D-Day+ 1944

From Balderton to Scotland, France and the Far East

The pier was soon visited by Field Marshal Montgomery himself, and one of Dad's most vivid memories is...

Part 1 - Disaster At Sea

Not so the two naval officers who stood rigidly upright gazing disdainfully at the exploding vehicle...

Private Benstead , No 14312245

That evening Gerry had turned the Tiger tank on them and they had fled leaving the Bren gunner alone badly...

Memories of Mulberry Harbour

BHQ was at Kilnsea Camp a few miles nearer Hull and probably the nearest actual unit to the point which...

My Life My War - Chapter 13a

So the Warspite entered the harbour And bombarded the enemy tanks, We plastered the heights and North of...

I Am the Son of a Scottish Soldier

My Father, William McCabe from the Wishaw Area, managed to survive D day and all its horror, only to be...

Light Blue Ulstermen

An official of the Embassy visited Hugh at his Newtownabbey home with an itinerary of Nagasaki visits and...

My Life in the Royal Navy

We assembled in the drill shed and were told by the drafting officer we were going to Dundee in Scotland to...

Minesweeping in the Royal Navy

There I was interviewed and I passed the interview board and was appointed to the naval RNVR Officers...

Normandy Veterans Remember World War Two

Jim has been Secretary of the West Cumbria Branch of the Normandy Veterans since 1989. Members, family,...

Dedication of the Normandy Veterans Memorial Seat, Whitehaven

The story of Gunner Harold Drake, Royal Artillery, a Normandy Veteran. As well as Mr Drake, Mr Jolly and Mr...

60 Years Ago on Friday June 2nd LCI(S) 536 202 Flotilla

Sunday 4th June Started the day as normal, tied up in midstream in the river Hamble just off the village of...

Aldershot to the Sultan of Johors palace via Normandy

We were in the trench for 3 or 4 days before we started our job of ferrying supplies up from an american...

Where Were You on D-Day, Grandad?

Cpl John, Engineering Surveyor Railway Survey Co., Royal Engineers, Longmoor. We were visiting one of the...

"CornCob" MS Innerton & HMS Despatch, 'Floating Mulberry Harbour'

CORNCOB’ MS INNERTON & HMS DESPATCH IN ‘THE FLOATING’ MULBERRY HARBOUR by William...

A W Howorths Revised D-Day

The gunnery officer told me that I would man an Oerlicon on one of the Landing Craft Assault Boat that we...

My Mother got Two Telegrams, One was Bad Enough.

Two brothers, Robert and Joseph Casson were killed within days of each other during the Battle of Normandy....

Remembering the German Victims of World War Two

These are the visit to the Caen Memorial Museum on Sunday 6th June 2004 by the German Chancellor Gerhard...

D-Day Part 2

Fortunately, just as it was getting dark an enormous ocean going tug appeared on the horizon from...

"How long shall we remember?"

The Service of Remembrance took part at the Normandy Veterans Commemorative Plaque in St Nicholas Church...

An Experience to Remember

Following the rout of the German army at the Falaise Gap, where the fleeing columns were mercilessly...

The Task of the 51st Highland Division

The brickworks changed hands several times but ended up in enemy hands. On the afternoon of the 11th we had...

"A Young Boys War"

The London children tended to look down on anyone not from "The Smoke" and at first referred to...

From Latchford to Normandy

I travelled a lot, even before the Army I worked at Risley, where they were building the munitions factory,...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 21: Bayeux. A minefield. German helmets. A Bailey Bridge. Bottles of Guinness.

133 tailed and served the 7th Armoured Division in those hectic days and Butch, proud co-owner with Ritchie...

My War Storys from North Africa to Normandy

Then we pushed them right the way back across Libya and then the Germans landed and their tanks were in...