World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945 221365 Charles Henry Ashby British Army Royal Army Service Corps from:Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire My Uncle Charlie was taken prisoner #252314 when he landed in France and taken to Camp 4c Stalag Wistritz bei Teplitz. He escaped and managed to return...
United Kingdom (1934) Infantry Tank – 1 Prototype Built Of all the tanks in WW2 which may be derided or even mocked for being ‘ugly’ or useless, one which invariably makes the list is the British A.11 Matilda. This is partially the result of the overall poor showing of the British...
Information taken from WW2Talk.com (here) and AircrewRemembered.com (here). You can only marvel at the courage of aircrews such as this one. Harold Hewitt’s gesture in writing to the other families suggests a man with a considerable generosity of spirit, rather in contrast to the man who...
A marine archaeology survey team from the University of Malta, working in co-operation with the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and an international project team, has located the wreck of the British WW2 submarine HMS Urge (N17) off the coast of Malta. Professor Timmy Gambin, from the Un...
British WW2 ration booklet stores registration Note the plural, stores. This was before the days of supermarkets. You went to different stores for different items: the greengrocer, the butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, etc. You would register at one store for meat, another for dry goods, ...
Abbreviations of Service: ANS: Army Nursing Service PCANSR (Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) QAIMNS: Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service QAIMNS(R): Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) QARANC: Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps...
of these Motor Boats equipped with torpedoes and thus invented the MTB for coastal service. By January 1916 he started production of the Coastal Motor Boats (CMB) and also worked on air-flow devices, hovercrafts and hydropters. His company was still recoignised as champion of MTBs in WW2…...
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Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken...
World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945 5053367 GH Morgan British Army Royal Army Service Corps GH Morgan served with the Royal Army Service Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family....