The year 1946 was a difficult one and not only because of the beastly winter that swept in just at a time when the newly n
There seems to be come serious confusion. The dreadful post-WW2 winter was early 1947, not 1946, and it did coincide with the coming into force of...
Possibly the removal of the search box was a tacit admission of the inadequacy of categorisation of the entries. There was a wide range of...
Two points: 1) The claimant was clearly not a prisoner of war. Prisoners of war are members of an enemy armed force taken prisoner in the course...
First, as has been pointed out, William Joyce was hanged in Britain. His sentence, as in the case of every British capital sentence, was to "be...
I note that Nick Enoch, the journalist responsible for the story, has duly complied with the newspaper convention that, no matter how interesting...
There is a convention that a hoaxer will always leave a give-away clue. The clue on this occasion is that the War Office had no responsibility for...
Volkstrauertag literally means "People's Mourning Day", or, in an English idiom, "Remembrance Day" The last syllable "tag" means "day", and it is...
It seems to be an invariable rule that no public statement about WW2 is ever quite accurate. The statement that Anderson shelters were "given...
Not quite. The final word is Shemarich [which is more obviously a Russian name than Shemarinne] and followed by what appears to be 5 Ch. One...
Of the invention of legends there will be no end... It is true that ice cream disappeared completely in Britain during WW2, but that is about the...
Not all the villagers and vigillers would choose the word "sacrifice" to describe the military rape of Imber.
This is a misstatement of the recent facts. There is as yet no such "French law". The French lower House, the Chamber of Deputies, has approved a...
A year or two after the earlier shooting I happened to meet a lecturer from there, and asked whether anything had been learned from it. He...
I am reminded of the incident in All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nicht Neues) when one soldier sitting on the latrine pole says to his...
Will the video include any mention of the 100 British conscientious objectors who arrived in Jersey to help with the tomato and potato harvest,...
For what this point may be worth, the Marshall Plan did not actually begin until 1947.
Now that you seem to have confirmed that your man was, indeed, in the WW2 FAU, perhaps I could clarify a few further points. The training centre...
No. Your father's service number would be useful in tracing his navy record and any pension entitlement, but it would have no relation to any...
If you have located Tegla Davies' history of the WW2 FAU, you will have been able to check the man's name (which you have not disclosed here) in...
