Despite the continual pasting that the Germans were getting from artillery, Typhoon fighter bombers and...
I personally, have a “Thing” about piano accordions and I found it impossible to dance on...
These two rivers are the lower Rhine and pass through Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively. On our way...
If the city fell it would jeopardise the escape route for the forces denying the Scheldt to the Allies and...
The Canadian Army was just finishing the arduous task of clearing the approaches to Antwerp, but to hold up...
So, before Xmas 1944 we found ourselves in the village of Tervueren, east of Brussels, the Division being a...
The Germans had been driven almost back into Germany and their V1 flying bombs could, no longer, reach...
Goch was a bottle neck and helping to impede our advance was an armoured brigade, commanded by Brigadier...
During the first few days of April, we advanced, with slight opposition, northwards, following the German...
I filled in my form and was about to leave when the manageress lady, who spoke perfect English, told me...
I placed an ad in the local Hamburger “Anzelger” for the latter requirement, a girl turned up...
After the Liberation he carried on helping poor hungry patients, and when I spoke to several doctors in...
Very shortly, we had a German visitor, bearing the usual imitation leather briefcase and an invitation to...
Although “Tich” Williams was a rabid Rugby fan, he, Don and I were delighted when we got news...
I handed over the orders to the Brigade major, enjoyed a quick snack with them and returned to the plane,...
A couple of days before New Year, 1946, “Tonks” rang up from Corps to tell us that the Grand...
On our second lesson, Ted saw a German, gathering firewood with a horse and cart, although we were a couple...
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