This story appeared today of a remarkable escape and an equally remarkable, though sad, coincidence. Apologies if this story is well known to you...
Personal Number: 124535 Rank: Major Name: Harry Alexander Desmond BUCHANAN, MC Unit: Grenadier Guards ; 8 Commando ; SAS ; SBS London Gazette :...
Captain Coll Lorne MacDougall 53970 was born in 1906 in Trujillo, Peru, the son of Coll and Jane MacDougall from Islay, Scotland. His parents had...
Personal Number: 200079 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Anthony Henry Ivor KINSMAN Unit: Grenadier Guards; Long Range Desert Group; Royal Armoured Corps;...
Personal Number: 207645 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Anthony John COURAGE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 10 October 1941...
Personal Number: 207642 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Norton Cecil Michael KNATCHBULL, 6th Baron BRABOURNE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette...
William John Martin was born in 1918 in the village of Loddiswell, Devon where he was known as ‘John’ and worked as a butcher. Gunner Martin...
My father, Gunner Basil William Bancroft, service number 1470534, was a FEPOW captured at the fall of Singapore in Feb. 1942. He was initially...
Hi all, I was listening to an episode of a British WW2 escapers podcast (For You The War is Over) and the historian of the two podcasters...
Hi, I've just been looking through notes my grandfather made for a speaking engagement regarding his time as an escapee from PG54 and in these...
Was not sure what forum to place this in, but i am wondering if the above man received any Honours for his actions, i enclose a very brief and...
Second-Lieutenant Richard Lowther Broad (76276) The 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s)Lieutenant Broad was...
HALL J 3596685 1ST BN 06/08/1943 ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS I’ve been looking through books that had not been out of storage boxes in an age. And...
G'day all, Just wondering what everyone's experience has been with a Freedom of Information request from the National Archives. I sent a FOI...
[ATTACH] 241046 Major John Gilbert GOLDSMITH D.S.O. General List 15th August 1909 - 1st January 1972 Temporary Major General List: Served in "F"...
For all who passed through this way, and their families, friends, and all good researchers out there who keep the flame of memory and remembrance...
Hello everybody, I am looking for some further information on these two soldiers, who died on 13 December 1943 and are remembered on the Cassino...
Hello all, I stumbled upon this site today and would very much like to become a part of it. My father was in the Inniskilling Fusiliers from 1939...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14084080 Reference: WO 208/3319/1919 Description: Guardsman J E Jones (service number...
Cpl ALLEN - Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) for his escape from Camp 54 (Fara Nel Sabina (Italy)) on 11 Sep 1943. [ATTACH] Regards Bruneval
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