France

Hugh Wright of Duke Street

The first full scale Divisional assault carried out by the 49th Division was at Cristot, the capture and...

Action at Last

I was number one on the 3" mortar and the rest of the crew were Albert Cherry No. 2 and John Battersby...

Shh were heroes

We arrived in the COs office and recieved a briefing, there was a communication problem in occupied Paris,...

Driving Lorries in the Wrens

On our first day we were taken to be allocated our 3ton Lorries these were much bigger than the one in...

Memories of a Tankie

Invasion for me commenced at Southampton on D and I, having been billeted in a front garden of a house in...

From Normandy To The Elbe

After Caen, it was onto Falaise where the German Army was trapped in a pocket between the Americans who had...

Escaping from the Germans

Leaving the boat we were all given a label with our name on it then marched to a Picture Palace where the...

D-Day Remembered

We landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, though not in the first wave. I did not have occasion to fire...

Leaving France - (The Dunkirk Route)

Arrived at Dunkirk after escaping from the German army, what a hot sunny day it was. All the time German...

An Aberdeen Wren's Wartime Memories

I then went to the Fleet Air Arm at Abbotsinch, then was transferred to HMS Baccintie at Aberdeen, my home...

From Beacon Barracks-Bulford Camp to the Battle of the Bulge

The unit was moved to Bristol, from where I was given my release papers, I returned to Stoke on Trent as a...

From Cassel to Dunkirk

We saw thirty German bombers going over to bomb the beaches. The German battery was shelling the beaches....

How Reg became a soldier

All of this was leading up to my becoming a menber of a "Tank Crew". Initially I became a driver to...

"MY WAR WITH THE 5th BATTALION KING'S REGIMENT"

In 1933 I was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, The King's Regiment, based at St Anne's...

Ping Pong to Hamburg

Later on, I took on some psychological tests at the Pirbright academy in Surrey to join the Guards Armours...

"Storm The Beaches"

Working for the Occupying Forces during the German Occupation of Guernsey

Mr Ray Caradeuc interviewed by Margaret Le Cras. Transcribers note : Transcription difficult at times...

Light Ack Ack Officer in East Anglia shooting down V1s, second half 1944.

Light Ack Ack Officer in East Anglia shooting down V1s, second half 1944. On Commissioning as 2nd Lt,...

The Sonn Battle .

This did not prevent the Germans from cutting supplies for four days while the battle raged round Sonn and...

Bill Hicks' MM citation

- Sergeant William Mark HICKS 5th Div. Due to a break-down in communications, the Cameronians had withdrawn...

From War to Pen-Pals and Queensbury Parish

That little dog travelled with us from Normandy, through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany... The...

I Saw an Armada

For over three hours this roar of aircraft fills the air and the sky seems full of these 'masters of...

Surprise Meetings

With D Day imminent we had been warned that we would be going to France a soon as possible after the first...

Did you know......?

Eventually, however, because the Germans coming towards us had heavier firepower, we had to turn round...

The Biarritz American University (The BAU)

The seaside town of Biarritz had been, before the war, a place of escape for the rich and famous from the...

Frank Greensitt's War

It was destined for Mulberry Harbour - the big concrete barges which were later towed to Normandy so that...