No.120 Squadron. On 12 September 1941 Liberator I AM925 X/120 flew from base ( Nutts Corner) to Limavady, Northern Ireland. On the same day the...
I have seen a post mentioning a couple of Quonset huts in N Ireland. Does anyone know of camps built with Quonset huts for accommodation in GB?
Farmer James Thompson fined £20k for damaging WW2 monument An elderly farmer has been fined £20,000 for damaging a World War Two monument in...
The 148th Independent Reconnaissance Company - a history based on the diary and papers of W.J.Milne. The 148th Independent Reconnaissance Company...
This photograph was taken in Belfast in 1940. It shows a platoon of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. There are...
Sometimes twitter throws up noteworthy items, as it did yesterday, a screen shot of partial transcript of a US Army officer who was amongst the...
World War Two sailor feared dead in torpedo attack turns 100 A Royal Navy sailor who was reported dead during World War Two has celebrated his...
Hi folks, Just wondering if anyone here has made contact with anyone who was stationed at RAF Langford Lodge, during the time it was being setup...
Hi there, my maternal grandad Harold Raymond Beggs was in the 1st Battalion RUR service number 701176. He enlisted on 04/03/1932 when he was 16...
Badger was shot down by Me109s on 30th August 1940 He baled out but was badly injured when he landed in trees. His Hurricane, V6458, crashed...
Personal Number: 188840 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Denis Parsons BURKITT, CMG, MB, FRCS, FRS Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps London Gazette : 5...
Tweeted today by @cormacmoore an Irish historian three B&W photos below of a previously unknown incident: Images (Daily Mirror/Sunday Pictorial)...
The Belfast mountain, a white rock and links to WW2 Same video also in link [MEDIA] "A north Belfast mountain's connection to World War Two can...
Personal Number: 21164 Rank: Major-General Name: Horatio Pettus Mackintosh BERNEY-FICKLIN, CB, MC, MiD** Unit: Norfolk Regiment. ; Highland Light...
Army Number: 6979832 Rank: Lance-Serjeant Name: Charles GALLAGHER, MiD Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers London Gazette : 11 January 1945...
For anyone interested, a blog I contributed towards regarding wartime bomb disposal in Northern Ireland, has just 'gone up', (if you'll excuse the...
Hi all, I am researching some family history and on my mums birth certificate it states "Father James Mcgowan, Captain Green Howards" The...
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This photograph had been with my mother for years. She wasn't able to tell us anything about it before she died a couple of years ago. Is there...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with my grandfathers WW2 history? I have his service records and know that: From 1939 to 1944...
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