Below is a short list of links which might help in the search for more information, regarding aspects of Leicestershires wartime history:

Thurmaston Military Indexes Website

Leicester Chronicler: Leicestershire during WWII

Teresa's wartime tale: Loughborough, Leicestershire

82nd Airborne News - Static Line Magazine

What's new on Beaumanour Hall

Friends of the 82nd Airborne Division

Braunstown, Leicester during WWII

BBC Site on The Leicestershire Regiment

The Leicestershire Regiment Roll of Honour (BBC)

Olive & Eric's wartime memories

The CBA 'Defence of Britain: online Database and Archive

World War II, a British Focus

The 1940's Website

The Great Glen War Memorial

'Order of Battle' of the United States Army - World War Two

The Wartime Memories Project

14th Brigade 47 Column 7th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment






Other useful links:

Beaumanor Park Education Centre - 'Y' Station

The Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society

East Midlands Museums Service

About Leicestershire

The Public Record Office, Kew

The Leicestershire Regiment Historical Society

East Midlands Oral History Archive

The BBC Worlds War Two, oral archive website


Links to other Search facilities:

The Pillbox Study Group - U.K.

A.H.D.S. Online Resources


Links to local entertainment:

Jill Daniels wartime period music

Hullabaloo Creative Media


More links will be added, as we find them. If you know of a link which is related to aspects of Leicestershire's wartime history please write to us HERE.




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