Netherlands

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 22b: September '44 - January '45. The River Maas (Meuse) and the Ardennes. Our 1st Class Mecha

The German aim was for Dietrich's 6th Panzer Army to cross the Maas near Liege and make for Antwerp and...

Memoirs of Army Life From Canterbury to Cologne.Part 2.

I was driving my jeep accompanied by an officer, and we hadn't got 200 yards into the town before the...

Norman Macleod: Memories of Life in the Infantry and a Wartime Wedding.

And we had a club just after the war finished and we had a German band, a dance band - four blokes-...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 6b - Harry Wood

The next morning Lucy was back with one of the officers, it appeared her family wanted representatives of...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 10 of 13 - Operation Market Garden continued)

Parts of the town were ablaze as the Germans brought their flame-throwers into action and Arnhem was fast...

That Split Eternal Second: Shot down over Holland

Lifting the escape hatch under my bombing position, and battling with the roaring wind, I dropped it...

Memoirs of Army Life From Canterbury to Cologne.Part 3

We were prepared for anything here at Dinant as Jerry had made an unexpected punch along the Ardennes,...

Operation Oyster, Part 2

Under the nose of the A/c was a ' sea switch ' which when it came into contact with sea water an...

On The Lighter Side

Private Merrythought's Christmas Christmas 1944 and the Platoon positions were amongst the ruins of...

The March to Nijmegen

Among the British troops advancing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands was one of my uncles,...

Memories of D-day, Walcheren and VE day

The Port of Antwerp had been captured, virtually intact, in September but its use was denied because of...

Father and Son

In the meantime, the balloon defence at Hull had been wound down, and my father Thomas Storey, had been...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 8

Spinner had started to get our kit out of the glider so I went across to the Dutchmen and asked if anyone...

Liberation of Walcheren Island

Soldiers were dying on the beachhead and vehicles were being shelled by the German defences so best get off...

A Few Thoughts on the Event of October 18th 1944 and the After Effects: In the Royal Artillery

After three or four days, and another operation, I was allowed out of bed on crutches, only to find that I...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 9 of 13 - The Invasion of Europe-Operation Market Garden)

As winter slid into spring, with the invasion of Europe imminent, it was increasingly evident that it would...

Advance Towards Bremen

On another occasion we were heading towards a town called Xanton, once on the outskirts we bgan the...

Ash's Story

Having been taken prisoner we were lined up and the German officer came along shaking our hands and...

Liberation Day

The Germans had been the occupying force in the Netherlands for four years, but since June last year we...

A Sergeant's Tale - Part 2

Soon Bob and his friend met up with other British troops and were taken over the Rhine by night into...

Arnhem Veteran And P.O.W. Remembered

PRIVATE ERNEST HAMLETT (4462122) DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY 1ST BATTALION, BORDER REGIMENT P.O.W. STALAG XIB,...

1944-1946. A Conscript's Story Continued

Caen was really bad and after that the Falaise Gap was really choked with knocked out German armour, dead...

Kings Own Scottish Borderers in Operation 'Heather'

Eventually I was in a distance in front and I lifted my head from below a low fir branch and looked into...

An Experience to Remember

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

Wartime Memories Taken From ‘ Wartime Memoirs’

We were subject to German air raids all the time we were unloading the supply ships on the beaches of Avola...

WWII Memories in Brief

This man gave me a huge breakfast after which he put me in his own bed. I was awakened by the arrival...