Distinguished Conduct Medal Military Medal Belgian Croix de Guerre 1914 Star 7 Bar War Medal 1914-1918...
Fought in the battle of Badray, the breakout around Carne, protecting the flanks of the Tyneside Scottish....
My dog Pat, a wire haired terrier, had been absent all day from home... The Policeman had stopped the tank...
My Dad was an aircraft electrician and he was working on the motor torpedo boats in Hartlepool Harbour. A...
We landed in Normandy on D Day plus three with a three-ton Bedford that had to be lifted off a big...
When the war first started, my grandfather was recruited into the Service Aucvillary — a secret army...
We decided to pull back to Lille, picking up a french soldier on the way... The Germans surrounded us, and...
My dad was at a training camp somewhere in France when Germany invaded Belgium. By the time they reached...
Sam's best friend Philip was killed on the last day of WW2 and he still finds it emotional to talk...
After arriving in France with the 51st Highland Division in January 1940 the battalion was on the left...
After landing on ‘D’ day at 0930 hrs on ‘Sword’ Beach with my Battalion - The 2nd...
I was stationed in Sittingbourne where there were two naval forts based in the Thames Estuary, they were...
(he was a stretcher bearer soldier for the york and lancaster regiment 8th bn and this is his story.he and...
My father Signalman Edward Cyril Attrill of the Royal Corps of Signals went out to France and Belgium in...
When they investigated they found the body of the sniper with no tags was that off a fourteen year old...
We went from Hollnad heading to invade Walcheren Island, where they held guns able to shell the ships going...
This ship was blown in half and the rear half was beached on the sea front by the White Cliff Hotel. Then...
My weapon in Normandy was the P.I.A.T, our first objected was the church at Tessel Wood... I mention that...
I was 32 years old when the war began and was in the Territoral Army at the time.I went to see the...
Determined to follow in the tradition of my Grandfather and Father before me, I belied my age and joined...
He returned to England just before the outbreak of war as a Sergeant and was a drill sergeant at a boot...
I did not hear him tapping the box with a stick and blowing a whistle. i was put ijn a cell for...