Yes that is what I had in mind when I wrote that sentence. I would need to go back to Boyd, but IIRC the Admiralty plan around Aug 1941 was to...
Award OBE WO2 Stephen Lawrence Mason, (S187210) RASC attached No. 2 Public Relations Service WO 373/74/758
Ravrick, I don't do War Diaries, but knew I'd encountered this time before. It took awhile and it was adding a pointer to a book a year ago: View...
Never heard of such a mixed artillery regiment. Wiki has a short entry: Link: 56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia...
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Hi, I doubt you will find any surviving unit Part II Orders anywhere. They will have been destroyed a long while ago. You my find mention of his...
Hi everyone, I'm new to this, and trying to answer a long-standing family question. My grandfather (Ernest Edward Mirams) was a Corporal in 335...
Just supposing the ISS could land like an ordinary aircraft, Essex has other places than Basildon to accommodate it. Back in March 1962.... From...
Is it, though? Launched/docked on the 18th of March. Russian Flags also part of the design. Seems entirely possible it was intended to celebrate...
Darren, I expect this will be a long journey, certainly the MoD turnaround on service records is up to a year. Posting what you know now would...
CELTIC STAR ex-CELTICSTAR ex-CAMANA. GRT 5574.Built 1917. "British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-1945". 30.3.43:...
Our Spring lasts about 36 hours, usually sometime in late February or early March. Not long afterwards, we have The Pollening where everything is...
Hi Tom, I think the following are the correct War Diaries at Kew: WO 172/711 Burma 1942: British Artillery: 69 Anti-Tank Regiment (A/Tk Regt) WO...
My Grandfather George Singleton, Acting Sargeant,1st battalion Scots Guards, was there when he died. My Grandfather was shot through the left...
Military Medal – Corporal J. M. Birtles was my Grandfather
Hello, I am new to this forum, and my purpose of being here is to try to find something that I have been trying to find for a long time, the most...
Hi Robert, Here's what I have pieced together from several articles: May 1942 – 69th Anti-Tank Regiment RA arrives in India as part of 19 Indian...
Here is a summary of the 1st Essex Regiment from 1941 to 1945: 23rd Infantry Brigade – 17 October 1941 to 17 June 1945 The battalion returned...
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