The journey took us through Calcutta, which was where we changed to a train going east to Camilla where the...
We were all in the water now but hanging on to what was left of the boat, and being swept along by...
On the 23rd March – Les's 22nd birthday, they reached Nattalin where a rice mill had been...
This bilge pump also had to cope with the water that splashed over the screen and into the tank, a hazard...
Moreover, the Squadron's Harvard aircraft was now fully employed carrying the Boys to Calcutta on a...
My next posting was as Staff Officer to Commander Army Group Engineers, part of 14th Army, which at that...
Here is the great rock which guards the door of the Mediterranean Sea for Saint George and England and it...
One of the ponies had a foal, which trotted behind its mother; and this attracted more attention and pity...
Left the East Yorks. on August 24th bound for the Cipper operations course at the signals training centre,...
It was another 350 miles to Rangoon and 17 Div. wanted to be the first there, as it was they who the...
My Father joined the army in November 1936 aged 18 and was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, based at...
On we went still carving a path in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, and at last, and on the thirteenth...
During the five years of war many letters home have reached the Nottingham Journal office from Nottingham...
On 12th October we continued our journey to Arkonsol and from there Sgt McCabe an Australian flew us in a...
We sailed round Ceylon, through the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay eventually docking at...