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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 1st Battalion, Royal East Surrey Regiment? There are:1382 items tagged 1st Battalion, Royal East Surrey 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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Pte. Clifford Everett 1st btn East Surrey Regt. (d.27th Nov 1942) My cousin Clifford was killed and buried in Tunisia. He died on 27th November 1942. Can anyone help me as I would like to know details of the conflict and what happened to him?
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L/Cpl. Norman Jellicoe 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment (d.23rd April 1943) Norman Jellicoe died during Battle for Longstop Hill and is buried in Medez al Bab cemetery. He was 21 years old. A great uncle of mine. Nan's brother.
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Pte. Herbert William "Hector" Smyth 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment My grandfather, H.W. Hector Smyth, served as a Private with the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment from 1939to 1946 in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia.
In the 1980s he wrote a book-length memoir of his war years which has come in to my possession and I am now beginning to edit. It covers everything from enlistment and basic training to battle and post-war guard duty. It is amusing, moving, rather un-heroic, distinctly bawdy and full of tales of war life from a private's viewpoint. It is also beautifully well written, although I admit I may be biased. I am considering trying to get it published eventually. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in 1st Battalion, East Surreys in World War 2. One problem though is that although he mentions many friends and officers, he changed everyone's name so I cannot easily identify individuals.
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Pte. H. C. Geelan 1st Btn. East Surrey Rgt My father, Private H C Geelan, 1st Btn East Surrey Regiment, was wounded and taken prisoner near the village of Kerkhove on the Escault Canal in Belgium in May 1940. He spent time in a military hospital in Aachen before being transferred to a Stalag in Poland from which he was repatriated in a POW exchange in May(?)1943. I would be interested to hear from anyone who can provide any information on the actions in which his unit took part between 14th and 20th May 1940 or for any information on which POW camp he was in.
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