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Rennes, Brittany, France, June 1940. After Dunkirk, escaping to the west,. Chapter 2 sequel.icon for Story with photo

Having contacted the local twinning association and told the story of Serjeant George Fitzpatrick and the...

My Dunkirk Story - HMS Grafton

Out of the morning mist appeared a destroyer escorting a cross channel steamer the S.S.Malines which tied...

My Dunkirk

Out of the morning mist appeared a destroyer escorting a cross channel steamer the S.S.Malines which tied...

Memories of an Artillery Gunner Part One - From enlisting in the TA to Dunkirk

Mind you it was all fun until the Germans broke through and then we were mortared and we didn't have...

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Memories of an Artillery Gunner Part One - From enlisting in the TA to Dunkirk

Mind you it was all fun until the Germans broke through and then we were mortared and we didn't have...

My D Day Story

"Nearly half the contact patrols with the assaulting infantry were killed or wounded on D Day, either...

One Soldier's Dunkirk

The tank rumours must have originated from a scared refugee, for we saw nothing at all, except that Calais...

Rescue of the Dutch Royal Family by the Irish and Welsh Guards

It was nearly midnight on 11th May when Lt-Colonel Haydon, CO of 2nd Bn Irish Gds, was summoned to HQ 20th...

ST AUSTELL WARTIME MEMORIES 2 OF 2

I knew Robbie, one of our naval friends and best man at our wedding, was in Fareham, so Roy must be in...

My War Part I: Up to Dunkirk

We were given some more chocolate and biscuits and I was told these had come from a NAFI canteen that had...

The experiences of 'Taffy' - 19th - 23rd June 1944

Grandmother came down from Arpajon this afternoon with some eats and M.Dantan bought me a pipe in Paris,...

Night Patrolicon for Story with photo

When I entered the H.Q. and saw the gathering of officers together with our padre, I thought "Aye aye...

A small incident of note Part 1icon for Story with photo

The Aircraft was crewed by Flight Lieutentant David Owen, aged 22 years, Pilot Officer Dennis Holbrook,...

WW2 stories of Sapper Ronald William Tyrrell

Lady Louise Mountbatten versus the Redcaps: Another happening for our small unit stationed at the cliff top...

John Hodges Story-a Student's Exit From Paris 1940.

By six that evening we had registered our luggage and bought tickets from another station, so, without time...

George Bailey: Sapper and Bomb Disposal - Chapter 3

These chapters summarise two interviews with George Bailey, with his daughter Margaret Lole and his...

The Half-Forgotten Heroine

In 1937, the twenty five year-old Edmone Robert was appointed schoolmistress of St Aubin sur Algot, a tiny...

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I contacted the infantry HQ housed in a farm some 400 yards short of the crossroads in question and was...

The Miracle Before Dunkirk

The Battery was then deployed around the village of Devise. The two French armies south of Sedan collapsed...

'Get this hellish ordeal over with'

Empty landing craft abandoned but still afloat bobbed about at odd angles to the beach colliding with each...

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I was a soldier in the Army firstly in the UK, then in North Africa, and finally in Italy and Greece. They...

The Diary of Norman G. Crafticon for Story with photo

By then we were ready, rigged and ready for the off, but a very high sea was running and the weather...

Juno Beach

On the run in I saw an infantry landing craft blow up on a mined beach obstacle... Another task we began on...

Memories of WW2icon for Story with photo

I put my foot hard on the accelerator to land on the beach where I was ordered to drive to a nearby...

From tractor to swimming tank

Perhaps because of this I was near to going with Ox& Bucks Light Infantry but eventually I managed a...

Action On The Adriatic Coast by Romuald E. Lipinski Part IIicon for Story with photo

Sometimes when I watch a movie about WWII and see scene when allies troops enter a town after Germans are...

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