Operation HUSKY Overview. As the dawn set on the North African campaign Churchill and Roosevelt met at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. They next decided to attack Hitler’s Fortress Europe though the ‘soft underbelly’ of Italy and race northwards…
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The 75th Anniversary of the Salerno Landings. I was in the Salerno Area for two weeks on a family holiday initially and stayed on to organize a ceremony in the CWGC cemetery on 9th September which is now the Regimental…
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British and Allied Liaison Missions during the Italian Campaign I am a 3rd-year PhD student at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) working with professor Philip Cooke. The work revolves around the Italo-British relationship during the Second World War with special…
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Above: Mr Stuart Hollamby and Mrs Freda Cross Above: Roy Quinton National Chairman Above: The Lord Mayor of Canterbury Mr Colin Spooner and National Vice-Chairman Robin Hollamby Above: Roy Quinton National Chairman Above: Bugler Mr Alex Miller…
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Above: Barbara Vanner and Freda Cross Above: Tom and Margaret Owen Above: Veterans Douglas Weyhaupt and John Dennett Above: National Vice-Chairman Robin Hollamby Above: Rita & Douglas Weyhaupy, John Dennett and National Treasurer Maureen Hanlan Above Maureen…
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It was found in the Florentine Chianti, guarded over the years by a jeep enthusiast who had not dared to touch it, repaint it, put its originality at risk. And so it has come to this day. It is…
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We often get requests for help, mostly from second and third generations from our veterans seeking help finding service records, or headstones of relatives. We help where we can and point people in what we hope is the right direction…
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The Battle for Primosole Bridge Fresh from fighting in the deserts of North Africa, gaining two Battle Honours as well as their nickname of the ’Red Devils’ in the process, the British 1st Parachute Brigade were now encamped in Tunisia…
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Will Fowler discusses the amphibious and airborne assault on Sicily in 1943. Operation Husky was a major campaign of the Second World War in which the Allies captured the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. This talk will cover…
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