I think this amendment only lasted a few years. Certainly by WW1, and prior to the creation of the George Cross, the Albert Medal was the award for...
This leaves just five surviving VC recipients from WW2, and five others. The oldest is Eric Wilson, who was awarded his for action in Somaliland...
The last surviving Naval VC. A very sad loss, and a man who achieved many things other than his wartime exploits. Married 65 years, for a start.
I loved the bit about: "The main point which seemed to emerge from the interrogation was that according to Anderson, Lonsdale Bryans was a...
I wonder if the RAAF squadrons acting directly under Australian command were the ones serving in the Far East; those in Europe were used RAAF...
Annie Thanks for this. The sort of site you could spend a long time on! One interesting point it makes: I didn't realise that Canada only ever...
I've found some more on Welinkar. This was from "Starlight" on the Great War Forum: From “Airmen Died in the Great War”: Lt Shri Krishna Chanda...
I posted a question about these men on the Great War Forum. If anyone knows about them, my mates there will do! Welingkar's unit, 23 squadron,...
Great aeroplane, but I've left it too late to fly in one. As I understand it, the final straw was an EC directive that all aircraft carrying...
Swede who worked for British Intelligence Carl Aschan - Telegraph
If we really were, we'd be genii. :irvine:
Yvan Thank you for posting these. I have visited some of these cemetaries, mainly Great War ones such as the Newfoundland Memorial and Thiepval, and...
It was Biggles who started me off, as regards to both the wars. And when I was growing up in the 60's people still talked about the war as though...
Yeah but there was an aircraft called the Kiran.. maybe you were named after that. Now that would be really cool!
I read Enid Blyton as a child, and my daughters read them now. The older one has read the Harry Potter books, and she still goes back to Enid Blyton...
My name is incredibly boring. Adrian, or the Roman Hadrian, just means a man from Adria, which was a major port on the Adriatic sea, and now that the...
Can't be many who saw action both in WW2 and in the Falklands. He had to wait a long time for his DSO - aged 59! Commodore' Black Sam' Dunlop -...
My mother-in-law does it - not that I go shopping with her if I can help it! I think her excuse is " We did it all the time in Aden!" (Where she...
At the London Olympics in 1948 we won one gold!
The door and window openings suggested it was an aircraft originally intended as a passenger-carrier. The give-away was the aperture in the roof at...
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