D-Day+ 1944

D-Day in the Sussex Countryside as the Soldiers Left

My mother, sister and myself were living in a game keeper's cottage in Hooksway, a hamlet in Sussex,...

Dennis Chaffer -Experiences on Sword Beach

Our Captain organised a competition to see who could find our landing beach... German planes dropped...

Dad's Awful Memory

My father, Frederick Yates, was at D-Day... A quiet, unassuming man he was never very forthcoming about...

Walking Back Across The Sea

The training was conducted in various locations and Lcpl Alex McVeigh was the driver/pilot of the royal...

D-Day Memories, June 2004: Working in a Medical Laboratory in Leeds

The planes must have brought-back wounded soldiers because I occasionally had to go on the wards of the...

Family History Report

There was a man called Mr Walter Taylor who was 80 years old and he served in the D'Day landings......

D Day and after

In wartime some farmers had Italian PoWs placed with them aand there was one who would appear in the field...

D-Day Dodgers

We've heard of Lady Astor, our pin up girl out here She's the dear old lady who send us such good...

My Brother Charles

When the Germans overan Belgium and France his regiment was directed south and went through Abbeyville then...

Visit to Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery France

My father Gordon Beddows served in the Royal Navy during World War 2 aboard an armed merchant cruiser HMS...

My Dad in the War.

My dad was a bren gunner and came from Sheffield, he landed in France on D-day plus seven without incident...

My Experiences on "D" Day

These were big landing ships with room for 30 Sherman tanks on the lower deck and a lift to enable lighter...

Navy Life

We landed on Sword beach of the eve of D Day and from there we went up to France, then into Germany....

HMS Aristocrat and D-Day

Also aboard was Captain C.H. Petrie DSO RN who was a naval officer in charge of a party which planted the...

D-Day Landings: With the British Army

From France we went to Antwerp, where there were big docks, and when we got there we headed for a cafe and...

D-Day Memories

D-Day Memories...

Mulberry Harbour: Onboard the Tug Boat Kings Cross

In 1944, after many months of towing huge concrete and steel sections all around the British Isles and...

A Royal Marine Commando, a 3ft wall, a minefield and a German plane!

As a Marine Commando, I went over with the Canadians on D-Day, landing on Juno Beach. When I was fit I...

Operation Jantzen

Jack entertained them with tales of a ghostly monk who roamed the tunnels between Saundersfoot and...

From Ipswich to D-Day.

We trained at Schrubland Park, near Ipswich, my home town. Before D-Day we moved through Ipswich, via the...

Robert Casson from Whitehaven, Cumbria, No 45 Royal Marine Commando

Robert was one of the sons of David and Mary Ellen Casson of Woodhouse, Whitehaven, Cumbria....

D-Day Invasion of Europe: With the Parachute Regiment

I was equipped with the Lee Enfield Rifle, A revolver and some mills grenades. our objective was to capture...

From Dunkirk to VE-Day: With 73rd Light Ack Ack Regiment

Many years later, whilst sorting out his third wife's deceased husband's personal papers he found...

D-Day 1944

My name is Derek Hogg, I was 14 Years of age and a member of Mitcham Sea Cadet Corps and on a...

My Father's D-Day Geologist Role

Fred Shotton, R.E. Then he was made major and brought home on top secret work for the D-Day invasion,...

A Royal Engineer's Recollection of D-Day

At the end of May we received orders to waterproof our vehicles and then knew that the invasion was not far...