France

The 1939-1945 War "A Personal Experience"

As for you he said, the beach is now secure so make yourselves useful by checking out some of the...

Let battle commence part 2

The next time we straightened the line, we found ourselves at a crossroads on the outskirts of Armentieres,...

Evasion From Germany - Dec 1944 Part 1

A few hundred yards inside the wood the snow was barely 6 inches deep, and travelling was much easier. I...

Thank you

First night german bombers came over, soon all anti aircraft guns firing at them... Sergeant wakes us at...

Arnhem - Chapter 2

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

The Way I Saw it - Part 2

On the road you drove it just the same as you would any road vehicle and when you wanted to drive off...

Moonrakers 4

As soon as it was quiet again, we found out that Di Jones of the Anti Tank platoon and the Inniskillin...

This a short summary of a recorded interview

The dive bombers were bombing the town, I lay on my stomach in the gutter, because that was the lowest...

The Way I Saw it - Part 2

On the road you drove it just the same as you would any road vehicle and when you wanted to drive off...

The Great Escape - part three

Having baled out of a stricken Halifax LK-Y over enemy lines; having survived the bitter, harsh conditions...

My dad's story

When I was about 16 (1937) I went with my mate Charlie Winterbourne from Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, where...

Sid Climpson's Story

When I was about 16 (1937) I went with my mate Charlie Winterbourne from Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, where...

John Clarkson

WD Did you go out to France from Codford. JC I was joining a feeding battalion but when I passed out at...

The Longest Day

To enable the DUKWs to be driven on board the stern ramp was lowered well into the water and it was up...

Coincidences- Italy

My wife Maureen and I found out where the graves of David Owen and Arthur Egerton were through the British...

Evacuation from Bordeaux

My name is Roger Jameson and, in 1940, at the age of 4, I was involved in a forced evacuation from Pau...

Army Apprentice 1942-45

The Solent, Spithead, Southampton Waters and the harbour was crammed with boats from large warships to...

Adventures of Tom Harvell Part 1

On this second operation to Stuttgart we flew our Lancaster across France, South of Paris at about 11.000...

BRITISH TOMMY - BBC Radio Interview with Eric Clavering 1944

Clavering: Hallo listeners, this is Eric Clavering speaking to you from the studios of the British...

Jersey Life As An Army Mechanic Part Two

Throughout June 17, from Cherbourg, 30,630 men were taken off; from St. Mao 21,474 Canadians; from Brest,...

The Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 2

I had received orders to go ashore with the first load to Jig beach in company with Sgt. Fitchett in order...

John Davis' story

The motrara and shells pounded the beaches at niht while we were queuing in the water or walking anywhere...

HORACE TRIM MY TIME IN NORMANDY 1944 AND THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CHEUX

As I entered the orchard I saw a wrecked Jerry staff car by the first tree. As we were moving towards the...

A Sapper’s Story: My WW2 with 72 Field Company RE. Part 1

Three Years Hard Training, D-Day, the Invasion, Juno Beach and Bailey Pontoon Bridging at Vernon over the...

WW2: MY TEENAGE YEARS, 1939 TO 1945 (Part 3)

The Artillery Barrage — the greatest since Alamein — was already belting shell after shell over...

My war years Chapter one

During this period we were subjected to several dive-bombing attacks but eventually hooked up to the...