Award Military Cross Lt. Wibbe Arend Kampinga, No 3 Independent Company, Royal Netherlands Brigade (517) During the time the Royal Netherlands...
With the green light from a Forum moderator here's a synopsis of a book just published. "My Wartime Wanderings" by Kenneth L Phillips, 6969044, B...
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody could help me find the war diaries of the 85 Bridging Company, RCASC for september 44, prior to move to Bourg...
Date of Enlistment: 31 May 1940 Army Number: 2736565 Rank: Guardsman Name: Joseph SILK Unit: Welsh Guards Date of Birth: 9 May 1914 Place of...
H there, I am back on a mission to trace my grandfathers war efforts in NE Europe. A few months ago, I managed to gather a lot of detail around...
OK, i'm am completely new to this so please bear with me. I would like to start a project to trace my grandfathers movements during WWII and...
There is no explanation of the reasons (presumably development of the site) but they've just demolished one of the Belgian Bunkers which defended...
In reading various accounts of Market Garden and the Battle for the Schelte, I've noted some interesting observations from Sir Brian Horrocks....
Hello to all, My father, Wilfred Patrick Naylor was a pow in stalag VIIIB from 1940-1944 when he was repatriated. I know he was injured so there...
These photos were already shown in another thread here but I thought that they deserved a place of their own in the 1940 section. [For those of...
I was wondering whether anyone could help me. I have recently acquired a family heirloom which is a family members diary from his days in the...
superb article about the Falschirmjäger raid on eben emael in belgium during the western campaign of Germany in may 1940. The airborne assault on...
Hopefully I'm going to do another Dunkirk trip this year on my bike. It will probably be the same format as my last trip riding from Cassel to the...
Hi Guys, Do you have any stories regarding the BEF units that held up the Germans to keep the escape going? I'm looking for subject matter on...
I have another cousin, Bertie Edgar Pallett, who was a Guardsman with the Scots Guards, who died on 9 September 1944 and is buried at Leopoldsburg...
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