I am helping a friend researching his grandfather. I did help him a couple of years ago, on an episode in India involving chemical weapons. Note...
This week a South African author provided a copy of an article by the officer himself, which was published a few years ago as part of a book on...
This regiment appears in a multitude of threads and twenty seven have their name in the title. In WW2 they served in many theatres, Abbysinia (now...
Original information from his family Captain Cecil Warwick Strong (henceforth CWS), killed, November 1945 in Sarawak, served with the Special...
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...
Army Number: 44256 (A/169) Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Brian Leslie SUNDIUS-SMITH, DSO Unit: 4th BALUCH REGIMENT (Indian Army) London Gazette...
One of "my men" from Lion Box seems to have had a fall from grace that I would like to get to the bottom of. The OC of 517 Artisan Works Company...
Personal Number: I.A.76 Rank: Brigadier Name: Thomas Richard HENRY, CBE, MiD Unit: 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army London Gazette : 29 April...
Personal Number: Rank: Major-General Name: Sir Charles Offley HARVEY, CB, CVO, CBE, MC, MiD Unit: Highland Light Infantry ; Central India Horse,...
Personal Number: 23034 Rank: General Name: Sir Ashton Gerard Oswald Mosley MAYNE, GCB, CBE, DSO, MiD* Unit: East Lancashire Regiment ; 6th...
A friend based in the USA asked:I have got the John Masters autobiographical trilogy about his time with the Gurkhas. Can you recommend any good...
A forum member, Fatboy Coxy, since December 2021 has been writing a thread on this often controversial subject for the British Commonwealth,...
Personal Number: 1707 Rank: Colonel Name: Ralph Charles Geoffrey POLLOCK Unit: Indian Army ; 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force) London Gazette : 15...
Good morning everyone, I'm looking for some help about an interesting story happened in Casentino. Approximately on the very last days of...
Good morning everyone, I have joined this forum to interact and discuss with forum members regarding the British Army Royal Artillery's 80th...
I have been looking for information about the Fighting Vehicles School India because my father (7889785 James Coubrough RTR) served there from 15...
Hi all. My grandfather, Reginald George Michael King, served in the Indian Army in WW2. I have in my possession this photograph, but alas no date...
We are looking for information on a Major Harold Martyn-David. No.363366. ( He has also been shown has also been shown as "T/Major" and No....
In Foot & Langley's book on MI9, on page 279, is this paragraph: ‘Early in 1944 Capt Bairnsfather of the Chinese maritime customs organised...
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