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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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- 18th Dec 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
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 152nd Ayrshire Yeomanry Field Regiment, Royal Artillery? There are:493 items tagged 152nd Ayrshire Yeomanry Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 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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Gnr. George William "Jum" Rouse 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery My father George Rouse joined 16.05.1940 training at Bordon on the 16th of May 1940, training with 12th Field Training Regiment RA then 127th Field Regiment RA. I have his war record. He transferred to 152nd Field Regiment, RA on 2nd of September 1942 Ayrshire.
He embarked 8th of November 1942 for North Africa and was involved in various engagements, including the Battle for Tunis. Then to Italy, at Cassino he was caught out in the open during the night and attacked by a bomber before they could dig in. A few ORs were wounded, this was on 25th of May 1944. He remained on duty, George was wounded in the foot.
There was one death, Gunner Allan, 14258833 is buried in Cassino War Cemetery.
Dad transferred from 152nd RA HQ in Rome 22rd August 1944 to 1st Regiment RHA, until 10th of November 1945.
I have no other information concerning members or even what battery he was in. One thing he spoke of was that the whole of the batteries were addressed by a very senior officer, who stated that they had been given a verbal order that no prisoners were to be taken for three days during the next push. After discussing the order to all officers they refused the verbal order on behalf of everybody. As the advance took place and they moved forward they found some Germans dead who had been tied up and mutilated, some were found to have the left sleeve of their uniform cut open. Nobody knew why, the Poles had advanced on foot in the area. When they arrived in Austria, units of the Ukrainian SS surrendered to dad's unit that's when they found out about the blood mark of the SS. A representative of Tito's forces arrived and asked for the Ukrainian SS to be handed over to them. Nobody in Dad's unit understood why. Word was quick to arrive from London not to hand them over.
He arrived home on 1st of April 1946 and was based at Foots Cray in Kent until his release on 10th of May 1946. He was in the reserves until 1951.
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Gnr. Joseph Patrick O'Donnell 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery (d.17th July 1945) Joseph O'Donnell was killed when the army vehicle he was travelling in crashed and overturned.
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William Latuske 152nd (Aryshire Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery My grandfather William Latuske served in the 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Artillery in North Africa and Italy. A true gentleman who sadly passed away in the 1990s but will always be loved and never forgotten.
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Bmdr. James Arthur Tudor 152 (Ayrshire Yeo) Field Regiment, C Troop, B Batt Royal Artillery My father, James Tudor refused to discuss his service in the Italian campaign, but one or two facts did come out that began a story that I could relate to in later life. That was the reality of war, and the realism of the trauma our relatives suffered, is emotional to say the least.
For example he told my Mother of dozing off under a tree, presumably at the Monte Cassino bombardment phase of the campaign when a raindrop landed on his helmet, and such was the tension of the situation he thought he had been blown up. Then in Rome he told her of searching ordinary houses with ordinary families in residence,and his feeling that how would he have felt if it had have been our home that foreign troops were searching.
In September 1944 he had a portrait painted by Artists of Florence at a studio that still exists (I visited it in 2011 on a trip to Italy) these paintings were done for many British soldiers, his name and detail was inscribed on the back.
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