While sorting through one of my dad's old boxes of odd useful screws, curved nails, twisted brackets, and half worn strips of sandpaper, I came...
Sometime during the early 1940s, my dad and George Coe became mates, remaining good friends until the day dad died in 1997. One of my many...
About 30 years ago, Albert produced "A Brief History" of the 59th HAA with the help of fellow members of The Eagle & Gun Regimental Association....
In an article in an Eagle & Gun Regimental Association news letter relating to the 59th Regiment HAA, A.S.Cross relates a tragedy that occurred at...
I've just started to do some research into my Grandfather's war time service, I know he served with the 59th HAA Regt, 265 Battery. His name was...
Long story - not going to bother you with all of it - but I recently found my grandfather's grave (he disappeared completely in 1952 from...
I'm sure there will be dozens of questions on terms and abbreviations as I work my way through, but here are just a few that I haven't already...
So I know that the bulk of the 59th HAA sailed to North Africa on convoy KMF-05, but the regimental War Diaries seem to use a different numbering...
At the end of the war my dad was given an address book with all the names of those that served with 164 Battery 59th HAA regiment (at least those...
In a personal account by G.W.Johnson of 164 Battery 59th (The Essex Rgmt) Regiment HAA, he says:- "You will remember that 164 had to quit its 8...
One thing I'd like to know more about is just what everyone did in an HAA battery. Among my fathers possessions is an address book listing men...
This history was written & compiled by A.S.Cross for the "Eagle & Gun Regimental Association" based upon notes provided by several members. (I...
The Eagle and Gun Regimental Association (formerly the 7/59th The Essex Regiment Old Comrades Association, and incorporating the 6th Battalion,...
I've just signed up to this forum, so please brace yourselves for some truly stupid questions. My dad (Alec Stanley Davis) was in troop "B" of...
George VI visited North Africa & Malta in June 1943 as shown here: [MEDIA] And mentioned here: King George VI visits North Africa and Malta -...
I have recently become the proud owner of some photographs of Dennis William Trinder, who is a close blood relative of mine. He was born in 1917,...
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