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Netherlands Retaken

Netherlands Retaken...

Billy's Death

We were at Gennep in Holland having just built a Bailey Bridge when I went with an advance party of six...

The Unsung Hero at Leveruij: Captain Peter Borthwick of the 1/7th Middlesex Regiment

The Unsung Hero at Leveruij: Captain Peter Borthwick of the 1/7th Middlesex Regiment. My father-in-law was...

Sept.17: A Nurse in Occupied Holland

A cloudless Sunday.We ,nurses, were bringing lunches around on a floor for wounded german officers and for...

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As his wife's name was Daphne du Maurier, Peter was relaxed and fascinated,as she was the author of...

The Orchestra People!

Apparently they were members of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra who were Jewish and escaped from there...

One soldier from Market Garden

He remains in the Arnhem Osterbeek cemetery, the Netherlands, close to where his glider landed during the...

The Farm: British Army in the Netherlands

The daughter of the elderly farmers had an infected arm, so wasn't able to milk the cows properly, so I...

My Dad's Military Medal

The detachment immediately responded to Sergt... Next morning the position was sniped, but Sergt....

My Family in WW2: In Occupied Holland

Memories of Longest Day

My Dad died in 1994,but he jotted down his memories of D-Day for the 50th Anniversary,and I would like to...

Snapshot #2

Before we were liberated by a Welsh regiment we still had Germans in our city.One german tankcommander put...

85 Trips in 4 Engine Aircraft

After about 45 trips I was moved to train twin engine pilots to fly four engine aircraft. On the second day...

January 1st 1945: RAF 83 Group HQ Eindhoven

Eric Sykes and I were Wireless Operators and Bill Fraser was our Codes and Cyphers officer who used to...

Con."3 Friends one survivor"

He went training for Air-Crew duties, to South Africa,Johanusberg, & East London, returning to he UK...

Twins in Tanks

In 1942 we transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment and were moved to Catterick to train in Churchill...

Finding Love in Holland

My unit went to Holland later to invade a group of islands. Later on, in Holland I met a Dutch girl,...

Building Bridges Across Northern Europe

On September 17th, ‘Operation Market Garden’ began with Allied troops parachuting into Nijmegen...

s'Hertogenbosch

I was attending the Dutch Open Badminton Championships in Den Bosch and we decided to visit the...

Dropping Food to the Dutch

Although the Germans had been marooned up in North West Holland there was an acute shortage of food for the...

One never knows: Occupied Holland

I changed from a student in Holland to become a R.N. during the occupation of the Germans.The management of...

My Dad's War: 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry

My Dad's War: 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry...

Flag! Patch and All

In 1944/5 I was in Holland and I came across a German Swastika flag... I have a book and in the book...

Operation Market Garden

All of a sudden a jeep can speeding along the road with the C in C colours- yes it was Monty and...

Stationed in Rotterdam

My grandfather, at the end of the war, was stationed in Rotterdam, and billeted with a Dutch family. The...

A Surrender of Rotterdam

To decide who should lead the advance party, myself or a Lt. Gordon Clark, a coin was spun, and Gordon...

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