Netherlands

Percy's War in the Royal Artillery

Quite what Percy was doing is unclear but he may have been transmitting messages to confuse the enemy,...

Refugees from The Netherlands. Part One- Breskens to past Amiens.

My British parents. and I,are living in Breskens,Zeeland,Netherlands and my grandparents, one aunt and one...

My War as an Air Gunner by Fred Stead

My story takes place in 1944 when I was flying with a special duty squadron supplying resistance groups all...

Arthur Sawyer's War - as told by his son John

My name is John Sawyer and this is my Dad's story - 4919457 Pte. During training he became friends with...

Battle of Walcheren

SSEF consisted of 6 LGGs and 2 LCGs, 6 LCFs, 6 LCSs and five rocket craft, a force of 25 craft, there...

'A Walk in the Sun' (extract)

I looked back and my feet were lying in the crater from the bomb, I must have had my legs wide apart...

Bill and Jack and the K Rations

After much debate and fearful looks up and down the little village street for the British Military Police ,...

The Witches Cauldron - Arnhem

After the bridge at Arnhem was lost, the 1st Airborne Division formed a perimeter around Oosterbeek, a town...

Mobilisation and Evacuation: Childhood Memories of Life in Holland

Parachuting into Arnhem: September 17th 1944

As I stood in the doorway of the Dakota plane, with a canvas bag containing a large heavy wireless set...

Another April Shower

We left the start line at dawn on ‘Operation Destroyed’ to clear the Germans from the...

The Royal Navy Commandos [L.Stevenson : Part 2]

My brother Derek recollected some exploits of the RN Commandos, whilst staying with us on leave. The whole...

A Dutch Story

As an English woman living in Holland, I was recently given a "baby book" written by the parents of...

What Now?? Nursing in Holland

Crawling Through a Field of Landmines

So I said to the 2 lads "I think we'd be sensible if we dug in somewhere along the side of that...

My 2½ Guilder coin

We were withdrawn to our village of Nordewick for 48 hours to clean up and prepare for our dash up through...

Waiting for our call up.

The Quiet Commando

The original intention was for the first flight of assault troop consisting of the 8th Infantry Brigade to...

Christmas Day on the Front Line (Taken from F for Fox)

Lieutenant Thresher supplies this version of Christmas Day spent in a farmhouse by the left section of the...

Tanks and Parachutes [B.Barney]

It was chaos and badly planned; only one tank got to Arnhem bridge. Working for Bertrum Mills and the...

Joining-Up Under Age

After that I took part in the landing at Walcheren Island off Antwerp which we had to capture because it...

MTB695 by Leslie J. Sprigg, Ex Leading Telegraphist

Then a convoy was seen approaching and the SO took us up the shore side and all boats attacked with...

The New Boy: Joining 66 Squadron, RAF

After joining the squadron which was mainly Norwegians,Poles and Australians, he took his aircraft for its...

The Army at Sixteen

Around 20 tanks were lost on both sides and supporting the Canadians and the 51st Highland Division we...

Memoirs of a Sapper — Part 5 - Humour and Horror

Our Division had captured the paymaster of the 5th SS Panzer Division — a Baron Oberst von Slachen...

Beegden, Holland: With 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment

Beegden is situated on the top of a bluff looking down towards the river... One day it was my turn, as one...