North Africa

A Soldier's Reminiscences of World War 2

Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...

RAF 32 Squadron

On January 16th 1943 myself and Gray were taken to the airfield at Gibraltar and given a Hurricane each and...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 7

I tried to sleep in the lorry but couldn't owing to the cold and there being very little room so I got...

Jack Merewood:To War with the Bays. Part 2

As we moved forward the desert was a scene of destruction and desolation - burned out trucks and tanks,...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 16: March to May 1943 - Butch and the `Entente Cordiale' - The final push against Bizerta and

General Alexander ordered General Bradley II Corps to go for Bizerta, the British 1st Army, to take Tunis...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 6

We stayed at Benina nearly a month, I was very comfortable erecting my camp bed in a house opposite...

Nursing in the war

Six weeks later we left King George V Dock in Glasgow on the troop ship AWATEA - incidentally when this...

My Life in the RAOC During the War 1939-1945 Chapter 4

It must have been mighty funny to watch a British Sergeant and a French Gendarme trying to converse in...

An “extra-ordinary” soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C — Part 4

We made our way down the wadi towards the sea, a difficult trip in the dark, slipping and floundering on...

Alexander George Mallett

Contents ® My autobiography 3 weeks before taken prisoner ® After the battle of LEROS Isle ®...

"Always Read The Small Print" Chapter Three

On completion of the destruction of all our weapons, transport,food stocks, and anything of use to an...

MISSING - PRESUMED P.O.W.

Next morning we carried on and by this time we were very hungry having been without food since the previous...

Waffler's Tales

During August 1940 the German air raids intensified and I arrived at No 6 B.D.S. with a 3 ton Dennis lorry...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 14

Good beds, chairs to lounge in on deck, an issue of 50 De Reske cigarettes and meals such as liver and...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 3 - Harry Wood

The Iti's noisily clamoured for ‘aqua fresco’ and the Germans remaining aloof in a corner,...

A Rifleman in North Africa: Part 3: Transported

I should imagine there were only about four ships in the harbour of any size, apart from a destroyer, and...

The War Diaries of 1232581 - L.A.C. Jack Lucas R.A.F.V.R (PART-TWO)

On Palm Sunday, two squadrons of our wing shot down 36 aircraft loaded with petrol and supplies for the...

What Did You Do In The War, Aunty Mabel

MY posting shortly after with another Sister from the same draft, was to No.1 Mobile Military Hospital...

Sex in the City: Algiers, 1943

All went well until, as Minna wrote: 'He entered upon an indignant accusation against the...

James Glew, Sapper, 1st Division, 1st Army, North Africa

At this point the 1st Army was not yet an army in the full sense of the word, comprising as it did...

FRANCIS GEORGE CARTER HEATH

Elizabeth Donald and Francis George Heath met when Liz was only sweet 16 and Frank 18 years. Liz wore White...

Tommy's War Part 5: North Africa

A Rifleman in North Africa : Part 1 - Captured

Morning came and we broke laager as usual at first light and pulled about half-a-mile away from Brigade...

James Kenna - The Story of A Prisoner of War

Stalag IVB, along with its various surrounding working camps, was eventually liberated by the Russians in...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 1b - Harry Wood

Mine was the 74th Field Regiment from the Gunners 50th Division, but of a regimental strength of 600, only...

A Highland Chindit

At dawn the next day Lieutenant Duncan Menzies volunteered to take a four-man patrol back into the village...