Good afternoon all, Recently, I have started to look into those RASC personnel taken POW and those that escaped. I have attached a citation for...
This story appeared today of a remarkable escape and an equally remarkable, though sad, coincidence. Apologies if this story is well known to you...
Personal Number: 124535 Rank: Major Name: Harry Alexander Desmond BUCHANAN, MC Unit: Grenadier Guards ; 8 Commando ; SAS ; SBS London Gazette :...
2/Lt. John Lewis Cumming McGillivray (237738) 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters, 1 Armoured Brigade Went missing on 21st June 1942 after being...
Captain Coll Lorne MacDougall 53970 was born in 1906 in Trujillo, Peru, the son of Coll and Jane MacDougall from Islay, Scotland. His parents had...
Personal Number: 200079 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Anthony Henry Ivor KINSMAN Unit: Grenadier Guards; Long Range Desert Group; Royal Armoured Corps;...
Personal Number: 207645 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Anthony John COURAGE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 10 October 1941...
Personal Number: 207642 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Norton Cecil Michael KNATCHBULL, 6th Baron BRABOURNE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette...
Hi all, just joined. I have been looking around the different sites and came upon this one on FB and thought I might share and do some more...
William John Martin was born in 1918 in the village of Loddiswell, Devon where he was known as ‘John’ and worked as a butcher. Gunner Martin...
My father, Gunner Basil William Bancroft, service number 1470534, was a FEPOW captured at the fall of Singapore in Feb. 1942. He was initially...
Hi all, I was listening to an episode of a British WW2 escapers podcast (For You The War is Over) and the historian of the two podcasters...
Hi, I've just been looking through notes my grandfather made for a speaking engagement regarding his time as an escapee from PG54 and in these...
Was not sure what forum to place this in, but i am wondering if the above man received any Honours for his actions, i enclose a very brief and...
Second-Lieutenant Richard Lowther Broad (76276) The 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s)Lieutenant Broad was...
Award Military Cross Lt. Brereton Robert Fairclough (86900) 4th Bn The South Lancashire Regiment, (The Prince of Wale’s Volunteers)...
HALL J 3596685 1ST BN 06/08/1943 ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS I’ve been looking through books that had not been out of storage boxes in an age. And...
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