Captain Ronald Neil STUART VC. DSO. RD. U.S Navy Cross. Royal Naval Reserve. HMS “Cassin”. Formerly HMS “Pargust”, Formerly HMS Q.5 (Loderer). Born...
One particularly dramatic engagement happened on 8th August 1917 120 miles west of Ouessant. UC-71 (Oblt.z.S. Reinhold Saltzwedel) was en...
A particularly nasty incident took place on 19th August 1915: U-27 (Kptlt. Wegener) was sunk by the Q-Ship HMS Baralong (Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert...
I found this Cally .... why was it announced to the House ?? .... did they always do that at the start of the war ?...
It is now been over 90 years since Baron Manfred von Richthofen Germany’s greatest WW1 fighter pilot was shot down and killed over the Australian...
The Lieutenant has written a couple of books ! here's an article from the Burma Star ! Nunneley
Of course I should have looked first !! - what a soldier .... what a man he was ! The Oxford DNB Life of the Day for today features Mir Dast...
Does anybody know anything about this soldier ... or have his citation ? Birth - Dec. 3 1874 Death - Jan. 19 1945 British Victoria Cross...
Theres the old database on Rootsweb !! http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/WWIdraft.html Credit crunch ?? .... you mean you guys have that...
HMS Bulwark was a London-class battleship built in Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth in 1902. She was one of five pre-Dreadnought battleships laid down in...
Heres something for you guys to read when you have a spare few hours ...... :rolleyes: Full text of "Telephony without wires" 1915...
Thought this would be of interest .................. boys and their toys !!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:...
From - 22 April 1916 - 17 August 1918 Hanse Rose was known for his courage and humanity in battle. After torpedoing a vessel he would make sure...
Intelligent but shy, Roy Brown loved to fly. After entering the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915, he was almost killed when he crashed an Avro 504...
This is interesting ... a booklet that was sold to remind people what the American Army did during the war !...
And not a filmstar but a brave man ... ( in more ways than one ! ) UK stage/TV actor and comedian Jimmy Edwards served in the RAF during WW2 and...
You didn't add my favourite David ...... Harold Russell While an Army instructor, and training with the U.S. 13th Airborne Division stateside in...
"The most dangerous man in Europe " Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's commando leader in World War 2, became known to the world in September 1943, when...
Incredibly brave ........ a very remarkable man !! Well it's over now. I have my memories, something no one can take away from me. I am a bitter...
Yes I did Adrian thanks ! ... I was trying to be discreet !! :rolleyes:
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