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Blacker's Boys
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2012
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For Exemplary Bravery
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2014
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Honours, Decorations and Medals to the Royal Corps of Signals for Gallantry & Distinguished Service, 1920-2020
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Commemorating Royal Signals War Dead – New Page, ‘D’
The Royal Signals casualties whose surnames begin with ‘D’ have now been included on the War Dead page on this website (completed letters are hyperlinked; the documents open as pdfs). They amount to 255 all ranks who died on operations in the inter-war years, in the Second World War and in the campaigns of the post-Second World War period. Included on this list are three members of the Auxiliary T
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| Passage to Destiny (2015 edition) is highly recommended. It is one of the best accounts of a single wartime event that I have read—a masterpiece of research and superbly written. The sinking of the troopship Khedive Ismail in the Indian Ocean by ...more | |
“The story told here is pre-Partition and I have tried to use the terminology of the time but in such a way that it does not confuse the reader. Ulster, one of the four provinces that make up Ireland, comprises nine counties, three of which—Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan—are now part of the Republic of Ireland. At that time, however, anyone from the island of Ireland was Irish, and Ulster Protestants had no difficulty in calling Londonderry ‘Derry’, although the sensitivities over Home Rule were beginning to force changes.”
― Blacker's Boys
― Blacker's Boys
“It is impossible to convey adequately the long-term mental and physical consequences to many of those who have acted so gallantly.”
― For Exemplary Bravery
― For Exemplary Bravery
“Imagine in vibrant detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.
Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.
And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams.”
― Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.
And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams.”
― Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“The story told here is pre-Partition and I have tried to use the terminology of the time but in such a way that it does not confuse the reader. Ulster, one of the four provinces that make up Ireland, comprises nine counties, three of which—Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan—are now part of the Republic of Ireland. At that time, however, anyone from the island of Ireland was Irish, and Ulster Protestants had no difficulty in calling Londonderry ‘Derry’, although the sensitivities over Home Rule were beginning to force changes.”
― Blacker's Boys
― Blacker's Boys
“It is impossible to convey adequately the long-term mental and physical consequences to many of those who have acted so gallantly.”
― For Exemplary Bravery
― For Exemplary Bravery
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