France

My hero

My grandfather always told me about the time he spent at dunkirk waiting to be rescued from the beaches.The...

Active Service

I was stationed in France, Belgium and Holland at various times throughout the war. I was a Sergeant...

World war 2

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

THE GALLOPING MAJOR

I had an Uncle Billy who was in the Royal Engineers and escaped from France with the BEF. He recalled that,...

Special Branch & WW2 activities!

I write this as the son of my father who initially came from Wales to join the British Police force. About...

You can walk to Normandy on the boats!

This is a story about my Dad who was Royal Marine Commando in the war... he said; Well lad, you actually...

Swearing Ambulance Driver

The ambulance driver had sworn all the way there avoiding bomb holes in the road... He had also been the...

My Dad - crossing the Rhine with Churchill

My father always told me a story about being a Bren gun carrier driver. He put his hand to his back and...

My Grandfathers Journey

One day in the late evening of 1945, my grandfather was infomed that he and his army buddies would be...

Royal Navy

He trained in Scotland and Hamble and commanded an infantry landing craft... For many years after the war...

Crossing the Rhine with Churchill

My father always told me a story about being a Bren gun carrier driver. He put his hand to his back and...

DCV

Dad reports on how he felt he new exactly where he was in France and how he could identify the main...

Old man and the eggs

But when they reached Dunkirk they had to dump the lorries and burn them to prevent the Germans getting...

My family history

I dont know what he exactly done throught out the war but I no that he did jump into Germany... Luckly it...

18th July 1942:David Harrison

"Brrrr""bannng", we ran with all our strenth up the beach facing the german machine guns...

Edward W.Heslop's Story

Then we were up to our chests in water and I had to hold my rifle over my head. All around me...

My Dad

My father was already in the Army when the war broke out as he had been a regular soldier joining after the...

go ahead

(George Dillon died 2001) one night we were riding down a narrow road with trees on both sides we were...

First canadian with MM

The first Canadian to escapte German prision camp in Brest France nor the first Canadian to win the...

My uncle in the War

An uncle of mine was in the merchant navy before the First World War — going out of Tilbury on the...

Uncle harries, diaries

HARRY, WAS IN THE BEDFORDSHIRE YOMANARY,419 HEAVY BATTERY,52nd RA.FROM 6thJUNE 1944, UNTILL THE END OF THE...

Dunkirk Casualty

Robert was in the Walker TA, the 77th Royal Field Artillery based at South St Greenock and was killed at...

An air burst shell

My father was in the Battalion Brigadiers staff car with a driver when they stopped to look at maps and...

Return from Prison

He was captured at Tobruk in N. Africa and spent the rest of the war in Pow Camps in Italy and Germany....

Mr W.A. Vincent

Most poignant part was sailing up from Southampton at 8.00 the night before D-Day. At St Eloise, a village,...

Battle of Caen

Spitfire shot down by German fighter, crash-landed by our gun sight. Pilot thought he was in German area,...