Middle East

Letter : The Magic Carpet

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

Dodging Through the Mortars

How an Army Film and Photographic Union Officer and his driver tried to single handedly to dislodge an...

Morse: With the Royal Signals in the Middle East

Bill Gibb was a Scot from Inverurie near Aberdeen. Bill's favourite story was when he was on guard duty...

L A C Rodgers

My grandfather was was an Aircraft Engine Fitter and became a Leading Aircraftman, his number was 1019591...

Lockwoods Folly

Pilot Lockwood was a South African in the RAF and flying a liberator loaded with Depth Charges and...

Celebrity Spotting During The War

Miller from Northanpton, Jimmy Connor, a Scottish football international and Halford from Spurs we played a...

Out of Bounds

People in story: Arthur Bilton Location of story: Middle East I found this story amoung my late...

Bombers ready to go explode in accident

At the airfield where he was working a squadron of Wellington Bombers were fuelled up and full of bombs,...

Letter : Magnificent Lebanon

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

School Girl in Persia

I was a little girl in Persia during the war. I remember Russian soldiers in their Jeeps in Tehran....

Ted's Turn

After traveling from Iraq we had at last pulled into our allocated Gun Site.That is the place selected to...

Becoming a Navigator

Eventually I arrived at Foggia in Southern Italy for Christmas 1944. This is not to detract from D-day but...

Close Shave in the Middle East

My late uncle Bill Tyrrell was an officer serving in WW2 in the RA in India at the outbrak of war and...

Ron Wilson's Story Part Three

We left Egypt behind and travelled on, through Libya, up to Tobruk and into Tunis, but not for long as the...

Ration Trucks in Iraq

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission. I...

Austin Family in the War -Part 2

From the letters that Gwen's mum received she learned that his role in the tank regiment entailed many...

Time in the Middle East

Then in 1940 my wife was having a baby, and I got sent to the middle east.As I was in the raf...

Ration Truck in Iraq: Part Two

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission. An...

Herbert Adams WW2

Herbert Adams was part of the Cheshire yeomanry TA a cavalry regiment when war broke out... The Cheshire...

My Mum's Account of the Beginning of War

At the beginning of the war my mum got married to Bill Rogers....

Young John Gibson in Baghdad

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission....

Supporters of Hitler in Afghanistan

He is 70 years old now and His Uncle whose name was Abdul Aziz was the prince of Kabul and still a...

Pat O’Brien from Whitehaven in Baghdad, 1944

This article has been submitted on behalf of Pat O'Brien from Whitehaven, Cumbria. During World War...

Photo of Lance Corporal Wilfred Slater

Another photo of Lance Corporal Wilfred Slater driving his brengun carrier, don't know exact location,...

Private Jack Limeburner in Palestine

Private Jack Limeburner in Palestine...

Cairo 1941

Eric Whatmore is on the right. Extracts from ‘Recollections of an NCO’ The Great Pyramid of...