My Grandfather Major Bill Potts escaped from the Germans having been captured at St Valery in 1940. He escaped via Marseilles with the French...
Ran across this on Bluesky. I could TOTALLY see Alec Guinness playing the milkman. [ATTACH]
Hi everyone, just got hold of three boxes of Airfix 1/76 scale French Foreign Legion figures, abot 150 in all. I am thinking of Beau Geste here....
Army Number: 6100509 Rank: Corporal Name: Juan DIAZ Unit: 50 Commando, Layforce Army Number Block Allocations The Queen's Royal Regiment...
This is my current research project during lock down. An event that is little known outside Algeria now and my focus is on who helped the French...
Hello, I received the response from the Red Cross and my grandfather was interned in Capua PG 66 PM 3300 (his name is on a map dated March 8,...
Hello All I am new here, an American filmmaker researching four volunteer stretcher-bearers from The American Field Service who signed on to...
My name is Linda and I'm researching my grandfather’s awesome past. In 1937 he signed up with the French Foreign Legion and when his contract was...
Pride and prejudice: Scotland's complicated black history http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-24347632 [IMG] Eugene Bullard,...
French Foreign Legion Could anyone add more re The Legions participation in WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion thank...
Have tidied up these diaries and filled in as many gaps as I could. Now in one continuous thread. (Some months still to transcribe.) TNA...
i heard that some ss units joined foreign legion after ww2, and that they we're send into vietnam (1965 i think). they've also sent into death so...
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