Award Military Medal Pte. James Alfred Reddington, 7 Bn Green Howards 69 Infantry Brigade, 50th Division, 30 Corps (14427480) On 12th September...
]Award Military Cross Lt. Douglas Ewart Harris, 2/5th Bn. The Queen’s Royal Regiment (324910) Italy, Lake Commacchio. Lt D. E. Harris commanded 11...
Award Military Medal Pte. James Henry Cooke 2nd Bn Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (14318025) On the night of 4th January 1945 Pte....
Award Military Cross Major Frederick Bell, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment Maj BELL commanded “D” Coy in the opening and...
Sgt. Mathieson, Glider Pilot Regiment [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Birmingham Daily Gazette 04 October 1944
The attached is taken from a Canadian Army document issued by the Chief of Staff on 10 May 1944, which is a recommendation to see and retain the...
Sjt. P. Lynch (7043341) 6th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers MiD M.I.D. London Gazette 29 November 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and...
Note: I cleared this with von Poop before posting, and he said it was Ok. As some of you may know I write books. Well, coming out late may next...
Dear folks, If this has appeared/been linked to before on the forum, apologies. Found under the IWM Collections innocuous title of "Footage For...
Dear Forum, A newbie here I have (well I think I have) filled out my introduction details on the appropriate form when I created my sign in.......
MD1 began in "Military Intelligence Research" (MIR). MIR was a department of the War Office set up in 1939 under Lt-Col Joe Holland RE. Holland...
I am just reading about the clearing of the Kohima Ridge (DIS, Jail Hill etc) in May 1944. Enormous problems were encountered here (as elsewhere)...
I would very grateful for help in answering these PIAT questions: 1. Was there an established post in the rifle platoon for a PIAT 'gunner'? (it...
Hi, can somebody help me with PIAT and 2inch mortar carying tubes. Where can I get it? Or can somebody give me dimensions and details pictures for...
[Original thread title: Mystery British casualty Smith/Smyth, Scottish Regiment, Normandy] One story my father has told me a few times relates to...
Does anybody have any knowledge on what it was like to fire a Piat. Dave
Lt Kenneth N Tuffnell 289881 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (Parent Regt: Lancashire Fusiliers) Recommended for Victoria Cross,...
Where did you get this idea that we had more equipment or men? For a long time in Normandy we were outnumbered. As regards the arms, The Germans...
Anyone any idea how many PIAT launchers were allocated to an airlanding battalion? I've got the war establishment for a parachute battalion and...
Hi Guys, I am doing a "Closing the Falaise Gap" scene in 1/32 and I want to show a PIAT and a round for it. PIAT is painted, but...... The only...
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