Hi all I was wondering if the collective knowledge of the forum could help identify the unit in the following picture. The picture is a still...
Recently I got this photo (and many others) from Musee Percee du Bocage in Saint Martin des Besaces, to use for my website on the 8th Rifle...
There's a set of IWM pictures called: THE KING INSPECTS AN ARMOURED DIVISION IN EASTERN COMMAND They are dated: 25/01/1943 Most mention the...
Saw this recently on flickr: 6th November 1941 - Helmsley, Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, England. [IMG] With the caption: "6th November 1941 -...
Photo dates from 1945, probably Holland or Germany... [ATTACH]
Hi, is there any access to the tanks casualty logs for the days 8 - 28 April 1945? I only found some excerpts but not the original log files....
Two locations on the route of 8th Rifle Brigade, possibly/probably Germany. Does anyone recognize them? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The photo below is one from a series of an 8th Rifle Brigade mortar sergeant. The question I have is: what is the apparatus mounted on this...
[IMG] Operation Bluecoat: July 30 to August 7, 1944: Operation Bluecoat, better known as "The Breakthrough in the Bocage", was launched from...
For anyone interested in the 8th Rifle Brigade and their campaign, from 13 June 1944 to 8 May 1945, through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany:...
After 6 years of preparation it is finally finished: the illustrated autobiography of Don Gillate, an 8th Rifle Brigade and 11th Armoured Division...
Other than the Histoire and Collections books by Bouchery and Fortin, is anyone aware of a Table showing Unit Serial Numbers for various units...
31st July 1944. Vehicles of 8th Rifle Brigade at the crossroad in St Martin des Besaces, heading for the newly-captured bridge over the Souleuvre:...
Does anyone know where to get a digital file of a wartime large scale GSGS map of the city of Amiens? Or could anyone provide me with such a file?...
Only yesterday I learned that Captain Brian Neill, CO 13 Platoon, H Company, 8th Rifle Brigade, 11th Armoured Division has passed away last...
Could anyone tell me where to find a list of all officers that served with the 23rd Hussars? If it makes any difference: I am specifically looking...
I have recently obtained an 11th Armoured division veteran's photo album containing some 25 photos taken during the liberation of Antwerp. Judging...
During July and August 1944 British Armoured Divisions regrouped to form brigade groups and battlegroups for operations in the enclosed...
Does anyone have access to their War Diary for April 1945? My particular dates of interest are 10-15th April 1945. Note: 13(HAC)RHA served at...
Today at a small fare in the north of Holland I got hold of a 1942 dated original badged BD blouse from an 11th Armoured division RAC Major (see...
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