Belgium

Cricket to Pluto - Stanley Tarrant

We left the station outside Kenley Aerodrome and arrived at Liverpool dock yard not knowing where we were...

Forever Young

Antwerp is a big port, lots of ships in those times, so one morning a P.O. comes aboard, he's looking...

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 2 France

In a very short time I was lined up in a passage with a lot of other P.O.W.s mostly yanks, however they...

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-...

Surveyor and Saxaphone Player in the First Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery

We were stationed in Yorkshire for quite some time, training after Dunkirk; there were various ATS units,...

Prisoner of War/ Gordon Highlanders Part 1

At a window of the farmhouse a French woman was throwing out food to our fellows as they passed along, but...

The Cross Channel Guns of Boulogne

On the cliffs overlooking the town of Boulogne a battery of German naval guns had made life unpleasant for...

Thoroughly Adaptable Milly - Part Two

They were still in Courtrai for Christmas 1944: Milly remembered collecting sugar from the orderlies to...

A W.A.A.F. Meets Her Future Husband, Brussels 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

I had a friend, Sally, who was stationed at Malines, an old and historic town, not far from Brussels....

A W.A.A.F. Gets Demobilised and Married 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Mary's story, together with the war story of her husband, Harry Blood, was transcribed onto a floppy...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 23: Winterslag, Belgium

They reverted to drinking and admiring the cafe owner's wife but one did speak frankly to Butch as the...

Letter 4 of 4: Brussels and beyond

The previous day the Germans had tried to move them to Frankfurt with the other prisoners, but the Belgian...

A W.A.A.F. On Leave With Her Fiance 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

I left early for Grantham and the London train, as did Curly, and we duly reported to the Endsleigh Hotel...

As a Young Boy during the War

Early on, when I was on holiday from school in Taunton, my guardian Uncle Arthur had arranged for me to...

Wartime Visit to Liege

Before we left England my mother said to me "John, if you ever get a chance, when you are in France or...

“If You Want To Go Home, You Can!”

It explains how and why he was allowed to leave the Army in 1945, adjusting to post-war civilian married...

Captured While Defending Dunkirk - Wally's Story

The march As they were marched through Lille in Belgium, a cockney female voice called out to Wally from...

The life of a Gunner

Orderly NCO for today....

‘5186379 - My Story’

From Bristol we went to Ludlow Shropshire, then out to France where I joined the fighting unit of the 5th...

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...

I was in the German Army and captured by the English!

A GERMAN'S POINT OF VIEW My name is Otto Damm, I was born in Steinweiler, near Karlsruhe on the Rhine....

The American Major

3 tall, broad shouldered bull necked, long arms and legs, in fact a typical super man in body, but in...

Smugglers or Spies ?

Then the German tanks invaded Belgium and Holland and broke through the French defences and the British...

Sid Hayden,France,Belgium

Sid Hayden in France and Belgium. Just before 10th April 1945 the German soldiers, who with Sid and the...

Grappling Iron

There wasn't any further bother, and only a few miles away there was an American L.S.T. waiting for us,...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 13 of 13 - Escape from Stalag IV B Muhlberg-on-Elbe)

We learned later that the whole German army had capitulated, the instrument of surrender being signed by...