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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 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment? There are:1372 items tagged 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk 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. William Nesbitt Clarke 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.1943) Billy Clarke was a motor driver with the 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment. He died of Beriberi whilst incarcerated after the fall of Singapore.
He was the eldest of 14 children. He was born in County Durham but the family home was Cley Next the Sea in Norfolk.
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Cpl. Frank Newland Oldfield 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.6th Aug 1943) Frank was my second cousin once removed. Before the war, he was living at 3 Quebec Street, East Dereham, Norfolk with his parents and his sister, and was working as a draughtsman. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find out details of his time in the army. I know that he was taken prisoner and died of his wounds. He is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
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Pte. Norman Stevenson 5th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.27th January 1942) Norman Stevenson was born in Birkenhead and Married Jean M Mower of Thetford. He was reported missing in Senggaran, Malaya on the
27th of January 1942. He has No Known Grave and is survived by his son and daughter.
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Pte. Frederick Collison 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment Fred Collison served with the 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment. I have some documents regarding Fred including a telegram from Australia saying he was safe in Melbourne after being released from Kanose Prisoner of War Camp, Japan. I am related to Fred Collison by marriage, my wife is his 2nd wife's sister.
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Pte. William Charles Armiger 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.15th Feb 1942) William Armiger was injured at Braddell Road, Singapore on the 13th/14th Feb taken to a Military Hospital then transferred to Royal Alexandra Hospital, Singapore on 14th Feb. His date of death is 15th Feb. We all know what happened there on that date, a massacre. He has no grave. He is on Singapore Memorial. He left a 3 year old son behind.
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Pte. George Henry Hall 5th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment My great uncle, George Hall, was born in Cwmbran, South Wales and was one of 9 or 10 siblings who were serving in the forces during WW2. He enlisted in 1929, and was posted/stationed in Dereham, Norfolk, where he married Ivy E Ashman in 1935.
When war broke out, he was with the 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment and, after the Japanese entered the war in December 1941, they were transported overseas to Singapore to defend the Island. Unfortunately, it was overrun and after it fell in February 1942 he became a POW in Thailand, where he spent the rest of the war until liberated in late August 1945.
Within that time, he was first a prisoner at the infamous Changi Jail POW camp, then at various others, whilst being forced to work on the Death Railway in terrible conditions.
From his liberation, the family are unsure of what become of him, and I would like find out more about him and his life before, during and after the war, if possible, so if anybody knew him, the Battalion, where he lived etc., or could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Unfortunately, I haven't got a photo of him or the Battalion. Thanks in advance.
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