Iraq was covered by a different command, Iraq Force and later PAIFORCE, as each had its own allocated Army command structure. It had a significant...
Where are those cards to be found please?
...19.8.42 Appointed war substantive sergeant 29.9.42 Proceeded to PAIFORCE (Persia & Iraq force) 19.3.43 Proceeded to ? Command Headquarters and...
Personal Number: 4075 Rank: Brigadier-General Name: Sir Godfrey Dean RHODES, CB, CBE, DSO, MiD* Unit: Royal Engineers London Gazette : 26...
PAIFORCE is Persia and Iraq Force, not Palestine.
...which ties in with his date of TOS (Taken on Strength) 16.11.42 Paiforce must relate to Palestine? (i.e Palforce ?). There are a few Black Cat...
...to say the opening post's author has not been here since 2014. PAIFORCE is rather obscure, although when I looked before there was information...
...Mentions of them online are rare although it seems they were in Paiforce and then Italy. Wandering through Tregaron in West Wales I came...
...Middle East. Then assigned to PAI which is an abbreviation for PAIFORCE, which was officially called Persia and Iraq Command, this British...
...1942 to December 1942 It served in Persia. Corps Troops PAIFORCE – December 1942 to February 1943 The unit served in Iraq. III Corps Troops –...
Might be worth looking at Paiforce posts: Search Results for Query: paiforce | WW2Talk
This is great, thank you and do my eyes deceive me, or is that a “44” I see there? I wonder if that is the number they would have carried into...
...C8 but I'll leave it to the experts to decide which body it is... [ATTACH] From The Ninety-Second by Aris, on thier way from PAIFORCE to Kabrit.
...regimental history is vague on equipment. It first served in Paiforce as a fully mechanized unit with 130 vehicles starting in June 1942. I...
...Wontner - Biography - IMDb It has one paragraph: So he was in PAIFORCE for awhile. Google fails to identify an 'Army journal in Baghdad'. I...
Hello. Like many other people the VJ Day 75th anniversary commemorations have made me think of my grandparents. My grandfather Hilary Wontner...
War diaries for the unit for 1944 Indian Engineers: 7 Engineer Battalion (Madras) Seems like before moving to Italy unit was part of PAIFORCE.
I concur. Bottom line: 1. the chaps wore the Defence Medal bar ribbon in circa 1945-46 (I have a photo of dad clearly wearing it) because they...
...to wear the ribbon, but his service was entirely military and the DM entitlement related to Home Service and time with Paiforce etc. [ATTACH]
...were near Basra). Looked through the threads here which feature PAIFORCE and a trawl through Google. The Official History of PAIFORCE is...
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