VETERAN
STORIES
We capture the personal recollections of our armed service veterans so that their legacy of bravery, sacrifice and suffering can live on.
ARMY
NAVY
RAF
OTHER SERVICES
Colin Parker
Colin used to love watching the trooping of the colour but coming from Hull had assumed a life on the docks was his lot. That all changed when he went into the army. He found a regiment he loved but i...
Leonard Ratcliff
Wing Commander Leonard Ratcliffe flew 60+ missions with RAF 161 ‘special duties’ Squadron. He drop or land SOE and SIS agents while also bringing out resistants and evaders.
Sydney Adlam
Sydney Adlam was a member of the Auxiliary Unit. They were a secret resistance network of highly trained volunteers.
Sidney Mitchell
"Sidney was one of the first veterans we ever interviewed. His memories of the Battle of Crete shocked me at the time."
Ted Verbiest
Ted is the first to admit he had a lovely war. He was one of the first in line when the recruiting office opened and found himself being shipped off to Cape Town
Rex Sheppard
I went to Korea a boy and came back a man". Watch Rex talk about his experiences in some of the worst fighting conditions since the Great War.
John Harrison
John Harrison was an ordinance officer on A Turret, HMS Belfast. He shares his incredible story of survival.
Bryan ‘Tab’ Hunter
"Tab" was conscripted into the Paras in 1956. He talks engrossingly about the training and some of the scrapes he was involved in
George Bayliss
A lovely old gentleman who survived [by the skin of his teeth] his time in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiments in Italy during WWII
Alan Tizzard
As a boy Alan was mad about motor cars. Little could he imagine that at 18 he would be commanding a 32,000 horsepower tank on the Russian borders
Douglas Hassall
Another Chelsea pensioner and a very different experience of the war to George Bayliss. We pick up the story en route to Singapore.
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Military Musicians of Kneller Hall
1857
2019
Military Musicians of Kneller Hall
When we heard that Kneller Hall, the home of Army music for 160 years, was under threat of closure, Legasee sprang into action. Bringing veteran…
Keeping Britain Afloat
1939
1945
Keeping Britain Afloat
Capturing and bringing together for the first time the stories of 50 Veterans who were involved in the convoys of the Second World War, Legasee…
Korea – The Forgotten War
1950
1953
Korea – The Forgotten War
Between 1950 and 1953, 63,000 British troops were sent to fight in Korea.
