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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 2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)? There are:1332 items tagged 2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 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. Frederick William Miller 5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters  Frederick Miller enlisted in the army on 18th of April 1940. He was posted to Infantry Training Centres in Rochdale, Galashiels and Dereham, prior to embarcation to North Africa on 23 December 1942. Disembarked in North Africa (Tunisia?) on 3rd of January 1943.
He was with 2/5 Btn Sherwood Foresters (re-designated as 5th Btn on 28th of January 1943), who were over-run by a German Parachute Engineer Battalion, under the command of Major Rudolf Witzig, in the 1st Battle of Sedjenane in Tunisia on Tuesday 2 March 1943, which is when he was reported missing, believed to be a POW. Believed he was acting as a medic, caring for the many wounded soldiers from the battle. Next of kin not informed until 26th of March 1943.
Confirmed as a POW in Campo 53 on 25th/26th of April 1943, he was transferred to Stalag IVG (Oschatz or its Work Camp at Klinga) in Germany on 30th December 1943 as POW 227653. Next of kin informed 11th of January 1944. He worked on an Arbeitskommando (Work Group) - one of 76 Work Groups based on Stalag IVG in the Grimma area, 50 miles WNW of Dresden.
He was transferred from Stalag IVG to Stalag IVA (Hohnstein-Ernstthal - Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) on 16th of February 1944. Apparently, the main camp was liberated by the advancing Russians on 24th of April 1945. His Army record lists liberation on 7th of May 1945 - the day before VE Day.
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Harry Perkins 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters Harry Perkins left his reserved occupation and joined up at Normanton Baracks in Derby. He landed in Tunisia as part of Operation Torch and saw off Rommell and The Afrika Corps. He then took part in the landing at Salerno and fought up through Italy. He was captured by the Germans and put to hard labour in a cement plant.
Advancing Allied troops over ran the plant and he made his way back to his unit.
He continued the fight to free Italy and finished his war in Austria, facing off the Russian Army that had swept through Hungary.
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Pte. Geoffery Booth 2nd/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters My dad, Geoffery Booth was born in Rotherham and was adopted by a couple in a village called Hasland near Chesterfield and he was working in the furniture industry he met my mother and married.
He joined the Sherwood Foresters at the Army Depot in Chesterfield into the 2nd/5th Battalion. I have no idea where he went to train as a signaler during the war. I have been told the that he was sent to the Atlas Mountains as a signaler. As time went on he was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy and later sent to another camp in Eastern Germany. During his time here he helped many of his fellow inmates on making use of the empty cans that were delivered in the parcels of food supplied by the Red Cross.
At the end of the war he was allowed to be discharged into the Territorial Army and eventually he was discharged from the Army. When he arrived back home he returned to his job as manager of a local furniture company looking after the second hand shop. He was there until he retired, a happy man who was looking forward to a quiet retirement.
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