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Those known to have served with Military Police during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Adkins Alfred. W/O2.
- Aptaker Michael. Cpl.
- Banks Donald. L/Cpl.
- Blissett Norman Rees.
- Bowie David Alexander. L/Cpl.
- Breakwell Roland.
- Budd William Francis.
- David R.. L/Cpl.
- Dransfield Lillian. L/Cpl.
- Fawcett Jack.
- Gorse James Lawrence . Sgt.
- Graham Victor.
- Halkett Laurence Edgar. S/Sgt.
- Haysmith Peter. RSM
- James John Robert. L/Cpl. (d.15th Aug 1946)
- Jennings Albert. Gnr.
- Kelk Harry.
- Kirby Walter Patrick. L/Cpl.
- Lund Henry John Adam. Cpl.
- Miller Lonnie.
- Mooney Thomas Terence. Cpl.
- Newman Reginald Robert.
- O'Keeffe Thomas Patrick. Sgt. (d.30th August 1945)
- Sayer Kenneth Harold. Cpl.
- Schoeman S. G.. Cpl. (d.28th May 1945)
- Smith George Charles. Cpl.
- Smith Sydney Harry Hyder. Cpl.
- Sunderland John. Pte. (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Taskis Thomas Bolitho White. Cpl.
- Uphill Harry Albert John.
- Uphill Harry Albert.
- Walker Harold. Pte.
- Ward Clarence Cyril Sydney. Pte.
- Waterfield John. L/Cpl.
- Wilson John Henry. L/Cpl. (d.8th October 1944)
- Windsor John. L/Cpl.
- Wright Owen.
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Owen Wright 1st Airborne Division Provost Company Corps of Military Police My Dad was a Scottish Jock serving in the 1st Airborne Division Provost Company, Corps of Military Police stationed at the nearby Stubton Hall, Lincolnshire. There he met my Mother Doris, who was serving in the Womens Land Army, based at Stubton Rectory in the village of Stubton. After the war, they married and set up home in Hamilton, Scotland.
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Cpl. Thomas Terence Mooney 2/4th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Thomas Mooney was my father. At Stoke-on-Trent on 3rd of April 1940, he joined the South Lancashire Regiment, in which his own father had served during the Second Boer War. He saw service at first as part of the anti-invasion force and was stationed in Suffolk at Henham Park near Southwold. He trained and qualified as a Provost in the Regimental Police.
He was discharged due to ill health and with an exemplary service notation on 17th of April 1945 at Preston. He died in 1949 due to injuries received in Service. He is remembered with love by his son Errol and family.
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Lonnie Miller Corps of Military Police Lonnie Miller served as a Military Policeman.
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Pte. John Sunderland Corps of Military Police (d.7th Nov 1944) John Sunderland drowned near Calais on 7th of November 1944 and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. It is the only information I have.
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L/Cpl. Donald Banks 109th Provost Coy. Corps of Military Police    Donald Banks was my late father. He joined the Corps of Military Police no 2nd of January 1942 and was posted to Mychett in Surrey for training.
He became a Lance Corporal with the 109th Provost Company, Corps of Military Police and landed on Sword Beach in Normandy in France on D Day plus 2. He was a skilled motorcyclist and was a motorcycle rider in the CMP.
He was attached to 30 Corps under the command of General Sir Brian Horrocks and went through Holland in the push up towards Arnhem. The 109th Provost Company were headquartered at Eindhoven in Holland at this period.
He continued on through Germany and was injured slightly while a passenger in a Jeep, the driver was shot by a German sniper. The Jeep overturned, but they managed to locate and silence the sniper, who was in a church tower.
When the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials took place, my father was appointed as personal bodyguard to the presiding judge, Lord Justice Lawrence. He lived with the judge throughout the trials and attended the courtroom each day.
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Cpl. Sydney Harry Hyder Smith 200th Company Military Police  After his call-up, Harry Smith started his training at Maidstone.
His wife was pregnant with their first child at the time and Harry suffered from morning sickness. He claimed this was the only time he saw the RSM laugh.
He was particularly proud of having been subjected to physical training under Stan Cullis, a famous footballer who was highly critical of his football skills.
He was subsequently trained as a driver and dispatch rider at Catterick, Yorkshire. (He was already able to drive having owned his own car before the war.) He was put in charge of a group of 6 who collected newly landed Jeeps from Glasgow and drove them to Liverpool for embarkation to North Africa. On the way south it rained heavily and he had to find a forge where they could drill holes in the floor so they didn't have to drive with their feet in water.
He travelled on a troopship from Liverpool to Algiers. The ship carried six thousand soldiers many of whom including Harry slept on deck. They travelled in convoy far out into the Atlantic before turning back for North Africa in order to avoid U-boats and air attacks but in spite of that, he recalled that several ships blew up and sank, sometimes in the night. The convoy didn't stop.
He landed somewhere around Algiers as part of the 1st Army in Operation Torch). The 1st Army was disbanded after the victory in Tunisia in 1943 after which he was part of the 8th Army.
I am fairly sure that at various times he was in Algiers, Bizerte, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Tobruk, Sidi Barrani, Mersa Matruh and Alexandria.
He told a story of driving a truck with faulty steering (a broken tie rod) along a stretch of road known as Messerschmidt Alley, because it was straight with desert either side so that German aircraft could easily attack traffic on the road, but because of the steering fault his truck would dart from side to side unexpectedly and so he evaded attack.
He was placed on a train in Mufti to investigate the loss of goods from the train. He found that at one point the track was on a tall curving sand embankment so shaped that although he could see goods rolling down the embankment he could see neither where on the train they were being thrown from nor where they finished up at the bottom of the slope.
He was part of the invasion of Sicily but talked little about this apart from having attended an opera performance in an ancient amphitheatre.
He was landed in Italy, either Anzio or Salerno (probably Salerno). He told of a day when all 30,000 soldiers in the beachhead were told to strip and wash in the sea for lack of other facilities.
He ended the war in Rome and was appointed condottore.
He returned home in about September 1945. For some time after his return he slept on the floor because a bed was too soft.
In North Africa he contracted malaria from which he suffered recurring bouts during my childhood.
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Jack "Chuck" Fawcett 102nd Provost Coy. Royal Military Police Jack Fawcett served with the 8th Hussars and 3rd Hussars in the 1920's. He re-enlisted in the Corps of Military Police in December 1939 and served in France in 1940 and North Africa and the Middle East from 1942 onwards. He was awarded the 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal and War Medal.
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Sgt. Thomas Patrick O'Keeffe Corps of Military Police (d.30th August 1945) Thomas O'Keeffe was my grandfather. He died in August 1945. He originally served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers then, during WW2, joined the Corps of Military Police.
Following his death, his widow Kathleen Alice O'Keeffe moved to Darwen in Lancashire with her two young children and made a new life there. Her daughter, Kathleen Roselyn O'Keeffe, married my father Peter Summerfield and they had three children.
He is buried in St. Conleth's Cemetery in County Kildare.
I understand he was a drummer in the Army and would love to find more information on this, as well as his other military records.
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L/Cpl. John Henry Wilson 50th Divsion Provost Coy. Military Police (d.8th October 1944) John Wilson is my father's uncle. He was killed on Sunday the 8th of October 1944, whilst serving in the Military Police. He was 41yrs of age. The family story is that he was killed on Njimegen Bridge and had changed duties with another comrade, so that they could have the day off. I have never been able to verify the exact location of his death. He is buried in Mook War Cemetery, in the Netherlands and we have visited his grave twice.
Previous to joining the Military Police he had served with the East Yorkshire Regiment and fought through North Africa and Italy. I have his six medals.
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Cpl. S. G. Schoeman Corps of Military Police (d.28th May 1945) Corporal Schoeman was the Son of Gideon J. H, Schoeman and Sara J. Schoeman; husband of S. C. Schoeman, of Koedoesfontein.
He was 52 and is buried in the Al Kleiner Farm Burial Ground, Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa
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