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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
Announcements
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
- 19th Nov 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
264989 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
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- The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
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Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. |
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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
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Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
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Want to know more about 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers? There are:1355 items tagged 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
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Fus. John McConnel "Jock" McGarvey 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (d.10th Jan 1943) John McGarvey joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, although had been caught by police three times for deserting.
His last place of arrest was in London. After several fines, they had enough and he was sent to prison, although within two weeks he was sent out with his regiment to Burma.
My understanding of his death was that he and another soldier were in a tank when a grenade of some sort was thrown in killing John but the other man survived to tell this story. To my knowledge it was a soldier he knew from a town close to the village where he lived.
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Fus. Albert Ernest "Boy" Nobbs 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (d.17th Feb 1944) Albert Nobbs was age 20 when he was killed in combat attempting to take Monte Casino. His family lived in West Ham, London.
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SSgt. Alfred James "Tom" Hennah 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers My father, Alfred Hennah was born in Walthamstow on 20th of January 1914. At the age of sixteen he enlisted, joining the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Inniskilling. His brother Walter was already serving in the Battalion.
They were stationed in Wellington Barracks in India when the Japanese attacked Burma. Military dependents including his wife (my mother) and baby son were sent to England by convoy ship. The Battalion was sent into Burma taking part in the first and second Burma campaign.
My father was reluctant to talk about these times but frequently spoke about the loss of mates. His best friends, brothers George and Albert Young who died within a day of each other.
My father completed twenty eight years in the Army, the last nine years with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He passed away in 1994.
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Fslr. James McCandless 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (d.21st April 1942) James McCandless was 22 when he went missing in Burma. His parents were informed in October 1942 that their son was 'missing' - final notification of his death was given to them in November 1944. James' younger brother, George, also served in Burma and had died of wounds in March 1944 aged 23.
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James Stamper 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusilliers My Dad, James Stamper joined the Royal Inneskillins in 1944 and was posted to India. I am trying to find information about that time as sadly we never wrote down his memories. Dad died in 2008. Can anyone help fill in the gaps?
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