80th D-Day celebrations are in preparation! I'm looking for information on the 2e Bn Essex Regiment in Cormeilles (Eure department) in August...
Montgomery visited the town of steenhuize in Belgium on his way to Brussel probably on 6 or7 september 1944. Does any one have a clue what...
I’m heading to Noyers-Bocage in July to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation Pomegranate, where my grandfather was injured/reported...
LSGT William herbert Ernest Turrell. Enrolled mansfield 08/07/1940 into Royal Army Service Corps, 8th Army. Service No T/214375. Served under...
Any body know where this In Ouistreham asi am going there in May and would like to be on the spot it was taken and do a now and then? IWM [ATTACH]
Hi I am hoping for some help to decipher my Dads war service in WW2. His name was William James Stiff. 11/05/1917. He said he went up the...
I am trying to research the Waalwijk incident where a 30-man patrol from the Algonquin Regiment walked into an enemy minefield. Nine killed and 12...
Today 80 years ago this very old Abby was destroyed by allied bombs. Error or intend? Has anyone visited the site recently? Stefan.
I wonder if anyone has any knowledge at all about a group of British parachutists being guided from Pian della Mussa in the Piedmont Region of...
Fr. Joseph Irish was an RC chaplain with the RA in NW Europe. He served with 25th Field Regiment RA from Normandy until late October 1944 when...
Hi, I’m helping with our village heritage bank. Hoping someone tracked the movements of Canadians as they left England for Normandy on D-day… I We...
As we know, the fighting in Sicily had been over for six months by February 1944 and the burials in Catania War Cemetery reflect this with five...
Hi my name is Robert Stainsby, having recently retired I am now in the process of trying to trace my late father's campaign route through India...
15 Field Regiment Royal Artillery, attacking the Gothic Line in 1944 - why can't I find their war diary? I am interested in Serjeant William...
I have previously obtained a copy of my late fathers service records and am currently in the process of understanding them to try and research his...
Award Mentioned in Despatches 3055376 L/Sjt. Thomson, Albert Edward Nicol McMilan 156th Bn parachute Regiment, 1st Airborne Division THOMSON was...
Moved from Army Number Block Allocations Lance Serjeant JE GREEN, 3855842, 1st Bn., SWB. I BELIEVE this man could well be James Edward Green, b...
2156419 Sjt. David Porter, 1st Demolition Squadron, Royal Engineers Popski's Private Army, R Patrol Award: Distinguished Conduct Medal On 29th...
These two grave marker photographs came with two other photographs from a house clearance. Apart from the fact that one of the portrait...
Hi all, I would like to know more about the 1st Dorsets experience from D-DAY+1 through to Holland in October 1944. I am particularly interested...
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