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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
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- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
- 22nd April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263973 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
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- The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
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Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. |
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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
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Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
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Want to know more about 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)? There are:1370 items tagged 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
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FJ Sawyer 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters FJ Sawyer served with the 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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S Rollinson 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters S Rollinson served with the 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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E Pusey 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters E Pusey served with the 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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WT Lloyd 2nd Btn. Notts & Derbyshire Regiment WT Lloyd served with the 2nd Btn. Notts & Derbyshire Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GE Kirby 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters GE Kirby served with the 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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James "Tom" Parker 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters Tom Parker was my granddad. His story was published in the Telegraph after he was reunited with his comrade Gilbert Fogg after sixty years.
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Pte Harold Fores 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters (d.17th May 1940) Harold Fores was the partner of my grandmother. I believe they lived in the Worksop area. My gran was 17 at the time of his death. I'm told he was killed in action due to multiple shrapnel wounds through the back and stomach on the 17th May 1940. Unfortunately, that is all I know about him.
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Pte. James Cresswell Hubbuck 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters In the Italy campaign during 1944, James Hubbuck was wounded in battle and told me he was helped by one of the enemy (a German). Later he was sent to a hospital in Naples to recover and said he saw mount Vesuvius erupt while he was there.
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Sgt. Horace Victor Vardy 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters During his time at war, in June 1940 Horace Vardy was put aboard the Lancastria which was packed full in an emergency evacuation from France. While evacuating from St Nazaire, a German bomb had hit the ship and killed hundreds of soldiers instantly.
To survive the Lancastria disaster Vardy had to fight for his place on a piece of wreckage, while comrades lost their lives. He felt guilt and sorrow later for this. Troops in the water were being machine-gunned as Vardy paddled away from the ship, covered in oil. As he was in the sea he could hear the men trapped below decks in the ship singing Roll out the Barrel, a song that brought tears to his eyes whenever he heard it, until the day he died in 1963. He spent many hours in the water praying and singing until a fishing boat picked him up. This was the 17th June, the day before his birthday. He would be 22 years old the next day; it was the best birthday present he could wish for. He served in Bees Squad, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters.
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L/Cpl. Raymond Hawley 2nd Btn., C Coy. Sherwood Foresters My father-in-law Raymond Hawley, C Company, 2nd Btn Sherwood Foresters was captured at the Anzio landings and interned at Stalag 4B until liberation on St George's Day 1945.
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