When being trained by Flying Officer Kelsey at Hatfield, he often used to ask pupils to practice a forced...
Naturally the older hands from the first batch, such as Strugnell and Eldridge and Ede, were around to give...
The darkness underwater at attack depth was so great that it was almost impossible to be sure when you were...
At this depth underwater, movement was slow, but Pearcy was managing to lift up rung after rung, and...
Then I had to keep the speed down, while Pearcy made sure he wasn't left hanging on to the net; he had...
This meant that the five-foot long warhead that fitted on to the nose of the chariot hadn't been joined...
Cpl John, Engineering Surveyor Railway Survey Co., Royal Engineers, Longmoor. We were visiting one of the...
In January 1942 I was posted south to one of the main 'Battle of Britain' stations - 'Biggin...
The 'Prince of Wales' never had a proper 'shakedown' cruise and she still had civilians...
When all lines seemed to pass through Doncaster Station, as a laden train pulled in, be it day or night,...
Both Ronald and Colin Carruthers subsequently took part in the Normandy landings. Before and immediately...
It seemed strange that Skeabrae was the newest habitation on the island when, within walking distance,...
Then a nice gentleman came over and again offereed to take my sister and I, and again I said "no"...
My memories of Lyme in the early days of the war were of soldiers training on the beach, of waves...
During the ages of six and eight I was evacuated from Orkneys to join my sisters in Hampshire. I remember...
We went to Ardrosan in Ayrshire and we crossed on the steamer to Brodick Bay on the Isle of Arran... We...
My uncle tells the story of how he came home on a very rare visit and alighted from Shildon railway station...
Outside on the edge of Woodside Estate was a high stone wall, wrought iron gates and a gate house which...
On April 4th 1943 from the small village of Dunbeath, in Caithness, I took the bus into Wick, 21 miles away...
This led to hardship for my family as my father was earning £4 4/- a week as a motor mechanic with the...
My father who had served as a British Officer in the Indian Army, and who was on reserve, was already in...
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