Just remembering what started 80 years ago today. Maybe use this thread as each 80th anniversary comes around.
Personal Number: 113241 Rank: Captain (Quartermaster) Name: Bertrude Augustus POND, MBE Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London...
Personal Number: 63913 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: P R H TURNER, MID* Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 14 October...
Personal Number: 113626 Rank: Captain Name: Charles Marius BERNARD, OBE, MID* Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment London Gazette : 16...
Anyone can pls help with any more information regarding this Uniform. My great grandfather worked as a Merchant Seaman in Malta in the 1940s.
Hey All! Does anyone know what Ship the 1st Battalion Hamsphires took when they left Malta 30th March 1943 to Egypt (arriving Alexandria April...
As mentioned elsewhere, my great-aunt has recently passed away, and in her wake a great wealth of old paperwork has surfaced. These are the...
Any info anyone can offer on this would be appreciated as I'm a bit stumped on where to start. My great uncle was John Ferreday, pictured. I have...
AKA CWGC :: Casualty Details Major Lord APSLEY 12995, ALIAS who died on 17 December 1942 See BATHURST, the true family name. Remembered with...
Hi I am researching a man from Darwen who was a POW in the Far East and I cannot find his POW Japanese Record Card on Findmypast. According to a...
While battling the boredom of CV lockdown by looking through some of my files, I came across these diagrams showing the location of Allied forces...
The joys of a secondhand book. Picked this up from the excellent aviation bookshop in Tunbridge Wells, 1943 copy with author down as ‘a fighter...
Hello everybody, I have come across Quentin Hughes' obituary in The Telegraph which states: Hughes was posted to 48/71 D Battery RA on Malta,...
Gloster Gladiator MKI & II (And Sea Gladiator) book. Signed by British author Adam Cotton (me!). Condition is New. At £15.00, plus £3.00 postage &...
Dear all, I am the author of a just-published book on the Gloster Gladiator and Sea Gladiator biplane fighters, and I would like to ask if the...
Battle of Britain ace Paul Farnes: “I didn’t think we were going to lose, it never occurred to us” | All About History Paul is the last Battle of...
This is what I have been able to dredge up so far about one of Britain's Aces - my uncle's father. I actually met and shook hands with Prosser in...
A list of links to Allied maps which are freely available on the internet from the 1939-45 era. The majority here were issued by the [British]...
Hi, I've been tracing my dad's WW2 covert activities whilst he was in Tunis. He was originally employed by the British consul and then loaned to...
RE bomb disposal in Malta WW2 to 1979 is to be recognised with a memorial plaque in the capital, Valletta in September 2017. Just 2 officers and...
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