Personal Number: 174732 Rank: Lieutenant Name: David Hemersham COX Unit: 2 Cheshire Regiment London Gazette : 12 March 1941...
Personal Number: 95604 Rank: Major-General Name: Peter Lawrence de Carteret MARTIN, CBE, MiD* Unit: Cheshire Regiment London Gazette : 4 July...
Later awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross (see below). Extracts from a taped interview recorded in Forgotten Voices of...
Personal Number: 179582 Army Number: 7900114 Rank: Captain Name: Ian Gillett CARMICHAEL, OBE, MiD Unit: 22nd Dragoons 1941 Commissioned London...
[ATTACH] Meet Rita, the veteran rat catcher. She's a 21 year old Liverpool girl, Miss Rita Gough of Mossley Hill. For three years she has served...
Just a quickie, anyone got a copy, to hand, of 'Caught in the Act' by Richard Todd? Looking for a digital image of pg 178 where Todd mentions...
Good afternoon all, Recently, I have started to look into those RASC personnel taken POW and those that escaped. I have attached a citation for...
File under 'Not many people know that?' Not sure whether this is already common knowledge on here, but I was very surprised to discover the above...
Hi, I am writing a book on the Pipers of The Black Watch from 1725 till 2006 I have completed research up till 1919 at the moment. unfortunately...
I have long been fascinated by an under appreciated officer from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles who performed brilliantly on June 6-8, 1944. To my...
Casualty Lance Corporal ENGLAND, JOHN MARTIN HARRY Service Number 2701659 Died 28/05/1944 Aged 19 2nd Bn. Scots Guards Son of Charles L. and Alice...
Last surviving original SAS hero is awarded France's highest honour for bravery | Daily Mail Online Mike Sadler, 98, was made a Chevalier of the...
Just bought these two photos and on the back in german it says, 26 German Graves Dunkirk France 1940 Soldiers shot by sniper, i wonder is...
Hi all, I'm looking for informations about the SAS who were dropped during the Operation 'Titanic' as bait on the 6 June 1944. In particularly at...
We've just been notified of the death last week of Maurice Sutcliffe, who served with the Faughs in Tunisia and later again with SoE in...
Sir William Coldstream | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts "During the war Coldstream was appointed an Official War Artist in...
My grandfather was a tank commander on a sherman firefly tank with 24th lancers going in on Gold beach d day +1 corperal Ronald Roper (7897123) ,...
Oral record of Frank Allen Bentley of Manchester who served with 1st Battalion Essex Regiment in India & Burma, interesting to listen to someone...
I know that the 5th Bn DLI was split into 1/5th and 2/5th and became searchlight regiments in October 1938. Before this change came about the...
Hi, I'm looking for information about my Grandad's brother Frank Kirton born December 1913, Newark, Lincs and died 27/03/1944. He served as a...
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