Stories categorised in 'Middle East'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
A short while after the incendiary bombs episode my friend Johnny Simpson and I were walking home very late...
My officers were Captain Truter IE, superseded later by Alec Scott from 345, Lieut V K Raju IE, and two RE...
The lights by now had drawn a cloud of winged insects from the wann black darkness without, and these...
The Officer who was in charge of our football team was posted to Headquarters and ran the football team...
On the one hand the Jews wanted to leave shattered Europe and set up a new home in Palestine, whilst on the...
In November we got orders to prepare to move, and one evening were transported to Famagusta again, leaving...
It was on one of my trips into Beirut I contracted "Sand Fly Fever", and was admitted into...
We got as far as Benghazi and we then got posted to Greece, so had to come back to Alexandria and got...
Shortly after allied troops captured Naples on the first October 1943 our hospital was dismantled and we...
2 Mobile Anti-Gas Laboratory, Royal Engineers, Locations: mainly Palestine, also Transjordan, Lebanon and...
An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with...
Shortly after arriving on the island of Terceria in the Azores, I was posted to the Air Sea Rescue Service...
I was moved back to Bulford Camp to prepare for the invasion until a signal was given for the the other...
No potatoes only rice cakes The Samstrule remained in the Mediterranean following the invasion of southern...
They asked you where you wanted to go but they decided in the end, I wanted to go into the Navy, but...
The following interesting letter dated 11th January, 1943, telling how a young Mansfield Woodhouse man...
I joined as a Nursing Sister with the Red Cross and seconded to the Air Force but then transferred to the...
Sure enough, after the war, Mr Dunning was able to gain a good job as a rep for a pharmaceutical company....
Having crossed the Mediterranean via Malta to Alexandria, the ship was taken over by shore personnel from...
An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with...
Jack drove an American built HELT Caterpillar tractor....
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