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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.
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- 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
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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
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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 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment? There are:1373 items tagged 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster 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. Arthur Petty 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment Dad, Arthur Petty's 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was attached to the 46th Brigade in 1940. They were trying to hold back the Germans to allow the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was involved in heavy fighting at St Omer. Apparently, they were in a battle with the 6th Panzer Division. He was captured at Wormhout trying to swim across the river L'yer to escape.
He was taken as a POW to Torun Prison of war camp in Poland where he spent the rest of the war.
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L/Cpl. Sidney Barnes 9th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (d.2nd Jan 1945)   Sidney Barnes enlisted in Mansfield on 17th of January 1940 when he was working as a barman at his Auntie's pub, The Market Hotel, in Mansfield.
His record shows that he was enlisted into the 9th Sherwood Foresters and on 26th April he was posted to the B.E.F. in France.
Only a short stay, as he was evacuated from Dunkirk on the 1st June and transferred to the 8th Green Howards in October. After 2 years spent back in England he was posted to the Middle East where he served until 7th of January 1943. His next posting was Persia and Iraq until 7th of May 1943 when he returned to the Middle East until 8th of January 1943 when he was part of the British North Africa Force with the 8th Army.
It is believed he was at Anzio, although we have no official record of this.
He was wounded twice in Italy, 27th May 1944 and 24th of September 1944 and promoted to L/Cpl.
On the 22nd December 1944 he was transferred to 6th York & Lancaster Regiment and on 2nd of January 1945 was in a lecture on a training Cadre in Porto San Giorgo when enemy mines exploded killing 1 Officer and 14 ORs and wounding 3 Officers and 22 ORs, 4 of whom died later of their wounds.
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Lt. Charles Fison Killick 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.23rd Feb 1943) Charles Killick died during the Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
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Pte John William Turton 6th Btn York and Lancaster Regiment (d.3rd September 1944) Whilst researching for a school project with my son, we discovered that my great Uncle, John Turton, had nearly escaped his fate in Crete, Greece in 1944. John served with the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in WW2. He had permission of leave for a cut on his arm that had turned septic.
However, he did not want to be known as a coward so he left Ashton Street in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, waving goodbye to his mother, father and two sisters and was never to return home again.
He was shot in the throat and died almost instantly on 3rd of September 1944. One thousand eight hundred and eighty seven men died there.
John was 19 years old. Today he lies in Italy at the Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, and it is now a place that my son and I wish to visit to pay our deepest respects. He is remembered on the Cassino Memorial in Italy. Son of Thomas Turton, and of Isabella Turton, of Wrekenton, Co. Durham.
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Pte. Edward Parkin 4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment My grand-dad, Edward Parkin served with the York and Lancaster Regiment. He has the 1939-1945 star and the Italy star. Records we have suggest he was in the Hallamshire Battalion, but war records suggest it was the 6th Battalion that were in Italy.
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Pte. Kenneth Frank Bourne 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Kenneth Bourne served with the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
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Sgt Albert Edwin Reeve 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment My father, AlbertReeve died about 39 years ago. I have been trying to find out about his war service. He is listed as being wounded in Sicily, but, I have vague recollections of being told, by him, that he was wounded in Tunisia. I recollect him telling me about coming back from patrols and spending hours shivering with relief at surviving. I presume this was a quite common occurrence. He did not tell me a lot about his war, I suspect he had that in common with a lot of ordinary soldiers doing extraordinary things.
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Pte. James Loughlin 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Jim Loughlin was wounded but was rescued from Dunkirk in 1940.
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Frederick Leybourne 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Freddy Leybourne, my father traveled to Tunisia in early 1943 with the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment as part of the 46th Infantry Division. After many engagements and the fall of Tunis, they went on to become part of Operation Avalanche, the landings at Salerno. Fighting with 46th Infantry Division now as part of the 5th US Army they fought on up through Italy until the end of the war. There are many gaps in the record which I am in the process of putting together but I have more research to do.
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Pte. Jack Wakefield 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.22nd May 1940) Jack Wakefield was the husband of my aunt Lily (nee Hitchcock), and the son of John and Florence Wakefield, all from Nottingham. Jack was killed in the retreat to Dunkirk and was buried in the churchyard of the village of Wormhoudt northern France, he was 19 years old when he died. Jack and Lily had a daughter, Marlene, but very sadly Marlene died of diphtheria later during the war.
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