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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, Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburghs)? There are:1329 items tagged 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburghs) 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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WO1. Arthur James Brading 4th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment (d.23rd Jul 1944) Arthur James Brading was born in 1910 on the Isle of Wight, the son of James Edward and Julia Elizabeth Brading.
In 1936 he married Edith L. Brading (nee Everest) from Tonbridge.
He served as Warrant Officer Class I in the 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment.
He died on 23rd July 1944 and is buried in Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville, France.
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Pte. William Alfred Adcock 1st Btn. Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment My Dad, Bill Adcock told me about his time in the BEF in France when they were over run by the Germans. He recounted that a small group of them were affecting the run trying to evade capture from the Germans after the fall of France. With no map reading skills, they managed to make their way over a number of days on foot to Cherbourg and escape back to England. This apparently was after the evacuation of Dunkirk.
He recounted that on one occasion they were trapped in a barn and surrounded by the enemy. My Dad asked what the date was and told it was the 29th of May to which my Dad said that it was his 21st Birthday
The reply came back from his comrade that he would be lucky to see 22 !!!
My Dad was born in 1919 so it must have been the 29th May 1940!
Their small group escaped in the end through the French countryside to Cherbourg where they were evacuated back to England.
He later survived the fighting during the Normandy landings, Holland and Germany.
He never really spoke about his experiences until well into his 60s but was immensely proud and looked forward to Regimental reunions in Maidstone, when as a teenager I used to accompany him all through the 70s.
He showed us the craters and dishing left to the lower part of his leg caused by machine gun bullets he was hit by.
We found after he passed away in 1994 that he had also served with the 4th Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment in Normandy Holland and France. He was one of a few I guess that survived the fall of France and went back to help liberate France.
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