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Brockhouse Engineering then Wales At this stage, two years into the war, the aircraft industry was short of...
HMS Phoebe, along with ships of the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, was involved in the evacuation of Greek...
Attempting to advance on Ferrara and the River Po, our division came up against a tough German paratrooper...
It was at Chelsea that I met for the first time Dennis Castle, who was to become a lifelong friend, amongst...
Behind the tanks were a mixture of Italian and German infantrymen, an Italian pushed me over and kicked...
Next on one bright June morning, armed with a travel warrant, I and others journeyed by train to Weymouth...
The Officer who was in charge of our football team was posted to Headquarters and ran the football team...
All the Merchant ships of the British Empire, shall we say from Suez they used to change the crews - only...
The Primosole Bridge was captured from the Germans after continued assaults from the Durham Light Infantry...
Our parachutes had been already attached by a webbing strap to a strong point inside the aircraft. To this...
On the 12th, we put to sea from Alexandria with the cruiser HMS Carlisle, two other Hunt-class destroyers,...
I still only knew two officers in the Irish Fusiliers, that was the Colonel and Major Richards, who I...
In the end, it must have dawned on someone in authority that we were serving no purpose by staying in...
The destroyer was destined to remain in the eastern Mediterranean, so from Alexandria she patrolled and saw...
However, on Christmas Eve, I met with Hearson ashore and we had a quiet evening enjoying good food and...
Spotting the enemy I saw Johnny raise his head to look over the wee escarpment to find out where the enemy...
Rosie,theres a boat down there" I heard the cry.It was Lambert,pointing down towards the beach.We had...
We got as far as Benghazi and we then got posted to Greece, so had to come back to Alexandria and got...
Owen Reed was an army officer who was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service in Cairo in...
The Australians took over from us and pushed on to Bardia and we were IT — we had to guard thousands...
Pom-poms and Morse code After training I was sent to North Shields to erect guns on either side of the...
Shortly after arriving on the island of Terceria in the Azores, I was posted to the Air Sea Rescue Service...
While maintaining the radar for the anti-aircraft defences of Cairo, I became friendly with a bomb disposal...
Private, 27th Searchlight Battalion My father Arthur James Henbery was born on the 5 May 1901 in Fulham,...
Then we marched to the docks where we boarded a troopship, the SS Rangitiki. Just a last word about the...
Palestine was a very busy little country then and used as a transit route for the British, Australians, New...
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