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Those known to have served with London Scottish during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
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Records of London Scottish from other sources.
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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
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- 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.
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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 London Scottish? There are:1339 items tagged London Scottish 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. Harry McQueen Stiven London Scottish Harry Stiven served with the Highland Light Infantry and London Scottish.
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Pte. John Mitchell London Scottish John Mitchell enlisted when he was working as a farm labourer in Scotland.
He was awarded: 1939-45 Star, Defence Medal, Africa Star, Italy Star
and Ribbons. He was issued his Release Leave Certificate in Pola, Italy on 26th of November 1945.
Rosemary Mitchell-McAuley
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William Alfred Ward London Scottish My father, William Ward joined the London Scottish in 1940. He later served as a sergeant in a Royal Artillery Anti Aircraft unit until 1945.
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Pte. John Kelly 8th Btn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders John Kelly joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1937
and served with the 9th Battalion from 1937 to 1939
then with the London Scottish until 1942, when he transferred to the
8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served in North Africa and Italy. He was awarded the 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Coronation Medal, TA Efficiency Medal (with 2 clasps)
and was promoted to Corporal in 1958, being discharged on the 15th of January 1962.
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