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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.
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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 6th Royal Tank Regiment? There are:686 items tagged 6th Royal Tank 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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D Sanigar 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment D Sanigar served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RW Paske 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment RW Paske served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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EL Parker 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment EL Parker served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L/Cpl. J Nicholson 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L/Cpl.J Nicholson served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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EH Lingwood 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment EH Lingwood served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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H Langthorne 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment H Langthorne served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JR Hennessy 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment JR Hennessy served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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SC Drake 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment SC Drake served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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DC Bowman 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment DC Bowman served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JJ Bolan 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment JJ Bolan served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L.Sgt. TJ Billingham 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L.Sgt.TJ Billingham served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Tpr. Frederick William "Don" Donhou 6th Btn., B squadron Royal Tank Regiment (d.21st November 1941) Don Donhou was killed at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh on 21st/22nd of November 1941.
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Tpr. Thomas James Seymour MM,MiD. 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment My father, Thomas James Seymour, was born in 1920 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
He joined the Territorial Army in 1937 and in 1940 was sent to the Western Desert, (El Alamein). He was involved in the early part of the campaign when things were going badly. On 7th of July 1942 in the area of Ruweisat Ridge his lorry was shelled and badly damaged. Showing no regard for personal danger, he changed 2 damaged wheels under fire and refused to go back to the A1 Echalon, but went forward over a minefield to replenish the tanks which were heavily engaged in action. His lorry was again shelled, and he was ordered to off-load ammunition from the lorry and make a dump which he did single-handedly. His commander was Lieutenant Colonel Liardet. My father was awarded the Military Medal. The officer who was involved in this incident received the George medal.
My father was also Mentioned in Dispatches and has an oak leaf and bar decoration.
I only know most of this because I got a copy of the original citation. My father did not talk about the awful things that happened until the 2 years before his death at the age of 97. Any mention of his time at El Alamein would make him very upset. I do remember my father telling me that he saw Auchinleck sitting up against a truck, I also remember him telling me that he thought Auchinleck had done a really good job, and was sorry when he was dismissed.
He was very friendly with another recruit from Newcastle. He showed my father a picture of his youngest sister. He started to write to her and on return to Tyneside they met and married! His friend Steve was now my uncle Steve and when they got together they would regale us with funny stories about their experiences. Neither of them told us how awful it was.
On a final note, he had been given an order to drive an armoured car over a bridge that was not safe. He told the officer that it wouldn't hold the lorry. On feeling the bridge give way he jumped out and the lorry was lost in a river. He was told he would be in great trouble for losing the lorry. A while later, on being summoned to the Colonel's tent, he was told before entering to salute and say 'Thank you'. Expecting to be told what would happen as a result of losing the truck, he was told instead that he had been recommended for the Military Medal. He heard no more about the lost lorry!
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2nd Lt. Denys Hallen Hancock 6th Royal Tank Regiment Royal Tank Corps (d.20th November 1941) Second Lieutenant Denys Hancock, lost his life on 20th of November 1941 at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, His father and brother were also in the military.
His brother, Clarence Henry Bramley Hancock, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (USA). He was a captain in the RFA. As a FOO he was awarded his medal for gallantry during the battle for Suggerath, Germany.
His father, Ralph Hancock was a successful and famous landscape architect.
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Sgt George Henry James Holmes 6th.Royal Tank Regt My father, George Holmes, served in the 6th.RTR in the Middle East through the North African campaign, Palestine and thence into Italy. He saw action at Sidi Rezegh where his closest friend John 'Nip' Friar was killed.He was also at Tobruk and El Alamein.
When Dad came home he spoke little about his experiences through the war and my Mother always said he was not the same man who went away in 1940.He suffered mood swings and was often an angry man and it was until 1957 when I went into the RAF that he actually started to speak of what he had seen and done.
I realise now that he, like so many of our fathers and grandfathers was suffering what is now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Having read a number of letters in the Wartime Memories Project entries for a number of Regimenrs this has become a very noticeable symptom described by many of the letter writers.
My hope is that there will be an end to wars and the terrible affect to families of those serving soldiers when they return home.
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