70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
I've got a number of Dad's comrades KIA that I either can't trace or have no photographs of – Jack Betley from Halifax was one of them. I once knew nothing about him - now I know everything, thanks to...
2 Syys 20211h 42min
69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2
The memoir of a 13 year old boy soldier who witnessed six years of world war two, from Jewish persecution to hand-to-hand fighting on the front line - Wilhelm Johannes Langbein. "I tell my father's st...
26 Touko 20211h 53min
68 Leslie Cook 5 - Australian in Burma WWII
Part Five - More entertaining WW2 tales plus some great family stories from Gabriel Cervantes and Sidney Topf. Australian Leslie Eric Cook was in the second 14th of the Australian Imperial Force. He s...
23 Huhti 20212h
67 Leslie Cook 4 - Sand, Sangers and Home Sweet Home WW2
Part Four 1943/4 - Various entertaining WW2 tales Australian Leslie Eric Cook was in the second 14th of the Australian Imperial Force. He served in Greece, Crete, New Guinea, Borneo and Japan. Web sit...
21 Huhti 20211h 21min
66 Leslie Cook 3 Aussie in New Guinea WW2
Part Three 1942/3 - New Guinea adventures and more. Australian Leslie Eric Cook was in the second 14th of the Australian Imperial Force. He served in Greece, Crete, New Guinea, Borneo and Japan. Austr...
11 Huhti 20211h 46min
65 Leslie Cook Part 2 Greece PLUS The Great Escape!
Part Two - Circa 1941 Greece adventures, plus an exclusive Canadian family story about the Great Escape! Web site - Full episode show notes, links, photo and transcript Web site home page Feedback/re...
27 Maalis 20211h 33min
64 Cpl Leslie Cook Part 1, Australian in Burma & New Guinea WW2
Six full years of an Australian soldier's second world war, in what I think is one of the finest set of stories you could ever hope to come across - over 80 in all. Web site - Full show notes, links,...
7 Joulu 20201h 43min
63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War
Jean was a youngster when the second world war broke out. She describes her first sinister sighting of a German airship – a Zeppelin She tells of her evacuation from Norfolk to Nottinghamshire early o...
11 Marras 20201h 27min
