Hello all, Has anyone got the date that 2 SG and 3 CG of the reformed 201 GB moved to Syria from Egypt in 1942, The the newly arrived 6GG...
Personal Number: 151677 Rank: Major Name: Francis Conder WHITTY, MBE, MiD Unit: Royal Tank Regiment London Gazette : 18 October 1940...
Date of Enlistment: 20 May 1940 Army Number: 2661433 Rank: Guardsman Name: Albert CLARKE Unit: 3 Coldstream Guards Date of Birth: 23 May 1916...
Date of Enlistment: 14 Sep 1938 Army Number: 2327968 Rank: Signalman Name: Harry LEE Unit: Royal Corps of Signals attached 201 Guards Brigade...
ESCAPES FROM CAMP 53 (MACERATA), ITALY (1) After the Armistice with Italy, P/W in this camp were ordered by the Italian Commandant and the Senior...
Personal Number: 37042 Rank: Major Name: Lionel WIGRAM Unit: Royal Fusiliers London Gazette :
Earlier today I came across this book when looking for the author, Stuart Hullis who had appeared recently here on a very different subject. The...
Hello all, I am pleased to announce the publishing of my book on escapers in Piedmont under the title As if he were my brother - a phrase used by...
Thanks to a clue I looked at the writings of Professor Stephen Cullen (Warwick University) and found on his website he has republished a 2010...
For those with some time on their hands, I gave a talk recently to the South African Military History Society on the above subject. I was...
Hello everyone, I am slowly working my way through a long list of Allied servicemen who were helped by the Italian Resistance to cross the border...
Personal Number: 200079 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Anthony Henry Ivor KINSMAN Unit: Grenadier Guards; Long Range Desert Group; Royal Armoured Corps;...
Hi, I've just been looking through notes my grandfather made for a speaking engagement regarding his time as an escapee from PG54 and in these...
Has anyone come across a Captain McLean operating behind the lines in Italy in any capacity - either SAS or more likely SOE? Reputedly he was a...
I am currently researching my Fathers WW2 sevice. He was a career soldier and joined up in 1936, he served in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and was...
For Italian speakers, the above might be of interest. Raoul Paciaroni is a formidable amateur historian who usually writes about the Middles Ages...
I am in the process of collecting the opinions of BLOs in Italy as regards the partisan groups they were allocated to. I would like to share the...
Here, I remember my Italian great-grandmother Caterina Marchetti. She and her family were anti-fascists who lived on a farm near Brescia,...
Hello everyone.... Can anyone suggest where I might find the statics of German, Italian, British and Allied Forces for MIA, WIA, KIA and POWs for...
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