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15-06-2007, 07:08 AM
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 | Thanks Gerry, Kyt sent me a link(thanks Kyt) already had a copy of citation and found all details in Gazette, just wanted to see if it worked better than the Gazette site. It does not for me it seems.
__________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever) |
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22-06-2007, 09:43 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Just remembered I'll have to tell a chap at work about this as here is his Uncle, Albert Cordell MM CWGC :: Casualty Details The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details |
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| Brian C's two Uncles. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-ita...cily-43-a.html Link to Tommy's MM Recommendation at TNA. The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details
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27-06-2007, 11:15 PM
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| Kyt on that web page Paul linked to, did you scroll down and see example to AVTAR SINGH ? The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army) |
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27-06-2007, 11:27 PM
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| He's another I wish I could afford to look up. The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details and Bar The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Lance Corporal R W Bennett, from Leicester, of the Royal Signals receives a Bar to the Military Medal which he won at Tripoli, for gallantry during the Normandy landings.  |
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20-03-2008, 10:37 AM
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| Ron, Have you checked for your SSM William Thomas here? Here he is. The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Cost you £3.50 EDIT. That's where you got your info from that you posted on other thread. Last edited by Owen; 20-03-2008 at 10:40 AM. |
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20-03-2008, 01:11 PM
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| I was awarded the Commander in Chiefs recommendation (Monty's Certificate) at the badly shelled wooden hutted Dutch SS training camp. North of Venraij in the Autumn of 1944 by Lt Boyce RE. my platoon officer. I was wounded shortly after, flown home to the UK. and never got it I have searched through and found no mention of it. Sapper |
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20-03-2008, 01:20 PM
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| Owen I have just emailed you re your entry from 2007! Andy B
__________________ In proud memory of Lieutenant James Henry Woods 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th September 1944 Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson 156th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 21st September 1944 Sergeant John Burge Glider Pilot Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th-26th September 1944 Corporal John Walter Bentley 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action on the Rhine 24th March 1945 LEST WE FORGET 'They are free-yes-but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die' (from The Peloponesian War?- Herodotus 490-425BC ) |
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20-03-2008, 01:55 PM
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| mmm, this one would be of interest. Rogers, Maurice Albert Wyndham, later went on to win VC. The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details |
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