Personal Number: P/62882 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Sir Peter Allix WILKINSON, KCMG, DSO, OBE Unit: Royal Fusiliers ; SOE ; No 1 Special Force...
Hi everyone Whilst browsing through the Army Casualty Lists on www.Findmypast.co.uk I found a Private J.A. Bishop of the 1/4 Essex regiment...
Very good article about this outstanding soldier on the BBC website today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30685433
Greetings to everyone here. I've been lurking around, surreptitiously reading everyone's posts for several months now and have finally taken the...
I was just reading of Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, and his "Frankly, I enjoyed the war" comment about WW1. Brought to mind...
I've been flicking through David Hackworth's excellent 'About Face' again recently, and his service from WW2, through Korea, and into Vietnam, has...
Does anyone know how many british generals were captured during WW2? Was just searching the pow list on ancestry.co.uk and saw three listed under P!
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