in Europe & North Africa
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1/6th Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, advancing throught the ruins of Cassino, 1944. |
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Major Toby Taylor
Toby Taylor, 1st Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, recalls the backwardness of the British Army in 1940 and the spectacular but useless French border defences.
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| Video Duration 6:24 |
Major Toby Taylor
Toby Taylor, 1st Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, recalls the chaotic retreat to Dunkirk, 1940.
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| Video Duration 4:27 |
Douglas Mitchell
Doug Mitchell, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers a gruelling route march and coming under fire in France, 1940.
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| Video Duration 3:10 |
Major Toby Taylor
Toby Taylor, 1st Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, recollects landing on the North African coast in November 1941.
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| Video Duration 1:22 |
Douglas Mitchell
Doug Mitchell, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers getting by in the North African desert.
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| Video Duration 2:20 |
Private Stan Blay
Stan Blay, 2/6th and 2/7th Battalions, the Queen's Royal Regiment, recollects a wet landing on the Italian coast, 1943.
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| Video Duration 3:38 |
Private Stan Blay
Stan Blay, 2/6th and 2/7th Battalions, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers running into German tanks in Italy in 1943.
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| Video Duration 2:24 |
Sergeant Jim Jeffery
Jim Jeffery, 2/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers the horror of the fighting around Anzio, 1944.
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| Video Duration 7:08 |
Private Graham Swain
G Swain, 2/7th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers Anzio and the desperate struggle to keep communications open in Italy.
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Major Toby Taylor
Toby Taylor, 1st Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, recalls the desperate advance through Italy, butterfly spotting around Cassino and British army rations, 1944.
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| Video Duration 3:17 |
Private Eric Reeves
Eric Reeves, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers the high spirits and confidence of victory when war was declared.
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| Video Duration 7:49 |
Sergeant Noel Matthews
Noel Matthews, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers the chaos of the Dunkirk evacuation, 1940.
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| Video Duration 3:20 |
Sergeant Noel Matthews
Noel Matthews, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers the gruelling conditions in the North African desert.
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Sergeant Noel Matthews
Noel Matthews, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers a night patrol during the advance through the occupied Netherlands at the end of the war.
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Sergeant Noel Matthews
Noel Matthews, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers a local German surrender and the advance to Berlin, 1945.
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| Video Duration 9:28 |
Private Eric Reeves
Eric Reeves, 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, remembers how, as a returning prisoner of war, the war ended for him.
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| Video Duration 2:47 |
Ernest Sewell
Ernest Sewell, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, remembers the ferocity of the fighting around Longstop Hill, Tunisia, in April 1943.
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| Video Duration 6:10 |
Maurice Howard
Maurice Howard, 2/5th Battalion The Queen's, describes the advance from Salerno and a patrol down a mined track.
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Maurice Howard
Maurice Howard, 2/5th Battalion The Queen's, describes how knowing what the Germans was doing helped one to feel in control and less afraid.
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