http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02prmgr More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of...
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...
Hi all, I'm trying now to get more of a handle on 24th L events in July 1944. The WD for this month seems to be particularly slight on firm...
"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...
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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...
Lance Corporal R.J. Utteridge who gave his wartime address as 13 Harpenden Road, W. Norwood, SE 27 London was shot down on 13 June 1940 in a 142...
WO 217/26 Diary of Lieutenant Colonel L F Garratt, 23 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 51 Highland Division [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
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...
Thanks to Wills, for the link. Transcribed from...
Hi everyone, for a few years now I have had the amazing pleasure of meeting and interviewing New Zealand veterans who served in the bloody Italian...
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