Sapper Alastair Mackenzie Wilkie's Memoirs

Part 1: Escape from Dunkirk

I drank my fill, ate emergency rations salvaged from an overturned ambulance, wrapped myself in my...

Part 2: Towards the Middle East

Two days after reaching Freetown, where wounded men and survivors from the previous convoy were picked up,...

Part 3: The Army in Cairo

I climbed to the summit of the famous pyramid at Ghiza, built by Cheops, for a breath-taking view of the...

Part 4: Arrival on Sicily then into Italy

We were transported to America Transit Camp where we received our orders — 8th Army — Invasion...

Part 5: Further into Italy

I cannot recall the date when our O.C. delivered a speech telling us that the Royal Artillery's...

Part 6: Entering Germany

At the entrance an inscribed stone plaque stated that it was built in 1933, six years before Germany, led...