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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 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment? There are:1444 items tagged 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment 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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Pte. Ronald Clements 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.7th October 1941) Ronald Clements was killed in action and is buried in Leopoldsburg British Cemetery at Limburg in Belgium. He was killed on my third birthday. We visited his grave on 5th of November 2019. We are from Nottingham.
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Sgt. David Henry "Dickie" Lintin 4th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment My grandfather joined the 4th Lincs (TA) Rgt in 1924 at a time when it wasn't a popular thing to do but he always told me it got him a free holiday for two weeks of the year and a free pair of boots.
Despite being quite short his skill at arms got him to the rank of sergeant by the early 1930's.
He was mobilised at the end of May 1939 and posted to Grimbsy at the official outbreak of war in September 1939.
In 1940 he was posted to France just in time to join the retreat of the BEF. Luckily he managed to hitch a lift on an old French trawler some two days after the Dunkirk evacuation was ended (having spent the time being hidden in a local convent by friendly nuns).
On his return to the UK he was waylaid by friends and taken to the local pub to celebrate his escape. My grandmother, meanwhile, had received a telegram from the War Office, listing her husband as missing in action. On being told by a neighbour that he was in the pub she lost no time chasing him out of the Black Swan armed with a frying pan!
My grandfather subsequently volunteered for the RA Maritime Service and travelled on the City of Manchester DEMS via the Cape to Singapore just in time to be sunk off Djillichap in the Dutch East Indies.
After a extended stay in Australia (I still have an Australian half-crown he was given for singing 'Roll-out the barrel' at the local legion branch) he made his way safely home.
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Pte. John Henry Hill 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.16th August 1944) Harry Hill served with the 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
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Sgt. George Johnson 4th Btn. Royal Lincolnshire Regiment I am the son of George Johnson 4803000 who at the time of his death in 1973 was a CSM in the TA's in Boston Lincs. His CO was Donald Hamiliton Hill (Author of SOE Asignment a book in which my father was mentioned several tims) who was, I believe, second in command to Colin Gubbins of SOE. He campaigned in Norway in early 1940 and then went to North Africa,Italy and Yugoslavia where he was involved with training Tito's partisans in the use of captured arms and amunition. He was with a small band men and was billeted with the Ameicans who were very well supplied and well fed. On one occasion he was offered a plate with 3 eggs on it, he immediately proposed that he share them out amongst his men which brought a great round of laughter from the Americans who said they are for you Buddy! My father said "Three eggs! don't you know there is a war on" but I am sure he ate them and was grateful. He always spoke highly of their generosity and good humour.
To me he was a great man and would take my sister and I to the drill down Main Ridge in Boston for a bottle of lemonade and crisps on a Sunday and then to the armoury to clean the guns and them around to the range for a few shots (small bore of course).
I know now that he wandered around Lincolnshire in the early days of the war and was trained to blow up the dykes surrounding the low lands to prevent the Germans landing or at least make it more difficult for them. Had the Germans landed I would not be here to write this as life expectancy was not great if they were caught. Yes a great man
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