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Noel landed on D-Day on Juno Beach as part of Naval Party 1749 "Heavy and Mobile Communications"....

The Soldier: Part Eight

Whenever I hear the “White Cliffs of Dover” in song I always remember that wonderful sight on a...

Army Vehicle Mechanic Part Three - Operation Overlord Part Three

It was to pack up all out Workshop equipment and vehicles and move to Tilbury Docks and then embark on a...

D-Day was a short day for some

The contingency plan was to withdraw Gestapo and SD personnel to Alençon immediately, removing with...

Rennes, Brittany, France, June 1940. After Dunkirk, escaping to the west. Chapter 1.

This contribution is dedicated in remembrance of the more than 800 recorded British and French, both...

A letter to a son : D-Day + 50 years

The 45 square miles behind Studland Bay, to the west of Poole Harbour, was the primary assualt work-up...

Music Hall Lifeboatmen

53 years later

When I awoke I spotted my mate Arthur Heath alongside my lorry in a slit trench, I asked him if he knew...

A varied war: life in the RAF ground crew

I was stationed at an airfield in Lille Seclin, where there were also two Hurricane squadrons, Nos 85 and...

The First Nine Months

In February I was posted to RAF Old Sarum near Salisbury to be part of a group to go to France with...

Dear Diary from 1939-45 - with the BEF 1940

But the next day after a villager came in with the news that the Germans were heading our way and searching...

RAF Regiment — Sgt Charles Carmichael — Part 2

The armoured cars of “C” flight were to help those of 2804 squadron extract an RAF signals unit...

Rennes, Brittany, France, Monday 17th June 1940. Luftwaffe attack on trains.

Fighting in Bocage Country, Normandy

It was fortunate for me in a way that I was reserve crew, because on 13 June the regiment was leading the...

Escape from Brittany on The Alderpool, May 1940

The following May, 1940, the German army swept into France and the 22 students from England knew that they...

My experience in the 4 Commando

Next time we were sent to Norway we were going as resident troops but there was an alarm that the Germans...

Wounded at Dunkirk

After a while we returned to the lorry's and Jerry spotted us in this side street we lay flat as he was...

Ron's War in Europe: D + 5

As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium and Holland, they underwent...

Ron's War in Europe: D+5

The Soldier: Part Seven

I was to set up a First Aid Post halfway between the promenade and the sea to deal with casualties arising...

Arnhem Bridge part 1

Amongst the men on his course were Lt. Dennis Simpson, Sappers Joe Malley and John Bretherton. The Medics...

The 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings Fri 4th Jun to Mon 7th June 2004 - Part 2

We had already planned to go back to the beach for the unveiling of a plaque in memory of the Canadians who...

Herbert Lowitt

After offering them our rations we showed them recently arrived photographs of Belsen and other liberated...

Mines on the move: a Royal Engineers field company

The Germans were in Southern Ireland then. The Germans didn't have any army trucks there, only horses...

Dad's story Part 2

A Jerry Officer came up and ordered two of our Chaps to go and help some of the French that were wounded...

Memories of World War 2

The company began to move to various embarkation points along the south coast, I went along with seven...