Weaponry and Equipment

Bombardment - continuing life aboard the Queen Elizabeth

Indeed I was doing just that and listening to fighters being directed to Japanese 'bogeys' out on...

Lost in World War Two: White Knuckles All Round

I joined the Red Cross as a messenger boy cycling between the local Police Station and our HQWe lived out...

The Beginning.

I had to feed the animals with Mum when Dad could not get home and that meant washing bags of potato's...

My World War 2 Story

A look at a map shows why this was an important place for radar stations, as with our 200 mile range we...

Monty's Caravan had no Brakes

I was not with the South African Engineering Corps while they were in the desert, where they had actually...

A Scientist in Wartime

I spent two years in Helensburgh and then was transferred to the Admiralty Research Laboratory at...

The Battle of the Beams

It didn't take Professor Jones to discover that number 51 was Wolverhampton, 52 was Birmingham and...

A Driver/Op in Light Ack Ack

Under the new regime each battery had a wireless truck, in our case a l5cwt Bedford Truck, with a crew of...

The War Experience of Bill McNamara

At the end of WW1 the Germans were in a terrible state and had decided to get rid of the Kaiser, of...

Water Bottle Radio

We played football on that early summer evening and it began to rain and John Willbourne suggested we...

"Z"Battery, Rocket AA in Hyde Park

I must be one of the last surviving members of the 101st City of London Home Guard, AA Rocket Battery,No7...

A Tale of Four Parachutes

During the war I was too young to serve in the war itself so I joined the local branch of the Air...

A Weapons Expert; at the age of 10!

The next thing we discovered were unused Thunder-flashes, these were every boy's monster banger and...

Petty Officer Fagan, my Father

Shadow Factory Cameraderie and the EVT Washing Machine

My story relates to a shadow factory built just a few miles outside Bromsgrove in the industrial town of...

HMS Defiance - Devonport

Just for strangers to that excellent ship it comprised three old tubs lashed together with gangways between...

Battle of Walcheren

SSEF consisted of 6 LGGs and 2 LCGs, 6 LCFs, 6 LCSs and five rocket craft, a force of 25 craft, there...

A Yorkie's War

Both York and Guildford suffered heavy bombing raids and Dad lost many friends when where he was stationed...

A Different Spitfire

PRU Spitfires were provided with vertically fitted automatic units with up to 36” lenses, which were...

Busy Wartime River Tees

The people of the Tees valley worked hard for the war effort, people like Uncle Raymond with his Hangers...

Fond Memories

I went to Glass Street School and remember finishing school at 4.30 and going to Burgess's in the...

Home Guard Weaponry

The one at Portstewart was up at Cromore House, where Cromore Halt is just outside Portstewart. I'm...

Just a Piece of Rope

and these were used to ‘tug’ Horsa and Waco/Hadrian Gliders. The first ‘tries’ were...

Aboard L.C.G.(M) 1944/1945

Two of us from signals were chosen to become part of a 22 man crew for a major landing craft built at...

Childhood Memories in Leicester

My Dad was aged thirty nine at the outbreak of war, and was, thus, above military age, I have a very clear...

Lutterworth's 'Dad's Army'

Lutterworth had quite a lot of evacuees. They blew up the testing shed in Rugby so the operation had to be...