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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 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers? There are:1330 items tagged 11th Battalion, Lancashire 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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2nd Lt. C. R. Tyler D Coy., 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd Lt. C. R. Tyler served with D Coy., 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers. These particulars were taken from an envelope addressed to him from Cheltenham dated 13th of May 1942.
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Fus. Robert Tonge 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers (d.14th Oct 1944) Robert Tonge was my great grandfather's brother. He was from Manchester and served in the Lancashire Fusiliers 11th Battalion. We know very little else of his story apart from what is shown on his war records. Robert died at war on October 14th 1944 aged 29 years. He is buried in Faenza war cemetery in Italy. We would love to hear any shared memories that have made their way down the line or see any photographs.
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Sgt. Joseph Fee 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers My Granddad Joseph Fee served on Malta during the whole of the Siege. He was then shipped to Italy and served in the Italian Campaign. His greatest story was when he and a group of others were heading up the mountains to the front line. All their supplies were tethered to a group of donkeys, which in turn were tethered together in a line. The group were making their way under cover of darkness up a narrow pass when the first donkey stumbled over the edge and fell down the mountainside. Of course because all the donkeys were tied together the whole lot went over the edge. Next morning the soldiers made their way down the mountain to get their supplies back expecting to find a group of dead donkeys, but when they reached them they were all alive and grazing on grass. All the padding around them had protected them. Whether the story is true or not we never tired of hearing it and it always made us all laugh.
He saw the end of the war out in the Middle East including Palestine, where they were being regrouped for training in preparation for operations in the Far East. I just thought it important that he be remembered for the sacrifices that he and countless others made in protecting our great Nation at that time of great need.
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