The Ford at San Clemente, this area, including the town, was under constant enemy observation, so artifical smoke was utalised to cover daytime...
Hi I wonder if someone can help me please? My father was with the 8 Battalion A&SH, transferred to them on 14.6.43, 78th British Division. He...
Chaps, Does anybody have any War diaries relating to April 1945 for either the 78th division or the 56th Division? Bexley's truly excellent...
Fought by 50 men of the Faughs and three Churchills of the North Irish Horse, if this battle had not been won it may well have altered the course...
I spent yesterday (6th October 2013), following some of the path that my father CQMS Edmund O'Sullivan, who served with the 2nd Battalion London...
It was 70 years to the day, on the evening of 2nd August 1943, that the British 78th Infantry Division succeeded in capturing the 2,000 foot...
This came from Ken Fords book on the Battleaxe Div
HI My great Uncle ron recently died and because he didn't like talking about the war it is only recently that we have found out about his part in...
My Grandad served with the 78th Div Ordnance Field Park R.A.O.C throughout the Italian campaign, his service record has the following locations...
Hi, My Grandad was in the 507th Field Coy Royal Engineers during 1940 and members of the forum have been kind enough in providing me with the...
One of my favourite authors Ken Ford. (Wrote a couple of excellent books about 43rd Division back in the 1980s.) This one is excellent. Written...
I have recently been able to get hold of an "original" copy of the Battleaxe Division's narrative of its part in the final offensive during April...
Having dipped in and out of this site I thought I'd turn to it in the hope that someone could help me. I've been going through a number of...
Alex McDougall was a sergeant in the 64th Anti Tank Regiment. These are photographs his wife kept. The newspaper photograph is from, I believe,...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Wood, Ronald Rank: Guardsman Service No: 2622000 Regiment: 3 Battalion Grenadier Guards...
Personal Number: 124539 Rank: Major-General Name: Reginald Henry WHITWORTH, CB, CBE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 2 April 1940...
Personal Number: 23953 Rank: Major Name: Kenneth Edward Mortimer TUFNELL, MC Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 2 February 1923...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Name McGhan, James Henry Rank: Acting Corporal Service No: 2737222 Regiment:...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Name Hart, Edward Rank: Corporal Service No: 2736473 Regiment: 3 Battalion...
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details Goult, Arthur Rank: Corporal Service No: 2612007 Regiment: 3 Battalion Grenadier Guards...
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