Episodes from an Uncertain Memory byEdmund F. Scrivener

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory (Part 1): 'What did you do in the war Daddy?'

At the outbreak of war, my wife and daughter evacuated themselves back to my wife's home in...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 2 'Name Dropping'

The 9th Super-heavy Battery R.A. was in the station yard somewhere near Hull where gun crews were engaged...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory (Part 3): 'Holding back the Hun'

A scruffy London urchin, with no money, no family, and no education, becoming an officer and a gentleman....

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory (Part 4): 'Arnhem'

All we had to do was to secure the landing zones for the paras, and then belt off to Arnhem and the...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 5 'P.O.W.'

They knocked hell out of Offlag 79, fortunately before I arrived, but a considerable amount of damage was...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 6 'Home'

When I arrived at Lynemouth, My wife Elizabeth, had gone to Ashington to queue outside the butchers to get...