The National Archives a ast Kew (london) hold both War Dairies of the 1/5 ( the second volume is mow available online. The St.Helens Library has the...
The Holocaust numbers were significantly higher than 6 million. Revised figures upwards are the result into recent research in killings in sub-camps...
Could we have a section for warfare pre-1860 - Much of my own knowledge extends from 1640 to 1815. How many members I wonder might be interested in...
A 13-year study of Nazi paperwork revealed a system of concentration camps, ghettos and slave labor more widespread than originally assumed.A serious...
Mons Within three weeks of mobilisation the BEF had concentrated on the Franco-Belgian border and was moving forward, on the left flank of the French...
Tell me which Battalion ( Dairies are by Battalion) I am going there in September I can look for you.
War Diary of South Lancs battalions is held at Kew at National Archives.
Of course the issue is the "targeted" systematic extermination of the Jews and probably the Gypsies too can be included in this as a sop to East...
In his 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, a study of German Order Police; Reserve Unit...
Holocaust (or Shoa) is the "targeted" mass murder of Jews ( some historians also say as well Gypsies and Russian prisoners) by Germany and her Allies...
3381 Pte. T. Andrews, 1/5th Bn., S.Lan. R., T.T. (Manchester) (LG 2 Dec 1919) For marked gallantry and fearless leadership near Tournai on 7th...
Found him and his citation for DCM but the site will not let me download it so i will have to copy it out for you tomorrow as i have to go out...
So far I can only find ONE Thomas Joseph Andrews born between April - June 1893 in Lancashire and he was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy then a village on...
I will post more information for you when I get time. However you tell me your grandfathers name I might be able to find out more about him for you....
Sadly jrj for the anti-semitic version of history the truth is of no interest to them, only their world view of the power of the mythical Shylock....
My grandfather too served in 1/5 South Lancs. The South Lancs were a Territorial Battalion based in St.Helens. They went to France in February 1915...
The German's produced Manstein, Model, Guderian and Rommel. Hitler sacked his most able Generals for disagreeing with him on both strategy and...
By 1939 the Policy of Appeasement had failed. Remember it was Chamberlain whose voice echoes down the passage of time to declare Britain at War with...
Sadly I think most were Germans and one Japanese
My father was one of those British soldiers who cleared up Bergen Belsen. He was regular army. The only time I ever saw him hit anyone was when...
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