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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 12th (2nd Queen's Westminsters) Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps? There are:1337 items tagged 12th (2nd Queen's Westminsters) Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps 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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Rflmn. Kenneth William Warren 12th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.30th Mar 1945) Ken Warren was the youngest child of seven and, against the wishes of his mother, joined up in July 1943, at the age of 20.
He trained at Fulford Barracks, York, transferred from General Service Corps to KRRC, then was posted to 10th Battalion, KRRC at Strensall Camp, York.
He was posted to 12th Battalion KRRC in May 1944 and left for Europe in June 1944. He was killed in action on 30th of March 1945 and is buried in Uden War Cemetery, Noord Brabant, Holland. He was 21.
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Rfm Kenneth William Warren 12th Btn B Coy King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.30th March 1945) Would love to know more about my great uncle.
He was killed 1945-03-30, shortly after the Rhine crossing - I'm assuming while on the way to Silvolde. There's not much info out there on the 12th Battalion KRRC but any information helps.
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L/Cpl. Albert Lesley Winchester 12th Btn. D Company Kings Royal Rifle Corps Albert Winchester served with the 8th and 12th Battalions, Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
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Rfn. Stanley Albert Munday 12th (2nd Btn. The Queen's Westminsters) Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.16th Feb 1945) Stanley Munday died near Kleve in Germany. I have heard from his family that the Jeep he drove in hit a landmine. I would like to find out where this exactly happened because I want to visit the site with my future son in law who is a family member of Stanley Albert Munday.
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2nd Lt. Robert Arthur James Alcock 12th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Lt Robert Alcock was severely injured in Belgium in 1944, for which he received two Belgian awards for gallantry. After the war, he became Mayor of Richmond in 1957-58 and again in 1976. He received an OBE in the 1973 Birthday Honours List for services to the community.
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Harold "Bill" Ruffell 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.1st September 1944) My uncle, Harold `Bill' Ruffell was killed on 1st September 1944 whilst serving with the 12th Btn King's Royal Rifle Corps (2nd Btn Queen's Westminsters). He sleeps in Flesselles Communal Cemetery, France, along with two others: L/Sgt Laurence Gribben (MM) of the Notts Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps and Trooper John Alfred Sharpe, Notts Yeomanry. Does anyone know how they died?
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