Help!!! Needed Searching The Archives

[gaztwrO]

To everyone who has replied can i say a massive thankyou, your responses are a massive boost to my family who are trying to piece together a part of our family history that we know about ...........and yet we don't know fully what and where it all happened. your help and this website has so far been the best resource of info we have and i thank you all deeply...from the owens family of Holyhead, Anglesey.

[gaztwrO]

can anyone tell me what type of information can we expect to find in this type of file held at the national archive I.E: day to day fighting, losses, location......???

[Owen]

Have a look at this thread for some examples of what a War Diary looks like.

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/italy/1...mendation.html

post #16 onwards.

[Finbar Saunders]

Don't know whether links are ok - sorry if not.

Gaz - Photo: M10 tank destroyers of 77th Anti-Tank Regiment, British 11th Armored Division - World War II Zone Forums

WW2DB: [Photo] M10 Wolverine tank destroyers of 77th Anti-Tank Regiment, British 11th Armored Division crossing a Bailey bridge over the Meuse-Escaut (Maas-Schelde) Canal at Lille St Hubert, Belgium, 20 Sep 1944

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[sapper]

That picture of the Escaut Canal is the one we did the assault crossing at night. We moved on, and were some miles ahead, when the main bridge (the one in the picture)was built.
Sapper

[sapper]

Thank you very much for that photo.The canvas boats in the centre of the bridge, are those we put there in the assault crossing. The follow up main bridge building Sappers used the ones in the assault crossing.
Sends shivers down my spine and goose pimples on my goose pimples. We stopped some miles ahead at a Convent. I recall it well, for it had a passage with a cobble stone floor, where we had a bit of food.

Sapper

[gaztwrO]

thanks for your reply sapper, now here's a challenge for those national archive's wizards out there, has anyone got the reference code for the 6TH battalion of the royal welch fusiliers for the period of Sept 44'........!!!!!!!!!!

we have a freind who lives in London who may be willing to visit the national archives on our behalf to do some research regarding Edwin's death, so we thought would'nt it be interesting to research what Raymond (6th Battalion RWF)was doing that day and where was he in relation to Edwin..???

once again many thanks to everyone for replying, when we get info from the national archives i will update the site.

[PsyWar.Org]

Originally Posted by gaztwrO

thanks for your reply sapper, now here's a challenge for those national archive's wizards out there, has anyone got the reference code for the 6TH battalion of the royal welch fusiliers for the period of Sept 44'........!!!!!!!!!!

we have a freind who lives in London who may be willing to visit the national archives on our behalf to do some research regarding Edwin's death, so we thought would'nt it be interesting to research what Raymond (6th Battalion RWF)was doing that day and where was he in relation to Edwin..???

once again many thanks to everyone for replying, when we get info from the national archives i will update the site.

Here you are, their War Diary Jan to Dec '44:
WO 171/1390
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For 1945 see WO 171/5283

[gaztwrO]

due to my complete incompetency with the national archive website, i find the speed of your response quite disturbing....!!!

many thansk psywar.org for your very quick response

[PsyWar.Org]

Originally Posted by gaztwrO

due to my complete incompetency with the national archive website, i find the speed of your response quite disturbing....!!!

many thansk psywar.org for your very quick response

My pleasure, it's just knowing the system.

Believe me it's much easier these days to find things at the National Archives now the indexes have been digitalised. In the old days it was a case of searching albums of indexes stacked floor to ceiling in the huge reference room at Kew.