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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.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
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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 279th Field Company, Royal Engineers ? There are:499 items tagged 279th Field Company, 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. Ronald James Marchant 279th Field Company Royal Engineers Our father Ronald Marchant enlisted on 15th September 1939 for 4 years but wasn’t released until April 1946. During his time he was with 279th Field Company, Royal Engineers in 15th Scottish Division. He served in the BEF January to June 1940 where he worked in a camouflage factory. He was admitted to Alexandra Hospital in June 1940 after being injured by shrapnel after a train was blown up. He was in France between June 1944 and 1946.
This is just a tiny bit of our father's Army life and we were so lucky that he survived to eventually remarry and have us four children. We very sadly lost Dad in 2015 aged 96 he was our hero and not a day goes by without him being on our minds and in our hearts.
I am starting to look into finding out as much as I can about his Army life, although we did ask him things when he was alive, he was a very private and proud family man who didn’t want to relive the horrors of what he saw so, we didn’t push him. Sadly now it’s too late I will have to find his records instead.
Thank you to all the many hundreds & thousands who gave their lives so we could have ours. God bless you all. The Marchant Family.
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