It is a fine scene on the river here; the town and harbour on one side; on the other, scattered grey stone...
The troops would be able to step ashore directly onto dry land and only a few yards from the islands road...
I only stayed with the Houstons for about a year as, in late 1941, my Mother sent for me to join her...
But this night in particular, two of us who stayed in 41 Belville Street ran down to the back green because...
Most of the boys took a keen interest in the types of aircraft used by both sides; the German Heinkel,...
My uncle Joe and his son, also called Joe, had visited us from America in the summer of 1938 or 1939... It...
In this harbour sheltered a full flotilla of the latest class of German warships i.e. ten Destroyers, which...
Since my husband had been stationed in the Orderly Room at Perth I had applied for a transfer to Scotland...
"With the beginning of ARP in 1935 I was the Chief Assistant in the Town Clerk's office and was...
The pier was really just a short ,ramshackle jetty ,but it was home to us and G6 ,which lay alongside.It...
There were about 12 L.C.T. of the British Navy, each with an R.N.V.R. or R.N.R. Lieutenant in charge....
When boarding a bus about to head off to Brightons I noticed a military motor-cyclist heading west and...
When I went to London - I arrived at night and went straight to my Naffi as one of my friends had...
"Well, first of all the very first five bombs to fall in Greenock alone on houses - one fell at the...
He suggested that Stan went along with his brother in law, yet another Smith at Langford Hall, and with Reg...
After France capitulated on 17 June 1940 a group from the Division went towards South Loire and on to...
British and Indian troops had defeated a Japanese offensive during the ferocious defence of Kohima, in...
We were fighting the Germans all the time and then I was sent onboard the HMS Wolf as part of the Northern...
A number of London tailors had taken over a parade of shops and it was here that we spent the grant we...
it was there that i saw the first G.I.american soldiers to in this country 1000,s of them all lined up by...
However the next hour got worse, I had mum's stretcher all laid out in readiness, the doors got burst,...
HMS “Dauntless” was an old cruiser which had been spared from the breaker's yard to provide...