Private, Parachute Regiment, 1st Airbourne Division and a former Prisoner of War. Born 20th April 1920, died 1980, Stoke-on-Trent, Registration District.
This Poppy Memorial is on the Park Hall Colliery, near Cheale, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire November 2011. He is still being...
This poppy cross is on the Airborne Memorial Tree Seat in the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
Private 4914487, South Staffordshire Regiment attached to 2nd (Airborne) Bn. killed 11th July 1943 age 28.Son of Richard M. and Ellen Edwards...
This memorial is situated at Festival (Retail) Park, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2658753
http://battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/baskeyfield_vc_action.htm
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/john_baskeyfield.htm
There are...
Buried at St Andrew's churchyard, Awre, Gloucestershire
http://www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk/worcs_hussars.html
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/order_6th.htm
http://www.89fss.com/53worcs.htm
The Welbike was a British single-seat motorcycle produced during World War II at the direction of Station IX — the "Inter Services Research Bureau" — based at Welwyn, UK, for use by Special Operations Executive (SOE). It has the distinction of being the smallest motorcycle ever used by the...
The Excelsior Motor Company of Great Britain designed a lightweight motorized cycle based on their experience building scooters and motorcycles before the war.
The work was done in cooperation with SOE (Special Operations Excecutive) at Station IX, Welwyn, which is how the scooter got it's...
During Nov./Dec 2002, my son David & I travelled to The Netherlands to visit some of the 'Operation Market Garden' sites.
This is the view from the 25-pounder gun platform memorial, from where the airborne 6-pounder was firing blind from between the houses that were here at the time of the...
During Nov./Dec 2002, my son David & I travelled to The Netherlands to visit some of the 'Operation Market Garden' sites.
This is Airborne Plein in Arnhem, which commemorates the battles here and situated at the north end of Arnhem Bridge, between the on and off ramps. The pillar was part...
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