France

HMS EXPRESS

Lying at the very end of the mole the destroyer "Jaguar" managed to cast off... Shrapnel riddled...

My Grandfather, George Vernon BOTTERILL, Royal Tanks Corps.

Come World War 2 he was living in Blandford, Dorset and immediately joined the local Home Guard and became...

DENIS EDWARDS WAR

His artillery regiment was equipted with American 155mm guns which they nicknamed Long Toms because of...

Why We Must Never Forget

I have inherited the medals and the pictures, and I still feel very proud of William Charles Wright....

Defending the Homeland

Suddenly two German seaplanes flew in and landed on the Thames. The pilots left their cockpits, walked on...

Occupation after D-day — the Normandy invasion fleet

There was a German soldier who I believe must have been about the equivalent of a Regimental Sergeant...

I got through Dunkirk and never even got my feet wet!

I got through Dunkirk and never even got my feet wet. My husband was in Dunkirk and before that he had been...

Tommy the Pigeon V.C

As all the Dutch racing pigeons had been destroyed by the Germans, it was a prized posession. Despite being...

Crossing France in May 1940

We spent the first night in Paris and went on to Calais the next day where the train could not enter the...

The usher of Dunkirk

After being on the beach for 3 days, we filed, snake-like along the beach and were guided onto the waiting...

My Grandad

Amongst the casualties was 789 Private William Haywood who received a gun shot wound to the head. 789...

Our Platoon's First Loss

Dunkirk Untold Tale

My father was in France with his Tank Regiment when the Army had to retreat to what became the Dunkirk...

Going to War in a Matchbox

There were 440 British gliders, 900 American gliders, 1000 aircraft carrying Paratroopers, 4 Divisions and...

My Father's War Diary - Entertaining the Allied Invasion Forces with Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby etc

My Father's War Diary - Entertaining the Allied Invasion Forces with Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Bing...

A Close Escape

Our leader disappeared for quite a long long time and when he came back he looked so stressed because we...

Service in ATS with Royal Corps of Signals & Provost’s Dept in Brussels and Germany

Service in ATS with Royal Corps of Signals & Provost's Dept in Brussels and Germany. When the war...

Re: German attempt to invade England 1942

In August 1942 I was on a naval patrol boat south of the Isle of Wight when the Germans tried to invade....

Working in the Pioneer Corp

I was called up in June, 1940 where I joined the Auxillary Military Pioneer Corps... It later became known...

My Share of the War

I was in London till October 1940, until our next assignment, which was in Northern Africa... We went right...

Escape from France, 1940

In 1940, when all of the British troops had to be evacuated from France, my Grandad did something that not...

Monty and Churchill

Monty joked with me to ask Churchill for a cigar!!...

Brothers at The Battlefields of France

We were dropped off and the water came straight up to our necks straight away — then we were paddling...

In the wrong place?

He was posted to France with the B.E.F. and when the decision was made to evacuate from Dunkirk, he...

Battle of The Bulge

My father was a sleep when the German Panzer tanks were coming...in his under wear he jumped from his...

Free in Brussels

I was in Bruges in Belgium after the Normandy Landings, before moving to Brussels -- I was running a large...