and focuses on a recent Wellcome Trust-funded project to catalogue and preserve the archival collections of two Quaker relief bodies in the Second World War: Friends Relief Service and Friends Ambulance Unit.1 The aim is to give a high-level overview of the collections, r...
Germans intercepted Prytz's report back to Stockholm and concluded that the war with Britain was likely to end by the end of the summer. [Halifax | London, England | CPC]1 Jul 1940 United Kingdom The Free French government-in-exile established its own Military Intelligence Service under ...
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World War I andWorld War IIhave been the highlights of destruction by conventional, biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Among these, nuclear and biological weapons have been proved disastrous and are of serious concern. After the World War I, the main focus was to find adequate means to...
a chauffeur and a motor mechanic, with 47 Devonshire Road given as his UK address. By the Second World War, he was living on Pheonix Avenue, Elmira, in up-state New York; his US Army draft card records him as working for the Merchants Acceptance Corp in the same town. He died there...
service records were burned in the ST Louis fire when I contacted NARA and did get one page which stated he spent 20 months with the 894th Ord HAM Co; however, I don't think that is correct. He was with the 2nd FA Obn Bn which was part of the 18th FA BDE prior to WWII. He ...
Although darts in the UK had existed for many years before World War One, it was soldiers stationed in the UK that got a taste for out beer and pub games. Darts, of course, was a big hit and many dartboards made their way around the world. The Page inclu
DUBOIS, JOSEPH EDWARD LAWRENCE, RCAF Service Book “Pay Book”,Second World War Service Files – War Dead, 1939 to 1947. As mentioned, interpreting the records you find can help you tell a story rather than just display your research. In the case of PO Dubois, we looked to his squadron...
According to the records written by then British war correspondent Edwund Candler, the wealth the force looted from the Tsechen Monastery in Gyantse "could only be carried away by 400 mules, including rare religious scriptures, statues, and many ritual implements." After looting, British artillery...
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