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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 1st Tyneside Scottish Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)? There are:1488 items tagged 1st Tyneside Scottish Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland 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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JC Corden 1st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Black Watch JC Corden served with the 1st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Black Watch British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl. John Joseph Lowdon Bullock Tyneside Scottish Battalion Black Watch Joe Bullock joined up 1939 and was wounded and taken prisoner on 20th of May 1940 outside Arras, near Ficheux and Mercatel. He was taken to Stalag xxb where he was put to work on a farm. He marched on the Long March to freedom. He lived through it and was liberated by the American army.
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Pte. James Anderson 1st Tyneside Scottish Battalion Black Watch James Anderson was my Grandad and was captured at st Valerie en Caux during the Dunkirk evacuation
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Pte. John Mooney 1st Tyneside Scottish Btn. Black Watch (d.16th Apr 1945) My uncle Jack Mooney was reported missing in France on 20th May 1940; it was later announced that he had been captured and sent to Lamsdorf POW Camp Stalag VIIIB in Poland. He was serving as part of the BEF attempting to delay the German advance. After almost 5 years in captivity, he was sent on one of the Long Marches west as part of the German retreat from the advancing Russians. He was killed on 16th of April 1945 and is buried in the Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria.
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Pte. David H. Johnson Tyneside Scottish Btn Black Watch I'm doing some research into my grandfather, Pte. David H.Johnson, of the Tyneside Scottish. Davey was held at Stalag XXID. Among the materials I found was a 21st Birthday card signed by his fellow prisoners and made by hand, as well as a charming advert for the POW Pantomine of Aladdin at the Kuhndorf Theatre (written by F.E.Cook and L.W Godfrey with Alec Buist and Syd Price helping). My grandad played the Princess.
I've so many names and lists of people that he kept in contact with stuffed into little cigarette tins and German newspapers. Can anyone tell me if Stalag XXID is still standing, if so, it's a place that I'd feel the need to visit?
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Sgt. David Watson MM 1st Tyneside Scottish Black Watch David Watson was the husband of Mary Isobel nee Gordon.
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James Gavin Clark Tyneside Scottish Btn Black Watch My dad, James Gavin Clark of Durham, served in the Tyneside Scottish Rgt. He was in Stalags XXA and XXB, having been captured in 1940. Does anyone remember him?
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