Stories categorised in 'France'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Whilst serving as a 21 year old Leading Seaman DJX312195 on a destroyer, HMS Beagle from June 1943 to June...
I did just that there was only about nine of them so we went around some houses and we had not gone...
Next two minesweepers appeared, the troops left on the beach were mainly guardsman, Grenadiers and...
We were placed 500 POWs to each American troop transport, all of which flew the designated recognition...
Evacuation of Paris and Dunkirk Sometime after 10 June we saw the evacuation of Paris and watched a French...
If anyone knew our destination they were not telling so supposition led to Aldershot, Wales Cornwall and...
The Evacuation of part of the British Expeditionary Forces between 30 May 1940 to 4 June 1940 at Dunkirk in...
NPS.31066. released from a ship offshore on June 6th 1944. following on we had 'The Duke of...
We were guided in by Aldis signals from a Naval Beach Signal station, under an overhead barrage of shells...
Following two years of basic hospital work combined with what would now be called paramedic training, I was...
A popular tale was 'The Day He Shot The German'. At dad's funeral, as we waited for the hearse,...
From August 1939 on, he was at the Miscellaneous Weapons and Development Department of the Admiralty...
Unusual in that as a naval officer he was on the beach at the evacuation of Dunkirk and he landed on the...
'40 Hommes ou 8 Chevaux' From there we were loaded on to cattle trucks labelled '40 Hommes ou 8...
When he returned all N.C.O.'s were called together and were told that the Navy were going to make an...
It was the same barn where Alf TOMBS'story took place. "I was a gunner in the R.A. when I was...
Navigator on Douglas Boston 111A aircraft “L” of No. 88 Squadron flying from R.A.F. Hartford...
Huddled together on the beaches On the beaches we huddled together in the sand dunes for protection from...
I was 18 years old on D-Day, and a member of the 9th Parachute Battalion. I was part of a special volunteer...
I was moved back to Bulford Camp to prepare for the invasion until a signal was given for the the other...
In fact, the Germans had broken through to the coast south of us and the only way out of the trap was...
My father-in-law, Allan Wolfe was a Bren gunner in the 6 Btn Royal West Kents in May, 1940. The older...
This brief account about Field Hygiene work of the RAMC in Normandy after the Normandy landings of 1944 is...
Ian had acquired an officers coat and beret from I don't know where, put them on and said lets drive to...
After that I stayed on the beach as the Canadians advanced inland... We stayed on for a week driving all...
What follows is Brian Asquith's memories of the battle of Calais and subsequent capture. When we...
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