Despatch riders were used by armed forces to deliver urgent orders and messages between headquarters and military units. They had a vital role at a time when telecommunications were …

One morning in October of ’39 a number of us were asked if we would like to report to the Parade Ground for instruction in riding a motor bike and becoming Despatch Riders (DON R’s). I …

While we were on the road to Falaiz, a despatch rider came to give us a message. We had been told to keep off the verge as the Germans had planted mines all along there and it had not been...

2018年12月8日 · Dispatch riders had doubly dangerous duties during the Second World War One shell fell behind him, and when a second exploded just ahead, dispatch

On the 6th March 1942 I became a dispatch rider group D class with an increase in pay, moving then onto Largs in Scotland to become a part of 78dr section 1st Army Signals. When it was...

2021年9月29日 · Wallach was a skilled engineer who would spend WWII as both a dispatch rider for the Army auxiliaries and as a tank mechanic. Shilling was also a highly regarded engineer …

2019年5月24日 · By 1940, all of the British navy’s dispatch riders were women, sending men previously tasked with the job to battle the Reich on the front.

2005年11月6日 · Three Despatch Riders on a rota system. We had batches of men (drivers) returning from overseas awaiting demob. Also groups of young ones, just having passed their …

2022年12月20日 · MCN is saddened to learn of the loss of Lewis Banham, an incredibly brave Second World War despatch rider that inspired a Veterans Living History Museum (VLHM) …

2021年1月4日 · There is no single description of the duties of dispatch riders—or DRs, Don Rs, or in Britain, despatch riders—because the term came to be applied to anyone who regularly …