This story was published on the BBC website in reference to a West African veteran who died aged 101 in January 2022: world-africa-60301758 [ATTACH]
Personal Number: 6491 Rank: Major-General Name: Christopher Geoffrey WOOLNER, CB, MC**, MiD* Unit: Royal Engineers London Gazette : 21 January...
Hi all, while I'm waiting for my grandad's full records from the MOD (I just saw the thread about the huge and unsurprising backlog) I went on...
Sgt Hopper (?) 3rd Oct 1942 Wellington W5377 shot down en route Gibraltar to Bathurst, Sierra Leone. We know 3 survived Captain P/O D M...
I am tracing a signaller Dennis Taylor #2586957 . His service record shows he was in the Gambia and then Sierra Leone in early 1941 with 161...
I have managed to find someone who lives in Freetown who is willing to take photographs of both the Cemetery and Memorial if anyone is interested....
Hi, Picture named grandad hes in the middle of the front row. This is my Partners Grandad he servied in Sierra Leone during the war, now we know...
Could anyone help with these 2 Recce men. FREETOWN (KING TOM) CEMETERY 6th Regt Reconnaissance Corps Serjeant ALBERT CONNOR Unknown Regt...
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