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Following a proposal by a local German politician to go for the 2036 Olympics 100 years later, the German Home Secretary Horst Seehofer...
[ATTACH] Hi, my Grandfather was a professional footballer before he joined the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (7th Battalion). While training I...
Football = 14th July 1944 - [ATTACH]...
Does anyone know much about this event and/or the I CORPS DIVISION Inter-Unit Association Football Championship, also from 1946? Attached are...
Captain NEVILL, WILFRED PERCY Died 01/07/1916 1st Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment attd. 8th Bn. East Surrey Regiment Captain Nevill bought four...
Just a little post and while not WW-2 related I thought it might be of interest none-the-less. Another Saturday and another afternoon at the...
Ickenham Cricket Club War Memorial,Ickenham,London [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In researching my cricket clubs history I have found out that a member was made POW in June 1944 after bailing out of a crashing Lancaster. In...
Football match 1940
I have a signed photograph of the 1944 South African POW rugby team. Can I please get help to confirm the players and who the team were. Is their...
An interesting snippet from the Merthyr Express newspaper of December 16, 1944 Rugby at Brussels: Among Welshmen who played in the services rugby...
Willie Imrie was a Scottish footballer who also played for Swindon Town a couple of times. He died aged 36 in 1944 whilst serving in the RAF ....
Cathel Sutherland Melville was a prominent footballer in the North of Scotland before call up and in the Army he played football to a high...
Great to see the reference to rugby casualties during Saturday's Internationals about losses during Worlds War 1 and 2. Saturday's result....
from IWM website. BASTILLE DAY IN COURSEULLES, NORMANDY, 14 JULY 1944 IWM (TR 2000) British and American troops join with local inhabitants of...
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