Reserve Nursing Sister Jean Marguerite Bruck, Queen Alexandra Nursing Service (reserve) received the Royal Red Cross Medal, could not find a...
Can anyone provide details of a raid on Greenwood Avenue, Thames Ditton on 1st October, 1940, when four people, in neighbouring properties, were...
Hi All Looking for what this raid consisted of, it's listed in TNA Does anybody have this record to hand to see what it was? HO 203/8 1361...
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An interesting article by Professor Richard Overy, a number of myths "busted". Have a peek. A "taster":These banal solutions masked the reality of...
Hi Folks, I'd like to pick the collective's brains about this. I have searched high and low for info/pics of the rear underside of the early A...
The Blitz - The Hardest Night 10/11 May 1941, 11:02pm - 05:57am The most devastating raid on London took place on the night of 10/11 May 1941....
I've been watching a good bit of Brexit coverage. Not going to discuss politics. I'm enjoying all the views in and around Westminster. Very...
A family story relates to a lady born in 1911, which says "...Mary drove an ambulance in the war and her lungs were badly damaged by mustard...
In memory of the 13 London firemen and women and 21 Beckenham firemen killed on the night of 19th April 1941 when a bomb destroyed the old school...
Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC MUIRHEAD, ERNEST RONALD Rank: Private Service No: 7344754 Date of Death: 22/12/1940 Age: 21...
Is Eileen Dunne - the young girl photographed by Cecil Beaton during the Blitz - still alive? She would be about 79 now if she was. Many thanks...
Hello all, This is my first post so forgive any breaches of forum etiquette... I have spent some considerable time recently typing up the...
I came across this pic a while ago and asked a few lads I know who hail from Plymouth to see if they could identify the location. After a bit of...
Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere but if you follow this link......
Photos from the Bank of England's vaults http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35370494 From an extraordinary expansion, to the preparations for...
Christmas 1940 on the British Home Front Christmas 1940 was a very different time from anything that took place earlier, or since. It is a time...
The link below is to a video-book style presentation on the air raids on Falmouth during October 1940 which saw the harbour entrance mined with...
Blitzkrieg, known more commonly as the Blitz, was a sustained period of bombing raids inflicted upon the British by the Nazis between 7 September...
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