• Skip to content
  • Websites in the network
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
  • Log in
  • Contact us
Herts Memories
Herts Memories
Gateway to Hertfordshire's community archive network
  • Home
  • About us
  • Herts history
  • Advice and Resources
  • Noticeboard
  • Blog
  • Get involved
  • Follow us on Twitter
You are here: Home>Herts history>People>Armed Forces

Armed Forces

The men and women who went to war: comradeship, sacrifice and heroism. A special place to help us to appreciate those whose gift to us is freedom

  • 135 Field Regiment, Herts Yeomanry , "F" Troop
    135 Field Regiment, Herts Yeomanry , "F" Troop
    Service in Iraq
  • Airship Crash at Cuffley
    Airship Crash at Cuffley
    Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson
  • An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
    An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
    Papers found in the loft of a house in South Hertfordshire
  • Armed Forces Day
    Armed Forces Day
    24 June 2013
  • Henry Johnston
    Henry Johnston
    A slave rebellion in Haiti
  • Hertford's Victoria Cross winner
    Hertford's Victoria Cross winner
    Corporal Alfred Alexander Burt, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment Alfred Burt was the first member of the Hertfordshire Regiment to win the ...
  • Hertfordshire War Horses
    Hertfordshire War Horses
    When war began in 1914 the British army possessed a mere 25,000 horses. The War Office was given the urgent ...
  • Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery
    Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery
    Anti-aircraft batteries
  • Ist Hertfordshire Battery
    Ist Hertfordshire Battery
    Gunner Saville
  • Joe Austin's Army Days
    Joe Austin's Army Days
    c.1900
  • Kings Langley's Victoria Cross Winner
    Kings Langley's Victoria Cross Winner
    Private Christopher Cox, 7th (S) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
  • Sergeant Robert Charles Couzins
    Sergeant Robert Charles Couzins
    Wounded in action 1945
  • Sergeant Stanley Henry Welch
    Sergeant Stanley Henry Welch
    Died 1943, aged 21
  • The Bridge over the Kwai
    The Bridge over the Kwai
    My father's WW2 experience
  • The Hertfordshire Militia
    The Hertfordshire Militia
    The Regimental mascot
  • The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
    The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
    The St Albans Battery
  • The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
    The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
    The Territorial Force
  • The Herts At War Project
    The Herts At War Project
    The Hertfordshire Related Men and Women of the Great War
  • The Secret Regiment
    The Secret Regiment
    Memories of National Service with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
  • Tring's Victoria Cross Winner
    Tring's Victoria Cross Winner
    Private Edward Barber, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards Edward Barber was born in Tring in 1893 and was the son of a ...
  • William Charles Welch
    William Charles Welch
    Stevenage man killed in service in World War II
  • Discovering Military Ancestors

    Discovering Military Ancestors (8)

    Tracing family links to the military
  • Herts Military Records Project

    Herts Military Records Project (1)

People
  • A Day in the Life of a Hertfordshire Mercury Reporter c.1959
  • A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A heroine who loved life (and more)
  • A Local Naval Hero
  • A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
  • A Short Personal Profile
  • A warning to Journalists who break the rules
  • Annie Swan, Suffragette
  • Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
  • Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
  • August 1914: Watford businessman escapes Western Front by train
  • Æthelflæd, Warrior Queen of the Mercians, 10th Century
  • Barbara Follett, Member of Parliament
  • Boudicca and her daughters, 30- 61 AD; the Terrorist – or freedom fighter?
  • Charles John Brewster Ray
  • Children of Hertfordshire
  • Christina of Markyate, Religious Visionary.
  • Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore
  • Coleman connections
  • Cuffley Take Care
  • Dame Elizabeth Fuller, Education Pioneer.
  • Dame Ellen Terry, Actor
  • Dame Juliana Berners, Writer
  • Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
  • Decorated Will
  • Delarivier Manley, Journalist
  • Denise Cook/Kelly
  • Dolly Shepherd, The Pioneering Edwardian Lady Parachutist
  • Dr Gladys Margaret Proudlock Dunbar
  • Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
  • Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
  • E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
  • Elisabeth Hudson, Disability Campaigner
  • Elizabeth Baker, Playwright and Suffragette.
  • Elizabeth Impey, Suffragette
  • Emily Davies, Suffragette & Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
  • Family search
  • First Jump from Dreaded Balloon
  • George Eliot, Author
  • George Hill, last person executed in Hertford
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
  • Hatfield Mayor Lynne Sparks (2015-2016 Term)
  • Henry Kingham, 1817-1882, Watford Grocer, Origins
  • Hertford County Constabulary
  • Herts Characters
  • Herts Hidden Heroines Project
  • Hilary Ratcliffe OBE, Gender Equality Campaigner
  • I was born at The Hoo on the Sixth of September, 1941!
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 1)
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 2)
  • Jane Hawking Jones, Educator & Author
  • Jane Wenham, The Accused Witch!
  • Judy Fryd CBE, Harpenden, campaigner & founder of Mencap.
  • Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?
  • Katherine Warington and Winifred Brenchley - Scientist
  • Kitty Hart-Moxon, Survivor
  • Lady Constance Lytton
  • Lady Constance Lytton, Suffragette
  • Lady Fanshawe - a Brave and Persistent Wife
  • Lavinia and William de Lautour
  • Lisa Buckingham OBE
  • Liz Hobbs MBE, Watersking Champion, Businesswoman
  • Looking for Katy Phillips
  • Looking for relatives of F/Lt Richard PICTON
  • Lorna Paulin, Hertfordshire County Librarian.
  • Louisa Puller, Suffragette
  • Lucy Shepherd, Explorer
  • Margaret & Annie Johnson - The First Hertfordshire Women Police Officers.
  • Margaret Murray, Egyptologist
  • Margaret Tyrwhitt Drake's Reference Book
  • Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
  • Mary Stout, Campaigner!
  • Maternity ww2
  • Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
  • Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
  • Mum's Story
  • Musical Memory Box
  • My early memories
  • My great-grandmother Annie Sears
  • P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
  • Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
  • Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
  • Regina 4AD
  • Researching Gorham Ancestry in England
  • ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
  • Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
  • Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
  • The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
  • The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
  • The Edwardian Parachute Queen
  • The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
  • The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
  • The Timmins Family of Aldenham
  • Thomas Kingham, 1854-1919, paternity of Whitehouse children, DNA
  • Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
  • Victoria Farmer, Aviator
  • Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
  • Wartime Nursing Memories
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830
  • Armed Forces
  • Artists and Illustrators
  • Businesses
  • Doctors and Nurses
  • Ebenezer Howard
  • Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
  • Famous / Infamous
  • George Paul: A Life in Hertford
  • Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen
  • Hertfordshire Centenarians
  • John Gravestock
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
  • Local Folk
  • My Story
  • Nobility
  • Novelists, playwrights and poets
  • Politicians
  • Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory
  • Royalty
  • Scientists and Inventors
  • Servants
  • Sportspeople
  • Ted Humphreys BEM
What's new
  • The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
    Rev. Henry Etough (1688 – 1757) Rev. Henry Etough was Rector at Therfield from 1734 and he was buried there after ...
  • Thomas Smith, Barnet Workhouse
    Workhouse records can be an invaluable source for disability history, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of individuals grappling ...
More new pages
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
Designed and built by Community Sites

Copyright Hertfordshire County Council. All rights reserved.

Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Hertfordshire County Council (opens in new window)