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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
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- 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 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment? There are:1359 items tagged 7th Battalion, Worcestershire 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. Charles David Handley 7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment My granddad, Charles Handley, was based at Norton, Worcester in either the 7th or 8th Battalion. He was in the BEF and was left in the rear guard to defend the beaches. The order was given by his NCO that there was no chance of any of them getting back to Britain, so it was every man for himself. So my grandad threw away his weapon but kept on his uniform so he wouldn't be taken for a deserter or spy and made his way to Vichy France where he caught a fishing boat and made his way back to Britain. He was later sent to Italy and went missing in action but did make it back and returned to Britain.
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Capt. John Francis Betts MC. 7th Btn. Worcester Regiment John Betts won the MC in the retreat to Dunkirk, being captured along with most of the Battalion on the same day. He was a Lieutenant at the time. I collect medals to the Worcestershire Regt. and have those belonging to him.
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Pte. Ernest Cameron 7th Btn. Royal Worcestershire Regiment  My Dad, Ernie Cameron, was a friend of Bill Clifton and he took Dad home in Malvern to have a bath before they got sent abroad. Dad recognised himself at once on the above photo, he is third from the left.
 
Dad was captured in May 1940 and taken to Stalag XXA but most of the time he and many others were sent to out to work on the roads and the farms. The work they did was hard and no amenities, not a lot of food not much of anything. He was also on the march in 1945 where he saw some dreadful things, Dysentry, starvation, frost bite, it was about 800 to 900 miles, was'nt it ,up the Baltics and down them. He recalls the Germans being terrified of the Russians finding them, as Dad said the "Russians" had no discipline at all. The air cracked it was so cold, they starved, toes dropped off and many, many, dying along the way.
There are lots of things now Dad tells me, if I ask him but it is only now not when I was younger, it holds too many bad memories for him. He says he can't believe it actually happened, that he actually did it, his family didn't recognise him when he got home, he was that thin, and now he is saying, what was it all for.
I've enclosed the photos in case anyone recognises themselves. Dad knows the faces but not the names. Could anyone help?
Dad enjoyed the site, we printed it off for him so he could read it quietly in his own time. Thank you very much.
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Pte William Clifton 7th Btn. Royal Worcestershire Regiment I came across this photograph of my late uncle, Pte. 11719 Bill Clifton of the Worcestershire Regiment, amongst my mother's things after she died. The date on the back is March 1942. He was in Stalag XXA (176) and is second from the left on the front row. He would have been about 23 when this was taken.
I remember him coming home to Malvern after the war, although I was only about 3 at the time.
The family and neighbours put flags across the street, and there was another soldier with him, but I can't remember a name. Perhaps someone remembers them, or this picture ?
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Cpl. Albert George Thompson 7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.9th May 1945) My father-in-law was killed in the crash of Lancaster RF 230 (514 Squadron) which happened on 9th May 1945 near Roye Ami, France. It was bringing home POW officers who had been liberated.
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Pte. Jack Pritchard 7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment My uncle, Jack Pritchard was captured at Bethune on 28th May 1940, fighting the rear guard action at Dunkirk. He was marched to XXa POW camp and was moved to Lamsdorf 344 camp in 1941. He helped a soldier from Newcastle on one of the marches. I have been trying to find out who this soldier's family are.
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Pte. Harold Spencer Worcestershire Regiment 7th Btn. No funny story I'm afraid. The above details belong to my Father who passed away some years ago. I have all his belongings from his time in service as a young man from 1941 to 1946. From these I know he served in the Worcestershire Regt in 7th battery but no more.
If anyone who experienced service in India during this period can shine any light on the kind of experiences my Father would have endured I would love to be put in touch.
Thank you for this opportunity.
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