While sorting through one of my dad's old boxes of odd useful screws, curved nails, twisted brackets, and half worn strips of sandpaper, I came...
I would be grateful for assistance with any information on 6029096 Private Douglas Haig Andrews 2/5th Battalion Essex Regiment. Likely captured...
Hello All! Like no doubt many others I have been encouraged by lockdowns and bad weather to tidy up our loft! Once again I found a box full of...
Hi, I’m researching my Grandad’s war service. I downloaded a record from "xxx" that says he was in 5th Battalion Essex Regiment but I have his...
I have recently been researching 4982872 Trooper Ernest Smedley of 163 Regt, RAC (13 Bn Sherwood Foresters, the Notts and Derby Regt) to help some...
Army Number: 6014299 Rank: Lance-Serjeant Name: Charles Langoon SAWYER, MM Unit: 1/4 Battalion Essex Regiment attached SAS London Gazette : 26...
Army Number: 6009212 Rank: Drummer Name: H LEGGATT, MM Unit: 1 Essex Regiment London Gazette : 14 February 1939 London Gazette :
In 2009 I started with my father organizing rememberances any year of the victims of the flying bomb (V1) attack on the 18th of Februar 1945 in...
Hi, would anybody be able to help me trace what happened during the first day of Operation Thruster which I believe started on 26/10/44. My uncle...
Hi everyone As some of you may already know, for the past two years I have been researching on the 8th Indian Division in the battle of Sangro...
I am researching the service of my late father-in-law, TROOPER WILLIAM CAMPAIGNE 6028576. Willie Campaigne was enlisted at Blandford Camp, Dorset...
At the end of the war my dad was given an address book with all the names of those that served with 164 Battery 59th HAA regiment (at least those...
In a personal account by G.W.Johnson of 164 Battery 59th (The Essex Rgmt) Regiment HAA, he says:- "You will remember that 164 had to quit its 8...
I have seen previous forum posts regarding the Battle of Keren entitled 'Battle of Keren: Toughest of them All?' on WW2Talk (Battle of Keren:...
One thing I'd like to know more about is just what everyone did in an HAA battery. Among my fathers possessions is an address book listing men...
This history was written & compiled by A.S.Cross for the "Eagle & Gun Regimental Association" based upon notes provided by several members. (I...
The Eagle and Gun Regimental Association (formerly the 7/59th The Essex Regiment Old Comrades Association, and incorporating the 6th Battalion,...
I've just signed up to this forum, so please brace yourselves for some truly stupid questions. My dad (Alec Stanley Davis) was in troop "B" of...
Hi, I am due to fly to Italy on the Monte Cassino battlefield tour, I would like to be able to deliver something to the men on the 1/4 Battalion...
Hi everyone I will remove post if I am breaking the rules, I am trying to research a gentleman by the name of Percy Charles Thompson of the 2nd...
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