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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.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please read our Family History FAQs
- 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.
If you enjoy this site
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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 53rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery? There are:444 items tagged 53rd Light Anti Aircraft 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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Sgt. Leslie West 53rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery Leslie West was my grandfather, I never met him, he died shortly after coming home. He was not the same man who returned. Excerpt from 'What Doncaster KOYLI did in the Desert War', by Cyril Bewley:
'With the Eighth Army: One of the oldest of the Eighth Army units now serving in Italy is the Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, formerly the Doncaster Battalion of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Converted to Royal Artillery in 1938 when commanded by Colonel - now Brigadier - Albert Smith O.B.E., T.D. they have since fought in France, Britain, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Italy - an eventful four and a half years in which they have fired 56,000 rounds: have confirmation of destruction of 95 enemy aircraft with 125 others probably destroyed; and won one D.S.O, four M.C.S, one D.M.C, eight M.M.S, one B.E.M, and 18 "mentions"'.
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