I am currently researching my Fathers WW2 sevice. He was a career soldier and joined up in 1936, he served in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and was...
I am currently researching the above named soldier who served with the Manchester regiment from 1939 until transfer tothe 44th RTR in late 1940 or...
This is a duplicate posting, but I did not caption it correctly - sorry!
Just bought these two photos and on the back in german it says, 26 German Graves Dunkirk France 1940 Soldiers shot by sniper, i wonder is...
Could anybody tell me what the SS Yewdale was doing in 1941 please. It was at Dunkirk for the evacuation in 1940, and from the few scant mentions...
‘A Boys Own Adventure’ doesn’t even come close to describing Leslie Young’s war. Nicely retold by his son, Nicholas, this memoir ticks all the...
I am currently researching my Dad's cousin, William Ernest Bowden Miller, who, at the time of Dunkirk was 6142501 Private W. E. Miller of the...
https://digitaledition.telegraph.co.uk/editions/edition_wFXLO_2019-05-07/dat What a man, what a hero! RIP Leslie. Stefan.
I'm transcribing some war diaries about the Dunkrk evacuation of the Royal Artillery and there is an abbreviation I am struggling to find the...
Sadly with a lot of deaths of Dunkirk veterans lately there are only three confirmed living are left according to wikipedia. All are over 100....
“It seemed inconceivable that there could be another war after all that had been said and written about the horrors of the previous one. Yet here...
First post. Trying to decifier service records specifically relating to Dunkirk involvement which we know my grandad took part in but I’m unclear...
I am the grandson of Mr Leslie John Blud - 5109677. I am trying gain clarity as to how and where he was captured by the German Army and hopefully...
Hi all, I’m trying to research my great grandad George McAllister McOmish (23/3/1917). I have a photo of him with a Gordon Highlanders cap on,...
I have just bought this map of the Dunkirk area has dates 1938/39,1940 and Oct 1941, this is just part of the map 1 in 50,000, came from France....
Andy's recent post about the tug Simla caused me to reread A D Divine's excellent book Dunkirk again. On page 242 he writes: "Then they (the...
I have been reading the newly published '50th At Bay' by B.S. Barnes which was recommended to me by Mel Junior from these very pages. I have had...
Hello guys Recently I found this vehicle front grill emblem/ car badge. It's a complete badge. Only a little part of the first R is broken. It's...
My father was in HQ Company of the 159th (Welsh) Field Ambulance from 1940 to 1944 including Dunkirk, North Africa (Operation Torch), Sicily...
Hi Having spent the last few years retracing my ancestors WW1 actions I thought I would turn to a WW2 relative. My great uncle Stan Woor was...
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