France

My missed D-day

I was sent into the naval hospital at Bristol were I was successfully operated on... She did come with my...

On Invasion Watch

Seven of us would be stationed up there in a small wooden hut, with one person at a time on watch outside...

'Cockney' 51st Highland Division member at D-Day landings

After three weeks the 51st Highland Division met the Germans at Lisuex and suffered lots of casualties. We...

Ronald Birds

Whilst in France, Ronnie, a trained bren gunner, had a brief spell of secondment in a Canadian tank pending...

French Memories - Related by daughter Laurence Edgecombe.

One friend was killed by German gun-fire. The propaganda German Occupation radio saying -...

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager

"Buzzing Planes"

When the allied armies invaded Normandy on 6th June, 1944 I was serving as an NCO with the 54th Infantry...

Theft of German aircraft

My wife and I stay every year with our friends Bernard and Roselyne Vidal in Bridlington's twin town...

He was One of the Best

The squadron was destined to play another important role: we were to ferry prisoners across the Rhine in...

A Lasting Wartime Romance

From Belgium we progressed into Holland via Arnhem to an airfield near Tilburg which had been a German...

Lasting Wartime Romance

From Belgium we progressed into Holland via Arnhem to an airfield near Tilburg which had been a German...

A Lasting Wartime Romance

From Belgium we progressed into Holland via Arnhem to an airfield near Tilburg which had been a German...

The South Lanc's Soldier

Shot in leg in battle for Caen, patched up in England and sent back via Holland... Received shrapnel and...

d.day

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Third Time Lucky?

We landed on Juno beach, just behind the Canadians. As me and my mate, Joe Coburn, went into the building a...

I Wish I Was Back on the Night Shift At Crown Farm.

Former miner Ron Hackett had followed earlier events in North Africa on the radio and in the newspapers in...

Under Attack

Well, we thought oh crikey and three of us went down below deck. It must have been quite an amazing shock...

Life as a nurse

The following day alot of green line buses came to collect us volunteers and deliver us to Maidstone, where...

Dust in Friendly Fire

We had not long to wait.Within twenty minutes he was back and imediately called all personnel together to...

Visiting My Father's Grave

In July 1942 my father died helping to liberate Caen and so when I was 6 years old in 1948, my mother...

Dunkirk and Food

We were all on the sand dunes about one and a half miles north of the port of Dunkirk, we were constantly...

Private Edwin Goody

At the time of the D-Day commemorations in 1984 we decided to go to France because Britanny Ferries were...

Twin brothers in the 6th Dorset regiment - Home leave in Guernsey after Liberation.

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

Army Service

Through France into Belgium and then into Holland finally into Germany. I spent 2 more years in Germany...

Dunkirk and Food

We were all on the sand dunes about one and a half miles north of the port of Dunkirk, we were constantly...

Norman Harris's War Experiences - by his proud son

Roughly a month later my father was wounded and lost his leg, in a place just inside the German border...