Navy 4 videosGladys Yates
We met Gladys when she visited the Luton primary school as part of the education we’re creating around the significance of the...
- Navy 12 videos
Cornelius Snelling
Cornelius Snelling served on the Black Swan-class sloop HMS Wildgoose. The Wildgoose was one of several ships that took part in the...
- Navy 7 videos
Harry Allen
Harry Allen was a boy sailor when he joined HMS Jamaica. He sailed on the Russian Convoys and recalls the battle with...
- Navy 10 videos
Frank Jones
Frank Jones was a Leading Seaman who gives a great account of his service on HMS Bermuda. She was involved in more...
- Navy 8 videos
Bill Churchill
Bill Churchill provides a detailed account of his life aboard the HMS Malcolm and HMS Ajax. The two ships provided him with...
- Civilian 5 videos
Rodney Newnham
Rodney Newham lives in the RNBT’s Pembroke House in Gillingham. In the war he worked as a boiler maker in the Chatham...
- Navy 5 videos
John Woodward
John Woodward worked on a Minesweeper during WWII. Operating out of the Thames estuary his skipper was a wily fellow who used...
- Army 12 videos
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was captured during the fall of Singapore and sent to work in the copper mines at Kinkaseki in Taiwan. In...
- Civilian 8 videos
Joy Lofthouse
Joy Lofthouse flew Spitfires with the ATA during WWII. In her interview she shares details about her training, her ambitions in life...
- Airforce 7 videos
Patrick Hollins
Coastal Command was originally formed to protect convoys and Allied supply ships from attack from the enemy.
- Navy 9 videos
Margery Draper
Margery gives an outstanding account of her wartime memories. She was incredibly fortunate to survive the Devonport blitz and describes in detail...
- Navy 8 videos
Albert Malin
From loading LCTs on the build up to D Day, to being adrift in the Barents Sea on Convoy RA63, Albert Malin...
- Airforce 6 videos
Lyle Thomson
Lyle recounts his distinguished career in the RAF from the fifties through to the Falklands. His focus is on his time in...
- Airforce 7 videos
Tony Iveson
Tony Iveson gives a truly amazing account of his distinguished career in the RAF. He was one of the few pilots to...
- Airforce 11 videos
Fred Danckwardt
During World War II, Fred Danckwardt survived 45 Operations with Bomber Command. He then returned to help on the Berlin Airlift. He...
- Airforce 10 videos
Jimmy Taylor
Fantastic interview with Spitfire photo reconnaissance pilot who survives an engine failure over Holland.
- Navy 8 videos
Stan Hoare
Stan Hoare was one of a series of Veterans we interviewed when we visited the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust’s Care Home, Pembroke...
- Navy 7 videos
Patricia Parker
Patricia Parker was a WREN based at HMS Ceres in Wetherby during WWII. To this day she still feels a sense of...
- Navy 10 videos
Jack Thomas
Jack Thomas provides a brilliant account of his service as a Fleet Air Arm pilot with 836 Squadron. He survived numerous crashes...
- Navy 9 videos
Alec ‘Ernest’ Kellaway
Alec Kellaway began his career in the Royal Navy aboard the ill-fated HMS Hood. He is one of the few veterans we've...
- Airforce 7 videos
Brian Bird
One of the few surviving WWII pilots to have flown both the Hurricane and the Spitfire. Brian has all his faculties and...
- Navy 6 videos
Dorothy Brewer
Dorothy Brewer was an Aircraft Fitter with the Fleet Air Arm. Despite a huge loss early in her life she is a...
- Army 9 videos
Emma Couper
Captain Emma Couper did two tours of Afghanistan including a deployment with 3 Para on the inaugural Helmand Tour in 2007. She...
- Army 8 videos
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones was a Captain in the 4th Regiment The Royal Artillery where she served in Germany, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Her time...
- Army 10 videos
Sir Peter Downward
Major General Sir Peter Downward spent almost 58 years in uniform. From the Rhine Crossing to the Berlin Airlift, Korea and Aden...
- Army 6 videos
John Aitken
John Aitken was with Air Dispatch on the Berlin Airlift. He gives a modest account of his service but sees first hand...
