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Personal Memories of WW2 by Ronald Marson Chapter 1

So the day Arthur went to join the RAF we slipped away to join the army, Hobby into the Royal Engineers and...

From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino PART 2

After heavy fighting on the 17th of May 1944 Polish soldiers conquered German forces and raised the Polish...

Wartime Wren

We changed ships at Port Said to the SS Orion a much grander vessel and so to Aden - a sun scorched...

Mike's WW2 Related Poetry

These Poems were composed to summarise my thoughts, emotions and some of the more significant facts I...

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A Memorable Year - One of Many

Thereafter, I served with No. 261 Squadron which was reformed from a nucleus of Gladiators and Hurricanes...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 9

Leaving Mafraq at the usual early hour we drove over the Albanon Hills, down the Jordan Valley across the...

Thoroughly Adaptable Milly - Part One

In February 1940 Milly joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service, which later became amalgamated with the...

West Yorkshire Regiment

The West Yorkshire were part of the 9th Indian Brigade 5th Indian Division the 8th Army. March arrived and...

John Gibson's War

From Basra we were asked to take a convoy of lorries on the 5 day journey to Khanaqin in order to make...

A Miraculous Crossing of the Atlantic without a Convoy October 1941

She bought a train ticket to Basra and once there hoped she could get a boat to England but whilst the...

Don's War

I was then transferred to the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st British Infantry...

The Reed Family

My uncle tells the story of how he came home on a very rare visit and alighted from Shildon railway station...

Around the War and Back: A Miner Goes to War with the Royal Army Service Corps

Dad enjoyed seeing this foreign country, places like Rouen and Brittany were lovely, but eventually hard...

The Missing Fruit.

With the WAR commencing at the height of the fruit season, when apples and plums were here there and...

ACCIDENTS

It is over sixty years ago now and it is difficult for me to remember the exact procedure,however with...

From one war zone to another

We were only there until we could be dispersed to other places, mostly England or South Africa. In October...

Emille Baudot Part III

Other than that, we had three two-day stops at sea to do repairs to the boilers before we reached Bombay...

H. D. Hugill SGT Story

On one side of the station was the river Euphrates then out airstrip then a plateau of hills which took us...

Life as a Wartime RAF Photographer

On this trip in and out, often we travelled in a Vickers Valencia plane, a Vickers Valencia plane was a...

Sid’s Story Part 2 - Eighth Armyicon for Story with photo

Sid was posted to the Eighth Army and set sail from Scotland in the Queen Elizabeth for twenty-eight days....

Indian Army and Romance

It was in Egypt that Moray met his future Irish wife, Dorothy Kenny, then in the QAs. In fact, he appears...

Desert Rats, Scorpians and Ditches!!

Dad has told many stories about his time as a Guardsman on guard duty at Buckingham Palace in 1938. My...

Ground Crew also Served

This was to be an Australian squadron until the concern of the Japanese moving down from New Guinea to...

WW2 in the Middle East

They mounted horses and finally rode through Wadi Musa, the village outside Petra and through the towering...

William Mason's War

In Egypt I was put in charge of cooking for thirty personnel and in Haifa in Israel I was cooking again. I...

Local Hero Lofty Peacock

Lance Corporal Clarence Peacock, 1st Battalion The Green Howards showed conspicuous gallantry in action in...

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