This is an extract dealing with his time with the RAF in Malta from a journal kept by my father, John Fuller, from 1930 until 1942. The journal was transcribed after John's death, and, the words I ...
From the 1940s and 1955, young people in Malta between 12 and 25 years were under the tutelage and benevolent control of the Church and their parents. The State, up to the late 1940s, was not of much ...
This story has been submitted by Peter Winstanley aged 85. I was called up on Boxing Day 1939. I served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. In November 1940, I was posted to Malta, where I ...
“To honour her brave people, I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history.” These are the words written by ...
Anti-gas training during Second World War Malta (1940-43) was given great attention by the civil and military authorities due to gas attacks by the Italian invasion forces in Abyssinia during 1935.
It was the Battle of Britain, Mediterranean-style. During the height of the siege, the island of Malta—a British possession 60 miles south of Sicily—was pounded by German and Italian bombs. “During ...
This month marks 80 years since the arrival at Malta of convoy ‘M.W.10’, which included the Norwegian merchant ship Talabot. During World War II, Malta was effectively besieged and dependent for ...
This is an extract dealing with his time with the RAF in Malta from a journal kept by my father, John Fuller, from 1930 until 1942. The journal was transcribed after John's death, and, the words I ...
This story has been submitted by Peter Winstanley aged 85. I was called up on Boxing Day 1939. I served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. In November 1940, I was posted to Malta, where I ...
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