France

''Courage an Example to All''

Sergt Baldwin remained with these two men and continued to act as an observation post for the field and...

Home Run

When my mother died in July 1983 I wrote to the French family informing them of her death, the youngest...

dunkirk dick

I dont know alot about what my grandfather did in the second world war and he never talked about what...

A Glaswegian loses friends in pre-Normandy battle

One friend had been blown to the top of the shell hole and was split in two....

Your story edited and categorised

It happened a week or two before the great Dunkirk retreat, my Grandfather was part of the British force in...

The German Auxiliary Fuel Tank

Dumped in Dunkirk

Because the Germans were closing in, the men were asking if they could put several rounds into the engines...

Searching For Identities of War Casualties

wartime romance

We travelled through Normandy; Merville - Armentiéres - Lille into Belgium.I was a cook in the...

wartime romance

We travelled through Normandy; Merville - Armentiéres - Lille into Belgium.I was a cook in the...

Tank attack at Falaise France 4th/7th Armoured

My husband and I took my late father to the Beaches at Normandy to remember the many lost friends and...

Three lucky escapes and other memories

The first lucky escape I had was when the artillery unit which I belonged to was given 14 days embarkation...

Resubmit to Army Desk

Much to our surprise, on arrival at our home port, only the casualties were taken off the vessel and we...

Wounded & D Day

The main German forces were in the area around Calais, where they expected the invasion to be. As we were a...

Dunkirk veteran

He told me that he was part of the British expeditionary force with his mates from a local regiment from...

My experience in a mortar platoon in Europe

I was part of the D-Day assault through France, Belgium and Holland until December 1944 when the regiment...

Becoming a lorry driver and despatch rider for the WRENS

We used to take messages between Rosyth and a nearby air station, RNAS Donibristle....

My Commando Comrades 1

We sailed from Southampton for Normanby we were heavily sniped before landing, we eventually had to abandon...

D Day

The main German forces were in the area around Calais, where they expected the invasion to be... We did...

Martialing Yards Calaise

My father John Hales was in the Royal Engineers and got posted to Calais to build Marshalling Yards to...

Dunkirk Little Ships

A message flashed across the screen "would all territorial army personnel report for duty". My dad...

Misplaced account

A message flashed across the screen "would all territorial army personnel report for duty". My dad...

Invasion of Norway

Luckily enough there were farms nearby and we to Freehom in Sweden, through the help of a young lady we met...

A Journey from D-Day to the Baltic

Then we went to France, Ranville which was the first liberated town/ Then back and forth to England , then...

memories of Dunkirk

The BEF forced back to the beaches of Dunkirk included George and his close friend l/cpl Ted Ashley. They...

Under-age soldier 1939

Sapper Ken Venables was taken out of the line, only to be returned to the front as soon as he turned 19,...