Hi, I've been asked to contribute to a thread about the action in which 18th Indian Infantry Brigade was overrun on 1 July 1942 at the beginning...
Hi everyone, If I put my wife's dads service record up, would you be able to point out a few things for me please? I cannot make out if he was...
Personal Number: 45468 Rank: Captain Name: Peter PITMAN-BUTLER, MiD Unit: 7th Queen's Own Hussars London Gazette : 2 September 1932...
Army Number: 545690 Rank: Warrant Officer Class ll (SSM) Name: Lionel Victor HARROLD, MiD Unit: 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars London Gazette :...
Army Number: 549963 Rank: Serjeant Name: Gordon MINES, MiD Unit: 11th Hussars London Gazette : 1 April 1941...
Personal Number: 10850 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Frederick William BYASS, DSO, MC, MiD Unit: 7th Hussars London Gazette : 26 October 1916...
Good morning, Iv recently recieved my grandads war records and as many of you know they are littered with scribbles and unreadable hand writting....
Date of Enlistment: 18 January 1940 Army Number: 6019978 Rank: Private Name: Joseph FERRANT Unit: 2/5 Battalion Essex REGIMENT Date of Birth: 11...
Army Number: 2658912 Rank: Guardsman Name: Frank Thomas PEARSON, Unit: 3 Coldstream Guards
Army Number: 132221 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Anthony Charles Oswald MAGNIAC Unit: 3 Coldstream Guards London Gazette : 31 May 1940...
Army Number: 2657535 Rank: Guardsman Name: Robert John HAMMOND Unit: Coldstream Guards
Army Number: 2656611 Rank: Lance-Corporal Name: Kenneth BELL Unit: 3 Coldstream Guards
Army Number: 869804 Rank: Serjeant Name: Lawrence FRANCE Unit: Royal Artillery ; 3 Coldstream Guards
The ‘X List’ was used to identify a soldier and his place/role in the system. The ‘X’ was followed by a Roman numeral, as follows; ●X(i) for all...
Award Distinguished Service Order Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, 5th Bn Black Watch(18139) On 26th October after the 5th Black Watch had...
[ATTACH] 164925 Lt. (later Major) Bertram William Jepson-Turner M.C. 1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 7 December 1919...
Army Number: 544862 Rank: Warrant Officer Class II (Squadron Serjeant-Major) Name: Denwood William JORDAN, MiD Unit: 8th King's Royal Irish...
Personal Number: 45472 Rank: Colonel Name: Sir Edward William St. Lo MALET, MiD Unit: 8th Hussars London Gazette : 8 July 1941...
Personal Number: 38531 Rank: Major Name: Peter Dundas SANDBACH, MiD Unit: 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) ; 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars...
Personal Number: 73086 Rank: Captain Name: Michael George HARTIGAN, MiD Unit: 3rd King's Own Hussars London Gazette : 27 August 1937...
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