After a successful operation against the Italians, the British weakened in Egypt by the diversion of troops to Greece. Then, in March 1941 the...
Read this on an Egyptian Travel Website and seems with some of the 70th Anniversaries come and gone it may be interesting to read before the...
I am off sick and had some time to scan and publish the relevant war diary entry and the squadron AARs for the day. Many thanks go to the Tank...
Regards to all. Can anyone tell me which Battalion(s) of the DLI was involved in the siege of Tobruk, and later went to Malta.This is another...
My great uncle recently passed away and when we were attending to the estate, we came upon a suitcase full of paperwork and momentos from his war...
Colonel Mike Osborn - Telegraph Colonel Mike Osborn, who has died aged 92, had an adventurous career in which he was awarded a DSO and an MC,...
Can anyone please confirm the whereabouts of 2nd Bn Queens on 7 December 1941? I'm trying to trace Captain Sidney George Armstrong of 2nd Bn...
Colonel (Acting) Douglas Bluett, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. As Officer Commanding 14...
Personal Number: 39270 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: David Walter Arthur William FORBES, MC Unit: 3 Coldstream Guards London Gazette : 3...
Personal Number: 17751 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: William Dudley Henry Charles FORBES, MiD Unit: Coldstream Guards London Gazette : 3 July...
What Battle Scars did members of your family suffer during WW2. These scars were not always physical. My father had terrible physical injuries...
...for sure you all are aware about the combined Special Forces operations of 13./14. September 1942. In particular I would look for some...
I thought we could occasionally post on here events from 70 years ago. I've mentioned this on another thread today but I'll start the countdown...
spidgeI still cringe when I read (like an article recently) "that Tobruk was held by "British" troops for eight months during...
Hello Could anyone tell me the composition of the above unit (was it a permanent hospital staff or more like a US MASH unit), and where it was...
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