S 19th BIRTHDAY

My father, Richard Cobbledick, was a farm worker in Devon in 1939 and at age 18 volunteered for service in...