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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.
- 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
265120 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 82nd Light Anti Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery ? There are:82 items tagged 82nd Light Anti Aircraft Battery, 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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Harold Victor "Darkie" Savage 82nd Battery, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery Our late Grandfather, Harold Savage, known as Darkie, was with 82nd Battery, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment from their early days in Liverpool as Bofors gunners.
They went via Durban by troopship to the Suez Canal and 25th LAA Regiment joined 50th Division in the desert and stayed with them until Rommel's Afrika Korps was defeated.
He fought at Alamein and in the Invasion of Sicily.
He then returned to the UK and underwent training in East Anglia for D Day. 50th Division was the spearhead division assaulting Gold Beach and liberated Bayeux.
The Regiment fought into N. W. Europe, 82nd Battery was at the front of the Allied column attempting to relieve the beleaguered troops at Arnhem.
When 50th Division was returned to the UK to become a training division having suffering high numbers of casualties, 25th LAA Regiment joined 53 (Welsh) Division to continue towards Germany and were part of the Crossing of the Rhine, Battle of the Bulge and Battle of the Reichswald Forest.
The reached the Hamburg area at the time of the German surrender.
The Regiment remained in Germany for civilian policing duties after the war ended.
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John Absolon 82 LAA Bty. Royal Artillery I was in 82 Bty in 1943-44 in the UK and Normandy.
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Harry Ryder 25th Light AA Rgt. Royal Artillery My father, Harry Ryder, after enlisting in 1940 was posted to the 25th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment of the Royal Artillery. He then went to Egypt and the Western Desert. It seems he was with the 81st and 82nd Light AA Batteries. They were later incorporated into the 1st Armoured Division. On 11th December 1942 he was posted to the Royal Artillery Depot in Egypt. He was then shipped back home and endured two torpedo attacks on two separate ships. Later he was in North West Europe with 745 Tipper Company. It's a long shot but does anyone have any memories relating to these?
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