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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 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers? There are:481 items tagged 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers 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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Spr. David Anthony Bunton MM. 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers Davie Bunton was a very unassuming man who rarely spoke about his war days until he realised if he did not pass on any details to anyone it would have passed without ever really knowing much about his service record after being awarded the Military Medal in August 1943. Davie rarely spoke about things about the war, Davie was a proud family man and mad Celtic FC fan who was the oldest season ticket holder right up to his death at the age of 97 and 11 months, having travelled to all Celtic games on the Oliver Celtic bus in Drumchapel, Glasgow. A large group of the fans who went on the two Oliver's buses were totally taken aback when he was 90 and they eventually found out about his service record as he was always aware of the sacrifices made by many of his fellow comrades, who never came back. After the war he was a legend and hero to almost everyone who new him even before knowing about his service record. I have always been proud of the man. I was extremely proud to have known him since I was around 11 years of age. I'm now 52 and been married to one of his daughters for 30 years and would love to hear from any living members of the Royal Engineers 1st Field Squadron or family members who may have known Davie through a relative. Our thoughts are always with Davie and those who served with him, proud of you all always.
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Spr. James Joseph Peters 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers Jim Peters served with 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers and was held in Stalag20B.
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Spr. Thomas Griffiths 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers Thomas Griffiths was captured at St Valery en Caux on June 12th 1940. He was a POW in Poland.
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Capt. Christopher Dalmahoy Waters 1st Field Squadron Capt. Christopher Waters was second-in-command of 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers and was captured at St Valerie in June 1940, but later escaped and returned to the UK.
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Spr. Robert Cecil James 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers I joined the Royal Engineers, British Army on 11th April 1938. I was captured at St Valery on 12th June 1940 and imprisoned at Stalag XXa for almost five years. I survived the Long March across Europe (approximately 1000 miles) and was demobbed 1946.
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Spr. Percy John "M.V. Brown" Wraight MiD. 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers My father, Percy Wraight, joined the Royal West Kent Regiment underage and was hunted down by his mother, God Bless her, and returned home but turned around and enlisted under his nephew's name Michael Victor Brown in the Royal Engineers.
After training he was posted to Iceland but after the Americans took over he was posted to the western dessert with 1 Field Squadron and was involved in the back and forth battles with Rommel's North Africa Corps.
He was involved in several battles, Gazda, Mersah Matruh, Tobruk, apparently a very fluid time with both gains and losses for the Allies.
He was captured and escaped by virtue of being released by Romels troops for lack of water, severely wounded, actually died and resuscitated according to my mother and returned to England and hospitalized for 2 years.
My father did tell me that he remembers stumbling through the dessert with others and recycling their urine in order to stay alive. Pretty grim but he retained an absolutely marvelous sense of humour, he very seldom removed his shirt because front and back were covered with shrapnel wounds.
Dad lived a good full life and died in Comox B.C. in 2004.
Interesting to note is that I have his service record book and his entire war record is under Michael Victor Brown with at the end of war the name penned out and Percy John Wraight written above it.
I recently found dad's record online in WO417/47 and it is still under M.V. Brown. it shows him missing in action then corrected under casualty #893 incident date 4 Aug 1942 Cyrenaica.
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