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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.
- 27th 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 264001 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 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment? There are:1349 items tagged 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) 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. Albert Victor Fairs 1st Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment (d.8th Oct 1944) Albert Victor Fairs enlisted in 1941 and was killed in action at the Battle of Monte Cece near Palazzuolo sul Senio, northeast of Florence in Italy.
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Pte Arthur Mortimer 2nd Btn. Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)  My father, Arthur Mortimer, who served with both lst and 2nd Battalions DWR during his service (from June 1936 - April 1944). He was 15 when he enlisted into the West Yorkshire Regiment Territorial Army, and into the Regular Army (1 DWR) in 1937. He was posted to 2 DWR in December 1938 and served with them in India and also during the Burma Campaign during the retreatand later as a muleteer. He was wounded by shrapnel in September 1944 and invalided back to the UK. In the photograph my father (seated) is shown with his friend (name unknown) who disappeared in the Burmese jungle; my father says that they had been asleep and that during the night his friend had disappeared - presumably taken by the Japanese.
My dad spoke only rarely about his time during the war - just snippets here and there. He told me that he had learned to swim crossing the river Sittang during the retreat - it was either swim or be left behind. He also told me that on one occasion in the Burmese jungle when they were without food he had shot and killed a pig, but that as punishment for potentially giving away their position to the enemy he was told that he would not get any of the bounty. The pig was duly cooked and dished up whilst my dad went without; by the following morning everybody who had eaten the pork either had the runs or were feeling quite ill!!
As a postscript I would just like to add that my great grandfather, grandfather, father and myself all served with The Dukes as Regular soldiers in a time span that covers from 1882 to 1975.
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Pte. Charles David Croney 1st Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment (d.1st Feb 1944 ) Charles Croney was my uncle, I would like to find out more about his military service. Can anyone give me any details of where I can find more information about him?
He died at Anzio
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Pte. Sidney James Holland 1st Btn. Duke of Wellingtons Regiment My mother was Italian whom my father, Sidney Holand, met while at a rest camp in Naples. She followed my father back to the UK just after the war, I think in 1946. I'd like to know more about what happened to my father during the war and the campaigns he was involved in. Can anyone help?
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