94 results found for: France (Resistance)
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…by Francis Dodd (6 September, 1940). “Artist Francis Dodd was born in Holyhead in Anglesey, Wales. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded a travelling scholarship, venturing to France and Italy. He was commissioned as a war artist in both the First and Second World…
…into East Yorks, transferring trained into the Welsh Guards, eventually going into France in mid-June,1944 beginning his fighting just outside Caen.” [ARP] “In a remarkable career spanning active service in Normandy in 1944 to Northern Ireland in the 1970s, the citation for the award of an immediate Military Medal (MM)…
…including the destruction of three V1 flying bombs. Having flown in support of the D-Day landings, Burbridge and Skelton began operating over occupied France. On the night of June 14/15 they intercepted a Junkers 88, flown by the Luftwaffe Experten (ace) Major Wilhelm Herget, and shot the aircraft down –…
…Southlanders”. They toured the UK’s variety circuit as well as travelling to Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. Their speciality was rhythm and blues, and they worked alongside the popular artists of the day – Shirley Bassey, David Frost, Joe Loss, Frankie Vaughn, Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele to name but…
…3 and 4 SAS (2 and 3 Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes) from the British to the French Army at Tarbes in southern France (1945) Related Signatories M.R.D. FOOT (#140) (Royal Engineers, SAS) Richard RHODES JAMES (#138) (Chindits) Mike Calvert’s IWM Oral History REEL 1 Background to joining Special Air Service,…
…and Audax bi-planes before converting to Lysanders. With war imminent, he was told to write the squadron’s mobilisation plan, and on September 2 1939 he found himself implementing it when he took his flight of aircraft to France, where he took photographs for the British Expeditionary Force. In January 1940…
…and back to flying Spitfires. However his luck had to run out sooner or later, and on January 28th 1942 he was brought down by flak over France. His German captors were so delighted by the display of skill that Bob had shown in trying to avoid damage that the…
…times wounded and VC 1918; active WW2 inc.POW escape & Churchill’s Chiang Kai-shek adviser!) during the German invasion Sep39, serving then in the BATTLE of FRANCE, with the 9th LANCERS in NORTH AFRICA, the KRRC, 3 DIV and 1 DIV, up into AUSTRIA, on to valuable work in Northern IRELAND,…
…Wales. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded a travelling scholarship, venturing to France and Italy. He was commissioned as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars and became a member of the Royal Academy in 1935. He lived in Blackheath,…
…classic cars and for sailing – his many forays to sea took him from the Hamble to France and to the Azores. Lucian Ercolani married, in 1941, Cynthia Douglas. She died in 2004, and he is survived by their daughter; a son predeceased him. (Obituary courtesy of the Daily Telegraph)…
…dizzy and decided to turn for home.” After a spell in hospital, in April 1940 Sheen was posted to the embryo photographic-reconnaissance unit which had been formed under Sidney Cotton, another intrepid Australian. The two men flew down to the south of France and to Sardinia where, flying unarmed Spitfires,…
…Uncle ANDREW had been gassed with the ROYAL SCOTS and his Uncle HERBERT had fought in FRANCE qt PASSCHENDAELE. Bert joined at PONTEFRACT and went through CHATHAM and his first trade was Miner; he served on COASTAL DEFENCE, after an Electrical course, in No.g DEFENSIVE ELECTRIC LIGHT Unit, on the…
…of Wales when she was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Fraser-Harris joined the rapidly expanding Fleet Air Arm in 1938 and first learned to fly at a civilian aeroclub at Rochester. He was practising deck-landings in Argus off Hyeres, southern France, when war was declared. On his way home by train,…
…with No.13 Sqn (including a diversionary attack during the first 1,000 BOMBER RAID) until June, 1942. He was then posted as “B” Flt Cdr to No. 26(AC) Squadron at GATWICK on TOMAHAWKS and the first MUSTANGS, mainly on FIGHTER RECONNAISSANCE and attacks on rail and road traffic in Northern France,…
…in France at 1,000 feet. Caught in a stream of fire from their Mosquito’s nose guns, the bomber, Gregory recalled, “reared up like a wounded animal, winged over on its back and dived vertically into the ground”. Chateaudun-du-Rhumel airfield. American Air Museum On May 12 1944, Gregory and Braham –…
…also was the unveiling of the new Cenotaph with King George V, as Chief Mourner scattering French soil, specially brought over from France, over the coffin as it was laid to rest. The Verdun had been laid up for 17 years and after some south and north convoys out of…
…trips via the trans Africa and South America route to the American Capital. After MULBERRY and his work with the PORT CONSTRUCTION and REPAIR GROUPS-in FRANCE, BELGIUM and GERMANY, at the war’s end, he became British Member for the Central Rhine Commission, interestingly dating right back to the 1815 Treaty…
…she was posted out to Japan at Iwakuni and Miho near Hiroshima, where she would meet and marry Sqn Ldr N W Pat Hancock DFC, then OC 11 Squadron with Spitfire FR18s at Miho. Pat started on the Fairey Battles of 266 Squadron, then with No.1(F) Sqn Hurricanes in France…
…Flying the P-38 Lightning fighter, he became an “ace” (five aerial victories) after his first two combat missions. On August 14 he shot down two Focke Wulf 190s over northern France. Eleven days later, flying on a long-range escort sortie to Rostock, he accounted for three Messerschmitt Bf 109s. In…
…HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI B-29 atomic attacks, ending hostilities & saving POW & MILITARY LIVES. #190 Mary JOICE Mrs Mary JOICE (née BALMER) RAF Intelligence & Hackney engineer in BLITZ). WW2: Secretary to Chichester Bishop George Bell. Pre-war links to GERMAN CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE (c.f. No. 290 Dietrich Bethge, q.v.); BELL against…
…(219 Sqn) [1899-2001] (101)1~ #30 Gwilym LEWIS Wing Commander Gwilym LEWIS DFC (12 e/a) World War 1 Flying Ace. RFC & RAF, with 12 WW1 kills No.32 Sqn DH2s in France at 18, was last surviving WWI SE-5 fighter leader on No.40 Sqn, after Central Flying School Lieutenant Commander; WW2…
Wing Commander JFD ‘Tim’ ELKINGTON. RAFC Cranwell 1939-40, No.1(F) Sqn in Battles of France & Britain, went with 1941 No.151 Wing Hurricanes to VAENGA RUSSIA and on catapult Hurricane Atlantic CAM ships….