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A Para in Palestine: Part 2. Daily life.
By Vince Leonard We were up at 0600 hrs. every morning and allotted jobs to do in the Barracks but […]
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A Para in Palestine
In 1920, after the Versailles Treaty was agreed, Britain assumed responsibility for Palestine under a League of Nations Mandate. By […]
AVREs, Terrapins and Buffalos: Part 3 of Joe Inghams story.
In Part 2, Joe told us about his experiences during the D-day landings. Now we can read about life in […]
AVREs at D-Day: Part 2
In Part 1, published on TMT on 5th July, Joe Ingham wrote about his experiences upon joining the new 79th […]
An AVRE at D-Day: life in a 79th Armd Div assault sqn
Joe Ingham’s account of preparation for D-Day and his experiences as a Churchill AVRE crewman in 79th Division as Montgomery’s […]
The Cyprus summer of 1958
In this extract from his diaries of his National Service days, Roger Brown relives his time in the Army in […]
The swamp incident, 1960
This is a true-life story of national servicemen called up and sent to the other side of the world into […]
A Cyprus Winter
In a second reminiscence of life as a National Serviceman in Cyprus in the 1950s, Roger Brown describes morning in […]
‘We would never see them again…………….’
Roger Brown, who is sorting though a number of diaries and accounts of National Service life in the British Army […]
National Service stories Part 1: Kenya
TMT is publishing a series of short, historical accounts of National Servicemen who were awarded the GSM while serving in […]