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Air Transport Auxiliary    On 6th of April 1941, German forces invaded mainland Greece through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and quickly moved south to overrun the country. The Battle of Kalamata, named for a small city on the southern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, took place on 29 April 1941. It pitted the 2nd New Zealand Division and British units against elements of the German 5th Panzer Division and some SS units, and was fought as a delaying action to assist the evacuation of some 58,000 Imperial and Commonwealth personnel from Greece by Royal Navy and other Allied ships. Kalamata was the main port of embarkation for the evacuees. Approximately 50,000 evacuees were able to escape; 8,000 others were captured. The action at Kalamata marked the end of the larger Battle of Greece.   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War 1939-1945. Boyd CdG. Frank Weston. L/Tel. Curtis Lettice. Duncan Atholl A.. Capt. Enever William Robert. Pte. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of Air Transport Auxiliary from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. 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HMS Hardy Frank Boyd passed away in 1984, I have a paper cutting from 1944 of his valour award and key parts of his service: Middlesbrough Sailor Awarded Croix de Guerre. The Croix de Guerre, with bronze star, has been awarded to Leading Telegraphist Frank W. Boyd, aged 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Boyd, of 65, Cranfield Ave., Middlesbrough. The citation states that Boyd, accomplished his mission with greatest possible coolness during the course of an engagement fought by his ship on 29th February 1940 against an enemy convoy which was destroyed in the 1st Battle of Narvik. Leading Telegraphist Boyd, who is on a French light cruiser in a liaison capacity, was decorated with all due ceremony before the ship’s company by Admiral Le Monnier. One of few British sailors to be so decorated in this war, he has served on eight naval vessels during hostilities. He has been eight years in the Navy. He was on the Hardy when that ship was lost in the early part of the war, and was at Taranto, Matapan, the evacuation of Greece and Crete, and at Oran, and was on the headquarters' staff of Admiral Cunningham at Algiers. Formerly, he had been a choir boy at St. Paul's, Middlesbrough. Steve Moore Add to this record. Pte. William Robert Enever Royal Signals "Once you've been starved, you're never hungry again" - my father, Bob Enever told me, his daughter, memories of his war experience, as a prisoner for four and a half years. He was cattle trucked, marched and dragged to Marburg, from Kalamata in Greece where he was captured (failed and dreadful strategic Battle of Kalamata). He recounted Greek women being shot trying to give him bread, a child shot in front of him, comrades all around him killed, some dying in the cattle trucks and on the marches. He told of drinking from puddles, eating maggots, being covered in lice. In the camp at Marburg, he went to work on farms in the hope of stealing food. The Red Cross saved their lives by dropping parcels. He spent a week in solitary confinement for 'insulting the Fuhrer' and barely survived on bread and water rations. The camp was evacuated by the Germans, all prisoners becoming hostages, marched across into Italy where they were liberated by Americans and British. My father could barely walk (some had clogs, others rags for shoes). When he returned to England, his father didn't recognise him - he was changed, too thin and gaunt. His experience had a profound effect on all of us, my mother (he married within weeks of returning), and my brother, and myself. He was prone to raging, nervous temper outbursts and worry that sometimes left him with a throat and mouth full of ulcers. He had grooves in his shoulders where the pack he was forced to carry had damaged his starved bones. He never really enjoyed food. He failed to put on any weight beyond his initial recovery period after the war. Some of his friends died from eating too much when they were liberated. The only happy tale he told was that all British prisoners used to laugh at the German propaganda, relayed over a tannoy system, intended to demoralise them. The Germans never understood the laughter! Jeannie Wells Add to this record. Lettice Curtis Lettice Curtis flew aircraft into operational airfields during World War II. P Gulliver Add to this record. Capt. Atholl A. Duncan Argyl & Sutherland Highlanders My father, Capt Atholl A Duncan, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was a prisoner for three and a half years in Tandjong Priok, Java and Motoyama, Zentsuji and Miyata in Japan. I have his diaries and records and have much information about these camps which I'm willing to share with other interested parties. My book Notify Alec Rattray is the story of his survival. Meg Parkes Add to this record. Recomended Reading. 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