S Appleton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps S Appleton 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 are no longer in 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.
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C Appleyard . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment C Appleyard served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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 are no longer in 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.
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EE Appleyard . British Army EE Appleyard 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 are no longer in 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.
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PO. John Albert "Happy" Appleyard . Royal Navy HMS Birmingham from Hartlepool My father John Appleyard used to tell me of the torpeadoing of HMS Birmingham and being towed into Alexandria. On disembarking his brother, who was in the Merchant Navy, was waiting. They had not seen each other in years a good time was had by all. Unfortunately, neither are still with us.
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P/O Donald John Applin . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd. from Westmount, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. (d.13th Jun 1944)
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P/O. Donald John Applin . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Squadron from Middleton St George (d.13th Jun 1944) Donny Applin was my auntie's fiance from Montreal Canada. All we knew was he was shot down over Cambrai and missing believed dead. My aunt and her brother, my father never knew what happened to him and now they are also dead. I have a locket with a picture of Donny in it and for the last 40 years I have been looking at every monument in hopes of some idea to put a story to the locket My eldest brother was named after him and I needed to find something out.
I have just returned from a holiday to York and was surprised to discover an astronomical clock beautiful as a memorial to British and allied airmen killed during the war given with gratitude by the people of York. There was also a book of remembrance with the names and there he was including squadron number and the rest was easy.
My mistake was to look under Aplin but not Applin. So I found where he was stationed, where he is buried with 4 others of his crew,that he was a wireless operator that 2 escaped and made it back to England.
I just felt so sorry that mine and his family never knew. It was such a huge tragedy to them. My aunt never believed he was dead and that he would come back. She eventually after 10 years married. If any Applin family are looking for Donny I hope they will read this Thank you
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Pte Leslie Apps . British Army 2/7th Battalion Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey) from Chislehurst, Kent My Grandad Leslie Apps fought in North Africa in the Western Desert (Tunisia) and I know he was injured in action. Trying to find information.
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Cpl. Michael Aptaker . British Army Royal Military Police from London My brother was in the Military Police. He came back to the UK via Dunkirk. After being in the B.E.F. He served 5 years in the Army.
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Raymond "Ach" Aquilina . British Army 182nd Coy Royal Army Service Corps
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CJ Arbery . British Army Royal Berkshire Regiment CJ Arbery served with the Royal Berkshire 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 are no longer in 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.
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L/Cpl Lionel George Arbon . British Army No. 10 Command Workshops Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Bury St. Edmunds Lionel Arbon was in France and Belgium at the beginning of WW2 and was at Dunkirk. After being evacuated he was posted to different workshops in the U.K.
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Herbert Learmount Archbold . British Army Durham Light Infantry from Seghill, Northumberland My Uncle Herbert Archbold served with DLI in WWII. Sadly he died in 1970,when I was a child, and I know little about him. I do know he was in the glass house while serving in Trieste, in Italy, as he lost the mail.
I would love to know more about his military service or hear from anyone who knew him.
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DL Archer . British Army DL Archer 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 are no longer in 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.
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Frank Archer . British Army Staffordshire Regiment Does anyone have information regarding Frank Archer (possibly Staffordshire Regiment)? We believe he was interned in Stalag 8b for approximately five years in late 1939.
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Frank Archer . Auxiliary Fire Service from 649 Sewall Highway, Coventry (d.10th April 1941) Frank Archer worked at Armstrong Whitworths as a grinder and also in the work's fire department and Auxiliary Fire Service. He was blown apart by a bomb in Sewall Highway on the way to serve with AFS during the blitz on 10th of April 1941
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Tpr. George Victor Archer . British Army 1st Royal Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps from Coventry My grandfather George Archer served in WW2 and was captured in North Africa in 1942. Hewas a prisoner of war in Italy PG70, and later in Stalag 4F in Germany. He sadly passed away in 2005, but I was lucky enough for him to tell me stories about his time during the war.
I have a few documents, photos and his medals that I have now displayed in my house, including the original sketch Pow 'Paterson' drew in the camp from memories of them being captured and George digging what he thought was going to be his grave!
George lived in South Australia.
Before his death, he wrote this to one day hope get on the internet:
"Seeking Second World War English POWs from Stalag 4F then to Work Camp ARB KDO No. 23 at Chemnitz in Germany.
This is a photo of myself - Trooper George Archer, 77269, 1st Royal Tank Regiment - Captured prior to El Alemain Campaign 1942
I would like to contact anyone who was in this camp with me.
I have also included a photo of the lads who were with me in ARB KDO 23.
I'd be very pleased to hear from any of the lads in the photo.
Some of the names I remember are Patterson, Angel, Bishop & Freeman
A brief history of my experiences prior to and including my capture.
I would like to contact anyone who was captured in the Middle East in 1942 and was taken to a camp in Italy named PG70, or was later transferred to Stalag 4F in Germany, when the Italian Army capitulated in 1943.
The group photograph was taken at a work Komando camp in Saxony called Schwarzenberg.
We were made to load and unload railway trucks under the supervision of a couple of armed civilian employees.
There are 18 of us shown in the photo - perhaps you might be one of them or you might be one of the group taken to PG70 in Italy.
We were a group known as the 'Tin Bashers', because we were all sheet metal workers and we made lots of tin utensils and rubbish bins out of the Red Cross parcels we sometimes got. As well as keeping us out of mischief, we got extra rations of bread.
So if you recognize any of these blokes, please get in contact.
I think you will enjoy a bit of nostalgia.
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J Archer . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Archer 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 are no longer in 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.
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Sea. Jack Archer . Royal Navy HMS Europa from Oadby, Leicester Jack Archer had many stories to tell us one was when he was told to go off duty and just as the other two seaman went to take over the ship hit something and half was blown up so Jack was lucky to be alive.
Jack joined the Navy in 1943 and his first ship was HMS Ganges on the 19th April 1943, he went on a few other ships including HMS Europa, HMS Eskimo, HMS Eday and mine sweepers, HMS BYMS 2154, MMS 233 and MMS 1062.
He spent is 18th birthday in New York, USA when they had to go over to collect the ship.
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Able Sea. John Clay Archer . Royal Navy HMS Egret (d.27th August 1943)
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Flt.Sgt. John Archer . Royal Air Force I have a letter, with a photo, sent with postmark date of 31 March 1943 to
Flt.Sgt John F Archer, British Prisoner of War, 17896/IVA, Stalag IVA, Germany
Posted in Dulwich SE21. Sender (his father) F.G Archer, 77 Croxted Road, Dulwich SE21.
I'm trying to trace any relatives so that I can pass this letter to them. Can anyone help please?
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Pte. Llewellyne Evan Archer . British Army
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Sea. Maurice "Ginger" Archer . Merchant Navy SS Wendover from South Shields My father, Maurice Archer (or Ginger as he was nicknamed, for his red hair) was 17 when he sailed out of Liverpool on 21st June 1940. His Merchant Navy ship, the SS Wendover, was bound for Bordeaux carrying coal on passage. France had just fallen to Germany, so orders were changed and the ship was diverted to Rio de Janeiro. On 12th July, my father celebrated his 18th birthday. On the 16th July, my father’s ship was captured at sea by a German raider. During the capture, a burly German officer turned to my father and told him "The war is over for you, son". But this was just the start of 4.5 years in captivity and in concentration camps where my father witnessed death, hunger, cold, and disease. He now tells his story:
"On the 16th July 1940, I was on 4-8 watch when according to the 8-12 watch a ship flying Yugoslav colours had opened fire from the port quarter, killing the radio operator and setting fire to the bridge. The ship turned out to be a disguised German raider. During the one-way exchange of fire (the raider kept of range), Able Seaman George Smith was seriously injured and the third engineer, Mr. Gibson, and the steward, Mr. Gernardt, were killed. George Smith died later of his injuries. After four months aboard the raider, we were transferred to a prison ship. Conditions on the raider were passable, but the prison ship was deplorable.
We landed in Bordeaux a few weeks later and were taken to the prison camp Caserne Colonial Bordeaux. This camp bordered on primitive in every sense of the word. Our first night there we had doors for beds. We weren't sorry to leave there in a cattle truck three days later, when we were taken to Drancy Prison in Paris. The less said about our stay at Drancy the better. The only good thing I remember about Drancy was the kindness of the French women who had nothing themselves, but nevertheless threw loaves of bread to us past the guards.
Most of the prisoners, including myself, were sent from Drancy to concentration camps. After five days of normal transportation (i.e., in cattle trucks), we arrived at Bremervorde in northwestern Germany near Bremen, and were then marched several miles to Stalag X-B in Sandbostel, where we were greeted by the stink of death. I was held in Stalag X-B for two years, and I will never forget that smell – it lingered constantly. Many thousands of POWs died there. In early 1945, in the face of advancing British forces, the camp was evacuated, and we were marched to Marlag und Milag Nord, from where I was later repatriated.
There have been times when I've thought about the few months of kindness and friendliness shown by Frau Wilmbrock and her family in the village of Kirch, where I and fellow Stalag X-B prisoner Jock Reid worked their farm.
Little did I know, but back home I was considered missing and presumed dead. My name was and still is on the wall of remembrance in the Mission to Seaman in South Shields."
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Cpl. Richard Thomas Archer . British Army My dad served in the Desert Rats. He was a tank driver.
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LAC. Robert Harry Archer . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (d.13th Jan 1946) Robert Harry Archer is buried in Jarrow Cemetery.
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Rifleman Stanley Fredrick Archer . British Army 9th Battalion Cameronian Scottish Rifles from Bethnal Green, London (d.30th Apr 1945) Hello
trying to trace any imformation re my husband uncle killed on the river Elbe,would like to know what fighting he would have been engaged in as it was almost the end of the war in europe. Some years ago we did visit his grave in Hamberg Cemetery and there were about eight more graves along side all from the same reg we assumed they may have all died in the same conflict. Stan had only been married ten weeks his wifes name was Jean and lived in Shields.Len my husband was thirteen when Stan died so looked on him like a brother never forgot him and often speaks of him so it would be great if someone maybe remembers him or what really happend him.
regards.
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A/Sgt. Sydney Martin Archer . Royal Air Force 159 Squadron from St. Alban My father, Sid Archer served with 159 Squadron as a cook. As a child I remember many stories of the difficulties he had in feeding the squadron and I wonder if anyone remembers him or has any photos?
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R Archibald . British Army R Archibald 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 are no longer in 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.
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F/O Thomas Archibald . RAAF pilot 77 Sqd. (d.13th May 1943) The the 13th of May 1943 at 06:20 on return to Elvington Halifax KN-K (JB 865) crashed at Bishop Wilton killing the Pilot F/O Archibald and the Air Bomber Sgt Scully. The remainder of the crew, Sgt C.Hewitson, Sgt J.Gerry, Sgt G.Marlow, Sgt F.K.Smith and Sgt J.Currie, had only minor injuries.
This aircraft crashed in a field at High Belthorpe farm. I was almost 14 years of age at the time and helped my mother to take care of the surviving members of the crew. F/O Archibald is buried in Barmby-on- the-Moor at St Catherine's Churchyard, he was 32 years old, the son of John and Janet Archibald and husband of Perla Doris Archibald.
Sgt Scully was taken to his home town.
My mother received a letter of thanks from the Commanding Officer of No. 77 Squadron which my brother gave to the Museum at Elvington. There was also a later letter in which he said that the survivors were all flying again, and I would like to know if they survived the rest of the war.
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Sgt. W. Archibald . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 619 Sqdn. (d.27th November 1943) Lancaster DV381, aircraft code PG-B left Woodhall Spa at 17.22hrs on the evening of 26th November 1943 for Berlin. It is believed to have come down in the sea. Two bodies were recovered - those of F/Lt R.D. Rayment and Sgt M.J. Lynch, who were buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Air Force Memorial at Runnymede (details from BC. Losses (Chorley)). The crew were:
F/Lt R.D. Rayment.
Sgt M.J. Lynch.
F/O J. Kellett.
Sgt W. Archibald.
F/Sgt J.T. Richards.
F/Sgt C.S. Cook.
F/Sgt J.A. Fowler.
You can find commemoration details at www.cwgc.org
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William Bruce "Archie" Archibald . 102 Squadron
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