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- Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wishing everyone a better New Year
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14712
Re: Wishing everyone a better New Year
Hear hear! Happy new year to you all, and may it be safe and healthy.
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 2nd Anti Tank Regiment, RCA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4137
Re: 2nd Anti Tank Regiment, RCA
Very nice! I suppose it must be mid war (42?) given the Panzer model. Is that from LAC?
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another artillery question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17861
Re: Another artillery question
Interesting - thanks!
I did actually photograph some of 67 LAD's war diary on one of my visits to the archives. (Sept '44 to June '45, only the daily entries)
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I did actually photograph some of 67 LAD's war diary on one of my visits to the archives. (Sept '44 to June '45, only the daily entries)
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- Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Soldier Research
- Topic: A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7502
Re: A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
On further thought, regarding other soldiers, I was more generally thinking of anyone I am aware of who received an award while using an Archer, such as Lt David Heaps, MM (d. 2000, per the Last Post) and Sgt Darrow Gomez, DCM (d. 2005). It's not that I particularly want to focus on those who receiv...
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: Soldier Research
- Topic: A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7502
Re: A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
Hi guys, First, I want to say thank you for your input! I am having a little memory lapse at this moment - who did I have in mind for my first question? It will presumably come back to me. With regards to the second person, he was Joseph J Sauve, or at least that's what this War Museum sticker says ...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:24 pm
- Forum: Soldier Research
- Topic: A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7502
A couple of questions related to requesting soldier records
I understand why wartime records are restricted for family/privacy reasons... Does anyone have any advice on how to proceed if you aren't sure if a particular soldier is deceased or not? Also, to find out if someone served at all and has a service record? In this latter case, in the War Museum libra...
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:10 am
- Forum: Battles
- Topic: Juno Beach - Map Traces
- Replies: 6
- Views: 26485
Re: Juno Beach - Map Traces
Ahhh... I am guessing all the artillery plans I've seen were also map traces.
Thank you for the very educational post!
Thank you for the very educational post!
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HMS Habbakuk - an aircraft carrier built from ICE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5705
Re: HMS Habbakuk - an aircraft carrier built from ICE
Apparently the refrigeration coils (?) of a prototype can still be seen by scuba divers under the waters of Patricia Lake in Alberta.
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: D-Day Landings, New Zealand ship Monowai
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42113
Re: D-Day Landings, New Zealand ship Monowai
That sounds very promising and interesting!
I hope (though I'm sure it's true!) that you are having a fantastic trip in NZ.
I hope (though I'm sure it's true!) that you are having a fantastic trip in NZ.
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Raymond Collishaw in WW2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7007
Re: Raymond Collishaw in WW2
My point was that most episodes of the podcasts are interviews with authors of books about WW2.