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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Bob Frost

Bob Frost flew Wellington Bombers with 150 Squadron. On the 16th September 1942, he was shot down over occupied Belgium and became an RAF evader....
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Fred Gardiner

Fred Gardiner’s Lancaster bomber was shot down over occupied Belgium and surviving the drop he evades capture with the help of a local resistance network....
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Harry Rawlins

Harry grew up determined to fight for King and Country. He fought with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, which moved through France, Belgium and the...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Gordon Mellor

Gordon Mellor was an RAF Evader. He was flying in a Halifax bomber when attacked by an ME10 and was forced to bail from his...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

George Duffee

Capt George Duffee was a Captain pilot in the RAF. Returning from a bombing raid, his plane is shot up over Holland and he bails...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Arthur Cant

As a member of the military police Arthur Cant was there during the D-Day landings to take enemy prisoners. Exporting prisoners and soap in the...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Harry Hopkins

Pinned down by German fire, rescued by the French resistance and being wounded: the war was violent and sometimes frightening for Harry. Solider of the...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

John Jenkins

As a sergeant in the army, John Jenkins experienced some of the best and the worst of humanity while in Germany during the war. Pioneer...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Phillip Govett

Phillip Govett served with the 117 Pioneer Company. He went through France, Belgium and Holland looking after the various supply depots Phillip Govett, a Private,...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Margaret Dickinson

Margaret Dickinson trained as a nurse in 1939 before joining the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. The nurses were responsible for setting the first...
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Joe Hoadley

Joe gives an amazingly detailed account of his life in the services. Starting with stories about life in the Home Guard in Kent, trying to...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

John Mitchell

John Mitchell provides a detailed interview of his life in the Royal Signals. On D-Day he landed on Juno beach Corporal in the Royal Signals...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Stan Hope

Stan Hope was an RAF evader on the Comète Line. He eventually reached the Pyrenees before being captured with the late Andrée De Jongh (aka...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

David Baines

Brigadier David Baines MBE served as the final President of the Normandy Veterans Association. In WWII he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. The...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Stanley Bond

Stanley Bond was a Lance Corporal with the Royal Engineers and was with 105 Corp Field Park Company during the Normandy Campaign. Stanley’s first shocking...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

John Duke

As part of the Reconnaissance Corps, John was often ahead of the other units during the war. Fortunately he'd had plenty of drill and instruction...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Bob Conway

Bob Conway was a fire watcher and part of the Home Guard before joining the 192 Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) at eighteen. During the...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Hugh Verity

Hugh Verity was an RAF fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with SOE landing in occupied France to insert and extract...
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RAF - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Les Sutton

Les Sutton served as a dispatch rider with the RAF Regiment 2713 (Rifle) Squadron. Les Sutton recounts his RAF Regiment service, from training with Americans...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

John Morgan

John describes his time in the 71st Light AKAK Regiment as a motorbike dispatch rider in occupied Normandy John joined the army in 1937,...
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Most Popular Talking Points

Recommended Veteran Interviews

Army , Women of the Army (1949-92)
Army , Women of the Army (1949-92)

Patricia ‘Budgie’ Rosewell

Budgie provided us with some lovely photos of her at work and play!
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By Service

Recommended Projects

Women of the Army (1949-92)

In 2024, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we proudly added 30 female voices to the Legasee Archive...
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