France

Behind Enemy lines.

He took Doenitz with his Flag Lieutenant and his batman to a special Interrogation Unit... On arrival at...

Misses the Liberation of Guernsey because of a patched tyre.

On the way there, I was riding a bike, it was a bike, the tyres were poor, and they had a patch...

D-Day Message

Transcript: Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. In company with our brave...

in the drink

He was the father of Group Captain Adrian Warburton who became something of a legend when stationed in...

"Please Don't Shoot -We're Only Visiting

Douglas Elphee - Dunkirk 1940

At the very start of the war I was in France in La Panne, near Dunkirk. Using the truck we had...

The First Land Casualties

I was on duty at another signal office when the news came through and was considerably shaken since one of...

Reynaud and Churchill

He was the Labour attaché at the British embassy in France which, because of the German advance, had...

D Day landings: June 1944

Every morning we took our troop of 25 pounders to Shoreham and practised loading onto a Tank Landing Craft:...

Thanks to the Nuns

My great grandfather rushed to get the anti tank gun but wasn't quick enough and the Jerrys blew them...

The Germans in Guernsey

I mean there was a lot, come the end, I mean they used to train here to go to Russia, the Russian...

"Armentiers"

On our way up we came to a small town called Armentiers... Dunkirk was our destination and we came back to...

Experiences of my uncle, Charles Kewitsch in WW2

My uncle, Charles Kewitsch, also known as Charles Blakey, was born in Leeds, the son of German immigrant...

Overloon

I fought from Sword Beach to the German Border with The Third British Infantry Division, known as...

My lucky life in the Royal Artillery

I woke the sergeant up, and he told to search them both, and then we would transfer them to H.Q. I was...

Operation Epsom

James was living in Barnett London when he joined the Army at nineteen years of age His Brother was already...

First daylght raid of WW2

Ships in the Forth at the time were cruisers HMS Southampton and Edinburgh and a destroyer HMS Mohawk.Some...

Aberdeen man drives General in Normandy and Oslo

I was the driver to Mayor General DAH Graham, Divisional Commander of 50th T-T division, during the...

The Germans dredge sand for a Submarine Base

I have passed a lot of things on to Peter Balshaw, for his museum, and he'd come out every now and...

Dunkirk: The Aftermath

When we landed at Margate 3.30pm Tuesday a huge crowd cheered us and gave us food and cigarettes, smokes we...

The Passage of a German Army Column in a French Village

I remember very well the passage through our village of Les Vans in the Ardèche region of France of a...

A surprise meeting

From 1942 to 1944 I was stationed in Dover at a small RAF signals unit.We were billeted with civilian...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

5830037 Sgt E. R. DORBAN The Green Howards ‘A'Company 5 Battalion 150 Brigade 50 Division. As...

D-Day landings

After we opened the beachead off sword beach to allow the british and canadians to come through, they then...

Hammocks at Dawn

That evening we had been plied with rum, and told to hang a hammock each and get some rest, but to make...

Bruyelle and Hollain

About Lance Bombardier Thomas Henry Bennett 900841 And an English woman in Bruyelle. My Uncle Tom was one...