France

Royal Artillery - Norway

My father missed D-Day and got 2nd prize by being posted to Northern Norway to work his way south to Oslo...

Coming of Age!!!

My father in law recollected that he spent his 21st birthday seeing his first action of WW2 in a tank in...

Normandy campaign - bombing of Caen

It was a few days after D-Day, 1944, and my mission was to go to Caen and bomb the German stronghold which...

CYRILS WAR

MY FATHER WAS STATIONED WITH 170 VEHICLE PARK 165A.O.D AT CAEN LATER DURING THE WAR IN THE ARDENNE HE...

Finding My Grandfather

He served in world war two and rarely told us anything he saw or did other than he was sitting on the...

My Commando Comrades 3

I was still with the Norwegians as a radio oporater when we captured the German HQ at Domberg the German...

Lucky Escape

My Grandad was a Royal Marine and was on Juno beach for the D-day landings. He was on one of the landing...

a silent hero

At this time the boats were only taking formed companies on board, so as an officer he made up a company of...

Your notebook

Evidence that Grandad served in 1st Troop commanded by Captain Holland who earned a MC during the battle of...

St Nazaire Raid

I'm Jake Lovick, for at least 2 years now I have been very intersted in my Greatgrandfather's life...

All about me....

Her name was Faruqa!.. And then I gropped the vines and swung like Tarzan and set free on a wild adventure!...

The Man With No Name

Bravery of the first order

This is a story about my uncle, Arthur Gould: he was my dad's step-brother, in fact. He was fatally...

Baby boom?

My father left Dunkirk aboard a minesweeper on June 2nd... We have what seems to be a typed carbon copy of...

plastered parade

The time was 6:00 in the morning so they had to have a quick wash and shave and get ready and out...

The Imatures

In 1939 a War Offfice Order stated that no one under the age of 19 years of age should serve in France....

1ST BORDER

THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH THAT SHOWS THE CANAL AT TOURNAI WITH A WAREHOUSE OR FACTORY AND THREE TALL CHIMNEYS...

The Battle Of Dunkirk

I fealt as if I couldn't go on....

Short but powerful

During that time he was taken capture by the Germans. At one point he was asked by the Germans to go do...

ivy harvey

My father was in reserve occupation has a baker untill 1943 were he was called up into the souths staffs...

Still in France after Dunkirk

After seeing the two excellent programmes about Dunkirk on tv last weekend, just wanted to add that my...

Medals

My uncle Ted won two medals presented by Field Marshal B.L.Montgomery in the field. He won one, for...

sas

My grandfather was Max Andrews, and had served alongside Field Marshall Montgomery, but also, according to...

WW2 Vetrans

Uncle Sid

He had his own boat and sailed single-handedly across the Channel as part of the rescue mission....

Dunkirk, Stalag VIIIB and the Death March

An account has been written by my uncle, Jack Cottle, and can be seen on www.britisharmedforces.org....