A London Regiment of the Territorial Army. Its not that they weren't interesting, its just that Dad had...
I had enlisted with 254 Battery Royal Artillery and I discovered, it was quite good so far as Territorial...
The summer was warm and sunny and each morning around breakfast time a huge fleet of enemy aircraft,...
The following day, a Sunday we all took part in “Boat Stations” drill at 0900 hours as usual...
I must also explain here that before leaving Cape Town the Regiment was split into two sections with some...
The next day we moved up to Basra, past river banks lush with green vegetation, which stretched inland for...
On the 6th, I was Battery Orderly Sergeant and spent all the morning on various duties, then cleared...
During one evening in the sergeant's mess, we took part in a long discussion on the various facets of...
Leaving Mafraq at the usual early hour we drove over the Albanon Hills, down the Jordan Valley across the...
From Buq Buq onwards the water had been “brackish” but at Tobruk it appeared that the...
Sadly our Commander Royal Artillery, who was in charge of all the Divisions artillery was killed in a road...
The following day I went to Tripoli and visited the church there and was able to sign the visitors book on...
A number of Bofors Antiaircraft guns were bolted to the deck and were in constant action against enemy...
Good beds, chairs to lounge in on deck, an issue of 50 De Reske cigarettes and meals such as liver and...
I think one of the reasons may well have been that in the British military hospitals nurses were given...
On January 2nd, I obtained a days pass and caught the tram into Cairo, h ad a good look round and later...
Three major obstacles had to be overcome on the way north, these being the Volturno and Garigliano rivers...
I had landed in the middle of a determined German attack against the UK/US armies and that morning there...
The result was that a small party was formed of an officer, sergeant major and battery quartermaster...
I had further duties to perform as orderly and guard sergeant but in the atmosphere of springtime in Egypt...
At some time during the day I heard the King's speech about the second front, but much more exciting to...
I awoke to find that I had been posted battery orderly sergeant which in the circumstances was a fairly...
We received a lot of enemy shellfire during the day which screamed past our farmhouse and the battery...
We travelled late at night so as not to be detected by the Germans as we were moving somewhat to one side...
About this stage of the war I also lost my command post officer for a few weeks as he was seconded to...
Our position for this operation was close to the River Lamone and that night we managed a fairly good rest...
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