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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?
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.
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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 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles? There are:1516 items tagged 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles 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. George Richard "Dicky" Willis 2nd Btn. London Irish Rifles    My father George Willis, never talked about his experiences during the war but I managed to glean some information from him and from my mother before they passed away.
He joined up with friends from London on 19th of June 1940. They made the trip to Ballymena to sign on. After that he did his basic training and served with 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles.
He saw action in North Africa. He was shot and badly injured at Bou Arada Tunisia on 26th of February 1943 when the Germans overran his position. He sustained machine gun wounds to his upper left leg. One round passing through his thigh and then through his lower right leg. He was attended by a German medic who undoubtedly saved his life. The medic stayed with him until the British counter attacked and drove the Germans back to where they had come from.
My father was taken to a field hospital. After that he was sent back to the UK and spent long rehabilitation at Roehampton Hospital. His favourite memory of this place was being given a pint of stout each day.
He was medically discharged on 30th of September 1943.
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