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O N.S. 154 This is a story of one convoy that crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic which started in 1939 and ended on V.E. Day. O.N.S. identifies the convoy as a ""slow, we …
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Called up July 26, 1940 Colwick Park, Nottingham. Cleethorpes, Grainthorpe, Somercotes, Saltfleetby, Somercotes (South), South Usselby, Grimsby, Redcar, Yarm, Tow Law, Middlesbrough. Sailed Septembe …
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By JR Manning When I look back over the years to what all of us of the 14th Army went through I feet a great sadness at the very touching and sad memories of the Burma Vets. After all, with the best …
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By Stan White The RAF Servicing Commandos have received scant recognition from those who write about the Second World War RAF history, and yet they made a vital contribution to keeping the front- li …
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Pfc Dalton F Williams of Merrill's Marauders & Mars Task Force By Sandy Williams Driver Pfc Dalton F Williams His Honorable Discharge state …
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By Dennis R Courant The Japanese Government was signatory to the ""Third Geneva Convention of 1929""- with respect to the treatment of POWs- but in the end fails ratify it. The reasoning behind i …
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What follows is an account of two families’ departure from Burma when the Japanese invaded in 1942 which Ann P Birch of Tidworth, Hants thought we might like to have in the archives. This was writt …
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While I still remember it in early 2005. 60+ years after the events By Manny Curtis, South Lancashire Regiment I received my call-up papers in June 1943. The Primary Training Centre (PTC) to whi …
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by Norman Morse of Williton in Somerset It was with great interest that I read the article by Major John Hill in issue 119 of DEKHO! The article related to the documentary made by Charles Wheeler an …
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52nd Training Regiment.RAC.Bovington Camp, Dorset 26th Hussars,RAC.Nira camp,Poona,India Command RAC,Dock Ferrying Party,Colaba Barracks,Bombay,India 26th Hussars,Bolarum Barracks,Secunderbad,India Co …
