Casualty Guardsman READ, ERNEST GEORGE Service Number 2733019 Died 16/03/1945 Aged 34 2nd Bn. Welsh Guards Son of Arthur and Mary Helen Read;...
Hi, My uncle, Joseph Halsall (deceased), served with the 6th Cameronians SR. He recalled, when alive, a traumatic experience in being involved in...
A list of Tags relating to Prisoners of War, Prisoners of War Camps: fepows | WW2Talk prisoners of war | WW2Talk prisoners of war - ephemera |...
Hi I recently obtained a certificate of lifelong membership of the Royal British Legion for a Major Rudloph Fox Burr, dated 1945. It is signed...
Hi I wonder if anyone can shed light on this topic. I have searched this site and elsewhere on the internet and have a general picture of...
Incredibledisc submitted a new resource: Instructions for repatriated POWs regarding ration coupons - Letter to ex-pows and their families about...
Checking through my paybooks and doing some googling I found a file...
WO166/1220 Western Command West Lancashire District War Diary makes this intriguing entry: [ATTACH] Someone with more specialised knowledge than...
My wife's grandfather (a WW1 veteran) served during WW2 with the Army Catering Corps as a cook and was attached in 1944 and 1945 to 91 Reception...
Attached are copies of the letter sent on May 7th 1945 by the Senior British Officer at Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde to the Soviet commandant,...
My Dad told me that when he was a POW in Stalag 8C he used to feign illness to get into the sick bay, where he managed to get some bread from a...
I need some help from the RAF detail people on the site. I am looking at some TNA files about the repatriation of Allied POW's via Odessa. In one...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Name Ennis, Patrick Rank: Serjeant Service No: 2717885 Regiment: 3 Battalion Irish Guards...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Name Horan, S Rank: Guardsman Service No: 2718628 Regiment: 1 Battalion Irish Guards...
Hello to all, My father, Wilfred Patrick Naylor was a pow in stalag VIIIB from 1940-1944 when he was repatriated. I know he was injured so there...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Dorley, F Rank: Company Serjeant Major Service No: 2608714 Regiment: Grenadier Guards...
Hello All, I have previously been helped greatly by members of this forum when looking for details of my father, and as always I am looking for...
From The Times, October 20, 1943: HOMEWARD BOUND PRISONERS A BUOYANT SPIRIT MEN WHO PUZZLED THEIR CAPTORS From our Special Correspondent...
From The Times, May 25, 1945: RESCUE OF WAR PRISONERS 120,000 SENT HOME BY AIR BOMBER COMMAND'S FINE ACHIEVEMENT FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT...
Telegraph | News | Former BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey dies Known as "Dukie", he was educated at Rugby and commissioned into the Grenadier...
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