I was just tidying up my named vehicle folders and just noticed a Matilda II from what I think is the same regiment having the same name but 2...
Some 20+ years ago I was given an 82-page booklet written by Herr Erich Reinhardt, who was an interpreter for the Royal Military Police in...
Whilst trawling through the newspapers looking for articles regarding members of the 1/King's Regiment who served in Burma, I came across this...
New boy here (now an old man ) looking for help My father Andrew Brown served with the 2 Black Watch 1938-1945 ,and he died in 1993. He was born...
Personal Number: 324647 Army Number: ME/714500038 Rank: Captain Name: Rt. Rev. Stephen Edmund VERNEY, MBE Unit: RASC, MI6, Intelligence Corps...
This is a link to the report held at the National Archives on Operation Albumen and Faculty, the SAS and SBS raids on German Airfields in Crete in...
My uncle, Gordon Herbert Batchelor, was a pilot with 54 Squadron and a POW from July 9th 1941, when he was shot down over France. He landed up in...
Recommendation for Award for Jordan, Augustin Rank: Lieutenant Service No: ... | The National Archives Reference: WO 373/154/67...
Personal Number: 137479 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Thomas James DUNBABIN, DSO Unit: Intelligence Corps attached SOE London Gazette : 25 June 1940...
Personal Number: 143448 Rank: Captain Name: Patrick Michael LEIGH-FERMOR, DSO, OBE Unit: Irish Guards, SOE, Intelligence Corps, Force 133 London...
I've been wanting to draw Lassen VC for some time, this is him 1/2 way through, the drawing is more subtle than my scan
Army Number: 1469628 Rank: Gunner Name: Raymond Walter JONES, MM Unit: Royal Artillery attached Special Boat Squadron London Gazette : 14...
Army Number: 6896822 Rank: Serjeant Name: Robert Arthur Lever SUMMERS, MM, MID Unit: King's Royal Rifle Corps attached Special Boat Squadron...
Personal Number: 130622 Rank: Captain Name: David CLARK, MC Unit: Cheshire Regiment attached Special Boat Squadron London Gazette : 4 January...
Army Number: 2216492 Rank: Pipe Major Name: Robert ROY, DCM Unit: 2 Black Watch London Gazette : 24 February 1942...
This is the large memorial to II. Battalion FJR Sturm Regiment just outside of Chania in Crete. It was erected in 1941 and to this day is still...
Last month I had the chance to walk the ground at the site of the massacre of unarmed civilians at the Village of Kondomari on 2 June 1941 by men...
Hi all, I have been researching my grandfather Joseph who was a Fireman & Trimmer aboard the Harrison Line's SS Logician. I know he died at...
It’s the battle that shouldn’t have been lost, where; as John Hall Spencer in his classic account of the Battle for Crete in May 1941 points...
Hi all, I currently have a copy of the old book The Fall of Crete by Alan Clark. I'm conscious (from something I've read) of some bias by the...
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