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Robert Christopher Carr (REME)
Robert Christopher Carr, always known as Chris, was born at 41 Benton Way,Wallsend on 19 Nov 1918. 12,275 total views
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Keith MacLellan (1SAS)
Keith William MacLellan (1920-1998) (first left on photo) was a modest, quiet man who didn’t like to draw attention to himself. 12,528 total views
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Tom Jackson
Sergeant with the Intelligence Corps – British Army for six years. Following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Tom was part of the team that arrested the SS Guards on 17th April 1945. 12,634 total views
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William James Johnson – Royal Artillery
Birth 03 MAR 1918 • Norton Bavant, Warminster, Wiltshire, England Death 29 JUL 2012 • Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 13,627 total views
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Brigadier Glyn-Hughes
Glyn-Hughes qualified as a doctor in 1915 following attendance at University College London. He joined the British Army serving as Regimental Medical Officer for the Wiltshire Regiment (1915-18) & The Grenadier Guards (1918-19). 13,826 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – The Northern Echo
WHILE the street parties were in full swing in streets festooned with bunting back home in Blighty, Victory in Europe was marked in a starkly contrasting way for many British soldiers serving in different parts of the world. 15,644 total views
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No. 5 AFPU Ft. Norman Midgley
The Army Film and Photographic Unit was a subdivision of the British armed forces set up on 24 October 1941, to record military events in which the British and Commonwealth armies was engaged. During the war, almost 23 percent of all AFPU soldiers were killed in action; the AFPU was disbanded in 1946. 13,466 total views
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Dickie Atkinson (9 DLI)
A VETERAN soldier, believed to the last member of Durham Light Infantry to have taken part in the D-Day landings, has died two days before celebrating his 75th wedding anniversary with his wartime sweetheart. 13,127 total views
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Charles Enrique Dent
Charles Dent was born in Burgos, Spain. He was the son of Franklin Dent, who studied chemistry in Leeds before acquiring his PhD in Munich and later working in Spain. 14,497 total views
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Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston
Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston, OBE, MC (28 February 1911 – 17 May 1988) was a senior British Army officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Senior Medical Officer at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War. Known as Johnnie Johnston. 13,931 total views
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