|
|
|
|
|
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.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please read our Family History FAQs
- 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.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
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. |
|
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.
World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
Want to know more about 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers? There are:1332 items tagged 1st Battalion, Royal Scots 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. |
|
Pte. J. Mulree 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers J Mulree served with the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers.I have his war service medals. GSM Palestine, war and defence medals, the 1939 star, Africa Star, Burma Star.
|
Fus. Charles James Fox 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Jim Fox enlisted in the Territorial Army and was posted to Infantry Training Centre on 13th of June 1940. He was sent to Ayr for training then posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers on 5th of October 1940. He served in Madagascar 1942, South Africa (boarded out) 1942, India February 1943 to 1944, Burma February 1944 to May 1945. He landed back into Southampton and was transported to Edinburgh to be signed off, only to arrive back in Middlesbrough in October 1945, the day after his father was buried (the army knew about the funeral but didn't make any attempt to send him home earlier). He never spoke about his war experiences but suffered nightmares and bouts of malaria for the rest of his life.
|
Pte. Robert Hansel Norman 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusliers Robert Norman disembarked at Bombay, on the 28th Oct 1944 under Ranchi, India Command.
Due to heavy casualties within each regiment Robert was moved from regiment to regiment and served with Cameronian Highlanders, King's Own Scottish Borderers,
1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 10th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers 11th of Jul 1945 and 12th Sherwood Foresters. He embarked from Bombay on the 19th of May 1946.
Robert was my maternal uncle and I have all his photographs, ranging from when he was baptised, through being a schoolboy, and then when in Burma. He was awarded the Burma Star. The dark side was that his eyes show no emotion and stare into space, as if
frozen in complete shock of what he has seen and experienced. In his regiment photo in Bombay he is wearing a Chindit hat.
Post war he never spoke one word of his war-time experiences, as was the case with my father and uncle Jack Norman of the Durham Light Infantry.
He never married, although a tall handsome man of excellent physical stature for his entire life. He retained that 'strange stare', although after several pints his eyes did relax with a twinkle. How many young men
like Robert came back from Burma in that strange trance like stance? The Forgotten Army?
Geoffrey E. Dixon-Hamilton
|
Lt. George Henry Matthews 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers George Matthews' records were destroyed in India.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
