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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.
- 18th 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 263925 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
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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 1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry? There are:1352 items tagged 1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry 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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Cpl. Ronald Taylor 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry When Dad, Ronald Taylor joined up, he went up to Shrewsbury for his basic training. He was in the gym and the sergeant sent him up the rope to touch the ceiling. After he came down, the sergeant said, "Did you do it, Taff?" "Aye", said my Dad. "Up again Taff". The sergeant sent him up 4 times and each time the old man said "Aye". Next the sergeant points to his sleeve and asks, "What's these then Taff?" "Stripes", says Dad. "And what do they mean then?" "You're a sergeant". "So, what do you say next time, Taff?" "Yes sergeant". He sent him up again and finally Dad said, "Yes sergeant". "Right, off you go then Taff." That was his first week.
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Pte. James John Ford 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.30th July 1944) James Ford served with the Herefordshire Regiment and Kings Shropshire Light Infantry.
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