Second World War veterans recorded

The voices of Second World War veterans and their relatives are being recorded to mark the 75th anniversary of some of the conflict’smostmomentous battles.

First-hand accounts from veterans and tales of family pilgrimages to the battlefields will be captured for an online sound archive created by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Among the contributors to Voices of Liberation is 99-year-old Victor Gregg, who served with the Parachute Regiment and was captured by the Nazis at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

“I was a frontline soldier from the day war was declared right to the gruesome end,” he says. “I’ve seen it all – the best things that man can do and probably the worst.”