Title
Ivy Pritchard's Story
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Nursing
Description
Shortly after I finished my training in 1943 at Wrexham Memorial Hospital, I volunteered to join the Army as a QAIMNS/R or QAs as they were called. I was accepted and became I. Pritchard Sister QAIMNS …
Title
Rev Donald Mackay
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
The following memoir, written by the late Rev Donald Mackay, was published in 1960 in “The Covenanter” , the Regimental Journal of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). It has been reproduced by courtes …
Title
Ted Gibbins' Memories
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Ted was born in London , England in 1919 and later emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1938 Ted returned to England and was accepted at the Royal Military Academy as a Cadet. After graduation and …
Title
'March Divided But Fight United': The Chindits - Rolfe Hedges
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
by Rolfe Hedges The Chindits were the brainchild of General A Wavell and Ord Wingate. Wavell then C in C in India sent for Wingate in 1943 with the task of organising guerilla activity against the J …
Title
Mess Secretary, 1943 - Peter Briscoe
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Air Force
Description
By Peter Briscoe Word had come down that following completion of conversion from Hudsons to Dakotas; the squadron was on the move from outside Delhi, at Palam, to a new base at Basal, outside Rawala …
Title
Mike Downing’s recollection of his war service
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Air Force
Description
Name: Michael Edward Downing Date of Birth: July 27th 1923 Place of Birth: Point Grey B.C, now Vancouver Enlisted at: Vancouver, B.C. Date: 20th November 1942 Discharged at: Vancouver, B.C. Date: 23r …
Title
Major Basil Neale's Memories
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
With grateful thanks to Colin Neale for typing out the information contained on this page, from his father's records - his father being Major Basil Neale who was one of Wingate's staff:- Diary of Bd …
Title
Recollections of Afghanistan's geography, religions and it's people - Ted Gibbins
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
By Ted Gibbins I had no idea that the talk I gave would have generated so much interest. It just happened that my war service for the first couple of years (1940‑1941) took me into an area that is m …
Title
Force 136 - Lieut-Colonel Ritchie Gardiner
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
By Lieut-Colonel Ritchie Gardiner (From the Summer 1989 edition of Dekho!) Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) was first conceived and established in 1940, and Winston Churchill was closely involv …
Title
The Replacement Soldier - Pfc Dalton F Williams of Merrill's Marauders & Mars Task Force
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Pfc Dalton F Williams of Merrill's Marauders & Mars Task Force By Sandy Williams Driver Pfc Dalton F Williams His Honorable Discharge state …