The Wartime Memories Project
The Second World War - Day by Day.

Home>Date Index


This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.


If you enjoy this site

please consider making a donation.




    Site Home

    WW2 Home

    Add Stories

    WW2 Search

    Library

    Help & FAQs


 WW2 Features

    Airfields

    Allied Army

    Allied Air Forces

    Allied Navy

    Axis Forces

    Home Front

    Battles

    Prisoners of War

    Allied Ships

    Women at War

    Those Who Served

    Day-by-Day

    Library

    The Great War

 Submissions

    Add Stories

    Time Capsule

    TWMP on Facebook



    Childrens Bookshop

 FAQ's

    Help & FAQs

    Glossary

    Volunteering

    Contact us

    News

    Bookshop

    About


Advertisements











World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945



Remembering those who died this day.

  • Adlard Harry. Pte. (d.15th April 1944)
  • Blackwell Donald E.. Sgt. (d.15th Apr 1944)
  • Bowman Alan Peter. (d.15th Apr 1944)
  • Puttock H. A.. Lt. (d.15th April 1944)
  • Tod David. Pte. (d.15th Apr 1944)

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



The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

Announcements



  • The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
  • 28th March 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263784 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
  • Looking for help with Family History Research?   Please read our Family History FAQ's
  • The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
    If you enjoy this site

    please consider making a donation.


Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.



We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates.

If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page.


Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home.

If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.



Want to know more about the 15th of April 1944?


There are:20 items tagged 15th of April 1944 available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War.




Stories from 15th April 1944





Alan Peter Bowman. , 114 Sqd. Royal Air Force. (d.15th Apr 1944)

I am trying to find out a little about my Uncle Alan Peter Bowman who left Australia in RAAF but later became part of the 114 RAF Squadron. From family stories I believe he was shot down by the Italians over the Mediterranean Sea on 15.04.1944. If anyone has any further information about my uncle I would greatly appreciate it.

Sue Richardson



Sgt. Donald E. Blackwell. British Army, 5th Btn. Essex Regiment. (d.15th Apr 1944)

Donald Blackwell was my grandfather's brother. He is buried in the regimental cemetery in Bari.

Alex Lewis



Pte. Harry Adlard. British Army, 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment. (d.15th April 1944)

A WWII Memorial commemorating Private Harry Adlard is inside St Peters Church in Barton-Upon-Humber.

Sue Johnstone



Lt. H. A. Puttock. South African Air Force, 28th Sqd.. (d.15th April 1944)

Lieutenant Puttock was the Son of Horace A. and May D. Puttock, of East London, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Joy Puttock.

He was 25 when he died and is buried in the Rabat Europen Cemetery in Morocco.

S flynn



Pte. David Tod. British Army, 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment. (d.15th Apr 1944)

My great-granddad, David Tod (formerly in the Royal Scots), served in Burma from 1941 to 1944 with the 2nd Suffolk Regiment. He was killed on 15th od April 1944 at age 34, on the ridges and hills around Ukhrul Road, on a topographical feature called 'Ring' or 'Pimple', by a Japanese sniper along with other men. Although he was seen dead, for it is reported in the unit’s war diary, and hastily buried, his marker was lost to time and his grave was never located to bury him in a commonwealth war cemetery. His body may have been dragged away down the backs of the 'Ring' ridge location as the surviving soldiers reported hearing slithering noises during the night that sounded like bodies being dragged away as the Japanese took clothes, weapons and other items of use for themselves.

He was living in 29 Stobhill Road, Gorebridge, Midlothian with his wife Ann Tod and their children before going off to war. His wife never spoke of him and any photos lost. I am desperately trying to find any photos of Battalions and Units he was in so his son, my granddad also named David Tod who is now in his 80's, may see his father’s face again. He is commemorated on Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar (formerly Burma) for soldiers that have no grave.

Sharon Gibson










Can you help us to add to our records?

The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them


Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area?

If so please let us know.

Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.




Celebrate your own Family History

Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.

Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.














The free section of the Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers. We have been helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items.

The website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.

If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.



Hosted by:

The Wartime Memories Project Website

is archived for preservation by the British Library





Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
- All Rights Reserved

We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.