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13-06-2007, 10:29 AM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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 | WW2 Gallantry Recommendations These have long been available on microfilm at TNA in London, but were always a pain to find people in. They are now available to download via the Documents Online site: The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army) You can search for free, and downloads cost £3.50 or are free if done at TNA itself. An example of what you get is below. This chap is a distant Great Uncle of mine whom I didn't know existed until these records were digitised!
__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm |
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13-06-2007, 10:58 AM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Cheers Paul, will have a delve later. Edit, just noticed his number, 5772197, has him enlisting in Norfolks, rather than RA who he won MM with. Royal Norfolk Regiment 5763001 - 5819000 . Later edit.Doh! It says that on the form. Last edited by Owen; 13-06-2007 at 11:14 AM. |
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13-06-2007, 05:12 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Essex
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|  Tna I have just had a quick look through this, wish they had done this before I went through about 40 rolls of microfilm inch by inch! However £3.50 is a bit steep, to print one off at the TNA is only 20p! or 25p if you pay cash. I may be down their in the next 3 weeks, if I can, so MAY be able to look up one or two if I am able! however I cannot promise anything as I may have to work! (always gets in the way) (Now waits for deluge!) Regards Andy PS. If anyone wants any Airborne Citations I have most of them, well the ones I could find!
__________________ 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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13-06-2007, 07:49 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2005
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 | I hate the NA because I'm always getting lost around the website. Is there an equivalent one for the Air Force(s)?
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13-06-2007, 08:37 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2005
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| Thanks for the link Paul. I've just printed off a copy of my Grandfather's MBE recommendation. Quite remarkable to see the signatures of the Commanders of 5 Div, 17 Inf Bde and 2 Northamptons on the document. Wonderful stuff. Let's hope that the War Diaries follow ! |
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13-06-2007, 11:39 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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| Hi Paul, Thanks to a very good friend of mine, Hugh Vaugh, I have citations for everyone of the NIH who received decorations during WW II - including three recipients of the B.E.M, and one a bar to his D.S.O., whose names are not shown on the regiment's records. Sent copies to the NIH Historian who hopefully will correct things. Hugh sent me not only the citations but copies of the relevant pages from the London Gazette. Wonderful reading! Gerry |
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14-06-2007, 07:40 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich
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| Tried 5 times to find my Fathers details of military medal, to no avail. Have entered all the info that i know to be true, and variations thereof. Am I doing something wrong? I hope so.
__________________ 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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14-06-2007, 08:32 PM
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| Very Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005
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| err, just checking - George Sands - 2934077? The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details
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14-06-2007, 09:12 PM
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| Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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| Glad this was of interest to you all. Kyt - there are RAF recommendations but they are only available in the original at Kew, not online. I have never looked at them, except in index form, so no idea what form they take or what decorations they cover.
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15-06-2007, 02:56 AM
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| WW2 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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PM me with as much of the details you have of your Dad's award. I will pass the info on to my friend Paul. I know that getting the basic details from the London Gazette makes the search a lot easier. Cheers, Gerry | |
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