A German plane dropped some bombs on Market Street, Aberdeen on 7th August 1942. A Lt -Cdr John Hall was pulled from the rubble and died the...
Chief Petty Officer PITCHER, ERNEST JAMES Service Number P/227029 Died 10/02/1946 Aged 57 H.M.S. Attack Royal Navy V C, D S M Croix de...
I would like to see the log for a Royal Navy destroyer HMS Fabius particularly when she that served in the Adriatic Sea in December 1944. How can...
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I have been looking through the burial records for my local Cemetery and have found this record Benjamin Samuel Forest (age 59) died 19/03/1945...
hi all, had a lot of help from you guys researching my grandfather, now I am trying to find more info on his two brothers Sub lieutenant j b...
Never heard of him, but an alert from Oxford University pointed to this book 'Crash Start':In 1940 a first-year student at Oxford gave up his...
Hello everybody, I'm currently looking into my great-grandfather's military records on Ancestry. We were aware of him being in the Royal Navy,...
Hi I wonder if anyone can help me. I have my Dads Royal Navy Certificate of Service. Im so interested to find out where in the world he went on...
On this day 24th May 1941 the German battleship Bismark sank HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of all but three of her crew (more than 1400...
I've recently come across the following doing my podcast and thought it ought to be placed in the forum. I've got a stack more material which I...
Hello, I am pretty new to this site so apologies if this sort of question has been asked before:- My father served on two ships during the war,...
Remembered on the Church Stretton War Memorial,Shropshire. HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Bournemouth) (missing, presumed killed in an air...
I am using the title of Martin H Brice's book for this thread as it seems to cover what I hope will be an interesting topic. The house clearance...
Dear WW2 Talk members, I am working on a documentary about the Second World War for a major British broadcaster. I have found this forum to be an...
I have the medals and service record upto 1941 He was born 1/3/1905 but cannot find death certificate as I want to get his records from 1941-46...
Hi, I am researching the career of Lt Herbert Douglas Barr RNR, a pilot who is listed as crashing a Spitfire in 1943. The extract from the...
Good afternoon all, I recently posted the following topic about whether to request my Great Uncles service records from the RAF or RN after...
Hello, I have recently researched my great grandfathers service records to see what I could find out and it turns out I found out pretty much...
I am researching my great uncle's service record - Leonard J Swatton. Everything is pretty much clear apart from the last entry in pencil on his...
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