France

HORACE TRIM THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CHEUX CHAPTER TWO AS TOLD TO JOHN TENNANT

Eve and I sat casually down by a French lady and I said "vous ete une bonne amie " and a French...

Post-war Reflections

It would be a useless exercise anyway to make comparisons between the two Great Wars which differed in so...

Survivor of the Lancastria

The lorries were left and we started to march through the hundreds of refugees fleeing the towns and...

D Day Memories

Incidentally a number of the men we trained became Drivers of the DUKWs, the amphibious vehicles that were...

"A LIFE OR DEATH DECISION"

The Insley Family: Return to St Malo

A Lucky Escape from Dunkirk.

I was given a Boys Anti Tank gun by an officer. The Naval Officer informed us that his orders were to go...

A Dunkirk Survivor

The First Time I Spoke French to a Frenchman

In those far off days only a few better-off people visited France and although I liked the French language...

Dunkirk 1940

The boats carrying troops back to England were supposed to have waited for a naval escort, but the skipper...

My Dad's War

These are some of the things my Dad, Thomas Hayden Jones, told me about the Second World War. My dad told...

One Man’s War

We set sail for Sword beach and when we were about three miles from the French coast, we were transferred...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: “No Letter Today”

That wasn't going to last forever, because on December 17th, 1944, the blitz started by the Germans in...

An Engineering Officer in Action

Then we moved down to support the American 84th division to try and take the German town of Gilenkirken...

New draftee 1943

My box making skills came in handy when I sent home two German rifles in wooden boxes that I had made just...

Training and consequent action in France

From there Roy was transferred to East Yorkshire Wolds being stationed at Helmsley Park... 8 September,...

continuation of my walk on the invasion beaches

story about my friend who was at normandy but that will be another time i close now and i would like to...

Get off home quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part 3)

BY THIS TIME THERE WAS A VERY LARGE NETWORK OF TRUNK TELEPHONE LINES ACROSS EUROPE AND THERE WERE SEVERAL...

Death by Cheese, Northern France 1940.

"Some time in May, as part of a misguided attempt to get back to peacetime soldiering, we were ordered...

Prisoner of War

I continued to serve after the war, retrained for the Royal Marine Commando Units in Towyn, N.Wales and...

Dunkirk rescue: My Grandfather's True Survival Story

I am writing this story on behalf of my late grandfather, Lt Col Gordon Mitchinson who was evacuated from...

Mistakenly Thought Killed in Action: Lucky Engineer at Dunkirk

My grandad gave me a "worms eye view" of the debacle.

He had a poor opinion of the equipment that the BEF was equipped with and believed that the Germans would...

The Story of a Tioga County Soldier: D-Day: We Invade Normandy

The first guys up there did manage to push the Germans back; and they went from bunker to bunker, cleaning...

1st Royal Tank Regiment-1943-47 [2]

We had gone about 100 yards when bullets whistled around our ears and a shell exploded behind us.We looked...

Summary of Wartime Experience

In a move to improve his lot, Les got a job working in a stock brokers office in the city of London,...