I'm trying to unravel my uncle's war story: served with the Rifle Brigade and the 1st Armoured Division, captured in May 1940 during the fall of...
Hi, Is anyone able to point me towards a source that details the formal exchange of prisoners with Italy pre-September 1943? Were they bilateral...
These documents for some kind of accommodation/repatriation camp in Taranto came up for auction. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I have no idea of...
Reading an April 2013 book review in the linked newsletter (see below quotation) I spotted the following passage. I am aware that repatriation of...
Were they on a strictly numerically equal basis? "We will return 20 men if you send us exactly 20 men"? The reason I ask this is I was listening...
Morning all trying to find out the name of a ship that departed Harwich bound for Hamburg At 1.30pm on Saturday the 3rd April 1948 This was...
Date of Enlistment: 1930 Army Number: 2733019 [2733091 as per WO 416] Rank: Guardsman Name: Ernest George READ Unit: 2 Welsh Guards Date of...
Date of Enlistment: Personal Number: Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Honorable Patrick Theobald Tower BUTLER, 18th/28th Baron DUNBOYNE Unit: 2 Irish...
Hi, My uncle, Joseph Halsall (deceased), served with the 6th Cameronians SR. He recalled, when alive, a traumatic experience in being involved in...
A list of Tags relating to Prisoners of War, Prisoners of War Camps: fepows | WW2Talk prisoners of war | WW2Talk prisoners of war - black list |...
Hi I recently obtained a certificate of lifelong membership of the Royal British Legion for a Major Rudloph Fox Burr, dated 1945. It is signed...
Hi I wonder if anyone can shed light on this topic. I have searched this site and elsewhere on the internet and have a general picture of...
Incredibledisc submitted a new resource: Instructions for repatriated POWs regarding ration coupons - Letter to ex-pows and their families about...
Checking through my paybooks and doing some googling I found a file...
Reading Brigadier James Hargest's book "Farewell Compo 12" I was surprised that having reached Switzerland he then had to be smuggled across Vichy...
I know that most service personnel from the Far East and the Pacific returned to the UK after the end of WW2 by sea, often aboard aircraft...
WO166/1220 Western Command West Lancashire District War Diary makes this intriguing entry: [ATTACH] Someone with more specialised knowledge than...
This guy commanded 9 Platoon in A Company of the 2/Gloucesters. On 27 May he and most of his company were sent to Zuytpeene from Cassel to hold...
My wife's grandfather (a WW1 veteran) served during WW2 with the Army Catering Corps as a cook and was attached in 1944 and 1945 to 91 Reception...
Attached are copies of the letter sent on May 7th 1945 by the Senior British Officer at Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde to the Soviet commandant,...
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