Does anyone know which divisions would have gone through Renaix / Ronse in May 1940? It would have been a main route from Brussels to Oudenaarde...
First up is one of our members:Wed 9/10 17:30 – 19:00, Arts Building, Lecture Room 2 Phil McCarty, “Point of Failure: Brigadiers of the British...
I am currently putting together a display for T/106293 Dvr Victor Hugo Sharples. We have been given a lot of paperwork, letters, photos etc....
Hi all, Metal detecting find in central New South Wales, Australia. Vehicle plate, heavy brass. 18cm x 8 cm. Raised words on plate are: LORRY...
Hi, I have found surprisingly little on the forum about the British involvement in Norway in 1940, so, I accept this may be a very long shot! I...
A contact in France has a probable BEF kitbag bearing the above details. Would anyone with access to the Royal Artillery Attestations be able to...
Hi, I'm trying to find some information for my elderley neighbour about her dad, William Nichol, who was killed 24th May 1940. I've found the...
John P Emmett enlisted in October 1939. He was wounded while serving with the Royal Engineers in the B.E.F. in France and evacuated back to UK....
Hi all, Out of sheer random interest I applied for the MOD records for Lt Colonel Gooch and very recently received them. They've blacked out some...
My Uncle Arthur Lional Grant was briefly in Camp 172. Can anyone tell me where it was please?
I'm trying to unravel my uncle's war story: served with the Rifle Brigade and the 1st Armoured Division, captured in May 1940 during the fall of...
Hello Can somebody give info on this picture? VBR Leon[IMG]
I am writing a biography of one of our villagers, who fell in WW2, as part of a community project. I've got stuck on a bit of detail and would...
Good afternoon to anyone reading this! I am trying to find out any information, articles / photo / anything at all about my Grandfathers WW2...
My Grandfather Major Bill Potts escaped from the Germans having been captured at St Valery in 1940. He escaped via Marseilles with the French...
Hello My grandfather was in the 1st battalion The Black Watch, and along with most others in The 51st Highland Division surrendered to the...
Robin Andrews was a nurse in the American Hospital in Paris when the Germans invaded, this is Nurse Andrew's account of her escape from France....
Roy Martin submitted a new resource: Nurse Robin Andrews - Her account of her escape from France June 1940 Robin Andrews was a nurse in the...
In the churchyard of Waarmaarde Church are the graves of 18 men. 17 have been identified and they all served in the 2 Lancashire Fusiliers and my...
Hi, I am researching the story of six sappers that died attempting to defuse a bomb in Nantwich in Cheshire on 17th August 1940. I was wondering...
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