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…TRITTON DSC** RNVR, became the new 15th NAVAL AIR WING Leader to replace Lt Cdr (A) R J “Dickie” CORK DSO DSC (originally a DFC, altered by the Admiralty!) of 242 SQN HURRICANES in the BATTLE of BRITAIN & 880 SQN in FURIOUS & INDOMITABLE (MADAGASCAR in May42 & PEDESTAL…
…far reaching consequences to help ensure that the tide of losses in the Battle of the Atlantic would gradually be reversed at a most critical time for Britain’s very survival, with her reliance on the transatlantic supply artery for food and munitions. This epic achievement occurred a full seven months…
…himself who picked the Nigerians to help the garrison strongholds. Besides the well-chronicled INDIAN DIVISIONS and the 100,000 or so BRITISH SOLDIERS who fought in BURMA, a full 90,000 also came from, Britain’ s WEST AFRICAN colonies listed, above and the EAST AFRICAN colonies of KENYA, UGANDA, TANGANYIKA Territory (Tanzania),…
…When working on launching this website, on the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain (a few months before the pandemic), I quickly discovered that this astonishing project by my father, Alan Pollock — which the family had largely ignored for several decades as a Quixotic thing of his —…
…the Battle, so Graf Spee would have a fully armed presence to confront, as well as some purposely deceptive signals traffic. The Midshipman returned to UK on the damaged AJAX; in the ensuing DEFENCE of BRITAIN, he was appointed to the RN BATTALION to form part of an ad hoc,…
…the Turks in the Middle East in Dec 1916. His war service though does not just incorporate here the role of his unit during the BATTLE of BRITAIN in 1940 and the BLITZ of 1940-1941 but their subsequent move out to join the Desert EIGHTH ARMY right through to SALERNO….
…Libya, No 351, a Hurricane squadron composed of Yugoslav air and groundcrew loyal to Marshal Tito. Once the squadron was declared ready for operations, Holder returned to Britain to join the directing staff at the RAF Staff College. From February 1945, Holder took charge of a Transport Command Station at…
…TANK BATTLES in such different terrains, often when not in ideal tanks, nor understood the strains, losses and shell shock of battle so well, and advancing into ITALIAN, GERMAN, JAPANESE (here fighting retreat from, too) and other INFANTRY; just four days after ITALY’s declaration of war on Britain, the 7th…
…are over.” Gould’s VC was sold at Sotheby’s for £44,000 in October 1987 and is held by the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen. For several years Gould was President of the International Submarine Association of Great Britain and was an active member of his local Royal Naval Association and of the…
…the Nazis, and any Nazis who threatened their community. “It was war and they were protecting their people who had seen thousands of Jews, including their own families, murdered by the Nazis.” Mr Kagan, who moved to Britain in 1947, said the killings acted as a deterrent to others “who…
…had done enough and more than enough, and was greatly relieved when the end of the war made the operation unnecessary. On his way back to Britain, Fraser passed through Singapore and was shown over the remains of Takao. To his bitter disappointment, he found that there had been only…
…at the end of the war was the compounding political decisions that the POLES in Britain were not to take part in the VICTORY parades as the POLISH NATION, they who had been our largest ALLY, a bigger military component in the dark days of late 1940 than of all…
…Forgotten Pilots illustrates country’s debt to Lords Beaverbrook & Signatory No. 13: Lord Balfour), and AIR TRANSPORT AUXILIARY. (ARP note)” “the Air Transport Auxiliary were civilians in uniforms who played a soldiers part in the Battle for Britain” Lord Balfour, Under Secretary of State of Air (Signatory 13) …
…from GLORIOUS’s sad fate; he was”with 759 SQN, at EASTLEIGH & first into new YEOVILTON (B of B Day 15Sep40) with.the FLEET FIGHTER SCHOOL, with HURRICANES 5 FULMARS, & 8 or 9 operational- sorties in the BATTLE of BRITAIN, sometimes out of TANGMERE; Apr41 with Lt LYDEKKER as other Fit…
…Battle of Britain VC, with a mind to fund-raising for the Tangmere museum, he realized that, signed by former pilots from The Battle of Britain, they could also raise funds for the War Widows Pension campaign – which he swiftly joined. By 1989, the Ministry of Defence and Whitehall were,…
…Wynne, 1889-1946 Banking at 4000 Feet, from Building Aircraft. The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals (LG. 23) lithograph, 1917, a good impression, signed, dated and numbered 22 in pencil, from the edition of 200, trimmed to plate impression at all but lower margins, mounted on board, top right corner…
…hand mine explosions. At the war’s end his minesweeper would be the very first Allied vessel into VENICE, as only when channels were swept could larger ships enter. After his sweeping in Britain he would see most of the harbour clearance operations and port approaches from Sicily and Italy up…
…dragged by Dutch Pete Klompmaker into his house and tending, his wounds. Bill would need speedy attention and via the Advanced Aid Station would be flown back to Brussels and returned to UK. Jim met his Scots future wife, Anna, in Britain and after returning to the USA in “Larkspur”,…
…of the Second World War, RAF bomb disposal personnel had dealt with some 175,000 weapons of British, Allied and enemy origin in Britain and Europe. The BD squads were in the front line of a battle between the British and German scientists, and sometimes enormous risks had to be taken…
…Britain, including a period on the staff at Sandhurst. In 1952, he was appointed Military Assistant to the High Commissioner in Malaya. He then commanded the 1st Battalion of The Queen’s Royal Regiment from 1957 to 1959. In the early 1960s he led 24 Infantry Brigade Group in Kenya and…
…responsibilities: to mastermind the ferrying of 400 Sabre fighters from America to Britain (Operation Becher’s Brook, which was a resounding success); and secondly, to carry out a review of the terms and conditions under which airmen served. Those who knew Dudgeon, and his unconventional approach to authority, expressed some surprise…
…initially registered as a conscientious objector, but he later felt an increasing unease about his position and in September 1940 he joined the RAF. By October 1941 he had completed his training as a night fighter pilot and joined No 85 Squadron, commanded by the Battle of Britain ace, Peter…
…Berlin lakes, guiding Reynolds to arrive over Wilhelmstrasse dead on 11 a.m. As the trumpets faded the Mosquitos dropped their 500lb. bombs close to the radio building. The explosions were heard across Germany and by monitors in Britain, and caused the speech to be delayed for an hour…’ (The Independent…
…men when it went into Burma six months later. This first attempt at Long Range Penetration – its official name – had little strategic impact but was a colossal propaganda success: home morale in Great Britain was much boosted by the idea that our men were attacking the Japanese in…