Forum: WW2 1939-1945

While delving into the archives at Witney & District Museum I found a crumbly 1947 newspaper cutting about a recent property sale. It referred to the building in question having been 'held on requisition by the War Department during the war.' Does anyone have any idea if I can find out whether...

Hello, My grandfather served in the RAF in WWII. He never spoke of his time in service, except for that he flew reconnaissance. we dont know his service number, enlistmend date, or even the squadron he served with. all these things went to the grave with him in 1987. I have filled out the...

Hi All, Here is a list of the headstones and memorials of casualties that i still require for this project. Please note this is just the list for WW2 and i will post the list for WW1 on the WW1 thread. If anyone can help please let me know using this thread. Thanks. Congleton War Memorial...

Hallo, My name is Tanja van Zon-Anderson and I am new on this forum. I am from the Netherlands. I am searching for more information of my uncle Gilbert Anderson. He was a member of the 11th batallion parachute regtiment and killed in action during WW2 Battle of Arnhem. He died on the 25th...

Hello Everyone Wondered if someone could point me in the right direction, trying to find out which POW camp someone was in I have his service book which says he was in The Queens Royal Regiment a private, in France 2 to 19 April 1940 prisoner Germany 20 May to 24 October 1943. Any help would be...

WATKINS, GEORGE THOMAS Rank: Private Service No: 14207946 Date of Death: 13/11/1944 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry 2nd Bn. Grave Reference II. E. 4. Cemetery MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

My wife's Aunt died in 1946 while working with the Control Commission.With the passing of my mother in law (the last of the generation) The papers have now passed to us and consist of a death certificate issued by the British Consular General in Lubeck. It tells us she died in a military hospital...

My great uncle George, a private in the army, was posted missing on 15 February 1942, and sometime after 12 October 1942 it was confirmed that he was a prisoner of war in Singapore "in a camp unstated". He was in the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He never spoke to me personally about his experiences...

Can any one help or maybe offer some advice..... I am trying to find out what American Army Units were based at the Recreation Ground in St Chads Road Tilbury Essex. Does any one have any idea where I may obtain this information, this was during the ww2. This is a relatively new area for me so I...

I'm trying to find out more information about the incident which caused the death of Cpl Isaac Ernest Hostad/Hosted. So far I've found that, he died on the 8th of January 1943. Cause of death was given as: At 11:30 hrs a short shell from Larkhill ranges struck Tilshead camp medical centre.

People talk about Bomber Command, but i've alway's thought that Bomber Command was an elite crew for the Lancaster Bombers. In other words not all crew who flew in the Lancasters were bomber command that people talk so much about. Hope this makes sense. Can anyone tell me if i'm right. I should...

I have recently received my father's WW2 records. Could someone tell me which squadrons/sections/ airfields "10 S FLT" and RAF YR (orVR) are? They are under the "Unit from" column. Thanks Buddy

Dose anybody know were I could find information on home guard Woolwich area I have a photo of my grandfather Charles Firth with a few other men on the back is dated 1949 home guard.

I've just started transcribing a trunk full of wartime letters between my late parents. Mother was a WAAF on the Isles of Man - Father was at Dunkirk and later in Middle East. I wondered if it was worth putting on the web a list of characters from these letters - I've already found a Naval...

In a newspaper article about the death of my great grandfather in 1953 it said he suffered from gas poisoning after "he had been gassed in 1940 whilst in the service of the admirlty" but I cannot find any family who know his war history. How would I find out where he served and what actually...

My question is about medals my father might have been entitled to after coming out of the service. He was in the RAF and served several years in Rhodesia where he was an LAC. When he returned to the UK he was in Sir Solly Zuckermans bombing and analysis unit. I know he was in France when I was born...

I have just started to research the fate of my great uncle Jack Ward who was shot down over Holland in April 1942. I have recently been contacted by an RAF researcher in Holland, following a visit to the War Cemetery in Eindhoven, who has provided some information regarding the crew but is keen to...

I came across this website today: http://www.memorylanehf.oddquine.co.uk/ which is useful for filling in some background to life during WWII in England. I read the food rations page and it appears that we ate the equivalent of about 2 weeks rations for our scrambled egg breakfast today!!...

My father was a G.I. in 2nd world war. How do i trace him?