Belgium

Retreat to Dunkirk

While the whole B.E.F., with the French 1st Army on their right and the Belgian Army on their left, were...

To Arms!

So, on this fateful Friday, we ‘Three Musketeers’ said a fond farewell to the Council Offices...

Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal in WWII

The fishing port of Port-en Bessin was set as the dividing line between the Anglo-American armies and was...

"Intelligence" WAAF's in 'Y' Service.

From our unit at Capel, which was right on the cliffs about 100 feet up from the sea, we could see the...

Falling Back to Dunkirk, 7th MAC British Expeditionary Force (Part 3)

Nightmare We drove through a town that was already showing signs of a severe bombing, and straight onto the...

A Sapper's Tale

It was at Chelsea that I met for the first time Dennis Castle, who was to become a lifelong friend, amongst...

The Ardennes and Crossing the Rhine

The skid, a landing device, in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced through the floor of our glider,...

Journey of Escape in 1940

With the Germans having entered Paris by mid June, the family decided to go to the British Consul in St...

With the Guards in Flanders, 1940

All around we saw the belgians in their first world war helmets and long coats in full flight Westward and...

Rearguard at Dunkirk

Yorky Holme's gun crew C4 consisted of Phil Plevey, Bert Tanner, George Bradley who were all killed,...

A Soldier Goes to War

Arriving finally at Le Havre we collected our vehicles, formed a convoy and headed for our destination,...

The Ardennes and the Crossing of the Rhine

The ‘skid’ a landing device in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced threw the floor of...

MTB 17 and "Flowers of the Field"

What is fascinating is how this book brought out the brotherhood of the sea between a German and a British...

A Week in Belgium

With the advent of bombs and bursts of machine-gun fire from German aircraft strafing the sands, the lines...

Desmond Paul Henry: How World War Two Changed One Man's Life for the Better

1969 Request for Henry machine drawing by Leasco Systems and Research Company to be included in the summer...

A W.A.A.F. in Brussels 1945 by Mary Blood (Nee Pettit): Working for the Air Publications Distribution Unit

I went to bed that night thinking, ‘A Belgian has slept in that bed, then a German has slept in it...

My Life - Cyril Chapman - Part one ; Childhood to early wartime

My parents were at the time of the arrival of Harold and I living in Northern France and by the laws of...

CLIMBING A DYKE - To Liberate Walcheren

I was in the second wave of troops to land on "Green" beach, just south of the little seaside...

RAF Barber in Belgium After the Liberation

In a way this was to be my downfall: money to spend, free time, nightlife in Brussels. Christmas coming...

Dunkirk: A Unique Story of the Evacuation - Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Private Stanton's tale 1937 I enlisted into the Territorial Army 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire...

A WAAF in Brussels, VE Day 1945

Madame Tournier took me round the grounds and through the sunken garden with flowers of all sorts and...

My War

We went to a place called Noyers crossroads where a German Tiger Tank was stationed... The Falaise gap,...

Harry Blood's War Part 8: Serving in Belgium and Germany, 1945

Near the end of his service and his diaries, he had a chance meeting with W.A.A.F. Corporal Mary Pettit at...

Letters Home, September 1944 - Part One

Scattered here and there were several Jerry red-cross vans, but we were not to be deluded by this petty...

Landmines in Holland

Paddle steamer to Ostend: A fortnight after D-Day, we got on a paddle-steamer - the kind they had in...

Wounded in Normandy Battle

We were placed 500 POWs to each American troop transport, all of which flew the designated recognition...