El Alamein 1942

Life in the Desert and Alamein: With the Royal Engineers

When we were training for the Alamein move on the river Nile, there used to be a bloke on the other bank...

My Introduction to War

There was dust visible ion the distance and the officer told us we had no time for breakfast, every vehicle...

This is War - No Point Being Feart

CASTIGLIONE In Sicily we took a hill village called Castiglione, which had been held by a battalion of the...

Desert Rats, Scorpians and Ditches!!

Dad has told many stories about his time as a Guardsman on guard duty at Buckingham Palace in 1938. My...

My father's war

The only medal my father received during the war was the Africa Star, received at El Alamein, ironically...

Raw Recruit in the Desert at El Alamein

An Intelligence Officer, Hamish Henderson of the Highland Division was nearby and heard the sound of the...

El Alamein

As the fighting got closer we could hear the sound of the gunfire in Alexandria, and as many British...

On Patrol at El Alamein

Either the other sapper or I went out with a patrol of infantry every other night during the above period,...

El Alamein to Montecassino

I toured North Africa and Italy, including stops in: El Alamein, Egypt, Phillipville, Montecassino, Italy,...

The Desert Rats, Sicily Landings, D Day and beyond

The 8th army held the narrow strip of desert from El Alamein to the impassable sands of the Quattara...

Choosing the place for a battle — El Alamein July 1941

At El Alamein it would be possible to reach the sea through a gap in the salt flats. Over the next four...

Memories of El Alemain

When the units were broken up at the end of the war he joined the PWB in Suez where he looked after...

The Angel of El Alemain

Across the open desert sand our men their mines did lay the were to halt the German force they knew would...