OTHER veterans whose memories are featured on the CD are:

Rowland Reid-Jones: The former Kidderminster Mayor, now 82, had his first experience of war when he was shot at and bombed on his 21st birthday on May 9, 1941.

Serving in the Royal Medical Corps the "Germans kicked us out of France" a week later.

However, the major returned to play a crucial role in intelligence.

He served in Signals Intelligence in special operations across Europe.

His troop was prepared for D-Day but he was sent back to Italy to help the Yugoslav partisans.

In Rowland's role he fed information to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park but he insists the enigma machine was nowhere as secret as it is thought to be these days.

He saw his first machine in 1941.

Lol Edwards, 79, of Kidderminster, joined the Royal Navy aged 17 in 1943 and within a year took part in the D-Day landings.

The signalman helped free crewmen whose craft had been hit by enemy fire and rescued another vessel stuck on the beach under German attack.

His landing craft was itself broken in half and limped back to Bristol for repairs.

But Lol and his crew returned to transport troops into the French river network.

He describes the rough conditions on board with sailors battling against the cold and wet.

The only source of heat was the coal fed galley.

However, the crew soon cheered up when they met the Americans.

"It was quite an experience. They shared their rations and we were pleased with that. We used to wrap a few and send them home."

Audrey Tipping had the royal seal of approval for her work with the Land Army.

She was one of 500 Land Girls to be invited to a special party at Buckingham Palace five years after the war's end.

She describes her work on a farm doing everything from milking the cows to fruit picking.

When the Land Army was stood down she stayed on to help deliver the milk in Abberley.

Mrs Tipping, who was 80 in June, was nominated for the CD by her daughter-in-law in Kidderminster.

John Carter, of Kidderminster, fought with the 7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment in France from January 1940.

He did not see too much action until his regiment entered Belgium in the spring.

John, 82, jokes how a German gunner saved his life as his signal section became front line troops in the Belgian campaign.

His signal unit had taken up position "in a barn dominated by a ridge which was dominated by a farmhouse."

John was sent to discover the sound of machine gun bullets coming from the farmhouse.

"I crawled under a wire fence to investigate. When I reached the back of the farmhouse I could see a line of giant tanks stretching back to the horizon.

By that time a comrade joined him and they agreed they must be French tanks until "they started firing at us.

"That gunner saved our lives because he missed even after two attempts."

The president of the Kidderminster branch of the Royal British Legion Larry Billingsley saw service at the end of the war in Palestine.

The paratrooper, who is 75 this month and lives in Kidderminster, was part of a peacekeeping force whose role was "to keep the Arabs and Jews apart."

Larry mentions "one or two atrocities" and describes how a comrade, a corporal, was shot in the back while in a jeep.

He is also secretary of the Kiddermins-ter branch of the Parachute Regiment Association.