France

REMEMBERANCES

I was posted to the 418 Canadian Squadron as a driver where the duties varied from driving fire trucks,...

When I was Wounded By Thomas Wilson

My brother George, was captured at Singapore by the Japanese, interned in Changi Jail and worked on the...

THE BELGIUM FISHERMEN'S MUTINY

The harbour was busy as there were about 80 to 100 Belgium fishing boats, marshalled after a radio...

Escape from Dunkirk

We were getting near Dunkirk and as we approached it we found shelter in the sand dunes and out at sea...

Louise Fernande Dudart

By 1943, my parents had four boys and decided to move to Dreux in German occupied France, where they...

Someone was Smiling on Me

Our party consisted of one officer, Captain Jackson; our driver named Bloomfield and myself... I sat behind...

D-Day: An Eyewitness Account

Clearing up The Mess - Someone Has to Do It

It seemed that our RAF colours and the shoulder stripe of albatross were too much like German uniforms....

"MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION"

On the 8th June, 1944 I went over to France with the Royal Armoured Corps as a Sherman tank gunner, landing...

Memorable Days - Conclusion

17.15 Opened fire on shore battery and then in support of 6th Airborne Division again. He was my father,...

Trainig for D-Day - edited and categorised

When the coded message was received we were told to get into the landing craft, the craft was supposed to...

MEMORIES OF D-DAY LANDINGS

We were going backwards and forwards to the beaches in small boats to the mulberry harbour at Aromanches in...

The Dispatcher

It was my job to try to distract enemy bombers from bombing real airfields by using lights and flares, and...

Crepe de Chine in Arras

I later found Alexander, a policeman and OR's in a café and after an omelette, chips and coffee,...

My unlucky War

It was originaly on the itinery to take shelter there but soon discovered that the village was already...

The D Day Landings - Billy Lyon's story as recollected by his son Jim

During the battle for Caen Billy and his mate Fred Polly from London were pinned down all one night in fox...

Twin brothers from Guernsey in the 6th Dorset regiment.

Edited transcript of a video recording of Stanley Bichard interviewed by John Gaisford, 12/3/2005...

A cold day in Finland

My grandfathers brother, Jarl Bergenheim, captain in the Finnish army, had just arrived in the village with...

Scouting the River Weser, Bremen

We were sent to Scout up the side of the river Weser, to see if there were Germans... I lay there and...

Blakehill Farm Continued

This aerodrome was to be used for Hawser gilder training, which were pulled by Dakota planes to launch them...

Memories of the ww2 by Ernest Cox, living in Namur, Belgium

On Friday, the day of the German invasion I asked for two or three days on sick list to enable me to...

Epitaph to a D day veteran

Destroyers, cruisers and battleships were raining down death from heavy guns, aircraft dashed about like...

Saving a Small Boy's Life in Antwerp

At his suggestion I phoned the newspaper in Antwerp and the story was published in the paper to try and...

DUNKIRK TO BLIGHTY

Amidst the chaos on the beaches of Dunkirk was young Harold. The journey back to England was not taken for...

My Dad

After completing a Drivers course at Ashton-under-Lyne he was transferred to Bovington near Bournmouth and...

War maverick 3

Principal Doctor, a tall man with fair hair and a little girl, he wore a harris tweed jacket, together with...