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View ArticleNZ Avro Anson takes flight.
WWII Avro Anson plane airshow star - NZ News - Video - 3 News
View ArticleRemembering Today 28/3/42 Serjeant R.Beveridge 4534228 West Yorkshire...
BEVERIDGE, ROBERT Rank: Serjeant Service No: 4534228 Date of Death: 28/03/1942 Age: 31 Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) and No. 5 Commando Grave Reference 1. D. 3....
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Chesson
Hi Guys, Chesson side. My father was too young to enlist but was a souvenir hunter first class, he lived in Wichling. Wichling was right under the German flight path for Detling Aerodrome during the...
View ArticleWhy reduce in rank??
I have been looking at my wife's uncle Gordon Duncan Colclough war record. After returning from Crete with the surviving commandos on 1st June 1941, he joined the SBS. He had been made Corporal in 1939...
View Article16 G(R) Mission
Can anyone point me in the direction of finding out what this was? My wife's uncle was a XXXXXX member of the SBS at the time. He had returned from Crete with the remnants of Layforce and was...
View ArticlePOW to Switzerland - Gunner Burton
James Douglas Burton (Pvte) 943497 of the 67th Medium Artillery regiment. Still alive and kicking aged 94. Captured 21st June 1941 (he thinks)about 20 miles from Tobruk. Every man for himself. Prisoner...
View ArticleRAF Air Gunners Log Book Find
In the local Rag last night Manchester Evening News 27 March 2013 a chance find of an Air gunners log book by builders in a pubs attic , 1596507 Aircraftsman Banner. R. [and presumably Flt Sgt] he...
View ArticleRussian Arctic Convoy Museum Project
As a volunteer for this excellent project, I would like to encourage those with relatives who veterans of the Russian Arctic convoys to do 2 things: to visit the website Russian Arctic Convoy Museum -...
View ArticleThe Royal Scots Regimental Day
Greetings to all Royal Scots on the 380th Anniversary of the raising of the Regiment on 28th March 1633 by Sir John Hepburn. Nemo me impune lacessit Up The Royals! Joe Brown.
View ArticleBrigadier Sir Jeffrey Darrell MC - Telegraph Obituary
Brigadier Sir Jeffrey Darell, 8th Bt Brigadier Sir Jeffrey Darell, 8th Bt, who has died aged 93, was one of a small group of men responsible for the protection of the Royal family in the early years of...
View ArticleWaterbeach closure.
From the BBC news today. Many Royal Engineers will have been based here or passed through like myself. BBC News - Waterbeach Barracks closes to make way for housing It will also be of note to members...
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Back to the future
I was going through some of my Great Grandad's things from the First World War and among them is a booklet which he got when he was a POW - "Souvenir of Captivity in Germany 1917". It is a collection...
View ArticleRemembering Today 29/3/45 Lance Naik T.Muhammad 6066/9570 4th Jammu and...
TAJ MUHAMMAD Rank: Lance Naik Service No: 6066/9570 Date of Death: 29/03/1945 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: 4th Jammu and Kashmir Infantry, Indian States Forces Grave Reference 29. G. 25. Cemetery TAUKKYAN...
View ArticleManchester Regiment
Does anyone have access to any Nominal or Troop Rolls for the Manchester Regiment for around 1940/41 with the exception of the 1st Bttn out in Singapore?? (the person i'm searching for was almost...
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