Your Story

If you served in the British Army, Royal Navy or Royal Air Force in any of the conflicts covered on this web site, we the Web Masters would love to hear about your experiences. It is of great importance to us that we tell the story of those who served their country in those times so others can find out about the sacrifices you made. It doesn't matter if writing isn't your strongest talent - we just want to hear from you!

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Take a look at some of the personnel accounts we have already published:

1st East & Royal Anglian Regiment
Alan Cole

1st Parachute Regiment at Suez
By Bryan Hunter 

3rd Royal Anglian Regiment in Aden
Rod Leonard

33rd Parachute Light Regiment RA 
By Don Gillespie

45 take on the  Israelis 
 Eric ( Pony ) Moore

97 Battery 33rd Field Artillery at Suez
Major David Bushell 

"Advance and Destroy"
by an ex- member of B Coy 2 Para 

Aid to a Civil Power Aden 1956 to 1957
Rabbi Burns RAF Regiment

"A Rude Awaking"
Ex Argyll Pat Quinn Remembers Hill 282

Argylls in Korea
by Peter C. Le P. Jones 

Argyll Law 
By John Gallagher

Ambush in the Poison Triangle 
Dave Cranston  Ex Royal Ulster Rifles

Bullets and Bum boats 
 By Sgt. K.D.Fyffe

Charlie Chinaman's Gunpowder Plot 
By By Bill Ballinge

"CLOUDPUNCHER"
Tony McNally Falklands Gunner

"Cold Rage"
by ex Royal Marine James Robinson

Demob?
Ex Para Remembers

Down South
A pictorial diary of the Falklands War

"The Forgotten War" HMS Amethyst 1950-53
Douglas Baker

The First camp to be Attacked
Rabbi Burns RAF Regiment

The Gun Battle at Liopetri 
John Rickards Ex Royal Ulster Rifles.

Get your knees brown lad!
Kevin Websters memories
of Aden as a young Airman

"Grenade!"
By Tony Tindale an RAF
Officer in Aden

The Han River 
By Fred Cox 

The Hedgehogs
Wilf Pugh

H.M.S. Dartington 1962 - 1964
Dave (Syd) Morris 

H.M.S. Chawton 1961 - 1963
Laurie Johnson

HMS Counterguard
By John Holland

H.M.S. Jamaica
By J Hegarty Lieutenant Commander RN Rtd

H.M.S. Jamaica
by Michael Stephens ex RN

H.M.S. Jamaica
Photos of Korean War Service 1950
Walter Hughes

H.M.S. Aldington 
By Lieutenant Commander J.D.Hegarty. MNI. RN. (Rtd).

Into the Ulu
George (Jock) Tullis RASC Malaya

In India The Postwar Years 
By Former Sergeant Donald C. Thyer

The Laughing Cavalier in Borneo
Lt. Cdr.Rtd David Davies

Looking Back at Sukarno's Navy
Dave Morris

Malayan' Memoirs 
 By  23489539 Trooper R.V. Berry

A Marines Photo Album of Suez
 Ex Royal Marine Tom Kendal

A Medic with  the Tanks
Ronald Amberry with 6 RTR

Missing Presumed P###d
Jim Love Ex Royal Artillery & French Foreign Legion Falklands

Murder of Corporal P.J. Hale RAF
Victor J Freeman Ex RAF

Naval Party 2482  Java 1945-1946
By Ted Bates

Never volunteering for anything in the army
By Martyn Habberley RASC

The Other Side of the Coin
By Yahia Al Shaer

An Operating Theatre  Medic in Port Said
Jack Halliday R.A.M.C.

Operation Agila
Mike Subritzky

The Patrol
James Robinson ex Royal Marine Malaya

A Para in Palestine
Ex Paratrooper Don Nicholls late of the 7th LI Battalion

The Pools by the shore
Trefor Morgan

The RASC in Aden and the Radfan
Richard Bullock

Riyadh 1991
John Belcher

The Rockapes Oman
Mick Domoney

The Suppressed Story
John Marrs

Sirius Business
Mick Pinchen

The Sharp End
 Royal Marine Tony Daker

Splashdown on the Equator
John Cooper

There's quite a bit of body to the water today
By Mick Domoney

Target Annihilated
By Gunner Glenn (Dicko) Dixon

Threat of Invasion Gan 1959
 Brian Wilmer RAF

The Virgin Soldiers
Ian Polley, 1st QRR

The Window that Refuses to Shut
Josh White 

Witness of a Execution
Rabbi Burns RAF Regiment

Argentine Air Defenses
found at surrender in and around Port Stanley and Goose Green.

By Nicholas Wood.

100 Hour War
By EX SSGT Haughton RCT 4 ARMD DIV.

My story - Recollections of a National Serviceman - 1948-50
By Bill Stone

Greek Civil War Memories
Adam is seeking information on his grandfather from this period.

My Palestine Photos
By Frank Wells
BSW is happy to present some of his photos from his tour in Palestine.

17 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers in Palestine
BSW is happy to present some of photos from a tour in Palestine.

THE BLACK WATCH (RHR) IN CYPRUS (1958-1961)
By David Carter
David has compiled the memories of Christopher Rose, a soldier in the Black Watch from his time in Cyprus.

My Aden Story
By Christopher R Nethercoat

MY SMALL WAR. SUEZ CANAL 1956
By David Grantham

Pictures of 37 Field Regiment
in Cyprus from July 1957 until 28th. June 1958
By Bob Copeland

A letter regarding the Activities of the 108th minesweeping squadron
from my perspective as a Sub Lieutenant RNVR
Rodney Farkas

A child's life in the Canal Zone
By John Boon

Cyprus re-visited as an airman
By John Boon

Service in Cyprus
By Bob Copeland

Night Patrols
By Shaun Metcalfe Ex 1 The Queen's Lancashire Regiment

Island Walkabout
by Alistair White

First troop APL 1958-9
By Frank Cowling

Growing up in Aden
By Jeff Glasser

In the shadow of the EOKA
By Sandie Evans and David Carter

Humour and Relaxation
By Shaun Metcalfe Ex 1 The Queen's Lancashire Regiment

A realistic approach
By BRYAN HUNTER of 1 Para with David Carter

LT. COLONEL (Rtd) J F TIPPEN says FAREWELL TO 1915 FLIGHT
by David Carter

THE MAN WHO TALKED TO GRIVAS
By David Carter, interviewed Sgt Bradley in Canada.

Polymedhia
By Bob Copeland

Operation Granby
By Daz Morris

An Airman in Northern Ireland
By SAC Colin Campbell

A Crab Goes Green
By SAC Colin Campbell

1st Northampton Regiment, Aden 1959
By Nev Hancy (Frank)

Two years
A memoir provided by William Renwick

HMS Providence
By Nick Messinger

Flotation exercise
by Mick Covington

DID UFOs VISIT CYPRUS DURING THE EOKA CONFLICT AND BEYOND?
By David Carter
25th Field Regiment in Malaya
By James Lamb
1988 1989 1st Bn Irish Guards. North Belize Battle group.
A six month tour of duty by Danny Ricco.
THE JILTED SOLDIER IN JERUSALEM
By K.J.Stevens
HMAS VENDETTA DURING THE INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION
By Graeme Hanisch
Jim Glasser, R.A.F. Malaya, 1951-52
By Jeff Glasser
Malaya 1957
By Haydn Davies
Ghost Train Aden 1959
By Nev Hancy
THE PATROL BOATS IN CYPRUS
By Colin Parkin
Royal Navy's Watch Over Smugglers
By Joseph O Haff and David Carter
THE SECRET WAR AT SEA
By David Carter
Sea Fury - A New Perspective on a Famous Dogfight
By Rowland White
Smuggled to Cairo
By Ken Stevens
HMS Concord: Our part in the Yangtse Incident
By Derek Hodgson
Death of a soldier. by Nev Hancy
Welcome to Bosnia May - Nov 1994 By Andrew Thomas
SERGEANT PAPARAZZI O H M S
By Terry Buchanan
THOSE CANBERRA DAYS
By George Worrall
Northern Ireland Op Banner Nov 96-May 97
By Andrew Thomas
Gloster Memorial, Korea 1957
By Arnold Schwartzman OBE RDI
THE CYPRUS EMERGENCY THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AMERICAN
By Charles Christian
BROTHEL INSPECTOR TO PARKING ATTENDANT
By John Moss-Norbury
Murderers, thieves, buggers and deserters
By Lance Corporal Kenneth 'Geordie' Castle
Dakota KN491 crash
By Mark Galbraith
Post Armistice gallery
By Richard Farrar
35 Corps Field Engineer Regiment Cyprus & Suez 1956
By Alexander Crawford Lowe
Images of Aden from the mid-fifties
By Eric Middleton
Night Frights in Sarawak
By David (Shiner) Wright, RM
Postal History of Kenya: An Index
By Jamie Smith
Do you remember CTF 345? and with it CTF 311?
By Godfrey Dykes
Mukarious Camp - Aden 1959.
By Nev (Frank) Hancy
Loyally I serve
By Shaun Metcalfe
WITH THE REDCAPS IN CYPRUS
By Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Nicholls
Ballymurphy scuffle 1996/97
By Andrew Thomas

 

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