France

Philip Oliver Radway

Christmas in the Snow - The Battle of the Bulge, 1945.

My unit, the 1st Royal Ulster Rifles had reformed after the DDay op and we were expecting to do the air...

Daphne the Seal on HMS Kent

John Hainsworth was a Royal Marine during the Second World War and was stationed on HMS Kent, which was...

The eve of D Day: June 5th 1944, Stokes Bay, Gosport.

My girl-friend, Babs Masters, lived at Alverstoke, Gosport. The sea-front at Alverstoke, which faces the...

A night on a Normandy Beach

The gun crew and the lorry carried on to the beach. Around us were other lorries, guns and tanks, all...

D-Day Shuttle Service

I was in the Royal Navy in the D-Day landings at France. I brought our lads across and German prisoners of...

Jim's war

On the day we landed about quarter of a mile from the beach... I make sure I go back to Juno Beach...

D-day - A dry landing?

He went into France first with the British Expeditionary Force and was one of those rescued from the...

Marseille

My story starts in Belgium, in Antwerp, I was in Chateau Haveldonk, near durn... To this day Louise...

Going through the Falaise Gap

turning up for your own rememberence

My grand parents were having a rememberence service for him in the local church of ireland, when he walked...

Shot down in the Channell

I was flying a Boston photo reconaisance aircraft returning from Cherbourg to photograph an American...

Late return of R.S.F. from Dunkirk

I was 12 at the time, staying with friends in Somerset with my youngest brother, Peter Hardwick, aged 6,...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

My grandfather, Thomas Henry Gibson was serving with the 8th Batalion of the DLI in Northern France... Once...

Self heating soup and scalded ears.

We all had cans with the soup coming up from the top but because he'd punched holes in the side of his...

John Comins

Came home on leave in 1917 in a terrible state, just sitting in a chair in his greycoat picking lice out of...

World war 2

This story concerns Madagascar where we were fighting the french in 1942, because they were allowing...

David Thomas Cope - Royal Signals

He was knocked unconscious but another soldier wrapped his arm up with his silk scarf and got my father...

5th Batt KINGS OWN and BEF 1939 - Information sought

On the 15th of September 1939 he was attached to the '10th RAILWAY LABOUR SECTION' and on that day...

hell is here

27TH MAY 1940-30TH "WE ARRIVED IN A LIVING HELL CALLED DUNKIRK WHEN I GOT THERE I WAS A CORPRAL WE LOST...

1 sas in france

The German was very frightened, he begged the sas to take him with them as he said the french were going to...

We Remember Dunkirk

I am emailing to ask if you knew that there is an excellent hardback book containing over 100 personal...

My Fathers War

When my dad came home

I was born 1/9/38The war started3/9/39.So i was only a baby when my dad joined up.He didnt need to.Because...

Hands up!

90 year old William Smith sat quietly in the British legion tent and told me his remarkable story. William...

Experiences

In 1940 I was sent to Canada with my sister and attended the High School in St. Thomas, Ontario... In July...