France

An American in Germany

William Riley Johnson, an American from Dayton, Ohio, was a Major in the US Army air Corp. He piloted the...

Let's have a party for Christmas 1944

It was Christmas Day in the year 1944, the period of goodwill to all men, when we took up our positions in...

Getting back from Dunkirk

On the morning of June 2nd 1940 we, the 1/6th East Surreys, along with other units, were evacuated from the...

Tom Dwyer's D-Day: Driving onto Sword Beach

This is Tom Dwyer's account of his D-Day:...

Route to Victory

I left for France on 12th June, to make up an LAD unit for an heavy artillery unit, Essex Yeomanry... Once...

Route to Victory

I left for France on 12th June, to make up an LAD unit for an heavy artillery unit, Essex Yeomanry... Once...

Treasure From A Churchyard

With the Germans going, we had to keep going, past villages with cottages on fire, in one at the side of...

Mist over Dunkirk

In May 1940 I was with my regiment near to the town of Arras, we were brought together to hear the news...

RAF Regiment: first British troops across the Rhine?

At 10.00 hours on the 14 March 1945, Corporal Benson acting as escort to Colonel Horton and S/Ldr Goff,...

Dunkirk

I got out of Dunkirk on a destroyer, I was lucky we walked up the beach we hadn't many minutes to stay...

Panic along the coast

Somehow the pin came loose and fell out and in a blind panic he threw the grenade over the cliff and...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster - 9th Battalion

Title: Lions of England A pictorial history of the King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster Author:...

David's Dunkirk

Long lines of soldiers leaving the flimsy safety of the sand dunes, the lucky ones boarding boats, and...

No. 2 Commando - Operation Musketoon

M.C. No. 2 COMMANDO was formed by volunteers from 41 different regiments of the British Army and one...

Pte Thomas Raymond Laybourne

Later on, in the year 1944 we were whisked from a cinema in Rowlands Gill by taxi, then by train from...

Surrender of Hamburg

As the war was ending my father, was by then in the north of Germany, in the Hamburg area where he had...

Capture

The Germans invaded Belgium, and the Belgium's requested our assistance, we boarded with full kit, an...

From Training to Action

I was one of four dispatch riders during the Normandy campaign as a member of British Army Staff attached...

A Private in the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders 51st Highland Division

At this stage, Leonard was told that he was no longer in the West Kent regiment and was now in the Seaforth...

A Safe Entry into France

My unit was 101 Beach Signals, of 3 British Div., and the LCT landed me on Sword Beach right on schedule at...

Ray's Story

On the 1st of July 1943, I was called up and went to Bury St Edmunds to train with the Suffolk,...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster - 10th Battalion

In the autumn of 1940 the 50th Holding Battalion was converted to the 10th Battalion of the King's Own...

War Memories

It was 12 months after the war that the British Legion started up, they took out proceedings against the...

Tour De France 1940

The British had left France via Dunkirk 27 May-4 June. The factory was closed and all the British employees...

GONE MISSING

We drove in lorries to Belgium when the Arnheim boys went over. We advanced along the corridor across the...

Delivery on the Way to Dunkirk

I was in France when we were retreating towards Dunkirk in 1940. Once on the beach things became much more...