Hello all, I'm trying to find any information about The Western Command Signal Company and any of its soldiers during operations in WWII. Royal...
Personal Number: 21854 Rank: Major-General Name: Douglas Povah DICKINSON, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, MiD Unit: Welch Regiment London Gazette : 5 October...
This is an IWM photo - sorry I've misplaced the reference - of a Crusader tank. The man standing in the turret is General Paget. My question is...
Personal Number: 1094 Rank: General Name: Sir James Handyside MARSHALL-CORNWALL, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, MiD*, FRSGS Unit: Royal Artillery London...
I thought this might be of interest to the RASC and DUKW community! WO171/2365 – 50 Company RASC 5 March 1944 1030 Ship [HMT BOISSEVAIN]...
Hello does anyone know of a map showing the command areas - N, E, S, W, Sc, L.D. & NID. ? Thank you
I'd be grateful if someone could say where REME had its holding battalions in early 1944 (I believe that there was more than one) and also where...
[ATTACH] Ditherington Flax Mill and Maltings was used during the 2nd war as a training barracks. We have secured funding to research just what...
Constructed in 1940, the blocks are on both sides of the A470 Dolgellau to Dinas Mawddwy road. They form part of the Western Command stop line...
Hi guys, I wonder if I can pick your brains... For many years I have been piecing together the story of the above camp. Sadly as in the...
WO166/1220 Western Command West Lancashire District War Diary makes this intriguing entry: [ATTACH] Someone with more specialised knowledge than...
In researching the development of Anti-Aircraft formations in the 1930s, I have come across a document dated November 1937 referring to 2nd...
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Hi I am trying to find information on my granddad's time in Birkenhead territorial army. He was in the territorial army before the start of WW2...
Hello there. Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation C.S.D. stands for please? I think it was a depot of some sort .... stores?? There was...
TNA Catalogue Reference: WO 171/1250 Description: 1 Coldstream Guards (Armoured Battalion) Date: 1944 Jan.- Dec.
Hello all, This is a continuation of a strand from a thread that can be found here:...
Whilst continually looking for maps and files at the National Archives, to identify where my Dad's unit was based prior to departure to Normandy...
Hi I am researching the WWII Stop Lines in Cornwall and want to find detailed accounts of the Home Guard in Cornwall, particularly those in the...
I have been researching a local wartime HAA Bty that was on Penn Common in the W.Midlands (UK) and found a fascinating and tragic story of...
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