Middle East

WW2 Experience of a Private in the British Army

Landed at Port Tenefick Eygypt then sent to Haifa Palestine in october 1940. sent on to Pireus, Greece...

The Polish Free Army in Monte Cassino, Bolognia and Ancora

The army went on to Palestine and Iraq to be trained by the Allies, mainly British and then took part in...

Landing with Bombs and Only One Engine: Les Vedmore

Pilot, F/O Bradley Navigator, John Edmunds Flight Engineer, F/Sgt Richards Wireless Operator, F/Sgt Jock...

Wartime Memories

Shown are Mr. David Parker, Mr. Ralph Parker and Mr. Raymond Parker. Raymond Parker served with the Royal...

Mosquito

Eric was stationed at Lydda Palestine which was a transport command R.A.F. station, used for transporting...

Letter from a Wounded Gunner

Love, John. John Cowan via Dundee Central Library....

My time in the R.A.F

I joined the R.A.F in 1940 and did my first training at Skegness including square bashing, bayonet practice...

"Queen Mary" bound for the Middle East

The first Port of call was ‘Freetown’ and all went to the side to look and smell the land. But...

Me in the Middle East

My father, Stan Pomeroy, was a Signals Operator in the above countries, signalling and receiving messages...

One Man's War

He was never given any food or water and had to pick up grains of corn from horse manure which hadnt been...

Love Story, Troopship Through the Tropics, and Good Food

and I didn't know where I was going or when I'd hear from her, but in South Africa when I had my...

A Traditional Wedding in Ahwaz

After chasing Rommel back and forth across North Africa and coming to Italy my fiance was sent to the Trans...

Norris Alfred Trout - Dates from his diaries

Re-embarked S.S. Northumberland – joined convoy – Cruiser Birmingham + 3 destroyers. Ship broke...

Ron Wilson's Story Part Two

It was the first time that I used a hammock to sleep in, we slept on the Mess Deck, so we had...

1 in a Million

He didn't find him by the time he returned to the billet, he found that his personal kit had, yet...

My War Runaway Marriage

I ran away from home and joined the ATS. The uniform of the ATS was khaki drill and one uniform we bleached...

Wartime Service

Went abroad sailing from Liverpool, calling at Freetown, West Africa and Capetown, ending up at Bombay,...

Evacuation with a Difference

Our food was served in large army tins, and we then had to wash them up in tubs of water. When D-Day...

Desert Memories

I was in Palestine with the Essex Regiment when the war started and was in the front line all the time... I...

Nursing in the Middle East and Italy

My mother, ‘Billie’ Kenny, served with the TANS and later the Queen Alexandra's Nursing...

I was a Gunner

I was in South Africa; Egypt; the Western Desert; North Africa; Italy; Austria. I've got the Africa...

Diverted to Iraq

We were diverted to the Middle East, serving in Iraq and then Persia before transfer to North Africa,...

My Brother’s Death in Palestine (9/6/40)

Another Congleton soldier wanted to go along in that lorry but the Sargeant Major would not allow him...

In the Thick of It

Men with grievous injuries were brought in to be cared for by a very small and hard-pressed nursing staff...

Winning Hearts And Minds

They gave her a chocolate bar and a pair of stockings... My mother also explained to me that other girls...

Letter : “We have no time to bury you”

Over the next 3 years, the war took him from India to Iraq, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Sicily, Italy, Egypt,...