Personal Number: 73095 Rank: Brigadier Name: Gordon George REINHOLD, MC, MiD Unit: Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) London Gazette : 23 June...
Army Number: 2587818 Rank: Serjeant Name: Ronald Arthur JOLLIFFE , MiD Unit: Royal Corps of Signals London Gazette : 22 March 1945...
Award Distinguished Conduct Medal C.S.M. Reginald John Philp, 5th Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Bude) (5437087) At approximately 1900...
Does anyone know where I can find who the Divisional Artillery commanders were for 43rd Wessex Division, 51st Highland Division, 53rd Welsh...
Personal Number: 40742 Rank: Major-General Name: Dennis Edmund Blacquiere TALBOT, MID Unit: Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 7 Hampshire...
25th January 1945 The night otherwise quiet, was enlivened by an element of comedy. The air photographs issued on a lavish scale before the...
Hi all, I've finally got round to reading David Render's "Tank Action" and come across a large anomaly between his description of the capture of...
A fellow on twitter shared a still from this video of 43 Division in Haselünne on 10 April 1945. I love seeing any new footage of Archers because...
My Dad CSM Frederick George Westwood was an ambulance driver in the RASC attached to 130 Field Ambulance from March 1943 to May 1944. I have...
Newspaper clipping from 14th November 1944 on 43rd Wessex/Dorset Regiment in attempt to relieve 1st Airborne Division . Operation Market Garden.
Hi all, I've been browsing the site for the last few weeks as I've been trying to piece together where my grandfather might have been during the...
[IMG] Operation Bluecoat: July 30 to August 7, 1944: Operation Bluecoat, better known as "The Breakthrough in the Bocage", was launched from...
I was wondering if infantry battalions kept any record of the vehicles they held, and if such records still exist? I am looking for the specific...
I am searching for personal accounts by veterans who served with the 43rd Wessex Division. Are there any others besides these? Has anyone read...
I believe 260 Field Company would have been in the area of Brunssum, Netherlands along with other units of the 43rd Wessex Division, clearing the...
Hi all, Hope this is the right place for this post (should it be under Higher Formations instead?) I was wondering, what is the best history of...
Hello, does anyone have any information about the 504th coy RASC belong to the 43rd DI Wessex? Because this company had camped certainly around...
Hi Have found some basic information on my grandad, John Lionel Luck, who was in the 112 (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regt. Royal Artillery...
Hello all, I am researching the life and career of a man named Donald Boyd Wilson (1910-2002) for a magazine article. The feature will mostly be...
Four colleagues from 130 Field Ambulance. Pte W Wormley front right. One of the others may be "Dizzy" Davies whose father was editor of...
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