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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

Sergeant Andrews .     RAF 59 Squadron




Sgt. A. S. Andrews .     Royal Air Force 90 Squadron (d.22nd June 1943)

90 Squadron Royal Air Force Bomber Command Stirling Mark 3 serial number EE887 WP-T. With a seven man crew took off from West Wickham at 2345 hrs on 21st June 1943 on a bombing mission to Krefeld, Germany. The aircraft was shot down in the early hours of 22nd June by a night fighter, later identified as the German fighter ace Hauptmann H.J. Jabs, and crashed at Hoogwoud North Holland with the loss of all of the crew. .

Crew members were:

  • Pilot Officer H.N. Peters Royal Australian Air Force
  • Sergeant D.J. Davies Royal Air Force
  • Sergeant David Gillis Royal Air Force Volunteers Reserve
  • Sergeant E. Bradshaw Royal Air Force
  • Sergeant B.A. Abraham Royal Air Force
  • Sergeant A.S. Andrews Royal Air Force
  • Sergeant R.R. Law Royal Canadian Air Force

All are buried in Bergen General Cemetery in the Netherlands.




Dvr. Alvan Robert Andrews .     New Zealand Military Forces Army Service Corps   from Brightwater

(d.4th September 1944)

Alvan Andrews was the son of George Aubrey Catley Haycock and of Vera Muriel Haycock (nee Harvey), of Brightwater, Nelson, husband of Gladys Maude Haycock of Brightwater. He was 27 when he died and is buried in the Brightwater (St. Paul) Anglican Cemetery, Tasman District, New Zealand




AU Andrews .     British Army

AU Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




L/Cpl. CD Andrews .     British Army 12th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment

L/Cpl.CD Andrews served with the 12th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




CE Andrews .     British Army

CE Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




Sgt. Edgar James Andrews .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 50 Sqdn   from Newmarket

(d.15th Oct 1940)

Edgar Andrews took off from RAF Lindholme in Handley Page Hampden X2993 c/s VN-T. Mission, to bomb Berlin, but was shot down by a nightfighter near Kalbe (between Hannover and Berlin). P/O Davies was also killed but Sgts Hurrell and Lee were taken prisoner and survived the war and eventually were repatriated. They were shot down by Hauptmann Werner Streib commanding 1/NJG 1 at 03.05 hrs




ET Andrews .     British Army

ET Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




Frank "Andy" Andrews .     Royal Air Force 620 Squadron

Frank Andrews served as a wireless op/air gunner.




Flt.Sgt. Frank Henry Andrews .     Royal Air Force Bomber Command 158 Sqdn.   from Lisset, Yorkshire

Flight Sergeant Frank Henry Andrews was serving with 158 Squadron when his Halifax Mark II No LW298 was shot down over Tongeren (Belgium) on 3rd/4th November 1943, when it was returning from a Dusseldorf raid. He was found by a local farmer, who contacted Comet Line to send him back to the UK. He was discovered by the Gestapo, together with Rear Gunner Ronald Stokes, on 5th December 1943 in the home of Robert Goffaux and his niece Jeanne Macintosh. All were arrested. Robert Goffaux was sentenced to hard labour, Jeanne (being a British national) was sentenced to death. Frank was sent to Stalag Luft 3 (IVB) on 13th January 1944.

Frank was released by Cossacks in April 1945 and exchanged with Americans for Soviet POWs as part of the Yalta Agreement. He watched the Soviets begging for their lives as they were loaded onto trains - they knew they would be shot or sent to a Gulag. He remained deeply shocked at Soviet POW treatment - they were left to die of starvation and typhus. They begged the Brits to scrape out the remains of empty Red Cross food tins.

When Frank returned to the UK he saw a story about Jeanne Macintosh in the Sunday Times and contacted her. In August 1944, following her death sentence, she was transported to Germany - as the Allies raced to liberate Brussels ten days later. She spent the rest of the war in prison until released from Waldheim Fortress in May 1945 by US troops.

Frank and Jeanne met again, fell in love and were married in September 1945. I was one of the baby boomers, born July 1946.




Henry George Andrews .     Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment   from Portsmouth

Harry Andrews was my Father, he served with the Maritime Artillery.




Cpl. Henry George "Andy" Andrews .     British Army Maritime Regiment Royal Artillery   from Portsmouth, Hampshire

My father, Henry Andrews, served in the Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment in WW2. He was aboard a ship which was torpedoed but I don't know the name of his ship. He was the last to leave, apart from the Captain, because he went back to fetch the presents he had bought for his family.




J Andrews .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

J Andrews served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




James Andrews .     British Army Gordon Highlanders

I don't really have much on when my granddad was in the War. We were very close but he never spoke off the War. His name was James Andrews. He served with the Gordan Highlanders in WW2. He got shot in the arm. I'm not sure if he got shot anywhere else. He was in there for 7 years.

I'm sorry I don't have much to go on at the moment but if someone could remember him or have any pics, I would be so grateful.




James Andrews .     Auxiliary Fire Service Liverpool and Warrington




Sgt. K. G. Andrews .     Royal Air Force 44 (Rhodesia) Sqdn.

A Lancaster Bomber of 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron was shot down on 25th/26th July 1944 over Stuttgart. The full crew of this Lancaster were:

  • F/O T.Ibbotson RAAF
  • Sgt. J.R.W.Worrall
  • F/Sgt. E.H.Greatz RAAF
  • F/Sgt.I.R.Murray RAAF
  • Sgt. K.G.Andrews
  • F/Sgt T.W.Whitehead
  • F/Sgt. F.A.Wells




  • L Andrews .     British Army

    L Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

    Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




    PG Andrews .     British Army

    PG Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

    Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




    Richard T. Andrews .     United States Army 83rd Signal Coy.

    My grandfather, Richard T Andrews also known as Dick, was in the 83rd Signal Company. His best friend Johnny Knuetrell was there too but sadly was killed. My grandfather was also in charge of a dog, named Fang, and also sang, and boxed. He made a lot of great friends there. If anyone has any information it would be appreciated so much. I have my grandfather's two Purple Hearts and Bronze star.




    RS Andrews .     British Army

    RS Andrews served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.

    Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.




    Sydney Eric Andrews .     British Army

    I think my Dad, Sydney Andrews was a cook I have found a photo of him in a uniform and on the back it says Ambala India 1944, but I cannot find his name in any database can anyone help me find more information?




    S/Sgt Terry E Andrews .     US Army Air Force   from Pineville, Louisiana

    (d.15th April 1945)

    Terry E Andrews died in Fukuoka 3b POW camp 15th Apr 1945, aged 28. He is buried in Alexandria National Cemetery, Pineville, Louisiana.




    L/Sea. Walter Andrews .     Royal Navy H.M.M.L. 836   from Woodston, Huntingdonshire

    (d.20th March 1944)

    Leading Seaman Andrews was the son of Albert George and Mary Elizabeth Andrews; husband of Peggy Louise Andrews of Woodston, Huntingdonshire. He was 35 when he died and is buried in the Polemidia Military Cemetery in Cyprus, Grave 86.




    Dvr. Walter Robert Andrews .     British Army 49th General Transport Coy. Royal Army Service Corps   from Southend, Essex




    William E. Andrews .     Merchant Navy SS Duquesa

    My great grandfather, William E Andrews was captured in WWII. He was in the merchant navy, and his ship SS Duquesa was sunk by a German destroyer off the Murmansk coast (Russia). He was a POW in Stalag 10b until the end of the war.




    Pte William Andrews .     British Army 1st Btn Gordon Highlanders   from Newton Cambuslang

    (d.8 June 1945)

    William Andrews was my uncle (my mothers young brother). I visited his grave at Randville in France. His name will never be frogotten along with all his brave comrades during WWII.




    LSBA William Andrews .     Royal Navy Medical Branch   from Plse 130




    Sgt. William George Andrews .     British Army 43rd Reece Regiment Reconnaissance Corps   from Gloucester

    My father Bill Andrews was a member of the 43rd Recce Regiment, here is a bit of information that I have managed to glean. He enlisted in the 5th Gloucestershire Regiment, he had told them he was a year older than he actually was, saying his date of birth was 20th of Jan 1919 (really 1920 as he was under the minimum age to join up at that time). My cousin Tony Cocks told me that dad was rescued from Dunkirk. The boat he was rescued by was torpedoed and he was then rescued by another boat.

    On D-Day, he landed at Sword beach and went through Normandy (through what was called the Falaise Gap to Seine) and was involved in heavy fighting around Vernon, a little town on the Seine between Rouen and Paris. They were the first to cross the Seine and had to build three pontoon bridges because the Germans had blown up the bigger bridges to stop tanks coming across. They battled there for 3-4 days before they managed to take the town, this happened around 22nd of August 1944. They were a group of around 40, which included Gilbert Folley (who provided this information in an article in The Citizen newspaper in August 2000). Other persons that Gilbert remembers in the group were Sammy and Bill Moreland, the quartermaster Major Benny Vigrass, Hal Bagwell (the boxer from Gloucester), Walt Critchley, Douglas and Desmond Scarr (from Cheltenham), Jumbo Gardiner (from Dursley)and Tom Carter from The Forest.

    Dad was released from service on 2nd of April 1946, his testimonial on the release document was: An extremely hard working and conscientious man who can be relied upon not only to work on his own but to get others working with him. He has a good practical knowledge of M.T. A man of clean and sober habits he has a pleasant personality and is a good athlete. Military Conduct: Very Good. Dad went on to serve in the Territorial Army, enlisting on the 25th of May 1948 and being released on 24th of May 1950.




    Pvt. Arthur Richard Andringa .     Dutch Army   from Holland

    POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan




    S/Sgt. Charles Androski .     United States Army 8th Air Force   from Richfield Springs, NY

    My father, Charles Androski, was shot down July 19, 1944 from a B17. He was a S/sgt in the 8th Air Force but I do not know what squadron he was in. He was a gunner on the B17 and was believed to be shotdown while bombing a ball bearing plant. I know that he was burned in the downing and spent some time in a hospital before being sent to Stalag 3. I have a letter dated August 22, 1944 that he wrote to his parents from Stalag 3 and his Caterpillar Club card showing that his life was spared on July 19, 1944. He was a POW there until the war ended. His nickname I believe was Charlie Brown.

    If anyone has any, information to share or knows if there were other survivors in the downing please get in touch with me.





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