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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
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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
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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 73rd Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery? There are:471 items tagged 73rd Anti Tank 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. Michael Francis O'Brien 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery Michael O'Brien was my grandfather. He served with 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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Gnr. Michael Fahy 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment, 196th Bty. Royal Artillery Michael Fahy joined up in 1934 in Wigan after walking from Tyldesley to escape poor working conditions as a coal miner.
He was posted to India then Egypt where he was when war broke out. Due out of the army in October 1940 with a letter of recommendation for the chairman of Arsenal football club. This never happened as he was required in North Africa.
He was given long service leave in Oct. 1943 and joined 73rd Anti-Tank Reiment in the build up to D-Day. He served in this regiment until August 1945, then the 54th A/Tank until de-mob in May 1946.
He apprehended Himmler (but didn't recognise him at the time) and handed him over to MPs and interregation.
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Gnr. Frank O'Brien 73rd Anti Tank Regiment, 196th Battery Royal Artillery My late Grandad Frank O'Brien from Liverpool, served in the 196th Battery 73rd Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. We have his Army Book and a Normandy Medal.
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L/Sgt. Ronald Heywood Barlow 73rd Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (d.22nd June 1944) Ronald Barlow served with the 73rd Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery in WW2. He died on 22nd of June 1944 aged 33 years and is buried St Manvieu War Cemetery Cheux in France.
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Sgt. John Francis Stapleton 73rd Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (d.7th Dec 1941)  John Stapleton was the eldest of two sons born to Charles and Jessie Mary Stapleton. He was educated in Guernsey where he learned to speak fluent French. He was an army cadet. After school he returned home and became a clerk. He married Anne Butler, the sister of his very good school friend, in 1934.
John was a member of the TA before the war and so was called up very early for service. He initially was stationed at Bowmere Camp in Tarporley where he trained new recruits.
His wife and children remained in his native Liverpool but with the prospect of heavy bombing there he arranged for them to be billeted in Tarporley as evacuees.
The family never returned to Liverpool and John's son, also John, resides in Tarporley still.
A few months after the family arrived in the village John was sent to North Africa and he was killed in action on 7th of December 1941. One of his men wrote to the family to say that he had run into enemy fire to bring back another man who had fallen.
He is remembered on the El Alamein Monument at Matruh, Egypt.
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Gnr. Michael Patrick Fahy 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery Mick Fahy joined the Army in 1936 to escape from the coal mines in Lancashire. He served at Poona in India and in the western dessert 1939-42. His unit was sent to Iraq to help quell a rebellion then he had a long service leave. He joined 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment, RA just before D-Day and fought with them until the end of the War.
He apprehended Himmler in Meinsedt but he didn’t know who he had apprehended until a few days later. He died age 71 in 1988.
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Lt. Richard George French 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (d.6th December 1941) Richard French was an Exhibitioner and State Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford having previously attended Marlborough College. He was reading Modern History. He was a member of the French seed and forage merchant family from Devon.
On the outbreak of WW2 he left his studies at Oxford and enlisted in the Royal Artillery. After training he was posted to North Africa in the autumn of 1941 in the 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment as part of the allied armies fighting the Germans and Italians.
He was killed in action aged 21 on 6th of December 1941 (near Tobruk I believe). It is understood the vehicle he was travelling in was destroyed by a German tank.
He is buried at the CGWC Cemetery of Knightsbridge at Acroma. He is also commemorated on the WW2 memorials at Exeter College Oxford and Marlborough College.
Posted in memory of him and his beloved sister Mary Catherine French who died in 2016 aged 94.
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L/Sgt. Patrick Mannion 73rd Anti Tank Rgt. 196 Btry. Royal Artillery Patrick Mannion served with 196 battery, 73rd Anti Tank regiment, they landed on D-day, fought in Normandy, in Belgium, Holland and into Germany.
It was in Germany they did something remarkable, historical. I’m seeking any information on 196 battery 73rd Anti Tank regiment. It’s for a book I’m writing.
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