The 'Haunting White Lady' of Carlisle Castle

Photographs: 
1. Carlisle Castle (Alma Block) 
2. Carlisle Castle (Cumbria's Military Museum)

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Remembering the French railway resistants

Photographs (Top to bottom): 

1. 'Battle of the Railways' poster (1945) 
Memorial Museum, Caen, France  


2. French railway workers war memorial
Gare du Nord, Paris.


3. French railway workers war memorial
Caen railway station, France 


4. 50th anniversary memorial
French railway workers 
Caen railway station, France

The R.A.F. Command Memorial, Normandy

R.A.F. Command Memorial, Normandy 

The RAF Command memorial seen in the photograph above is located in the British Peace Garden in the grounds of the Memorial Museum, Caen, Calvados, France.

Thomas G. Richardson, 12th Parachute Regiment.

[Photographs courtesy of Major Ray Devlin]

(Top): Major Ray Devlin, T.D., Normandy, June 2012 
12th Parachute Regiment, Memorial, Normandy


(Bottom): Remembering Pte. Thomas G. Richardson, 12th Parachute Regt.
Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France
Major Ray Devlin, T.D., Normandy, June 2012 
Placing a poppy cross on behalf of the Cumbria Parachute Regt. Association

True tales of the wartime escape networks

1. Lt.Cmdr. Pat O'Leary (Dr Albert Guerisse)
Head of the 'PAT' ('PAO') escape line

2. Radio operator Thomas Groome's audacious escape:
A jump through a closed second floor window

3. Sketch of M. Paul Campinchi
Head of the Paris section of 'Shelburn'

4. Escaping airmen, Esplanade de Chaillot, Paris (1944)
(Still from the clandestine film 'Network X')

Photographs: 
No 1, courtesy of "La Dernière Heure"
Nos. 2 - 4 courtesy of "L'Agent de Liaison"

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (1887 - 1979)

Headstone of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis
St Lawrence Churchyard, Effingham, Surrey.
Photo: courtesy of Mr Ian Tyler,
Keswick Mining Museum, Cumbria.

The 'Red Devils' of the night

1. Major Ray Devlin, T.D., Parachute Regt. Assn. (left)
Mme. Arlette Gondrée-Pritchett, Gondrée café (right)
[Photograph courtesy of Major Ray Devlin, 06.06.2012]

2. Statue of Brigadier. James Hill (1911 - 2006)
3rd Parachute Bde. HQ, 6th Airbone Div. (1944)   
["Memorial Pegasus" Museum, Normandy]

3. Major Ray Devlin, T.D., Parachute Regt. Assn. (left)
Pte. Gordon Newton, 9th Parachute Regt. (right)
[Photograph courtesy of Major Ray Devlin, 06.06.2012]

4. Cpl. James 'Marra' McGuinness MM,
9th Parachute Regt., (Author's collection)
[Courtesy of 'News & Star']

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Eric Henry Liddell (1902 - 1945)

(Above): 'Chariots Of Fire' poster

Eric Henry Liddell (1902 - 1945) 
Olympic Gold Medal winner (Paris, 1924)

A civilian casualty of WW2

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Remembering 'the Fallen' of Crosthwaite, Keswick

1. Crosthwaite Parish Church, Keswick, Cumbria
(Church of England). Dedicated to St Kentigern

2. WW2 memorial, Crosthwaite Parish, Keswick

3. WW1 memorial, Crosthwaite Parish, Keswick

4. Boer War memorial, Crosthwaite Parish, Keswick

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The Moresby Parks War Memorial, Cumbria

Moresby Parks war memorial, Moresby, Cumbria.
It commemorates the war dead of two World Wars
[Photograph courtesy of Mr Stuart Nicholson]

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