... married man with a son, P.c. Edwards joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September, 1939, and served with the British Expeditionary Force. He was a prisoner-of-war for five years. ...

... Engagement Mr Smith, 77, worked on the land before joining the British Expeditionary Force and serving in France. A few months later he returned to England and the couple got engaged before he left with his regiment for India. After the war Mr Smith had ...

... transferred to the regular army. Bill was too young for overseas service and as the rest of his group joined the British Expeditionary Force en route to France he transferred to 18 British Div Signals. In 1942 he was transferred to 2 British Div Signals ...

... the ‘contemptible little army’, as Kaiser Wilhelm 11 called it, on the World War | battle front of Europe. As the British Expeditionary Force were digging themselves into the trenches nlo:: the Western Front, whi ran from Switzerland to the shores of the ...

... age of 50. He was born at Hull and in March, 1939, enlisted in the Ist Division Royal Artillery, serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium. Afterwards he served with the First Army and_fought in North Africa, Banana Ridge, Anzio ...

... British Legion paid tribute to the late David Lindley with a commeimorative tree. During the war he served with the British Expeditionary Force in France until gcing evacuated from Dunkerque. He later took part in both the North African and Italian campaigns ...

... in January, 1935, with the Royal Artillery. in which he served until 1942, From 1939-40 he was a member of the British Expeditionary Force In Europe. In October 1942 he transferred to the R.EME. on its formation and thus has been with the Corps throughout ...

... up at the age of 17 as a baby-faced rifleman he later served as an officer through the 1914-18 War and with the British Expeditionary Force in the Second World War. His is a story seen through the eyes of the ordinary soldier in the trenches at Ypres and ...

... Engagement Mr Smith, 77, worked on the land before joining the British Expeditionary Force and serving in France. A few months later he returned to England and the couple got engaged before he left with his regiment for India. After the war Mr Smith had ...

... Ode to a car A colleague hands me the following moem, which was very popular amongst members of the British Expeditionary Force in France during the 1914-18 war, referring to a popular make of car at that time. He commenis: “Does it still fit the times ...

... Dunkirk men soldier on ALMOST 34 years after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, 46 of those men from all parts of Lincolnshire met at the Royal British Legion Headquarters, Grimsby, last Friday to form a local branch of the ...

... Sleaford. Mr Bettany had lived in Sleaford for over 30 years. He was for 24 years a regular soldier serving with the British expeditionary force in the First World War. He was in retreat from Mons, was awarded the Mons Star, and spent the rest of the war in ...