France

Dad's story Part 4

It was rotten for me to move about as different French Chaps what were laying down spoke to me and I could...

A Wireless Operator/Signaller at the Normandy Landings by Arthur Berry

VIII. After the Battle of Verrieres

The only building left in Aunay sur Odon was the church tower; the town had been razed to the ground as it...

Retreat from France 1940

On May 10th, in the wake of intense bombing, the German army swept through Belgium and Holland. It seems...

Dunkirk May 1945 German Surrender to Czech Brigade

In the early afternoon two groups of high-ranking officers, one from our Headquarters and one from the...

Dunkirk: A Unique Story of the Evacuation - Royal Warwickshire Regiment

1937 I enlisted into the Territorial Army 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment , Private...

George Pearson - Chapter 2: the Royal Marines

I lost my first landing craft while at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. D-Day landings It was getting on...

LIFE IN THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, PREPARATIONS FOR D-DAY, AND AFTERWARDS

We hovered off-shore till late afternoon as the Germans were firing on Sword Beach, so we moved away to...

Stories from the men of Phantom

Here my three comrades and I, under a Lance Corporal, were the link between Phantom's 'G'...

The troop & the Tank

There were three tanks in a Troop; a crew of four in the ‘Valentine’ which was the first tank...

The road to Dunkirk

Then a small miracle happened, they could hear other aircraft and these proceeded to attack the German...

Fun on the beach - from Cardiff to Normandy Part 1

That having happened we then formed part of an assault Division, 3 Div, and we worked in support of them by...

Buck's War: August 1944 and Onwards.

The Hürtgenwald is a triangular shaped woods only 50 square miles in area on the German border near...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - The Build up to D-Day.

The areas around Roche, Belovely, Whitemoor, St Dennis, Castle-an-Dinas, Ruthvoes, St Columb, Indian...

From Normandy to Holland by Bren Carrier (Part 2)

We were ordered to go on patrol about a mile forward, but lucky for me Sgt Kelly from HQ stated that my...

The Rhine revisited, March 2003

South, then, along the Rhine to another Gordons’ battle site at Rees, now an attractive market town....

Watch Out Jerry - We're coming back (part one)

Sword Beach ran only two miles from Lion sur Mer to Ouisterham and the mouth of the Orne Canal... Our LST...

Among the Many - the Story of George Richard Crisp

George may have been among those who went to Inverness to watch an assault landing exercise or to...

Normandie Ma Normandie

We got to the docks and found this great big landing ship tank which we proceeded to board, all the lighter...

D Day with the Yanks

Keith Hodgkin, a surgeon Lieutenant aged 25, joined the Navy in January 1944, but only started keeping a...

Fred Caldwell's War Story Pt 2

There were 20 of us sat on the floor, no windows, in the pitch dark and encumbered with a large parachute...

From Normandy to Holland by Bren Carrier (Part 3)

Meanwhile my gunner called to me that he had spotted three Germans in front just across the river... I...

The story of John Bullar's WW2

Kiethley was all civilians and police at the railway station went to see the Station master and signed the...

Tommy Ward Escape from Dunkirk

I made several visits to the wooden jetty where the evacuation onto the ships was being organised by a duty...

Authentic war-time story

When war broke out in September 1939, I was interned by the French as ‘Enemy Alien’, only to be...

Authentic War-Time Story