Egypt

The ATS in the Desert: Part 2

Billie Roberts was my driving instructor on the drivers' training course in Cairo. We all five became...

Keeping Clean on Active Service

The funniest story about keeping clean in the field has got to be the one that concerns my good friend...

Glasgow Rangers and Arsenal: Adam Little

This fellow Gillespie he said there's a doctor in Aldershot who wants to see you, Jimmy McKillop, he...

Just a typewriter mechanic: Mending Enigma in Egypt

I joined the RAF in May 1940 having just completed my apprenticeship as a typewriter mechanic - the...

From Egypt to Liverpool with the Royal Engineers, 1944

An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with...

Dentists: In Alexandria

I was taken to the Medical Officer, then to Tobruk hospital... The dentist took needles and pliers and...

Day Leave in Alexandria

Our first port of call was Ikingi, near Alexandria, where we were to spend a month re-fitting and...

SNAPSHOTS OF MY PAST - R D Stubbs

Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...

Part 10 Goodbye to Cape Town

Egypt eventually appeared, at least it was solid land, but now flies added to the discomfort of the daytime...

THE DESERT WATER RATS - A Young Stokers Story

Quite a number of arab workmen were completing a conversion of Hopper to Sweeper, and the black smoke was...

Memories of Anzio

In September 1943 the Italians left the war but the Germans fought on and in Italy occupied Rome. By the...

Part 11 Boarded HMT Thalma in Taranto

There had been action with a number of casualties and was ordered to patrol the area looking for any...

THE ARTLESS DODGER (3)

Our searchlight site was between an anti-aircraft gun battery, and the naval station; on a beautiful...

The Bush Shirt

Having first been inspected by our own orderly sergeant and declared ready we like Cinders went off to the...

Part 2 RAF Pilot Training : Geoff Wright: Egypt to Bulawayo

PART 2 RAF PILOT TRAINING IN WW2 THE STORY OF GEOFF WRIGHT, EGYPT TO BULAWAYO....

Post-Dunkirk Memoirs of Sgt (later W.O) 7346129 Norman Smith RAMC

After his death his sons added to it with their mother's story and the years that Norman and Irene...

RAF Air Gunner-Multiple Crash Survivor

The undercarriage collapsed, the propellers bent, the wing tanks burst open and the aircraft ploughed along...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 20

I had further duties to perform as orderly and guard sergeant but in the atmosphere of springtime in Egypt...

My RAF Life - Chapter 3

The reason for so many wireless operators was that we were going to be the first course to fly an aeroplane...

The Fleet Air Arm 1939-45 [cont'd]

When the Germans were invading Greece, we were sent there to a small airfield just outside Athens. We...

My Life My War - Chapter 8b

Two of our ships, HMS Malaya and HMS Royal Sovereign were really old ships that did not have the speed of...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 21

At some time during the day I heard the King's speech about the second front, but much more exciting to...

My Life My War - Chapter 8a

In this harbour sheltered a full flotilla of the latest class of German warships i.e. ten Destroyers, which...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 5

The following morning we got the message that the Battalion had attacked and suffered heavy casualties, I...

Experiences of a Volunteer Pilot (260 Squadron)

Eventually, training continued but now flying Kittihawks which was the aircraft I would be expected to fly...

"Always Read The Small Print" Chapter Two

The Camerons with the Mahrattas, and Ghurka battalions had moved into Tobruk and occupied trenches and...