-
Neville Foote
ONE of Britain’s last surviving D-Day heroes has told how he liberated occupied France armed with only a fold-up bike and a misfiring gun 75 years on from the landings. 5,983 total views
-
The first in…
On April 15, 1945, Lieutenant John Randall, then a 24-year-old SAS officer, was on a reconnaissance mission in northern Germany. 7,128 total views
-
Ron Westbury
This is a photo of my dear old dad shortly before he passed at the grand age of 91. 5,756 total views
-
George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 5,363 total views
-
John Morris (113th LAA) Despatch Rider
My grand father, gunner John Morris was present at the Liberation. He was a dispatch rider in the Royal Artillery attached to a Light Anti Aircraft regiment. 5,526 total views
-
Marsh – 63rd Anti Tank Regt
A series of photos labelled A J Marsh, 63rd Anti Tank Regt. 5,327 total views
-
Harry Skeggs – 32 CSS
The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for over sixty years, took place at Chelmsford Crematorium on Wednesday 10th May 2017. Below is an edited version of the tribute and address given at that service. 4,584 total views
-
Fraser Eadie (Lt Col)
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 7,175 total views
-
Norman J. Gallagher (RCAF Chaplain)
Norman Joseph Gallagher, son of James Gallagher and Marion McPhee, was born in Coatbridge, Scotland in the Archdiocese of Glasgow on 24 May 1917. 6,425 total views
-
Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 5,100 total views
A NEW ONLINE ARCHIVE