https://digitaledition.telegraph.co.uk/editions/edition_wFXLO_2019-05-07/dat What a man, what a hero! RIP Leslie. Stefan.
I'm transcribing some war diaries about the Dunkrk evacuation of the Royal Artillery and there is an abbreviation I am struggling to find the...
Sadly with a lot of deaths of Dunkirk veterans lately there are only three confirmed living are left according to wikipedia. All are over 100....
“It seemed inconceivable that there could be another war after all that had been said and written about the horrors of the previous one. Yet here...
First post. Trying to decifier service records specifically relating to Dunkirk involvement which we know my grandad took part in but I’m unclear...
I am the grandson of Mr Leslie John Blud - 5109677. I am trying gain clarity as to how and where he was captured by the German Army and hopefully...
Simo: hi all need some advice,[IMG] re Dunkirk, grandad was a Signalman attached to the 3 RTR who were sent to defend Calais in mid March 1940 as...
Hi all, I’m trying to research my great grandad George McAllister McOmish (23/3/1917). I have a photo of him with a Gordon Highlanders cap on,...
I have just bought this map of the Dunkirk area has dates 1938/39,1940 and Oct 1941, this is just part of the map 1 in 50,000, came from France....
Andy's recent post about the tug Simla caused me to reread A D Divine's excellent book Dunkirk again. On page 242 he writes: "Then they (the...
I have been reading the newly published '50th At Bay' by B.S. Barnes which was recommended to me by Mel Junior from these very pages. I have had...
Hello guys Recently I found this vehicle front grill emblem/ car badge. It's a complete badge. Only a little part of the first R is broken. It's...
My father was in HQ Company of the 159th (Welsh) Field Ambulance from 1940 to 1944 including Dunkirk, North Africa (Operation Torch), Sicily...
Hi Having spent the last few years retracing my ancestors WW1 actions I thought I would turn to a WW2 relative. My great uncle Stan Woor was...
Found this article in After the Battle No 23, published 1979 - Titled: Tank Recovery From Dunkirk. It's about A13 Cruiser MkIII MK1 from 3rd RTR,...
With Mel Senior in his ninety-eighth year now, supported by multiple tablets and the odd tot of rum, I am trying to tidy-up his war service...
Hi, Last night I was reading an account of a soldier who was evacuated from Dunkirk ,it made me lsmile. I then thought (maybe my imagination?)...
Pathe films 1939/40 BEF, some good shots of the BEF. The last two links BEF in France and Troops Land in France you have to click on to see....
Dunkirk 1940. Part 2. Inland France & Belgium. Original wartime photos taken by German troops, some photos/negatives never seen before. From my...
Part 1 The Beach. Here is a link to some of my original [ some taken from original negatives ] 1940 Dunkirk photos, over a 120 + part 1. copyright...
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