Given the limited reconnaissance available to the BEF, that infantry was largely confined to operating on or near roads and how skittish the...
CAVALRY REGIMENT Horsed cavalry did not in fact go to France with the BEF. However it was part of the mobilisation plan. The Cavalry Division...
Asked this week to research an officer who the family say served with 'V' Force in Burma and Borneo, but died in October 1945. A separate thread...
I have no idea Chris, but this question I also had, there was no reason for him to go to Switzerland during the war. The photo must have been...
Greetings and just sent a PM with some tips. Oddly the 6th Battalion OBLI (in full & abbreviated) do not - on a quick search - appear here....
From AB64 #8 In the 1939 register he seems to be living with Henry and Florence Craddock at 17 Ryland Road Birmingham In lodgings or with...
Hi Jim Thanks for getting back to me. My Dad enlisted with the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but was held back until 03/0243. On 22/02/43 he was...
A project has been underway for some time now by Project '44 to create an interactive day by day account of troop movements in Normandy after...
Hi, Without sounding dumb, I am looking for the war diaries relating to the Essex Yeomanry/ 147th Royal Field Artillery from D-Day onwards. He...
Not sure what diaries are now available however the Index has certainly grown and is showing as `recently updated` Full list on Ancestry now reads...
Lots of infantry and Yeomanry were converted to Gunners between 1918 and 1945. There is a lot more detail on the RA 1939-45 Website Some...
Hi, It might help members if you attach “sharper” images of the queried documents. I am struggling to make out the RAOC units you want...
Hi Dryan, I don't suppose you have the war diary for the 5,6,7th of April 1943 40th RTR? Like you mentioned my grandfather was on the back of a...
Hi - sorry to jump in late, do you happen to have access to the 2bn Royal Warwick’s casualty lists for July 44. I’m attempting to research a great...
Hi Clare - I’m hoping you might still be viewing this forum. I am embarking on my own family research of a family members 2bn Royal Warwickshire...
There is a positive result with the Wills search for a probate record and you can pay for this online. Use is qualified, so no publication is...
Pamela, Welcome aboard. The CWGC database shows thirty members of the 1/7th Battalion died that day and nearly all are in one cemetery. From...
Michael, I can find no record of Albert Davies in the Casualty Lists which are about the only record of a WW2 British soldiers service that can...
Sorry, I don’t know England and all its districts that well, so I’ll just post this and hopefully you can sort out and AA candidate units. Source...
Do you know for certain that he was KIA? Just checking because sometimes the possibility of DOW is overlooked. (If you're unsure perhaps someone...
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