France

This Concerns My Experiences 1939-45 (part Four)

High-ranking German officers had previously occupied the hotel, and the meal was excellent. The Hermans...

D-Day Landings (Part Two) (Part 1 - No. A6093669)

Joyce of course had to go back home and it was at home a week later that she learned of the "D"...

A Passage to Normandy - Part 2

About this time I may well have been one of the first to see the new German jet ME262 aircraft, which flew...

My Bit in WW2 (Chapt.4)

This allowed them to partly encircle the German army from the South and a simultaneous pincer movement by...

Sinking of The Lancastria

Tosh and I were on duty together with the Officer who liked his nip at the flask. We all had leave and...

THE HORRORS OF D-DAY by David Kamsler, MBE

We were allowed up on deck where possible and the sight that I always remember was seeing a hazy coastline...

Dunkirk

I was on guard duty during the night and as I stood by a haystack I watched German aircraft drop flares and...

Edwin Longworth Part 3

When I came out of the workshops, 51st Highland Division had taken over and I rejoined 9 Platoon in another...

Arnhem - Chapter 2

Describing my experience to the Sergeant, he instructed the two of us to return to the forward garden and...

A school boy's escape from Antwerp, May 1940

Apart from Mr Moller and his wife and our family there were three other British families associated with...

Comet Line Escape - Part 2

However, I set off the following day with another woman guide on to the Metro heading for another of the...

WW2 MY TEENAGE YEARS, 1939 TO 1945 (Part 2)

Army Enlistment — Infantry Training - Embarkation — Torpedoed - a Gordon Highlander —...

Memoirs of Major Douglas Goddard

After a period controlling six coastal defence radar stations along the Kent/Sussex Coast I returned in...

French Resistance Fighters

As a young girl of 19 she joined the Resistance Fighters group at the beginning of the German occupation,...

Normand landings

During the briefing we learned that British forces were to land on two beaches, ‘Sword’ and...

Mission Richard

On 10/2 40 five RASC clerks, Privates Jock Kemp, Le Mesurier, Phillips, Roots and Geoffrey Rowe in charge...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

Cloaked in Secrecy-Recollections of Service in an Intelligence Unit

The unit consisted of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army, and Royal Air Force, A, B, X, and HQ, troops, X...

Tom's War: Behind Enemy Lines 1939-1945

Incognito: Tom and Tommy on the Run After a while, the stunning sight of the white cliffs of Dover appeared...

dday,airbourne troops

D Coy of the 1st/4th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were to assist the Hallamshires in this...

Personal memories

When Sergeant Davidson and I returned to Canterbury I was made Battalion Bombing Officer... 4th Dorsets...

Philip Gontarsky's One Memory of the War

The British forces known as the 21st Army Group were all pouring ashore at this area known as...

7th Battlion Royal Sussex Regiment May 1940

Around 14:00 hrs, on the 18th May 1940, the train carrying the 7th Battalion RSR stopped at St Roche...

My War (Part 3)

Before the siege at Caen there had been lots of work to do in the small villages that the Germans held on...