Over the past few years, I have been tracing my father, CQMS Edmund O'Sullivan's war time service with the 2nd Bn, London Irish Rifles who were...
I have cut and pasted an item from the 9th Royal Sussex War Diaries dating from early December 1945. It refers to the fact that the authorities...
Because someone in a Churchill tank modelling group seemed interested, I scanned in part of an account by Lieutenant Ed Bennett from the Churchill...
Episode 151 of the Wings Over New Zealand Show features an interview with 97-year-old WWII WAAF Connie Bickford, of Pukekohe, New Zealand. Connie...
Recently I posted a request for book suggestions for the experiences of ordinary soldiers in the Italian campaign (Link: Looking for good books...
In the latest episode of the Wings Over New Zealand Show I chat with Mr. John Wall, of Hamilton, New Zealand. Born in London in 1923, John fell...
Members may like to know that I recently had coffee with Wilf Shaw. He's 96 and still going strong. I've posted my recording of the chat on...
I am writing up the story of a rifleman from D Coy 1st Bn, Tower Hamlets' Rifles (9RB) from Mersa Brega to Gazala for his family. I have read the...
I am new here so I hope this so the correct forum for this query. I am deciphering a diary written by a British soldier in 1944. he was originally...
The latest Wings Over New Zealand Show episode is now online; Episode 97 - Lindsay Budge - B-17 Gunner. In this episode Dave Homewood chats with...
The latest Wings Over New Zealand Show aviation podcast is now online and available to download and/or listen to. "Episode 95 - Werribee B-24...
The latest episode in my Wings Over New Zealand Show aviation podcast series is now online, and it's another in the "Wings Over Australia"...
Excert taken from monsieur Tabouret's log/journal. Monsieur Tabouret was a Forester working in the forest of Lyons, near Lyons La Forêt during WWII.
Below is an excerpt from my Fathers Journals whilst serving in North Africa with G Battery 5 RHA. I can find no mention of them in the war diaries...
99195 The Honourable Frederick Francis George HENNESSY, MBE, Grenadier Guards From APPENDIX C, September War Diary, 2 HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY REGIMENT...
Finally, my book is published. Some time ago I put the diaries here in a crude form as a blog. Since then I have been able to fill in missing...
"Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.A. T.D." is the only book published that...
It happened in the immediate months before D-Day. My routine day started normally until mid-morning when I got a message that someone was waiting...
This section follows the diary entry above for 1 April 1942 in my father's diary. He was Frank Wallbank, a fitter with 3rd King's Own Hussars...
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