User:Researcher1944

'''Sadly I have stopped contributing, there are far too many would be "editors" who lack knowledge of what they decide to "edit", chop and change in the pursuit of their own personal agendas, seemingly unaware of the significance of removing material which a specialist contributor identified as relevant. Continually having to back-check what "editors" have decided to cut out and then try to defend material against those who live for political correctness is crazy, some of these people should try to contribute something themselves rather than taking the soft option to damage what has been provided by others.'''

Stuff
I became active here in August 2015 and I am working to get to grips with the Wikipedia way of doing things. I'm interested primarily in Aerial and Naval Warfare of WW2 and also WW1 but I do also follow Military topics of those eras almost as closely. Books dealing with battles involving significant British archery such as the Battles of Crecy 1346, Poitiers 1356 and Agincourt 1415 are regularly on my reading list.

Larger Articles

 * 1) RAF Bomber Command Aircrew of World War II
 * 2) British merchant seamen of World War II
 * 3) The disappearance of Liberator Commando and its occupants
 * 4) King's Commendation for Brave Conduct (1916-1952)
 * 5) The LST-420 disaster
 * 6) The Lancaster PA278 disappearance

Great Escapers (and those involved) biogs
• # Tony Bethell - my first article, loaded for me by Editor

• # Henry Birkland

• # Gordon Brettell

• # Leslie George Bull

• # Mike Casey

• # James Catanach

• # Arnold Christensen

• # Dennis Cochran

• # Ian Cross

• # Halldor Espelid

• # Brian Evans

• # Nils Fuglesang

• # Johannes Gouws

• # Jack Grisman

• # Sandy Gunn

• # Al Hake

• # Tony Hayter

• # Edgar Humphreys

• # Jimmy Keddie

• # Gordon Kidder

• # Reginald Kierath

• # Antoni Kiewnarski

• # Thomas Kirby-Green

• # Wlodzimierz Kolanowski

• # Stanislaw Krol

• # Patrick Langford

• # Tom Leigh

• # Les Long

• # Neville McGarr

• # George McGill

• # Harold Milford

• # Jerzy Mondschein

• # Kazimierz Pawluk

• # Henri Picard

• # John Pohe

• # Tim Walenn

• # Frank McKenna -Special Investigation Branch

• # Wilfred Bowes -Special Investigation Branch

WW2 Fighter Ace Biographies

 * 1) Nicholas Gresham Cooke DFC - 264 Squadron
 * 2) Philip Hunter (RAF officer) DSO - 264 Squadron
 * 3) Karlheinz Meltzer - Luftwaffe JG 52
 * 4) Helmut Mertens - Luftwaffe JG 3
 * 5) Ted Thorn (RAF officer) DFC* DFM* - 264 Squadron
 * 6) William Henry Franklin DFM* - 65 Squadron

Other Biographies

 * 1) Charles Skepper MBE CdeG - SOE agent
 * 2) Jim McCairns DFC** MM - Fighter pilot, escaper, SOE special duties pilot
 * 3) Arthur Steele (SOE agent) - SOE agent
 * 4) James Scarlett-Streatfeild CBE - Air Vice Marshal, RAF (Killed 1945)
 * 5) Andrew Massey (SAS commander)
 * 6) Daniel Everett DFC** - Bomber Command and Pathfinder Force pilot
 * 7) Robert Smallbones  CMG MBE - Consul-General and British Hero of the Holocaust

Articles built from Stubs (or similar)
• # Eliane Plewman CdeG - SOE agent

• # William Gell (RAF officer) CB DSO MC - AVM - Senior RAF officer WWII

• # William Ash (writer) - Spitfire pilot and escaper

• # John Grigson DSO DFC* - WWI aviator

• # Kenneth Berry (British Free Corps) - British traitor

• # Nicolas Bodington - OBE MBE - SOE officer and field agent

• # Maurice Buckmaster - OBE - SOE F-Section commander

• # Arthur Ferdinand Yencken - CMG MC - Diplomat

• # Michael Rose - KCB CBE DSO QGM - General and former SAS officer

• # Hugh Verity - DSO DFC - SOE Lysander pilot

• # Cedric Delves - KBE DSO - General and former SAS officer

• # Joseph Berry - DFC* - Top ace against V-1 rockets

• # Tony Lovell - DSO DFC* - Spitfire fighter ace

• # Victor Beamish - DSO DFC AFC - Battle of Britain ace & fighter leader

• # George Grimson MiD - Escaper later murdered.

• # Arthur Watts - DSO - Punch magazine cartoonist, killed in aircrash in 1935

• # Adam Wise - LVO MBE - RAF officer - ADC & Equerry.

• # John Cook (VC) - Scottish soldier in Afghanistan 1879-1880.

• # George M. Cox - MBE MC AFC - WWI aviator

• # George Innes (RAF officer) - CBE - RAF Provost Marshal and spycatcher

• # John Ward (RAF officer) - MC KW - RAF escaper who fought in the Warsaw Uprising

Articles improved

 * 1) William Rowan  - Field Marshal served in the Peninsular War, at Walcheren and Waterloo
 * 2) Frank Foley CMG - MI6 officer and Righteous gentile, British Hero of the Holocaust

Articles I'm improving slowly

 * 1) Distinguished Flying Medal
 * 2) Air Force Medal
 * 3) Stalag Luft III murders

References and sources added
Quite a few and no longer trying to keep a track.

Articles on DYK

 * 1) Thomas Kirby-Green by Casliber on 11 November 2015
 * 2) Andrew Massey (SAS commander) by Casliber on 27 November 2015
 * 3) Daniel Everett (RAF officer) by Casliber on 14 December 2015

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