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IML (International Marching League) The genesis of non-competitive walking events is the Nijmegen Vierdaagse. It is clearly, at that moment, the oldest and largest event of this nature in the world, with a history dating back to 1909. Due to the success of that event and because more and more foreign walkers were participating in […]

HALIFAX II DT620 SHOT DOWN OVER THE BALTIC SEA OFF STEVNS ON 14 MARCH 1943 The plane belonged to Royal Air Force 138 Squadron, Bomber Command, coded NF-T. It took off at 17:50 from Tempsford on an SOE mission to drop Zone Wrona 614 in Poland. On Air Station Kastrup Staffelkapitän Oberleutnant Martin Drewes of […]

UK Officers Training Corps & School badges 1

Medals Miscellaneous

UK Medals 9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers was raised at Wrexham on the 9th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener’s Second New Army and joined  58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. They trained at to Tidworth, spending the winter in billets in Basingstoke, they returned to Tidworth in March 1915 for final training […]

USA Medals

French Army Medals Medal of the National Union of Combattants (Médaille de l’Union Nationale des Combattants) Bronze medal in the form of a soldier’s helmet imposed on a wreath of oak and laurel with a ribbon inscribed ‘U.N.C.’, with loop for ribbon suspension; the reverse plain; on original ribbon. The concept of the Union came […]

South Rhodesia post ww2 part 2

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