I was busy in the docks office when suddenly I was conscious of a terrific orange flash !.. I climbed into...
Eventually however Glasgow was reached, across to Central Station and down via Caledonian to East Kilbride....
In the time left to us there were practical matters - I gave Minna a Power of Attorney, left a letter for...
Butch couldn't hold back: "'A' platoon under Lieutenant Errington were acting on their...
Lieutenant Baker led `A' platoon in a convoy to the docks at Bone, an Algerian port near the border...
They landed in Algiers, Morocco and Casablanca- the aim being to trap the German army in Tunisia... The...
In preparation for the forthcoming airborne attacks against the Axis forces in Sicily, the whole division...
When passing through the fifteen-miles-wide Straits of Gibraltar, which separates Africa from Europe,...
In the sophisticated ‘joints’, half-naked Arab girls could be seen dancing to the sensuous...
All went well until, as Minna wrote: 'He entered upon an indignant accusation against the...
One thing that stands out in my mind was, when we arrived at H.M.S. Saker 11, a Chief Petty Officer asked...
Minna wrote of her delight at my Christmas parcel which contained the 'mystery gift' I had promised...
My constant applications for a posting resulted in a move to bomber command at Throgmorton, Nr Pershore,...
There were British, Empire and Commonwealth fighting troops there, French and American troops nearby, as...
March 16th there are Xmas parcels, getting them issued tomorrow, we have 50 cigs tonight, everyone is...
It is to be a great affair, you see, and when the dinner is over you shall see the Ouled Nail dance...
One afternoon Frank, Polly and I went into town, it was the first Arab town that we visited and it was an...