Long time no post here (but I did see Owen recently!). I’m in Italy with a group and one of them has a relative Capt Grigsby who was killed...
I'm trying to find out information about a John Philip Beall of the RWK. All we know is that fought at Monte Cassino and then spent the last part...
Hi - My father GMW Smith was a subaltern with 4th Bn RWK. I believe he volunteered after Dunkirk and I know he stayed with them through North...
All, Very grateful for some advice. I would like to establish which units were billeted in the village of Downe, Kent, during WW2. So far, from...
Hi all, I would like to learn more about the 2nd Royal West Kents experience during the Siege of Malta. Googling throws up some information but...
Date of Enlistment: 1931 T.A. Army Number: 6341797 Rank: Lance-Corporal Name: Arthur Edward GORNALL Unit: 6 Queen's Own Royal West Kent Date of...
Personal Number: 20181 Rank: Colonel Name: Basil Laing CLAY, OBE, MID* Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 30 June 1920...
L/Sjt. Alfred Victor Statham Service No.: 4034743 Unit: 6th Bn Royal West Kent Regiment Award: Military Medal Ref Map ITALY 1/50,000 Sheet 88 -...
Hi Regarding the POW questionnaire for Albert Leonard Lockwood below, any idea why he would have spent almost two years in an Offlag when his rank...
On the 16th January 1943 a week or so after their difficult battle around Green and Bald Hills in Northern Tunisia, the 5th battalion the East...
Personal Number: 26558 Rank: Captain Name: William Earle EDWARDS, MBE Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 5 December...
Ancestry are showing WW2 War Diaries as "new" on their card catalogue - looking at UK, World War II War Diaries, 1939-1946 | Ancestry® they have...
First time here in several years and hoping the knowledgeable folks here can shed some light on something. Background is that my late father...
Hello there all, I’m trying to find out when my grandfather changed regiment/division from the queens royal west surrey to the queens royal west...
Personal Number: 91277 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Henry Murray Owen KNOX, OBE, MiD Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette...
Personal Number: 56323 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Herbert Oastler HINTON, OBE, MiD Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette...
Personal Number: 67174 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: David Bedford ROOKE, MC*, MiD Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette :...
Personal Number: 138037 Rank: Major Name: Frederick James LAWRENCE, MiD Unit: Essex Regiment ; Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London...
Personal Number: 13698 Rank: Major Name: De Symons Harry LEWIS-BARNED, MC, MiD Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 15...
Army Number: 6337031 Rank: Warrant Officer Class II Name: G E LYONS, MiD Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 11 October...
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