I am currently publishing scans and transcriptions of the 1,000 or so letters and documents exchanged by my Grandparents during WW2 online. Items...
Good afternoon, I'm currently researching the all-female 93rd Searchlight Regiment (Basic Information Here) that my Grandmother was a part of,...
Hello: Could anyone please help me make sense of this Royal Navy record for my great grandfather. Family stories have been passed down saying he...
Hi all - is there a source that outlines (broad detail!) the Portsmouth harbour defences (anti-submarine nets, booms, etc.) I'm looking at a copy...
Cpl. John George Dalgleish (5507071) No. 3 Commando (Hampshire Regiment) captured 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, imprisoned Stalag 344. Took part in...
Whilst trying to find a photograph of two wounded paratroopers returning from Normandy either at Portsmouth or Southampton I have been coming...
Is there anything in particular at the museum that I must not miss? Thanks!
1945 - England
The Blitz, was a sustained period of bombing raids inflicted upon the British by the Nazis between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941. If you wander...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/old-portsmouth/101-high-street.htm I took these photographs Thursday 26-06-14.
Maud (Farrar) Montgomery mother to Field-Marshall Montgomery Lady Montgomery lived in Moville, Donegal, Ireland, the same place my mothers...
Hi my grandfather a Royal Marine service no AA587832D joined 11/11/1943 eastney barracks Portsmouth. He was on various ships including: Hms...
I noticed this in the Portsmouth News, There are hundreds of old Air Raid shelters in peoples back gardens and around where I work in Bristol a...
Might I have, perchance, cracked this one? During the war, a 'Land Mine' was dropped on the south east corner of the Highbury Estate, Cosham. It...
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