145 results found for: ‘Shetland Bus’ Service
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…fighting service of the ROYAL IRISH INNISKILLINGS, he was with the 6th, which saw their first Bn attack at TWO TREE HILL in TUNISIA 13 Jan 1943, within the IRISH BDE, BOU ARADA and then the INVASION of SICILY, here especially for his unit’s part in the BATTLE to take…
…the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. 1938: back from Canada & London social work, 1941 joined Wrens Representing WOMEN’s ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE war work & in memory of brothers (KING’S AFRICAN RIFLES & RAF)…
…a collective of businessmen – and putting into practice, perhaps, the training she had gained only recently in classes on ‘Great Modern Industry’ and ‘Powerful Commercial Policy’. Jeannie continued to use her charm and her cunning to win the confidence of the Germans, affecting naïveté to gather military secrets of…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Auxiliary Fire Service, Canadian Airfield Construction RAF…
…he took it to court but lost. He immediately abandoned his allotment. Tait was the president of No 617 (Dam Buster) Squadron. In later years, he read widely and was passionate about the music of Schubert, especially his Lieder, researching in great detail the background to more than 400 of…
…please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Representing the great contribution of “TRENCHARD’s Brats”, the RAF HALTON APPRENTICES & ENGINES GROUNDCREW trade, with over 35 years of service in the colours….
…Fleet Auxiliary signs for his long service and that of the important OILERS, and the role of TROOP TRANSPORT of literally millions of servicemen between theatres and the most important ATLANTIC TROOPING; he served on SS ATHELCROWN, ATHELPRINCE and SS MAURETANIA, and later the QUEEN MARY, the speed of which…
…later RASC & Roval SUSSEX, for GREECE & its loyal FIGHTING SPIRIT and STEADFAST ENDURANCE in OCCUPIED CRETE & its ISLANDS, especially with the terrible reprisals; here also for the SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE OPERATIONS in the AEGEAN, several of which he carried out with and here signs commemoratively for that…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. ATS Women’s AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE (later WRAC)…
…those whose service was in the ROYAL NAVY’s COASTAL FORCES and specifically the role of their MOTOR GUN and TORPEDO BOATS, in both their DEFENSIVE and OFFENSIVE ROLES, protecting British Home Waters. Their small interdependent crews were involved in a heady mixture of, at times, most dramatic and dangerous work….
…up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. (son of Viscount Jellicoe: JUTLAND 31 May 1916) Representing COLDSTREAM GUARDS and in memory of Sir David STIRLING, 1 SAS, and the early SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE…
…attending glider flying camp; Boy Scouts activities. Background to joining RAF, 9/1953: aptitude tests and medical at Hornchurch; attending selection board at Cranwell, 7/1953; question of National Service. Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routines at RAF College, Cranwell, 9/1953-4/1956: train journey; reception; hut accommodation. REEL 3 cleaning…
…Returning to King’s in 1944 it would then be the V-1 doodlebugs and the V-2 rockets causing their war casualties. In late summer 1944, Mary joined the Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service and became a Flying Officer Sister, first at Ely and then St Athan, where VJ-Day was celebrated. Then…
…business making saddles and sandals, and the family lived in a four-bedroom detached wooden house. The idyll ended in 1939, two years before the Nazis arrived, when Jack was 10. The Russians came to town first. They closed the synagogues, sent the richest Jews to Siberia and shut down the…
…in her late teens became an artist’s model, not being tall enough to go into the fashion side of the business. She was soon posing for life classes at London art colleges, and in her spare time entered beauty contests, once winning the title of “Venus of Kent”. She made…
…COMMONWEALTH & ALLIED naval personnel ASHORE and AFLOAT who manned or supported the EAST INDIES and then BRITISH PACIFIC FLEETS, fighting on for the EXTRA 99 DAYS beyond VE-DAY to JAPAN’s SURRENDER. His service (his father, a builder, served with COASTAL H.A.C.) was in RN SUPPLY BRANCH but his key…
…formed to protect the Roval Dockyards from invasion and then through its 2nd Hampshire Artillery and Garrison Volunteers becoming 1st Wessex Royal Field Artillery for South Africa and in 1916 RA against the Turks in the Middle East in Dec 1916. His war service though does not just incorporate here…
…Broadwell in the Cotswolds until the following May when he was appointed vice president of the RAF Selection Board. In 1948 he moved to Spitalgate, Lincs, as chief instructor of an officer cadet training unit. In 1950, Holder returned to the operational mainstream as commander of the busy RAF base…
…5725) Trainee members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service Motor Transport Company relax in the rest room at the ATS MTC Training Centre, probably at Camberley. Two women enjoy a cup of tea, whilst a third eats a biscuit as she reads, and a fourth, in the background, is sewing and…
…the man who taught the air forces of the world to fly.” Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Trenchard Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Raymond Smith-Barry AFC (4 April 1886 – 23 April 1949). During the Second World War, Smith-Barry served as a ferry pilot and an instructor. Syllabus for a…
…for which the drill was to fire everything they had, which was then six torpedoes – after the timed seconds there was a reassuring explosion and its stern sank and the bows went high out of the water (award of DSO). Appointed to the BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES in WASHINGTON, he…
…of the survivors, represents one key aspect and the partly providential delaying loss for the invasion forces in that Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23rd to 26th October 1945, his service on board and the sinking by the Japanese Navy of USS Gambier Bay carrier CVE-73. The GAMBIER BAY was a…
…war record was the more remarkable for his having recovered from a crash shortly after the outbreak of war. He was piloting a B A Swallow, a light civilian aeroplane being used for communications service, when he crashed in foul weather at Cranwell. He was fortunate to survive the accident,…
…German General Adolph Galland talking to Wing Commander Stanford Tuck [Signatory #9]. SV pan to map of battle area. Pan back to Wing Commander Tuck talking to Adolf Galland. SV Pan old papers that were printed at time of the Battle of Britain. CU Sign stuck onto broken window, ‘Business…