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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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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 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots? There are:1537 items tagged 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots 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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Cpl. Alexander Gordon 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Alexander Gordone was captured by Japanese forces after the fall of Hong Kong on 25th December 1941 and imprisoned in Sham Shui Po Camp in Hong Kong. He was then transported by ship to Kobe on mainland Japan.
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L/Sgt. Charles Henry "Chick" Cannon 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (d.27th Nov 1946) Charles Cannon was killed on active service in Germany on 27th Nov 1946.
It is believed he had been crushed and injured when a truck carrying wooden planks or telegraph poles shed its load (or reversed into him) with the load possibly penetrating the truck cab and killing Charlie.
Charlie played the trumpet or cornet and may also have been a Fusiliers bandsman.
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Sgt. James "Sandy" Gow 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Regiment My dad James Gow, ran away from home aged 16, lied about his age and joned up in Dundee on 2nd January, 1935. He was captured in Hong Kong, survived the Lisbon Maru, and spent the rest of the war in Kobe House, etc., in Japan.
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Capt. Charles Fredrick Pomphrey 2nd Btn. Royal Scots I met a group of older guys in a `spit and sawdust' type pub in the Old Town, Edinburgh around 1984 with my brother. Somehow we got onto the subject of fighting the Japanese during WWII. They told us that our father, Charles Pomphrey, saved all of their lives, especially when crossing a river xxxx. They knew him by the nick name 'black bastard'. Not very nice, but he did have black hair, dark brown eyes and a moustache. They trained in India and Africa and fought in Burma and other regions.
We have a photograph of my father being introduced to King George during training in Bulawayo. All of the chaps we spoke to said that they owed their lives to the fact that he was a great strategic and forward planning officer who knew his stuff, even though he was of a young age.
As children we were brought up in a very strictly styled regime probably due to our father's time in the Army and the tropics. You will find that those who fought in these conditions and witnessed the horrors of this type of warfare very rarely speak of their experience. I know, however, that some of my brothers did manage to glean some informative snippets from my father. He never really wanted to have to remember or discuss his war experience.
The letter that he received after the war states the following:
The Second Division
France 1939-40
England 1940-41
India 1941-44
Arakan 1943
Kohima-Assam 1944
Burma 1944-45
Capt. C. F. Pomphrey
For your service in the Division.
Our success has been largely due to the determination and devotion to duty displayed by all ranks, and we may all feel justly proud that by these successes we have maintained and enhanced the already fine record of the Second Division. Well done. Good luck in your future life.
3 Sept. 1945 G Glicholson, Maj. Gen. Commander 2nd Division
A very basic and politic style of letter for what these men had to endure, experience, witness and suffer as far as I am concerned.
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Pte. Ian Gray 2nd Battalion Royal Scots (d.3rd March 1943) Private Ian Gray was my Great Uncle. He was wounded and captured during fighting in Hong Kong against the Japanese. He was a POW at Shamshuipo Camp in Kowloon before being sent to Japan on the Lisbon Maru. The Lisbon Maru was sunk by US Forces in September 1942. Ian Gray survived and was held by the Japanese as a POW at Kobe (Osaka #2B Camp) where he died of cardiac beri-beri on 3 March 1943 aged 23 years. He is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery, British Section.
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L/Cpl Angus Macmillan Carmichael 2nd Battalion Royal Scots I'd be interested to hear from anyone who served with the 2nd Battalion at Kohima.
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