The Eventual Collapse of The British Empire

True Short Stories from the Second World War as told by the people who were there

By (author) Roger Payne OAM

Publication date:

02 March 2020

Publisher

VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

ISBN-13: 9788194261889

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This is the second in a series of three short story books that describes how British men, women and children survived the Second World War using short stories they wrote. It covers Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, The Blitz, The War at Sea, The War in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, Tunisia, Italy, The War in the Far East, The Landings at Normandy and the fighting through Europe and into Germany. Above all else it describes how the average person felt throughout the war.

(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