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Logbooks
Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession?
If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you.
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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.
- 16th Jan 2025 - 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
265273 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
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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 No. 126 (Persian Gulf) Squadron Royal Air Force? There are:2061 items tagged No. 126 (Persian Gulf) Squadron Royal Air Force 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. John Howarth 126 Squadron Jack Howarth served with 126 Squadron RAF. Does anyone remember him?
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Cpl. Gordon Whyte Collins MID. 126 Squadron My father, Gordon Collins, was on the ship, HMS Welshman that arrived in Malta as the siege of Malta started. He had volunteered to take the place of another young airman who had a young family because he was a single man. Unfortunately, my father died in 1960 still a young man, so all I have are many photos of Malta, Grottaglie and Sicily and his wonderful books on mechanics (mainly Spitfires). He joined the RAF because he wanted to be a pilot, but he was severely colour blind so he was ground crew. He was a wonderful artist and I believe he painted a lot of ensignia on planes, lorries, etc. The illustrations in his mechanics books are wonderful.
The names of some of the men he was friendly with are: Dick Pulford, Alex Haggerty from Perth, Nobby Porter from Putney, Ginger Gilbert and Bill Stewart from Killiecrankie.
He was offered a commission after the war to teach mechanics, but by then he had met my mother at a dance in Saffron Walden and had had enough of the Air Force. I was only thirteen when my father died so my information is very patchy, but I would love to know more about his time during the war.
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P/O Malcolm MacDonald 126 Sqdn. My father-in-law, P/O Malcolm MacDonald or Mal, was stationed at Sawbridgeworth on 22nd May 1944. He was with 126 Sqdn and came there from Culmhead. He was with the squadron when it was in Italy. He stayed with 126 Sqdn until it was disbanded in late 1944.
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