My uncle Charlie, Charles Kennedy, was a pre-war regular soldier serving in the Royal Scots Regiment. He was captured by the Japanese at the fall...
OK, just thought I would try this, I am trying to find any photographs or associated information which applies to the 2nd Battalion, Heds and...
I am looking for any information on:- 1082200 ACM2 Albert Fairhurst RAFVR, who was killed on the Suez Maru on 29.11.1943. I am aware of how he...
Hello everybody , I have joined you in the hope that you can help me in the following search for my dad's war record and what happened to my two...
Hi all, I'm researching the life of my Great Uncle Clifford Boardman who died in a Japanese POW camp during the war. We have a decent amount of...
As part of our school's war memorial project we are eesearching Michael Lewin Anderson of the Royal Artillery who died on 23rd April 1945 in...
Has anyone researched the Japanese 'hell ships' of WW2 and the Rakuyo Maru in particular, please? I understand that in September 1944 the Rakuyo...
Hi I have been trying to find info out on Donald Roberts Gnr ( typewriter Mechanic) He was my wife's Grandfather and my children's great...
A number of files at Kew contain affidavits by Far East POWs. The following is a list of names of (ex) POWs under file numbers of where they can...
RememberingToday Casualty Details | CWGC AVES, DONALD LESLIE ERNEST Rank: Private Service No: 3968812 Date of Death: 23/10/1943 Age: 27...
Can anyone help regarding two Hellship voyages. Looking for either a National Archives file or any website listings for two sailings that seem to...
WOOD, CHARLES PATRICK Rank: Private Service No: QX13460 Date of Death: 12/09/1944 Age: 29 Regiment/Service:...
My friend Stan was a pow in forsoma and worked in the copper mines , he is 95 yrs old and 7 years ago he finally opened up and started talking...
McMILLAN, John Phipps; Gnr; VX57833; 2/1st Heavy Battery, RAA. (Re-enlisted - 3/401100; Served KOREA) Was taken prisoner after the fall of...
Hi, A long shot I know but this forum has been so useful that I have to ask. I am in the process of researching the men on my local war memorial...
I have been looking to see if anyone else was going to remind us that today is VJ Day. I actually went to a small local memorial service this...
Hi all , I am currently researching my fathers war history . He was George Albert Snowdon and joined the R.A.O.C as a electric welder and enlisted...
Hello all, For years I knew that my relative was a prisoner of the Japanese, for a long time my research came up empty though after a long search...
Hi All Not sure what they mean, i.e. at the top of my grandfather's POW questionnaire (he was captured in Singapore, was part of F Force and...
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