I have just finished reading ‘A Signal Honour’ by Robin Painter. He was involved in the first Chindit expedition (Operation Longcloth), the...
Personal Number: 13382 Rank: General Name: Sir Cameron Gordon Graham NICHOLSON, GCB, KBE, DSO*, MC* MiD Unit: Royal Artillery London Gazette :...
Personal Number: 13089 Rank: Brigadier Name: George Hamilton Charles PENNYCOOK, CBE, MiD** Unit: Middlesex Regiment ; Cheshire Regiment London...
Researching this force, does anyone have any information about it, in particular 8th Punjab Regt involvement as part of 234 Brigade I believe.
Army At Dawn doesn't say much about what the Lancers were doing with their Valentines while Waters' Stuarts were shooting up planes, Semoventes...
A new history of the 17th/21st Lancers is due to hit the shelves (courtesy of Fonthill Media) on 21 January 2021. A hardback (17.2 x 24.8 cm) of...
Personal Number: 1094 Rank: General Name: Sir James Handyside MARSHALL-CORNWALL, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, MiD*, FRSGS Unit: Royal Artillery London...
Personal Number: 165014 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Benjamin Alexander Frederick HERVEY-BATHURST, MiD* Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette :...
Personal Number: 193627 Rank: Captain Name: James David JOHNSTON, MC Unit: 3 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery London Gazette : 11 July 1941...
In May 1945 the 3rd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery liberated the island of Terschelling (Holland). Their small fleet of landing craft + men was...
Hello. Like many other people the VJ Day 75th anniversary commemorations have made me think of my grandparents. My grandfather Hilary Wontner...
Personal Number: 2756712 Rank: Private Name: William MORRIS, MM Unit: Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment, 11 Commando, 1 SAS London Gazette :...
B 29th Jan 1919 executed 7th July 1945 (July 1993) Starting a new thread on this officer - have looked at Australian National Archives,...
In his book Western Desert 1941 Pitt is very damning of certain special forces that sprang up. He singles out raids code named Rookery, Nook and...
Casualty Lieutenant Colonel BUTTERWORTH, FRANCIS WYNDHAM ARTHUR Service Number 36309 Died 06/11/1944 Aged 37 West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of...
It’s the battle that shouldn’t have been lost, where; as John Hall Spencer in his classic account of the Battle for Crete in May 1941 points...
new to this group, so first Hello and thanks for having me. My main interest is the early days of the 1940 campaign in Belgium, particularly the...
This is the transcription of the D Day Landing Tables for Force "J", made up of the Landing Tables for each of the three Canadian Brigade Groups...
Hi, I would be very grateful if anyone can tell me anything about Huntforce or Hunt Force, which was an ad hoc force during the Battle for France...
“There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our...
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