Hello, Was it normal for clerk typist from Head Quarters battalion to be used as mine sweepers?
5254826 Pte. Albert George BRAIN 7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 23rd May 1919 Banbury, Oxfordshire - 2nd September 1988 Banbury, Oxon, aged...
Hi My grandfather passed away a few years ago now and my dad never knew any details of his time during the war. We have his service record and...
Hello, As a gift to my Grandfather, my cousins and I are taking him on a (surprise!) trip across Western Europe, visiting places connected to...
Looking Specifically for details on the British Military Mission commanded by Captain Prior RA. In connection with the Massacre of Civilians at...
I’ve received a copy of a letter sent to the grandfather of a friend of mine during WW2. Can’t find very much information about his squadron or...
The German newspaper Schwaebische Zeitung published an article on 23rd April 2025: When the Americans massacred German POWs in Lippach on 22nd...
[ATTACH] Acton Gazette 9th November 1945 S/199422 SQMS John Frederick Walton, Royal Army Service Corps, H.Q. 53 Division, 12 Corps Award: MBE...
At the end of the war, in June or July, 1945 there was a garden party at Buckingham Palace for POW's, hosted by the Queen. Stanford Tuck, a Battle...
[ATTACH] Walsall Observer 3rd March 1945 328003 Sgt. Fred Henry Bayer, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, RAC, 8th Armoured Brigade, 30 Corps Award:...
Bonjour à tous, First of all, I'd like to apologize for my not-so-good English... Coming from France, it's not a language I master perfectly....
Hello, I am trying to find more about the fate of Lieutenant Walter Wallace Pollock whose unit was (according to CWGC) "King George V's Own Bengal...
While recognising that we have other threads covering Operation Buckland, I think it's worth being reminded that today marks the 80th anniversary...
just joined, hello everyone I'm researching my grandfather's war record and saw a post on his unit, 217FA with 78th Infantry Division, although...
World War 2: I recently started putting together a remembrance box for my grandfather 1st Lieutenant Latrobe Maurer Barnitz Jr.. It will have the...
Currently uploading a lot of personal 4th (Durham) Survey Regt, RA, photos and came across these two. Can the glider be identified from the tail...
I'm in the process of uploading a lot of personal photos for the 4th (Durham) Survey Regt and came across this photo, that I thought might be of...
Dutch professional soccer team FC Twente will honor the British soldiers, most of them soldiers of the Guards Armoured division that lost their...
Fuel, Food, Ammunition. Can anyone tell me which RASC Company was responsible for supplying 113 LIGHT AA from June 44 to March 45, and did they...
For all Varsity experts - I would like to inform you that the IWM must recently have digitized more footage on that operation. A number of those...
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