France

Hero's Return

On New Years Day in 1945 I was in a Dutch farmhouse getting water when the Germans flew over in a final...

MY DAD, MY HERO.

NOW GOING FORWARD TO MY MOST LASTING MEMORY DAD CAME HOME ON EMBARKATION LEAVE WITH ALL HIS KIT AS DID SO...

Manning the Wires

"I was employed by Post Office Telephones at a large RAF communications centre.I was training in my...

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...

A Very Close Call

The Germans were just leaving so we went over to the other side of the town and decided to stay there the...

Left in France

He served as an Army 'sapper', and after a spell of filling in airfield runways while under attack,...

The Story Of A 101st

It was September 1944 we were preparing for the largest airborne operation in history a plan that was...

Prewar volunteers

A large number of ground crew were pre-war part-time volunteers and they kept the aircraft in the air and...

A Bad Embarrassment Amidst A Battle

Life In The Cameronian Scottish Rifles

I did my training in Northumberland, then I went to Keighley in Yorkshire, where I joined the 21st Army...

Home from Dunkirk

However the driver informed us that there was no welcome there as the Germans were already in occupation....

Escape from Dunkirk

My father, as a soldier in the 9th DLI was part of the rearguard action, after the collapse of the allies...

A Remarkable Coincidence

A few days before the commencement of the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, I was with 9 casualty Clearing...

The 'Terriers'

A large number of ground crew were pre-war part-time volunteers and they kept the aircraft in the air and...

Out with a bang (nearly)

The tail gunner in the bomber had seen the van so fired a burst up at the van from below... However there...

My father was a gunner

They set out from London to Manvieux in France and then travelled through northern France via Rouen,...

A word or two about my father.

While Mr. Eddie Lerman, secretary of Birmingham Jewish Ex-Service Association, was heading for the...

Cutting the link to France 1940

At the top of the beach is a Martello Tower, a fortification built during the Napoleonic wars.There was...

PLUTO Sabotage?

However he failed to realise that the Germans were actually contributing to our war effort, because without...

Enos Yates Taylor

When war came, Enos, the elder surviving son of Aaron and Emily Taylor, was working at Friden brickworks in...

Dunkirk

A motor boat was sent from one of the naval ships towing 3 big life boats. Another 3 boats were sent out...

Working in London/D-Day

My mother's cousin ditched in the channel south of the Isle of Wight two weeks after D-Day after...

9th September 1941

While Mr. Eddie Lerman, secretary of Birmingham Jewish Ex-Service Association, was heading for the...

Days that changed my life

Then in late October the British Army took over and all my dreams were fulfilled, I fell in love with...

137 HAA Regiment

In World War 2, anti-aircraft batteries were manned by members of the royal Artillery and girls of the...

Experience at Dunkirk

We had to abandon all our kit before we got to Dunkirk to make more space on the boats... We were among...