Belgium

Memories of World War II (Part 2): With the Guards Armoured Division

The breakout from the Escaut Canal was led by the Guards Armoured Division, the leading battalion being 2nd...

Letter 3 of 4: Vernon to Brussels

Just as we moved off again a party of German prisoners were marched in by the F.F.I. One wonders how they...

Back for a rest

It was then that we heard about the “Big House” and we were told that the old maid was a German...

It just wasn't his day to die!

Gordon didn't like water or boats and joined the Royal Ordnance Corps at Old Dalby, Leicestershire,...

My Parents and Aunty

You see he was Flt Sgt Middleton, the Captain of Skinners crew. They had been to Turin in Italy in a...

Some of Captain Raymond Frost's War Experiences Told to His Granddaughter

Had another firing camp, by then we became part of the Canadian Army as they were short of artillery and we...

Dunkirk 1940

W. Tennant and 18 sailors were in charge on the beach and only larger vessels were leaving from the East...

No.9 (Bomber) Squadron Preparing for War - 1939

The Germans are to field a squadron of fighters. The Germans are airborne in their fighters and one has...

Letters Home - December 1944 - Part One

Once again I'm back with my Belgian friends, the people who sheltered the airmen from the Hun. It was...

Jack Blane's War

No 7266456, Pte J Blane Royal Army Medical Corps No 3 Casualty Clearing Station. I spent Christmas 1942 at...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 22a: People that pass in the Day. Scots Dewar. The Yankee Pilot. The Medic. Brussels. River Ma

A Scots lad called Dewar, with a posh English accent, had joined 133 as a driver just before the invasion,...

Moving and Marching

At twelve, six German JB87 Sooker bombers appeared over the village and started dropping bombs on us... I...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 6

Other divisions had been clearing the Germans from Antwerp to use the port for supplies, rather than...

Traced After 60 Years

I asked my uncle to get on his computer to find the Belgium embassy in Belgium, but he couldn't... I...

My Dad and D-Day (Operation Overlord)

My father was John Arthur Rogers, born Forty Acre Lane, Canning Town in May 1924. During the storm, my Dad...

The Black Bull

Joined 13th Royal Horse Artillery after Operation Goodwood as part of the soon-to-be-famous 11th Armoured...

A Strabane Airman Remembered

One of the survivors of 150 Squadron, Group Captain Randal, wrote to Leslie's brother, Vic., in 1991...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part Two

The latter originated in the last war, and was a nom-de-plume for our ‘Tommies’- often they...

Dougie Davidson MBE,MN

Dougie will always remember Captain Hughes of the Portia waving at them as they rowed the lifeboat into the...

The Road to Dunkerque — May 1940

The only thing that we found was a French army lorry, abandoned and full of cases of tins... stacked full...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part Two

I can quite understand the rumour arriving from Belgium that the Germans had signed an armistice. It is...

Strategic Withdrawal

Charlie Young is a local Thanet councillor and has been the Mayor of Margate three times in his political...

A long dangerous journey to freedom

Mum and I left Mons in early May 1940, just a few days before the Germans arrived in town on May 12th...

A Belgian officer in service with the RAF.

He was mobilised to resist any German attack.When the Germans finally attacked Belgium his regiment was...

The Advance into the Low Countries by the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

Eddie Frazer, our wireless operator, a Scot, was told to dig a trench and be ready for the enemy. Eddie...

Norman Ellis's experiences at the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Brigade Rest Camp. Louvain, and the Education Office at Ochtrup

It follows on from ‘Norman Ellis's experiences in the Friends' Ambulance Unit’ and from...