An online free webinar from the Kohima Educational Trust on Thursday 20th March at 8pm. The advert explains:..our guest speaker Dr Nigel Warwick....
A Substack article by Dr. Robert Lyman, he opens with:Even today, few people are aware of just how dramatic these events were, and just how...
Dr Robert Lyman and Jack Bowsher are launching this series soon and Robert explains: Over the past couple of weeks Jack Bowsher and I have been...
A new online presentation (1h 35m; from 31/7/2024) and the summary states:In early 1942 one of the most disastrous defeats of the war saw British...
Dr. Robert Lyman draws attention to a previously unknown man, his article starts with:Every now and again in my research I come across lives that...
Asked this week to research an officer who the family say served with 'V' Force in Burma and Borneo, but died in October 1945. A separate thread...
Just had an email from the National Army Museum for this event. Some of the talks are free and others are £12.50 each (there maybe a "bundle" from...
I have just finished reading ‘A Signal Honour’ by Robin Painter. He was involved in the first Chindit expedition (Operation Longcloth), the...
Personal Number: 11916 Rank: Major-General Name: William Oswald BOWEN, CB, CBE, MiD**, MIEE Unit: Royal Corps of Signals London Gazette : 20...
A brief interview with Arthur Lawson MBE, a Jewish soldier with the 14th Army: [MEDIA]
I’m researching my Grandfather Robert Hugh Hughes time in the 8th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, 247th Battery. I have a little snippets of...
Hi all, I'm researching some family history for a friend. I have a subscription on Ancestry, but can't find the records I'm looking for. He...
A friend wants to go on this March 2020 tour, but the tour operators are struggling to get the minimum numbers needed; which has happened before,...
Major General H.R.Briggs arriving on 25th Dragoons Lee tank "Shrewsbury" from the Ngakyedauk Pass during the relief of 7th Division (Messervy)in...
I have recently read this in “ Ball of Fire” by Anthony Brett-James and wondered if these Loading Tables still exist somewhere, as they would...
Great little program on R4 this afternoon, worth checking on Listen again: 16:30 Great Lives 16 September 2008 Series of biographical...
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