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...
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"...
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...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/dunkirk/14300.shtml BBC Television Service First broadcast: 13 November 1956 Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soldiers-Strange-Night-Robert-Newton/dp/0990503607/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420555838&sr=1-1&keywords=soldiers+of+th...
My Father Gunner Burnikell was wounded at Echt in the Netherlands whilst serving with G Battery (Mercers Troop) 5 RHA I believe during Operation...
Hi all As I have mentioned in another post, my father died back in 2000 and it is only last week I discovered a tin in the loft containing...
At long last, after more than four years working towards this, I am very pleased to announce that the website is now online that will host my new...
I am having real problems finding any information that shows that the 44th & 56th Columns were involved in any action during the campaign in...
My abiding memory of those terrible days is firstly and always our view of the Benedictine Monastery. We lived beneath its baleful eye and spent...
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