France

CROSSING THE RHINE - SPRING 1945

Soon the Army was across, the Germans fighting a brave rear-guard action, with many “Tiger”...

Conscript Heroes - Before St Valery

During this journey through the fleeing French and Belgian armies Riley was accidentally shot by a burst...

ARTHUR JOINS UP AND BECOMES A MOONRAKER Part 2

The 5th Battalion of The Wiltshire Regiment and the 4th Battalion of Somerset Light Infantry crossed the...

Questions I got Asked.

Now in Dartmouth the navy commissioned every ship available, every boat in fact, fitted them with water,...

Stories from the men of Phantom-Operation Houndsworth

Once one of our out-stations met a German Staff car and in hand-to-hand fighting they killed two of the...

Arthur ‘Dick’ Sutton’s escape from St. Valery 1940 and Later.

My father, Arthur ‘Dick’ Gascoigne Sutton, born in 1910 in Featherstone, Yorkshire, first...

The Bridge-Part Two

The enemy were on the outsides of Dunkirk, and were being held by a brigade of guards supported by anti...

A Train Journey

When Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in 1938 after his meeting with Adolph Hitler, waving his...

DUNKIRK AND D-DAY RECOLLECTIONS

I eventually walked along the beach to Dunkirk, about 10 miles of open beach with accompanying Stukas. The...

Preparing for D Day

George Charles Albert Lock - Ex RAF/commando People in Story: George Lock and Comrades in RAF Location of...

Harry Arnold George Garrett’s Army Memories

We were not allowed into Belgium because King Leopold wanted to be neutral?? As soon as the Germans invaded...

Arthur Middleton and the 85th Field Company Royal Engineers

8th Feb 1941 The new unit of the 85th Chemical Warfare company, Royal Engineers was established at...

Message in a bottle

After D-Day the 6th Battalion Border Regiment and the other Beach Groups carried out their allotted tasks...

The Battle of Colombelles by Arthur Berry

After bandaging Captain Wager's arm with a field dressing, I took a black scarf from one of the Jerrys...

The Retreat to Dunkirk

When the Phoney War came to its abrupt end in May 1940 the East Riding Yeomanry, along with the rest of the...

Three days 'dead' on Gold Beach.

This is his story of the day he landed on Gold Beach. I got to the sea wall of Gold Beach....

Combat Film Analysis

I was in the H.Q. platoon of the Home Guard and was on duty the night the first flying bombs came over...

A Cipher Clerk’s Advance Into Germany

We were cut off in Luxembourg city as the Germans had separated the 12th Army from the US 1st Army further...

Dunkirk ( Herbert Cook)

By this time the Germans had taken most of the coastline area in France and were now turning there large...

Learner Driver!

One day the Germans came and dropped a mortar bomb, the hut splintered in all directions, but amazingly the...

My Wartime Memories

The WRNS who joined in 1944 were picked for the C-in-C Portsmouth stationed at Southwick House and as far...

Falmouth Port Security

Immediately I was told to report to what was then the British Sailors’ Society's...

Rescuing a Civilian Casualty on D-Day

Skirmish During The Battle Of The Bulge

The German army commanders had told them that the British would not take prisoners. We took over the...

When did the Germans lose the 1939 -45 war? On

AWOL Before Even Starting as a Soldier!

He was finally sent to the 13th Field Squadron RE at Oorshott in SE Holland, near the River Maas. Units...