Find a WW2 Officer

**scarletto** · 07-02-2010, 20:40

This site may help you track relatives down, or just a pleasant read. Just be aware lots of pop up adverts for US cars etc

http://www.unithistories.com/officer...s_british.html

Track down by name or unit/ship

**fairmaidofperth** · 07-02-2010, 20:47

Cheers for this, going to be really useful for work! Interesting read too.

**firestarter** · 07-02-2010, 20:48

Originally Posted by scarletto

This site may help you track relatives down, or just a pleasant read. Just be aware lots of pop up adverts for US cars etc

http://www.unithistories.com/officer...s_british.html

Track down by name or unit/ship

http://www.unithistories.com/officer...icers_M01.html

Look for "Whirling George Norman" aka "Tony"

**Poppy_Travel** · 08-02-2010, 14:56

Its an interesting site, but the information is patchy, Looked up the first officers I could think of: Lty Cols R H Bellamy and F P Barclay, successive commanders of the 1st Bn Royal Norfolk Regiment after D Day..

No mention of bellemy, but Barclay is there, but not m,entioned as the 2IC then CO of the battalion.

**scarletto** · 08-02-2010, 16:37

I think its a work in progress, rather than set in stone.

**tropper66** · 08-02-2010, 17:27

Originally Posted by scarletto

I think its a work in progress, rather than set in stone.

Your right there, but what a brilliant reserch tool

**FourZeroCharlie** · 08-02-2010, 19:26

Damned good find there, scarletto: hours of anorak fun finding people like this - Shearer,
William Alan Watson. Commisioned into Seaforth Highlanders, taken prisoner, sometime member of British Free Corps (!?) but considered too unbalanced by the Germans and later repatriated under a Red Cross exchange.

Extraordinary.