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Long Lost: The Story of the Newspaper Column
that Started the Reunion Industry
Monica Porter’s weekly Missing and
Found column has been running in the Daily Mail since 1999,
featuring the tales of people who are searching for their
long lost friends, relatives, former workmates, schoolmates...and
of course, countless wartime comrades and National Service
buddies.
All of life is there - the light-hearted
and the poignant, and often the strikingly evocative. Over
the years the column - a forerunner to websites such as Friends
Reunited and Forces Reunited - has re-connected many hundreds
of people. Now it has been immortalised in a book, Long Lost.
As well as reprising a selection of the column’s most
colourful reunion tales, Long Lost tells the story behind
the groundbreaking newspaper column and explains how it works
'behind the scenes'.
It also provides an overview of today's booming
'reunion industry', and a handy guide for tracing someone
yourself.
Long Lost is her fourth
book and it is published by Quartet Books.
Monica Porter has been a London-based journalist
since the 1970s and her work has appeared in most quality
Fleet Street newspapers, as well as numerous magazines.
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Book Review
A History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1702
- 1959
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Tab Hunter (ex Para) - Now look at this - Veterans
Reunion at No1 Parachute Training School
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The story of an 'ordinary' D-Day Cockney
soldier who somehow reached 'extraordinary' heights - like
so many others, it is a story of laughter and tears, of triumph
and tragedy.
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A New Link
Ken Tipper is an author represented on this
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in UK.
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"The Most Precious Cargo of All"
This C-17A Globemaster III comes in over The Britannia Gate
into RAF Brize Norton
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
With thanks to John RDGA, and for all those that send the
information, reports for inclusion on this website.
Tributes are produced by John Tierney(Former Queens Dragoon
Guards
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Jim Wallwork DFM - 1919 - 2013 RIP.
Jim Wallwork is now 93, he lives
at home with his wife, Geneviene. He sends a message
to all who visit this page and especially young people.
I had told him that many young people visit this webpage
and send me enquiries about the Pegasus raid.
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"Tell your young people that
sometimes you have to fight and stand firm, WW2 was
such a test. Take great care with your freedom as
one day you may have to fight to preserve what you
have" - Jim Wallwork DFM
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Squadron Leader Neville Duke DSO - OBE - DFC (2 bars) -
AFC - CZech Military Cross - 1922 - 2007
Squadron Leader Neville Duke (1922-2007), DSO, OBE,
DFC, AFC was a World War II fighter pilot. In 1953,
he became holder of the world air speed record when
he achieved 727.63 mph flying a Hawker Hunter F Mk3
over Littlehampton in the UK
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Duke was far from being the first or only test-pilot-as-hero
during that time, but as the country edged out of
postwar austerity, his style and achievements singled
him out.
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Eric A. Patience - The Rifle Brigade
One of the thousands of soldiers who fought from Normandy
to end of WW2 as was one of the "Greatest
Generation"
With the recent publicity regarding the 60year liberation
of Aushwitz concentration camp I thought that the
website should have an article regarding the liberation
of Belsen which was in the sector that Allied Forces
were operating. After a little searching I found articles
on other sites written by Eric Patience and decided
to contact him.
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Eric's unit passed very close to the Belsen Camp
and he saw the desperate plight of the inmates, he
is keen for the world to know what went on. Eric dedicates
this article to his fallen pals always remembered.
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WAITING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS
(Picture by Stephanie Jenkins)
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Courtesy The Oxford Mail - Denis Kennedy
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Troopship Memories
Visit this new blog, record your own memories
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your memories with others.
Troopships
20,000 images - Find your Troopship
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2010 has seen the sacrifice of British military personnel
in Afghanistan reach, and subsequently exceed three hundred.
2010 also bears witness to the anniversary of the end another
bloody conflict. During the Cyprus Emergency 1955-1960 over
four hundred British military and civil police were killed
and countless maimed as a result of terrorist activity.
Read this poignant, non sectarian account of the conflict
by former Regular Army Officer, R G M L Stiles, and understand
how Cyprus wrestled independence from Britain fifty years
ago.
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'Second To None': A Portrait of The Light Infantry 1968-2007
UK: £35.00 (incl. £5.50 p&p)
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Plea for information on East Yorkshire Regiment’s
Fallen in Normandy Battles - by Carl Shilleto.
A MILITARY historian from York is appealing for photographs
and information about men from the East Yorkshire Regiment
who died on or around D-Day and are buried in Normandy.
Carl Shilleto’s own late grandfather was involved in
the Normandy campaign of 1944.
Carl has been working as a battlefield guide for many years,
and launched The Fallen Heroes of Normandy Project in 2009.
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