Sgt. Spittle of No. 2 AFPU photographed Cpl. Stanley Skinner escaped twice in Italy after being taken prisoner outside of Tobruk. Skinner was...
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7523 Original wartime caption: Tin goods...
Recently on twitter... https://twitter.com/James1940/status/1333322254973874176?s=19 Raises the question (to me) was there ever a picture taken...
Rather than just include the photos we find in another video, we're trying a new format where the photo is the subject of the video. Using my...
In reaction to my thread „Bridging the Rhine for 12th Corps“ forum member stolpi was so kind to send me the copied version of „Royal Engineers...
This thread will concentrate on the role the Royal Engineers played during the Rhine crossing in the 12th Corps sector in March and April 1945....
Hi all, I am (tsk tsk) finally going through the War Diary of 102 Anti-Tank Reg't which I have had for a while but overlooked finishing reading....
Hello, I have searched the forum (maybe I missed the thread). I am looking for information regarding the No5 MkI Enfield rifle (carbine) in...
Hi, I am writing a book on the Pipers of The Black Watch from 1725 till 2006 I have completed research up till 1919 at the moment. unfortunately...
Hi I am trying to locate photographs of the 1st Battalion taken in Aldershot in late 1939 just prior to embarkation for France. I have located...
With AFPU/IWM photos, there comes a sheet, quite often with a rather meaningless description, like the one below. It does refer, however, to a...
Whilst trying to find a photograph of two wounded paratroopers returning from Normandy either at Portsmouth or Southampton I have been coming...
Can anyone help me identify which Regiment the Bedford QLB pictured below belonged to ? From the cab door markings it can be seen that it was the...
Exercise Tiger 1942 Links... Exercise Tiger (1942) - Wikipedia With... "The 1942 Exercise Tiger was the code name for an Army-level military...
IWM Portrait photographs of AFPU cameramen cine & stills Sgt. J. Gordon (608061) 177 King Street, Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire Sgt. A.M....
Morning all I’m looking to identify which RA Anti-Tank unit may be in these IWM photos (link to my own page and analysis): The IWM Photo Mystery...
I was going to ask "were the RA issued tanker suits, at least for SP crews" and then I looked at photographs on my hard drive and answered the...
Hi all, I think these Matildas were in 4RTR. In any case my actual question is, does anyone know the purpose of the large numbers that were put...
Personal Number: 41098 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Claude Ian Hurley DUNBAR, DSO Unit: Scots Guards London Gazette : 1 February 1929...
The Second World War saw probably the largest military manoeuvres ever to take place on British soil. Inter-army exercise BUMPER, held in the...
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