Award British Empire Medal Corporal Jack Raymond Denton (929828), Royal Air Force Bomb Disposal In October, 1944, Corporal Denton was detailed...
Award George Medal Cpl. William Jones, Royal Engineers (2128323) The Platoon in which Corporal Jones was serving was engaged during the month of...
Personal Number: 174732 Rank: Lieutenant Name: David Hemersham COX Unit: 2 Cheshire Regiment London Gazette : 12 March 1941...
Somehow found this website: Standing Well Back - IED & EOD Evolutions and the author's explanation cited in part:This blog has evolved into a...
Just thought I'd share a find from my last trip to the National Archives. All of these diagrams come from the 1944 and 1945 War Diaries of 236...
Hey lads, From early June until September 10, 1943, my grandfather's unit was posted at Tahag Camp in Egypt. During this time it appears they...
TNA Catalogue Reference: WO 171/1250 Description: 1 Coldstream Guards (Armoured Battalion) Date: 1944 Jan.- Dec.
I am just starting to research my uncles war. (I am still doing research on my father but in for a penny... as they say.:D) I dont have a lot of...
TNA Catalogue Reference: HO 199/310 Context: Air Raid Precautions Department, Ministry of Home Security, Civil Defence and Common Services...
I'm surprised there is no general thread on this subject - That I could find. Anyway my question is: Was it common practise for Minefields to...
When some of the coldstream officers returned to longstop in '43 after the fall of Tunis their task was to recover the bodies of the Guardsmen who...
If anyone is interested? They can come along with me, as a small team of Sappers prepare to lift "S" Mines. Sapper
Hi, Hoping some of the D-Day experts can help me with some info on my Grandfathers movements on D-Day. Finding the war dairy for the 226th Bomb...
Does anyone have anymore infomation on the above? I've been doing a bit of reseach about a chap called Leonard Henry Harrison who was a bit of a...
I posted this site on another thread but I think it deserves its own. An excellent collection of pictures, manuals and details: Grenades, Bombs...
Is that what is going on here? Attach some 3" rockets to a Churchill and see if it blows the mines out of the way? Or strap a big jet engine to a...
Our Company was battling down the Vire-Tinchebray road in hot pursuit and had stopped for the day for food and refueling. We set about digging our...
Just reading "Club Route. 30 Corps in Europe" page 92. A wary eye had to be kept open for the innumerable booby traps. Yet another type was...
[IMG] Here for photos and video. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">The Battle of Ortona</span> "The Italian Stalingrad" December...
Separate names with a comma.
