Sunday, February 26, 2006

Ron's Grand Tour, a Chronological Index

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Photo shows: A map of some of my wanderings, courtesy of Ron Tee On Page 87 of my Army Album I listed all the places I had "visited...
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Waiting to be called up

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Photo shows: Dad's factory at Gt.Eastern Street. Jack is wearing a tie, Dad is wearing an apron, I am fixing a machine and Lou is opposi...

The night our house was sliced in half (as told by Nita)

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Photo shows: Nita in 1939 as an evacuee The time was 7.45 pm on the 9th of October 1940 and Hitler had evidently decided it was important to...
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I'll never forget that day (as told by Gertie)

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Photo shows: Gertie Denenberg It was early in April 1945. Our enemies had been defeated. Thank God the War was drawing to a close. During th...

The photo in a serviceman's wallet

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Photo shows: Joe and Fanny Goldstein Like many another serviceman overseas I carried with me the odd photo from home. One such photo, that o...

More on German Propaganda leaflets

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Photo shows: German leaflet warning us about the perils of attempting to cross the River Po Every time I promise myself that I've finish...

Dining out in Guelma, North Africa 1943

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Photo shows: Postcard of a street scene in Guelma, North Africa In June 1943 my unit, the 49th LAA Rgt, was stationed near Guelma in North A...

Sgt.Jack Goldstein, RAF Bomber Command

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Photo shows: Alf White, Ted Hull and Ron Goldstein at 166 Squadron reunion on 1st September 1996 My nephew, Michael Goldstein C.B.E., has, q...

The last page in my Army Album

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Photo shows: This is PART of the last page in my Album. It originally included a delightful cartoon of "Jon's" Two Types but t...

A letter to an unknown researcher of the year 2056

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Photo shows: Ron in March 2005 ready for a BBC TV interview Dear Researcher The BBC WW2 Peoples War website was set up in 2003 to gather in ...

An unlikely Post War meeting

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Photo shows: Tom and Ron finally get to meet I thought the Peoples War readers might be interested to know about an unlikely meeting of two ...

Sgt.Major Mick Goldstein, Royal Fusiliers and the Jewish Brigade

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Photo shows: Mick as a Sgt. in the 22nd Battion Royal Fusiliers Foreword by Ron Goldstein In 1988 the Goldstein’s of Boreham Street decided ...

An Army Convoy on the move in Italy

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Photo shows: Route Card that I forgot to hand in ! Any one who had the pleasure of serving in the Army in wartime will have had the experien...

What did you eat in the war, Daddy?

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Photo shows: The Dining Hall at Opicina, optional dining outside when weather permitted I don’t remember either of my two daughters ever ask...

Looking back to 1939 from the relative safety of 2005

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Photo shows: "We Will Remember Them", Cyril Sherbourne, Ron Goldstein and Lew (Larry) Fox on parade with AJEX 2004 In 2003, at th...

The correct height of Tank Drivers and the use of KRRs

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Photo shows: The City Gates, RAC Training Depot at Rieti In October 1942, when I was first called up, I was asked if there was any particula...

A tribute to Edward Arthur Patman, known as 'Pat'

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Photo shows: Eddie and Ron by the Ponte Rialto in Venice I first met Eddie in May 1945, just as the war in Italy came to a close. He was a n...
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Commemoration Parade July 10th 2005

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Photo shows: Nita and Ron at Horse Guards I have already written about my impressions of VE Day in Italy (A2324189)and my feelings at the ti...

The St.John's Ambulance Brigade in WW2

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Photo shows: Nat, Sylvia and Alf One service that contributed much to the safety and well being of the entire nation during WW2 was that of ...

The Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boys Club, the club that produced heroes

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Photo shows: Left is my brother Mick, also a hero in my eyes, to the right is Donnie As a young teenager in the pre-war years I was a member...

Ice cold... but NOT in Alex !

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Photo shows: Ron on his morning walk I consider myself a fairly active octogenarian and, unless it is raining, I kick-start my day with a th...

Keeping clean on Active Service

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Photo shows: The swimming pool at Heliopolis in Egypt The WW2 Team, recently posed the following question: "I just read a rather amusin...

Getting the facts right

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Photo shows: This is how I managed to get some dates right and shows a day-leave pass to Florence on the 20th of November 1944 Since I first...

An 'interesting' experience and fifteen minutes of fame

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Photo shows: Nita and Ron at AJEX Parade,Whitehall, Nov 2001 Looking back on the various articles that I have submitted, I seem to have writ...

Stick it in your Army....Album!

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Photo shows: Montage of memorabilia - Memories of made of this I’m sure that I was not alone in starting an Army Album at the end of the war...

Army Transport

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Photo shows: Monfalcone, Don R (Despatch Rider) if only for a day! Someone on this site mentioned Army Transport and it set me thinking, so ...

Getting your Army Records

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Photo shows: Just one page from my Army Records, seen for the first time 61 years after the events were actually recorded! I am, by nature, ...

The infamous Demob Suit

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Photo shows: Ron's Demob Suit gets an airing In an earlier article on this site I mentioned going through the 'Demob' process at...

The first Post-War New Year's Eve, December 31st 1946

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Photo shows: December 31st, 1946, The Fair at Monfalcone December 31st 1946 was our first post-war New Year’s Eve and the Squadron spent it ...

Army Ration Allowance

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Photo shows: Two Day's Ration allowance: Six Shillings and Four Pence ! They used to say that the Army moved on paper, certainly when I ...

Keeping Pets in the Forces

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Photo shows: Queenie and Curly posing on one of 'A' Squadron's Half-Tracks Understandably, most units managed to keep the odd pe...