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This book consists of the true stories of British people during World War II.

(1) John Gardner - Schoolboy - Walsall - West Midlands
(2) John Peebles - King Shropshire Light Infantry - Dunkirk
(3) Kevin Veeral - Schoolboy - Saithe’s - Scarborough – Yorkshire
(4) James Kyle - 201 Squadron - (Spitfires) - Tangmere
(5) Terry Rayment - 4th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment
(6) John Copley - Schooling In London’s East End
(7) Jonathan Wilkins - Plumber - Outbreak of War - Warwick
(8) Charlie Waite - 2nd Battalion the Sherwood Forrester’s - Dunkirk
(9) Peter Treadwell - Motor Boat Owner - Dunkirk
(10) Fred Parker - 9th Independent Squadron Royal Engineers
(11) Terry Cummings - Bridgend - South Wales - ‘Malnutrition Milk’
(12) Gavin Thompson - Young Boy - Folkstone
(13) Robert Hollows - Schoolboy - Walthamstow - London
(14) Bob Gibb - Young Boy - Aberdeen - Secret Service
(15) Edith Davies - Student Nurse - Birmingham
(16) Bill Miller - Boy - Civilian Boat to Dunkirk
(17) Vic Chanter - HMS Esk - Dunkirk
(18) Henry Frost - The Gloucestershire Regiment - Cassal
(19) Ray Archibald - 264 Squadron (Bolton Paul Defiant)
(20) Thomas (Skinny) Greenly - 92 Squadron (Spitfire) Biggin Hill The Eventual Collapse of The British Empire
(21) John Topham - 200 Squadron (Lockheed Hudson’s) - Gambia
(22) Betty Gilmore – The Air Transport Auxiliary
(23) Thomas Neil - 97 Squadron - RAF Conningsby
(24) Paul Fenton - Child - Lincolnshire
(25) Amell Maier - Luftwaffe - Luftflotte
(26) Bill Barker - 616 Squadron - Uxbridge
(27) Hywel Jones - 610 Squadron - Biggie Hill
(28) Harold Nottingham - 88 Squadron- RAF Waddington
(29) Tom Beal - 249 Squadron - Detling
(30) Robert Norton - Reporter - Kent Messenger
(31) Horst von Briesen - Hauptmann - Luftwaffe - Fifth of Forth – Scotland
(32) Anthony Colley - Fitter - 56 Squadron – Tangmere
(33) Gordon Ogden - 6 Squadron - Biggin Hill
(34) Witold Urbanowicz - 145 Squadron - Tangmere
(35) Jack Martin - 35 Squadron - Debden
(36) Diane Flinders - WAAF - ‘Y’ Service - Capel – Surry
(37) Elaine Jewell - ARP Warden - Swansea - South Wales
(38) Ken Long - The Evacuation - London
(39) Fred ‘Blood’ Reed - London Fire Service
(40) Lorraine Calvert - The Oxford Torpedo Factory
(41) James Spinks - Coventry Devastation
(42) Tommy Ashton - Getting Bombed - London
(43) Elsie Perrin - My Brush with Death
(44) Alan Steadman - Woolwich
(45) James Shipton - Boy - The Blitz - Bristol
(46 ) Dorothy Grey - Life and Death in Wartime Ipswich
(47) James Green - Schoolboy - Croydon – London
(48) Marguerite Crown - London Ambulance Service - The Blitz
(49) Mary Grey - Saint John’s Ambulance - Birmingham
(50) Emily Sheppard - Bethnal Green – London
(51) Owen Giles - Foreman Electrician - Daimler - Coventry
(52) Mary Grey - Saint John’s Ambulance -Birmingham
(53) Alfred Johnson. - HMS Curacao - The Atlantic Ocean
(54) Craig Alison - HMS Burwell (The Lend Lease - The Rust Bucket)
(55) Harry Hurlock - HMS Khedive - Indian Ocean
(56) Ron Harman - HMS Hopper - Mine Warfare - The Suez Canal
(57) Ernest Dubois - S.S. Empire Amethyst
(58) Danny Worthington. - HMS Firefly
(59) Joseph Steel - SS Micas
(60) Terrance Herbert - HMS Norfolk
(61) Andrew Swift - MTB 81- Bari Attack
(62) Adrien Cole - HMHS Newfoundland - Salerno Beaches
(63) Arthur Hill - Royal Marine Detachment 2 - Portsmouth and Surrounds
(64) Lionel Shears - Doctor to Lieutenant Surgeon RN
(65) Jim Arneson - HMS Argonaut - Pacific
(66) Alan Craft - Pilot - Mediterranean Fleet
(67) Arthur Lane - Military Researcher - Attack on Singapore and the Far East By the Japanese
(68) Al Murray - 7th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade - El Alamein
(69) Cecil Risdon - The Natal Mounted Rifles - El Alamein
(70) Barry Withers - HQ 1st Armoured Division - El Alamein
(71) Dick Owens - Durham Light Infantry
(72) Tony Walsh - ‘G’ Battery - 4th Royal Horse Artillery
(73) Albert Bradley - Queens Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
(74) Harold Godwinson - R.E.M.E. Attached – 64th Heavy Anti- Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery - Yugoslavia
(75) Eddie Walker - Combined Services Forward Observation Unit
(76) William Plover - HMS Dart - Tobruk Bound
(77) Jim Watt - 41st Royal Tank Regiment
(78) Freddy Tennison - The Parachute Regiment - Tunisia
(79) Cecil Risdon - The Natal Mounted Rifles - El Alamein
(80) Bob Perry - The Black Watch – Italy
(81) William McFarlan - The 1st Battalion the Gordon Highlanders
(82) Colin Moon - 2nd Battalion the Black Watch - El Alamein
(83) Doug Renwick - No 3 Mobile Radar Unit - El Alamein
(84) Douglas MacMillan - 7th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry - Crete
(85) Frank Abercrombie - 1st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment
(86) Kenneth Clark – Highland Light Infantry - POW - Tunisia
(87) Mark Singleton - Prisoner of War - Swept Under the Carpet
(88) Sydney Segal - The Charge of the ‘Artillery’ Brigade
(89) Peter Padstow - How the Indian Engineers Worked
(90) Dickson Lancashire Fusilier - Ponies
(91) Albert Harrison. The Royal Sussex Regiment - Far East
(92) David Westerly - The Royal Sussex Regiment. - Burma
(93) Les Spalding - 1st Battalion The Cameronians - Burma
(94) Arthur Lain - Royal Army Service Corps - Burma
(95) Frank L Foulkes - Royal Army Pay Corps - Thailand
(95) Tommy Simpkins - Merchant Navy - MV Pinna - Singapore
(96) Richard Brindley - Royal Field Artillery (RADAR) Singapore
(97) Bert Mills - The 2nd Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment - Singapore
(98) Marvin Olaf - 20th Flotilla Landing Craft Infantry - Normandy
(99) Reggie Clarkson - 176 Workshop and Park Company - Royal Engineers - Normandy
(100) Patrick Stafford - The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - Normandy
(101) Edwin Muncer - 14 Royal Engineer Regiment - Normandy
(102) George Bertrum - HMS Huntley - 3rd Escort Group - Normandy
(103) Alex Chapel - 563 Company RASC (DUKW) - Normandy
(104) Wolfgang Dombrowski - 9th SS Hohenstaufen Panzer Division- Arnhem - Holland
(105) Bill Aldcroft - 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment - Arnhem
(106) Neil Ormsby - 5/7 Gordon Highlanders - 153 Brigade - Normandy
(107) Prewett Hospital, near Basingstoke.
(108) Harry Worthing - The Parachute Reconnaissance Regiment - The Rhine Crossing
(109) Bob Scrivener - 6th Airborne Division - The Rhine Crossing
(110) Brummie Burton - Forward Observation Party - 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment - Bremen
(111) Mary Durban -Women’s Royal Navel Service
(112) Anthony Wise - The Carrot Bluff - The Battle of Britain
(113) Brian Thomas - Ringway Parachute School – Manchester – The Blitz
(114) Bill Collins – 105 Regiment Royal Army Service Corps - Palestine - Awaiting Repatriation.
(115) Cliff Page - 269 REME Detachment - 230 Air landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery Greece - Greek Rebellion