Netherlands

Don Jennings Experiences of the War

Several months prior to D-day I was engaged in training to waterproof vehicles. I used to take the vehicles...

Does Anyone Know These Men?

Private V. Lilley, No.3194627 POW No. 117262 7th K.O.S.B., Anti-Tank Platoon, Berwick Hospitalized at...

After The liberation: Life in Holland

Food for Rotterdam

Towards the end of World war 2, Germany was short of food, and Holland, in the year or so before the...

Chronicles of a Charmed Life

During the advance of the Germany army into the low countries, signalling the end of the 'phoney...

Battle of Walcheren: I Was There Too!

Of the 25 vessels of Support Squadron Eastern Flank, nine were sunk, nine were damaged and seven, including...

My Rank was a Trooper

At the mouth of the River Scheldte were the islands of Walcheren, N. Beverland and Schoewenn, held by the...

Royal Engineers, 1940 to 1946

Mr. Davies then showed the interviewer his four medals he was awarded for his service: the 1939-1945 Star,...

ATS, BLA, 5 LOFC and B.A.O.R.

Still in Rotterdam in August the Japanese gave in so we collected as many Gilders as we could and the men...

Arnhem By James Lowrie

It was about 2pm on Sunday 17 September 1944, that the blood-chilling order, "Stand to the door",...

The Lord is My Shepherd: 12th KRRC in Holland

The 12th KRRC were in Opheusen, Holland, October 1944, carrying out a 6-man night patrol reccy. Words put...

Snippets from My War Service

These are a couple of extracts from an oral tape Eric Ellis recorded for the RH7 History Group Memory Bank,...

World War Two

It was later discovered that three German battalions with machine guns, mortars and artillery occupied the...

From the Cellar into the Snow: Life in Postwar Holland

My Grandad in World War 2

My Grandad landed at Arromanches in France 2 days after the D-Day landings, on his 19th birthday. In...

Friendly Fire: A Dreadful Accident Remembered - Holland 1944

Sarge`, don't leave me Sarge`”....

5 Years in an Occupied Country

The German officer checked his papers and said they were false but he could not prove this... My father...

RAF situation in occupied Holland?

I don't claim to be an expert in the subject at all, however, knowing what little I do... the story of...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel Lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 3

That was something one HÀD to get.The farm was across the river Maas.She got her old...

A Soldier's Life

Being too young for overseas service at this time, I transferred to the Royal Artillery anti-aircraft...

Friends Of Arnhem

My name is Dougie and I have three brothers Ray,Peter,and Roger the youngest We first got involved with...

Snapshot #1

After the Germans invaded Holland they needed hospitalbeds.No problem:they took over parts of our...

As Seen in Amsterdam

A German soldier was watching them with his binoculars. Another time I remember about twenty Spitfires...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel Lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 2.

"When the german nun, in charge ,went to chapelI I heard many heroïc stories.One guy who had a...

Royal Signals River Crossing Almost 'Scrambled'

I also remember serving alongside a fellow Royal Signal named Leo Charles Augusta Parsons. Apparently after...

Operation Manna

Because the Dutch government in exile had asked the railway personnel to go on strike as Market Garden...