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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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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 262nd Field Company, Royal Engineers? There are:435 items tagged 262nd Field Company, Royal Engineers 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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Spr. Eric Victor Clay 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers (d.18th June 1944) Eric Clay is my uncle. With his wife Enid they had one son Eric James Clay born May 1942. As far as I know, Eric Victor landed on Juno beach in the second wave. We believe he was killed by a land mine at Bernieres Sur Mer. He is buried in Bayeux Cemetary. He had one older brother, three younger brothers and one sister. All the brothers served in various army regiments. I don't have any further information about his military service.
The 262nd (Sussex) Field Company, Royal Engineers were engaged on beach obstacle clearance with the 3rd Canadian Division.
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Spr. George Drury 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers George Drury of the 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers was caught at Boulogne on the 23rd of May 1940. Interred in Stalag XXIB and XXIA. Escaped in the Summer, recaptured in September and interred in Stalag XXID, moved to Stalag XXIC/H. Then a final move to Stalag VIIIB, until the Long March and freedom.
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Spr. Rex Pearson 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers Sapper Rex Pearson 262 Field Company, Royal Engineers spent his
time as a POW in Poland. He was registered to Stalag XXA which consisted
of a number of camps located in some of the 24, 19 century underground
forts around Thorn, various hutted sites, work camps and farms. He would like to contact any of his old comrades who were in
these camps at the same time as he was.
Please contact via his son-in-law, Mike Roach
Update: Thanks for publishing my father in laws details on your site. It has
resulted in a contact from the family of a Frank Curtis, Australian Army,
who was shot at Stalag XXA in September 1943. A chance in a million but my
father in law has a record of him being shot but cannot remember the
incident. He was witness to a number of shootings, including one the long
march out of Poland to freedom in 1945. He has been able to provide a lot of
unknown information for the family together where Frank is now buried. My
father in law is now researching amongst his POW friends who are still alive
to see if they can throw any more light on the subject.
Keep up the good work.
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