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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
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- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 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.
- 27th April 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 264001 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
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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 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment? There are:1385 items tagged 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment 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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Cpl. Kitchener David Veal 3rd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment Kitchener Veal was called up and the date was the same as the day he was due to marry his girlfriend. He got a two week deferment from 20th Jan 1940 to early Feb.
I believe he made rank of corporal.
He was transferred from the South Wales Borderers to the Monmouthshire Regiment, with whom he landed in Normandy in 1944.
He fought through France, Belgium, and into the Netherlands. He was severely wounded on 15th October 1944 in the Battle of Overloon and brought back to Britain. He eventually had below-knee amputation of his right leg due to his injuries.
Other information, he was a good piano player, which made him popular with the lads. Also, whilst stationed at Scapa Flow, he boxed for his company.
I would love any more information of my father's exploits whilst in the army. I shall be visiting Overloon on the 75th anniversary of his wounding, 15th October 2019.
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