Personal Number: 5520 Rank: Colonel Name: Geoffrey FIELDEN, OBE, MiD Unit: 7 Hussars London Gazette : 15 December 1917...
Hi all, during WW2, how were soldiers already serving in infantry battalions given formal trained on the smaller crew served weapons, ie Boys...
Hi all, If you have a minute I would love to chat about Grandads war. By the time war was declared, my Grandfather already had 17 years service...
Hello there, Hoping someone may be able to assist with any suggestions regarding some details on a copy of a page from my late grandfather's army...
Hi all. Been trying to decipher a R.A.F. service record for an air gunner. It states he is sent to No.14 Initial Training Wing at Bridlington,...
Hello All, I have just received my grandfathers service records. I was always told he was in the commandos and that he had to retreat from the...
I've come across the unit 'DMT school, RAF Secunderabad', anyone any ideas what it was / did ? Thanks, Mac.
Hi all. Does anyone know which archive holds the files for the Senior Officers School? SOS was run out of Sheerness during the interwar/early war...
Personal Number: 6491 Rank: Major-General Name: Christopher Geoffrey WOOLNER, CB, MC**, MiD* Unit: Royal Engineers London Gazette : 21 January...
Personal Number: 1335 Rank: Brigadier Name: Arthur John CLIFTON, OBE, MiD Unit: Durham Light Infantry ; Machine Gun Corps ; Royal Tank Corps...
Does anyone have any information on the Army Gas School? My father’s records show that he attended the “No 9 (G) Gas Course” there in January 1943...
I have posted this under 'General' because I don't know what this was and can find no references to it! Can anyone shed any light on it? I have...
Hi, My Grandfather spent 2 years of the war (43-45) teaching as an instructor in the Infantry Training School in Saugor (India) I have plenty of...
Could someone tell me what is a SAS Natheravon course on army records
Extracts from Bush Warfare School war diary 1942 - WO 172/1453
Can anyone help with explaining the codes on this record? (in bold italic) 54th Tank Regiment Posted 50th Britallion Royal Tank Regiment...
Hello, Can anybody advise how to get information or how I can access records. The school closed in 1944. Perhaps no 84 course was the last? I...
Noel Burgess submitted a new resource: Improviseed Repairs - Improvised Repairs to Wheeled Vehicles in the field 1943 It does what it says on...
It does what it says on the cover - from temporary fan belts to removing a piston if the big end bearing has failed!
I thought this might be of interest to the RASC and DUKW community! WO171/2365 – 50 Company RASC 5 March 1944 1030 Ship [HMT BOISSEVAIN]...
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