In 2009 I started with my father organizing rememberances any year of the victims of the flying bomb (V1) attack on the 18th of Februar 1945 in...
Hi, would anybody be able to help me trace what happened during the first day of Operation Thruster which I believe started on 26/10/44. My uncle...
Hi everyone As some of you may already know, for the past two years I have been researching on the 8th Indian Division in the battle of Sangro...
I am researching the service of my late father-in-law, TROOPER WILLIAM CAMPAIGNE 6028576. Willie Campaigne was enlisted at Blandford Camp, Dorset...
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...
I have seen previous forum posts regarding the Battle of Keren entitled 'Battle of Keren: Toughest of them All?' on WW2Talk (Battle of Keren:...
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...
Hi, I am due to fly to Italy on the Monte Cassino battlefield tour, I would like to be able to deliver something to the men on the 1/4 Battalion...
Hi everyone I will remove post if I am breaking the rules, I am trying to research a gentleman by the name of Percy Charles Thompson of the 2nd...
Hello Mr. Ryan! Hope you can help me out again? Joslen has two battalions, 1st Battalion Essex Regiment and 2nd Battalion Queen's Regiment, under...
Oral record of Frank Allen Bentley of Manchester who served with 1st Battalion Essex Regiment in India & Burma, interesting to listen to someone...
CARTER, CHARLES WILLIAM Rank: Private Service No: 751178 Date of Death: 10/01/1944 Age: 37 Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment 5th Bn. Grave...
I've been working on an OCR application to transcribe Overlord/WW2 documents from the UK National Archives, I've started uploading my progress so...
I recently obtained my great grandfather's service record but am having difficulty understanding it. I was told that he enlisted in the Essex...
Does anyone know when the Essex Regiment merged into The Dorsetshires? My Grandad started in the Essex Regt & was listed as missing on July 10th....
Dear all, I'm looking for more info/pictures of my relative. Would be grateful for any information of his life, how he lived and died. Charles...
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