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…leading NIGHT FIGHTER crew, SQNs 1 ~ILTON41 Defiant, BEAUFIGHTER (141) MOSQUITO (157 & 488 NZ SQNS) bomber support, and later in the war protecting Coastal Command anti-submarine patrols, intruder patrols in support of Bomber Command combatting the German night fighters, and attacking the V1 flying bombs. Author of Night Flyer….
…ideas of General Orde Wingate. 1933 ROYAL ENGINEERS,7 high Allied medals, Far East JUNGLE trainer, NORWEGIAN CDO, Wingate’s Cdr CHINDIT 77 BRIGADE, later SAS doctrine and author of three books about Burma, Wingate and the Chindits: Prisoners of Hope, Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War, and Chindits: Long Range Penetrations….
…in writing up our extraordinary signatories. 466th BOMB GROUP crew gunner for 30 daylight mission tours over Occupied Europe; USAAF day & RAF night strategic bombing (which diverted thousands of 88mm guns to the defence of Germany, and an element thought to have saved many hundreds of thousands of lives)….
…night fighters and appointed commanding officer of RAF West Malling in Kent. In 1944 he was appointed temporary equerry to King George VI, which soon became permanent. He was promoted to permanent Wing Commander in 1949 and became Group Captain at the beginning of 1953. His later life was spent…
…justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. In memory of her Czech father Flight Lieutenant Karel ‘Kut’ Kuttelwascher DFC* (18-20 e/a) 1 (F) & 23 Squadrons and Hurricane Night Intruder Ace Squadron Leader James MacLachlan DSO DFC** (16.5 e/a) 88, 73, 145, 261 OC 1 & 132 Squadrons & AFDU….
…for the contribution in WW2 of the ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY (his name Dutch for Orchard), who was over in Dec 1939 from Western Nova Scotia and was in Europe a full seven and a half years, from being with the 2nd CANADIAN DIVISION in DIEPPE, the fighting in SICILY, the…
…OBSERVATION POST SQUADRONS with himself representing the invaluable role of Artillery Spotting in the fierce fighting in BURMA of 656th AOP Sqn RAF/RA for the whole of the 14th ARMY and the 20th INDIAN DIVISION from 1943 to 1945, and then for Malaya and Java. 656 had three lights of…
…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. Byelorussian from MINSK, served in the 50th, 49th and 43rd ARMIES, fighting westwards from MOSCOW to KÖNIGSBERG BATTLEFIELD ARTILLERY…
…hard 15-18hr FARMWORK days, releasing many men from country to join FIGHTING SERVICES “Where I worked there was a farmer with one tooth, who chewed tobacco and spat it out in his hand. He put ‘bloody’ in front and behind every word he uttered, so there was hardly going to…
…the BORDER REGIMENT, in particular to the defence of UK in SE England at “Hellfire Corner”, then fighting in SICILY and as part of the 1st LANDING BRIGADE at the Battle of ARNHEM, where Jim was one of the three Border men near Hartenstein, with their mortar virtually vertical and…
…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. BUFFS/EAST SURREY INFANTRY, who had 11 subaltern OCs lost, killed or wounded, fighting from DESERT, SICILY and up through to NORTHERN.ITALY – a typical ‘D Day Dodger’!…
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. GUNNERY. Author of The Fighting Captain. Representing…
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. Fighting STRETCHER BEARER ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT (&…
…wartime experiences, a book about test pilots, several volumes of letters by her cousin Dame Rose Macaulay, and a clutch of well received biographies. Target for Tonight (1941), in which Constance makes a charming if uncredited appearance. Constance Babington Smith was born on October 15 1912, one of the five…
…– and the planning of a network of early-warning coastal “Chain Home” stations which were to play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. On September 29 1938, when war was thought to be imminent, Fennessy had driven through the night from Bawdsey to HQ Fighter Command at Bentley…
…the south side of the River Dyle, east of Brussels, with battalion headquarters established in the ominously named village of La Tombe. The German assault began shortly after dawn. Annand’s platoon, in position astride a blown bridge, had beaten off a strong attack the previous night and was now facing…
…‘scrapbook’ of Bletchley First hand account by a cryptographer… upon arrival: Going down on the night train from Glasgow, which was absolutely packed with Service personnel, we arrived at Bletchley completely exhausted. From the station we were taken by transport to Bletchley Park only a few minutes away. The transport…
…yards at night to fire at and hit a locomotive, which then set fire to a long area from the 5,000 volt system – the excellent group photograph, with Lts LAKIN and DEVLIN among the SAFARI CREW arriving home at TROON, after 4 more operational patrols in the dangerous waters…
…scuttled to avoid being sunk (17 Dec3 199). 11 Aug 1940 -4 Oct 1942, Frank was appointed to HMS GLENGYLE, the FIRST real British COMMANDO ASSAULT SHIP (later also wereGlen Roy 4 Glenearn) Apr41 landing No.7 CDO at BARDIA & SIDI BARRANI, then GRAZIANI, TOBRUK & many other desolate night…
…most hectic days and nights, which would later be the direct reason for his appointment (and rapid promotion as Brigadier) to take over MULBERRY – Admiral RAMSAY had taken him and his wife to lunch to thank him for his contribution, after together at the Palace they received awards from…
…completely abandoned the vessel. Roddie’s lifeboat, with 4 long oars and two men on each oar, could still see the blazing vessel to windward. In the middle of the night they were so nearly run down that they were almost swamped, an oar was touched and they could feel the…
…West Riding Auxiliary Air Force squadron. Arriving at 609 as a flight commander, Beamont began to lead the “Tiffies” on low-level day and night intruder and ground attack operations across the Channel. It was largely due to Beamont’s inventive employment of the Typhoon as a fighter-bomber that he gained steadily…
…over for further MEDICAL SUPPLIES to help the OOSTERBEEK garrison – however the Germans did allow a safe passage back for the remainder left on the bank, although Captain Percy LOUIS, a PARA medical officer, was somehow killed that night or later, without ever being found – Col H.ERFORD stayed…
…Mary had a full year in Edinburgh on midwifery and then returned to London. On night duties they would do three months on the trot with one day off every month and the pay was £18 compared with eight nights off for every seven for nurses in the mid 1990s….