Egypt

From Aberdeen to Cairo via Dunkirk

We knew there was much telephone and Morse code activity, and were told eventually that the German advance...

Nursing in the war

Six weeks later we left King George V Dock in Glasgow on the troop ship AWATEA - incidentally when this...

Italy 1943

The fighting was furious with continued shelling, mortaring and firing, this lasted two days then we heard...

Life as an RAF Codebreaker

I was told that with an officer, some wireless operators, cook and drivers, we were to be an advance party...

What Did You Do In The War, Aunty Mabel

MY posting shortly after with another Sister from the same draft, was to No.1 Mobile Military Hospital...

Wartime Memories Part Two

When we left Larissa another raid was in progress and the town was alight and I shared the pavement with a...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 1 and 2

This did not sound at all good I knew that I had my work cut out to get the Battalion ready, but...

My Dad - Sgt Leslie Millard

After that we were lying along our defences, on my left were two machine guns which kept us from getting to...

The Life and Times of an RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner - Part II

I was positioned on the rear gun but I did not return fire because I assumed the Beaufighter would soon...

HMS Barham - Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 5

Much time spent ashore in Alexandria and worrying about mail and family back in England. The sea mail may...

HMS Barham - Churchill's Inspiration

There is something of the boy in Winston Churchill; he loves to tease and anger his opponents; one can...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 4

The scenes on my return to the harbour were not what one considers to be quite up to the standard of a...

Its a Long Way from Hodnet to Italy

There were many girls about in Bedford and one night there was a ‘do’ on at the Dujohns...

MEMORIES OF THE ATS

There were also three battalions of raw African conscripts who had only received the least basic training...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 15

I think one of the reasons may well have been that in the British military hospitals nurses were given...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 10

From Buq Buq onwards the water had been “brackish” but at Tobruk it appeared that the...

HMS Barham - Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 2

After the Force “H” action at Dakar in September 1940, Barham joined Cunningham's Eastern...

A Lighter View of the War

Most of us were newly out from U.K., being a few of many brought by ships sailing in convoys around South...

HMS Barham - Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 4

Notes: (1) Surgeon-Captain Gleeson, RN — Senior Medical Officer in Eastern Mediterranean (2) On...

Feeding the Royal Corps of Signals

The lentils found another use, a friend of mine had a unit near the Sphinx at Giza and had bought hundreds...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 8 (Chapter 9)

Chapter-9- ‘The Nile Delta’ and ‘Port Fouad’ Then, I was detailed, as still the...

My Missing Uncle-113 Squadron

This was my other uncle, Bernard, who had gone to fight in World War Two, and had never come home again. By...

HMS Barham - Lead up to Matapan

Notable amongst the lucky airmailers are Jasu Pitts, Brian Stringer, Nuts Brodrick and Gerald Ellison(2)....

The Last Phase: BOAC in Cairo

By the Eighth of October 1945 with licences in our hands we were flying the aircraft completing with a...

My RAF Life - Chapter 6

By the Eighth of October 1945 with licences in our hands we were flying the aircraft completing with a...

Bill Williams's War 1

I joined the 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards at the cavalry barracks in Colinton, Edinburgh and in September...