[img] Hello, I have been searching the Net for some time now, looking for information about a Lt Col LEWIS, Royal Engineers, 50th (Northumbrian)...
Forum member, Mel Jnr ( ‘a well camel’ ), has asked me to pass on the very sad news that Mel Snr passed away a little after 8.30 pm on Wednesday...
[ATTACH] Hello, my grandfather Bill Leach(14499459) was in Normandy 1944. I know he was around the falaise pocket and took part in the attack on...
Hello All, hope you are keeping healthy and safe. I'm looking for any information on a William Coutt, born 27th May 1917 and I believe he served...
[ATTACH] „Tyne and Tees Bridges“ at Rees/Germany The British Army advancing into Germany in 1945 was on a mission to liberate Europe from Nazism...
Hi guys You might be interested I have recently stumbled on the overgrown grave of a Thomas Albert Woodcock MM who died in 71 aged 59. He would...
Whilst trying to find a photograph of two wounded paratroopers returning from Normandy either at Portsmouth or Southampton I have been coming...
Hi, All, For some years I have been researching the War Dead of Areley Kings, Worcestershire in the Great War (15), the Second World War (5) and...
Some 10 years ago I bought this grouping of medals, medal box (and sheet), dog tags and insignia. I have always believed these may have belonged...
[IMG] Operation Bluecoat: July 30 to August 7, 1944: Operation Bluecoat, better known as "The Breakthrough in the Bocage", was launched from...
Private Edgar Bolton of the 5th was wounded in an attack that killed a number of his mates some time after D-Day and before July 10th. All his son...
I have been reading the newly published '50th At Bay' by B.S. Barnes which was recommended to me by Mel Junior from these very pages. I have had...
Hi all newbie here looking into getting some information on my grandfather. I have emailed the DLI records office but so far no response. I am...
As promised elsewhere, here are the loading schedules from 50 Division RASC Operation Order No 1 of 20 May 44 contained in WO171/2481: [ATTACH]...
I was looking at this series of colour pictures on the IWM site: THE VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER, WINSTON CHURCHILL TO CAEN, NORMANDY, 22 JULY...
I've been working on an OCR application to transcribe Overlord/WW2 documents from the UK National Archives, I've started uploading my progress so...
Hello all, I'm brand new so please be gentle. I have started (this week) to research my Grandad and what he did during WW2. Thankfully my Grandad...
Members may like to know that I recently had coffee with Wilf Shaw. He's 96 and still going strong. I've posted my recording of the chat on...
Looking for a full listt of regiments tat were in both the 50th Division and 51st Highland division. I understand that both were in my area of...
Hello, I am searching for information on the 151st brigade of 50th division. I know it was made up of the 6th, 8th and 9th DLI battalions along...
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