I know that in the 1911 census anybody in the military was also included on the census. Army was shown with other soldiers and the name of the...
Personal Number: 4670 Rank: Lieutenant-General Name: Sir Balfour Oliphant HUTCHISON, KBE, CB, MiD*** Unit: Royal Artillery ; 7th Queen's Own...
Personal Number: 22844 Rank: Colonel Name: Rupert Edmund HOBDAY, DSO, MiD* Unit: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) London Gazette : 23...
If anyone can help, I'm looking for more info on the 2nd Bn Cheshire Reg when they were in France under the BEF. Specifically around May/June...
Gents, CAB66/4 lists HMS Imogen as being damaged due to enemy action on 25th November 1939. ADM234/444 doesn't list the destroyer as being...
From Imperial War Museum Collection H 407 - 00/11/1939 H 2135 - 08/07/1940 H 2136 - 08/07/1940 H 2137 - 08/07/1940 H 2138 - 08/07/1940 H 2139 -...
Folks, Can anyone help decipher this logbook entry, it is a logbook entry from HMS MACKAY 21 September 1939. In the brackets it states the two...
From Imperial War Museum collections.
Army Number: 6336314 Rank: Warrant Officer Class II Name: Frank Moyses DIXON, MC,MiD Unit: 6th Bn. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London...
Can anyone kindly provide the history of the 1 battalion, South Staffs regiment in North Africa?
I have been trying to identify any photographs of documented use of Guy Ant 15cwt trucks in 7 Armoured Division in the period 1939 to early 1941....
An archaeologist friend referred me to this site: ARBEITSGRUPPE LUFTFAHRTARCHÄOLOGIE NIEDERSACHSEN - Absturzorte Countless crashes in Lower Saxony...
Does anyone know where the 4th and 5th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Companies were at the end of 1939 to the start of 1940 please? I have a...
I have been contacted by a French man who is holding 7 pages of World War Two memoires of his late father-in-law (Henri Morel Senior). His...
Flight Lieutenant Frank Gower Jones, Royal Air Force. Killed on active service, 25th December 1939, aged 34 years. Lieutenant Harold Gower Jones,...
Remembered Letchworth Hertfordshire 324298 Lieutenant SHANE BRENDAN KEARNEY, Mentioned in Despatches, 7th Bn., Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. who...
Beginning in 1939, the Royal Navy began requisitioning commercial vessels to serve as auxiliary patrol craft and minesweepers. By December 1941...
Hi I am trying to locate photographs of the 1st Battalion taken in Aldershot in late 1939 just prior to embarkation for France. I have located...
Thanks to Juha for flagging up this online resource: George Washington University Libraries : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming :...
Hello on the claim that Churchill, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse were on HMS...
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