Hi Netty Just been taking a closer look at the photo. Notice the blackboard behind the Indian waiter on the right? It appears to say "Inn...
Welcome to the forum Frenchy - any particular area(s) of interest?
Hi NHS welcome to the forum. Boy, where to start. Find out everything!!! :) Start with his joining up, ask him about his training, his assignments,...
Hurricane Mk I Combat Report (see link for a scan of the report about the combat on the 18th May 1940) and a number of combat reports mentioning...
Well the references to the practical use 100-octane fuel date back 1935 in Flight magazine, so whatever occurred in 1938, it was not the invention of...
RAF fighter planes 'used super-fast fuel from the U.S. to win the Battle of Britain' | Mail Online For years we have believed it was the brave...
BBC - WW2 People's War - Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal in WWII
Hi Mike Your grandfather's number falls within the block allocated to the Pioneer Corps (13,000,001 - 14,000,000), which fits. Your father-in-law's...
BTW if your grandfather did serve during WW1 you may also like to ask for more info on our sister forum WW1 Talk
Hi Mike Can you tell us the numbers and when they joined up? As you say, an enlistee was allocated a number from the regiment they enlisted with....
You may have seen the news. Hitler Youth past is denied by Pope on trip hit by row over Holocaust - Times Online The wartime past of Pope Benedict...
Times Archive Blog: Hollywood lies about WW2; do they matter? As Ben Macintyre writes today, The Great Escape is probably the best-known example...
I've never seen it in the one shown in Britain - have any of our American members seen the US version? Times Archive Blog: Never mind the Dam...
Former PoW who ran rings round his captors (From The Northern Echo) As part of the VE Day celebrations, Second World War veteran John Caygill...
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Ceremony honours the Polish heroes (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus) More than 60 years after thousands of Polish troops died fighting for the...
This really sounds interesting Jamaican Soldier Eulogised in 'A Charmed Life' - Jamaica Information Service 'A Charmed Life' a documentary...
Can you tell us where the pic comes from? Any caption? I don't know about Norton's but Enfields are still being made in India. Welcome to Royal...
Strewth, I don't know how I missed this thread. Great pics. I shall have to get my magnifying glass out to see if we can ID the Kittyhawks
There is a camp, suppossedly used for Italian POWs (I say suppossedly because it doesn't appear on the available POW camp lists but I am still...
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