France

Burning the Bloody Place Down

The Navy,Army and Airforce Institute or NAFFI for short was a Civilian Force where many men and women...

From Mulberry Harbour To VE Day

We stayed defending the Port till about September and as the War progressed we moved on, eventually in to...

escape from Dunkirk

Those with mailbags had first to go to Ramsgate Post Office to sort the letters they contained......

|Baptism of Fire

It transpired that Joe by adept map reading was going to take us to a village some miles inland named...

Three Books that Went to War

Navigating past the Frisian Islands Andrew remembered ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ which placed...

Three Books that Went to War

Navigating past the Frisian Islands Andrew remembered ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ which placed...

My Coldest Winter: Dec 1944-Jan 1945

Admiral Ramsay was Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force and meetings were held daily in the...

Stranded in Enemy-Held Territory

He instructed us to investigate the possibility, so at about 4am in the morning, trying not to wake the...

VI. The Days After D-Dy

After the landing on D-Day the two remaining tanks of the Troop had pressed on inland on the track that led...

My dad's POW story

My dad, Gavin Clark, who passed away in 2000, was part of the British Expeditionary Force that went to...

Attack on Breville Batten and village

There were two German gun emplacements called Merville & Breville batteries which were a problem and...

Submarine training in Scotland

Lt. Trumper ordered the 25 Pounders to open up while we started back through the wood. Tessel Wood Thompson...

Z Company's Battle for Periers Ridge

Grouped in an orchard, the soldiers witnessed a Germany anti-tank battery that was holding up the movement...

BLIGHTY TO FRANCE AND DUNKIRK

Born the youngest son amongst several brothers and sisters, Harold lived with his family in the West End of...

My Account of Dunkirk: Lorry Driver in the Royal Signals

Dear Mum, I'm Back Alive, Love George

Dear Mum, I'm Back Alive, Love George...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: Digging Foxholes

The New Testament that I carried was given to my father by his grandmother when he entered the army in...

Goodbye England

Lt/Col P.H. Dunphie was P.A. to Sir Alan Brooke before being command of 13th Medium Regt, RA., a unit in...

"A place called Caen"

It was the appropriately named ‘Memorial Museum for Peace’ at Caen on the site of a former...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster - 5th Battalion

The 5th Battalion of the King's Own Royal Regiment recruited from North Lancashire and had Drill Halls...

I Was At Dieppe — A Narrative Of The Raid

Our ship headed in, intending to land just east of Dieppe when the shore batteries of the enemy opened up...

D Day and beyond

Finishing the Task

Anne Robertson and I got into conversation with a Russian officer, General Suslaparov... Myself and my...

D Day Memories of Bill Trask

Our destination was the beach head known as Gold Beach; the other British spearhead was called Sword Beach....

Service with the K.O.S.B.s and the Railway Operating Companies

However, after twelve months I was recalled to the Royal Engineers, more specifically to the 181st Railway...

D Day Landing

The turret housed a mortar-like weapon called a ‘petard’, designed to destroy pillboxes and the...