Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 27th July…
Having previously posed the question – whereabouts in the south-east of the USA were they? Is it a lido or…
At London Civil Defence Regional HQ newsletters were compiled regularly throughout the war with news of how former colleagues were…
In researching the various people mentioned in these pages their personal stories are rarely as expected. One of the names…
John Ives and his elder brother James began the War doing the same job at the same place. Alfred De…
F/O Douglas Hackett DFC RCAF was b/a in F/Lt Warren Roberts’ 405 Squadron crew, lost on the 30th January 1944…
The RAF is renowned for spawning a multitude of its own slang sayings. The phrase ‘not a sausage’ – meaning…
From their same starting point at 9 ITW Stratford-on-Avon, Jim Ives and Ian Cunnison, pictured sitting next to each other…
From midnight on 5th/6th June a convoy started to make its way towards Boulogne from the English coast. The convoy…