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Frank Walker-Smith: Battle of Britain Heroicon for Recommended story

Frank and the squadron were on patrol the night of the Great Fire Raid on London on 29th December when for...

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I was on leave just after this at home in Littleover when I received a telegram to return to duty.I was...

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As we moved through Caen and then into the Falaise Gap following a Guards Armoured Division and supplying...

Newlyweds in a Garrison Town: Alfreton, Derbyshireicon for Recommended story

He asked quietly if he could walk me home but I told him no, I was walking home with my friend, so...

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It was a dark and foggy and miserable night and Alfreton being not only a garrison town but the...

My Brother the Hero: Killed Serving with the South Staffordshire Regimenticon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo

My brother, Dennis Samuel Jones, worked in the waggon works at the Iron Forge at Ironville, Derbyshire,...

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My brothers and sister and i were travelling to visit our grandparents, Alice and James Birch in Derby......

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He cleaned it out and used it as an ornament on our mantelshelf for years, as a souvenir of the night the...

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A Wartime Experience: Childhood Memories of Clowne, Derbyshire

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