Hello All, For Christmas I am gifting my Dad a copy of The Middle East Commandos by Charles Messenger. My Grandfather (Byron Jenkins 6468043) is...
Personal Number: P/62882 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Sir Peter Allix WILKINSON, KCMG, DSO, OBE Unit: Royal Fusiliers ; SOE ; No 1 Special Force...
Army Number: 6457716 Rank: Corporal Name: Edward BOAST Unit: 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers attached Layforce Date of Birth: 24 Feb 1913 Date of...
This is the second section of the unpublished narrative of a pre-war regular soldier from the 2nd battalion Royal Fusiliers, who, in 1943 was...
I have been lucky enough to have been lent a typed account of a neighbour's grandfather's unpublished war memoirs. These were originally written...
Personal Number: 37042 Rank: Major Name: Lionel WIGRAM Unit: Royal Fusiliers London Gazette :
Personal Number: 121305 Rank: Major Name: Richard Marston MERRETT, MiD Unit: Royal Fusiliers Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) London Gazette...
My first post will be about the town of Adrano. I wanted to visit as it had made such an impression on the men of 78th Division in the accounts I...
I’m sorry to report that Jim Holder-Vale, who posted here on WW2 Talk as Driver-Op, has died at the age of 98. Jim was a member of my late...
Hi, My father was a Royal Fusilier, taken POW at Monte Cassino. He ended the war as a POW in a salt mine somewhere in Germany, I believe, until he...
Hi, does anybody have access to the war diaries of the 2nd RF for April 1943, I am researching a guy who was wounded in action on the 27th April...
Award Military Cross Captain William Arthur Brooke Harris, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) attached Sudan Defence Force Frontier...
The Royal Fusiliers were involved in many notable battles of the war, including Operation Shingle, or as it is now known, the Battle of Anzio. On...
Personal Number: 4934 Rank: Major-General Name: Allan Cholmondeley ARNOLD, CBE, MC, MiD Unit: Royal Fusiliers London Gazette : 3 September 1912...
Personal Number: 22844 Rank: Colonel Name: Rupert Edmund HOBDAY, DSO, MiD* Unit: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) London Gazette : 23...
The battle at Mozzagrogna appears in a small number of threads, mainly due to the role of the 1st Royal Fusiliers and the 1/5th Royal Gurkha...
Listed on Brookwood Memorial four deaths from four different units on 6th June 1943 Serjeant SINCLAIR ARCHIBALD ROY MCGREGOR 28 '3326187'...
Hi, I am looking to try and find out the circumstances of the death of 6466261, Fusilier, George Albert Gardner, 14/Royal Fusiliers (City of...
Personal Number: 71147 Rank: Captain Name: Anthony John FRANCIS, MC Units: Worcestershire Regiment ; Royal Fusiliers London Gazette : 29 January...
Hi I have been looking into my grandads service in ww2, I will list what I have found so far and a few bits I was hoping someone might be...
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