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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
Announcements
- 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 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment? There are:1419 items tagged 1st Battalion, East Lancashire 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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Pte. Frederick Blomley 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.28th Mar 1945) While acting as stretcher bearer, Frederick Blomley was killed by a mortar bomb.
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Pte. Douglas Edward Cudmore 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.5th Mar 1945) Douglas Cudmore was the son of Edward George Cudmore (known as George) and Florence E. Polley. Douglas had a sister Gwendoline, they lived on Mill Road in Fordham Essex. Douglas is remembered on our village war memorial with 3 other WW2 casualties and 30 WW1 casualties.
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Pte. John Stanley Gemmell 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.23rd Sep 1944) Stan Gemmell was my grandfather. Sadly, he died on 23rd September 1944, so I never got to meet him. He died while fighting for his country and he is buried in The Netherlands. I would love to know more about his history in the war.
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