Stories categorised in 'France'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
In the early '40s Pierre Frénée, my friend from Alençon, suffered under the Occupation...
We anchored close to the battleships Warspiteand Ramillies and were surrounded by cruisers, destroyers and...
On Sunday June 16th 1940, the rest of the unit departed for England, leaving 20 of us to run a signal...
Mam was in the Land Army and Dad was a soldier. That is my Dad's story, at least what I remember of...
05:42 on June the 6th 1944 I left my troop ship the LSI HMS Princess Astrid and piloted my landing craft...
Sibyl worked as secretary and minute clerk at Skegness Town Hall, and in her spare time she worked with the...
She had a friend named Rochelle, who mentioned that she had a cousin, Alie Colman, who was serving in the...
About twenty naval craft were sunk in Dunkirk bay, but we were definitely let down by the RAF as only about...
The younger man, a private, appeared to be no more than a teenager and he, too, wore his anti-gas armband...
Commander Buster Hallett was appointed to command 3 Naval Air Fighter Wing a month before D-Day. The Wing...
I was tank commander with my binoculars surveying the countryside when in a cornfield too far away for the...
'The master of the household has received her majesties command to invite Mr Donald King to a luncheon...
Nat Peck played trombone in the Glenn Miller orchestra during 1944 and 1945. Glenn had gone ahead a week...
I am not a religious man , but I honestly believe it helped me to get back". When Tommy reached Dunkirk...
During this debacle he had been reported 'missing believed killed'. At this time, my mother was...
"Having completed our first assignment, our landing craft did a U turn and we went back out to sea to...
Many years later my Dad was at a reunion talking to a Veteran and he mentioned Lt Col C.A.R. Nevill, and...
My brother, Dennis Samuel Jones, worked in the waggon works at the Iron Forge at Ironville, Derbyshire,...
After the allied armies had left France and the country was under German Occupation she proved to be the...
Sub.Lieutenant Findlay and Captain Thomas finished theirs and decided to go on deck to see how things were...
A letter from a member of the 11th Hussars, 3Tp D. Squadron, B.W.E.F. Shelled from Calais, bombed off the...
We had three landing beaches, Gold, Sword and Juno. On Juno beach the Canadian Sappers were storming a...
The story of Albert George Heath Royal Artillery, An evacuation from Dunkirk, in his own words written...
At the time of D-Day Geoff was a Flight Commander in Special Duties 138 Squadron which was equipped with...
My dad was a scholarship lad, and I've got the books he won to prove it, all with elaborate dedications...
The platoon, 18 Platoon, D Company, of which I was platoon sergeant, consisted of the platoon officer and...
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