Egypt

From Liverpool to Egypt on the SS Andes, 1940 - 1941

"After survivor's leave, I went to Oswestry and thence to Liverpool, where we embarked on the...

Six years with the Royal Army Service Corps

When D-Day finally arrived Ernie was to drive a Rhino fuel vehicle ashore on Gold Beach... Following D-Day,...

Egypt 1942

We finally arrived at Cassasin which was on a flat plain between the Suez Canal and Cairo. When we arrived...

Honour Thy Father and Mother

Polson Peace Prayer Priesthood My father's faith expressed to God who rescued him out of the land off...

The Journey to Italy, Palestine and Egypt: Service with the Royal Scots

After approximately nine days sailing we reached Naples in Italy where we disembarked and joined a holding...

A Family's Travels During WW2: Cairo, Kenya, Uruguay - and a Near Miss

We embarked in Mombassa and first sailed to South Africa, then on to Freetown in Sierra Leone before...

Entertaining the Nurses at Sollum

'Bet that's a hospital ship Fred,' said one bloke. As they clambered up onto the warm rocks of...

A Tribute Two Seagoing Gentlemen: Onboard HMS Orion in Alexandria

We aimed our guns at the French Cruiser by opening the breech looking along the barrel with the shell...

My time in the RAF

In 1943 we were posted to the Middle East and I spent half the time in Egypt and half in Palestine until...

Memories of the Military Police.

We sailed for a fortnight and stopped off at Naples, Malta and then to Tobrook and then to Crete, and...

Survivor of the Coventry

After training I was assigned to the "Coventry". We were used to hearing the sound of gunfire and...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 6

I told her that we had come from Tobruk and we had left at 2 o'clock that morning. The Sister replied...

A Tribute To Two Seagoing Gentlemen

I was ashore in Alexandria at a night club with French Sailors, news had filtered through that the French...

My Parents' WW2 Story

Five children in our family, without a steady income, as my father, civilian, in the Merchant Navy,relied...

My Husband's Life in the Forces

Arriving in Durban they were given a couple of days shore leave and Christmas Day was spent travelling by...

THE KHAMSIN

The dark cloud was a mass of whirling sand, and within minutes we were in the midst of it, being buffeted,...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 8

On our way to rejoin our unit, we came across some Australian troops who were playing hell about the...

A Wren in Egypt

We went straight from the office to the station and were put into cattle trucks - the floor of the trucks...

Journey to the Middle East

Also he remembers getting a meal brought round by a 'Coolie' of kipper and an orange and the...

Ted Rogers

During his time in the Cairo hospital, Ted met Italian and German prisoners of war, and he realised that...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 7

We thought that we were going to be bombed at the barracks but the Germans bombed the airfield about 2...

Boat Trip to Egypt: Via Canada, Far East and Africa

The boat left Northern Scotland in March 1942 via Canada, to avoid the German U-boats, part of the largest...

First Capture of a Tiger Tank

I approached the Tiger Tank that was sitting on top of a sand dune... I returned to my unit, and was...

HMS Canopus, Shore Establishment

I was serving on a Minesweeper around the Greek island Areas and the Eastern Levant, as well as the...

The desert sun-compass

With a few modifications Bob realised a simpler but marginally less accurate version of the compass could...

ALAMEIN

My dad was a member of 45 RTR, part of 24th Armoured Brigade, 10th Armoured Div, at the start of the battle...