France

Unwavering love for my prisoner-of-war

Joe was taken to Stalag 20B at Gdansk in Poland. Eventually Joe hitched a ride back to England in a...

World War II: The River Elbe Crossing

In Europe, in August 1945, the Allied Armies had pushed the German Army to the east bank of the river Elbe....

Memorable Days continued

Anchored near Rodney who engaged shore targets with 6". Frobisher was pounding concentrations of enemy...

George Pearson - Young Home Guard and Royal Marine - Part 3

Afterwards, we went to a number of islands: the Solomons, the Philippines, New Caledonia and Australia,...

British Expeditionary Force 1941

We then moved up to the Belgium border, near Lille, and there we dug gun pits and established a fortified...

British Expeditionary Force 1941

We then moved up to the Belgium border, near Lille, and there we dug gun pits and established a fortified...

Working for the King.

I was told there was a wounded German officer to be collected at a Map Ref. which turned out to be a...

My Service in the Royal Signals

I am one of those members of the Forces who by virtue of circumstances arising out of the Second World War...

The Road to Dunkirk

Did not operate owing to movement of unit following morning to BOUVIGNIES Wannehain18-5-40 21:30 2/Lt....

Special D-Day memories and imprisoned at Stalag VlllA

Many bodies lay sprawled all over the beach, as young men of the East Yorkshire Regiment who had been in...

The Night It All Went Wrong

The circumstances for tank commanders were very awkward because we had 'run off' our maps and Troop...

The Calstock Boat Yard

Maintenance and repair departments were located at Queens Annes Battery with Lt Commander Charles L Pieace...

Being Conscripted in WW2 - by Doug Cochrane

I was working in a telephone cable factory, in Leyton Essex near London. That was on D-day, D+1 we...

Bale Out

I'm not sure if it was used by Major Bindon Blood on that fateful February day 1945 when he, Bert...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: A Shell Hits Our Bunker

Of the 235 men who had landed with the 2nd Ranger Battalion at the bottom of the cliffs and climbed up,...

John Parsons with the BEF and at Dunkirk

Later Dad wrote: "Night of 27th-28th May on guard at Warneton Bridge, in the early hours of 28th...

memories of "The Maid of Orleans"

Your Article Namely Dunkirk:Aboard The Maid of Orleans People in the Story:Bill Birtles Unit...

john clarkson pt2

JC In barrack huts and we did our full training there, firing, everything we did there and then we were...

Nothing but rain, fog and bagpipes!

Following the defeat of Poland, the Germans occupied the west while the Russians occupied the east. Quite...

Major Steven Yeoman's WW2 Service

We were kept in Scotland to prevent any German to prevent any German invasion from Norway because they had...

D Day Account.

The spitfire had crash landed in the enemy territory and a German pilot flew it back — it was shot...

My D-Day

Reminiscences of a Sapper

Throughout the war I was with 224 field company 8th Army Corps, 2nd British Army working mainly with 11th...

Dunkirk Secrets

Whilst on the beach at Dunkirk he was forced to dodge fire from German aircraft, a friend of his was shot...

Two trips across the English Channel in spring 1940

Our destination was Boulogne with the task of forming a bridgehead to hold back the German army while...

The Road to the Cross

Special tanks, AVRE's with building demolition charges and Crocodile flame-throwers were employed to...