Pvt. Maclovio Aguilar . United States Army from United States Maclovio Aguilar Jr. was a POW in Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Lt -Col. John F. Ahern . US Army 172nd Field Artillery Rgt.
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Sto1. John Ahern . Royal Navy (d.28th Apr 1943) Stoker 1st Class John Ahern is buried in the Cullen Church of Ireland Cemetery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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J Aherne . British Army J Aherne 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/Sgt. J. B. Aherne . 97 Squadron
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Capt. Sardar Ahmed . British Indian Army 8th Motor Bgde. Indian Army Medical Corps My father, Captain Sardar Ahmed of the Indian Army Medical Corps, was a POW in Stalag 4a from 1941 until April 1945.
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Pvt. James Murray Aiken . Australian Army from Australia POW in Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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D. Aikenhead . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Sgt. Lloyd Lawrence Aikenhead . Royal Canadian Air Force 407 Squadron (d.21st Jun 1942) Sgt. Lloyd Lawrence Aikenhead served with the 407 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and died on 21st June 1942.
Can anyone tell me more about his Hudson which shot down on an anti-shipping raid in Holland? I'd like to know its serial number, code number, type of Hudson, everything you can give. Thanks
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Cpl. Robert Earl Ailshie . United States Army 687 Btn. Field Artillery from Oklahoma Robert Ailshie was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was only 5'6" and had small feet. The Germans beat him with their rifle butts because they could not wear his boots. They were taking all the boots from their captives.
Robert and a friend escaped and a farm family took them in. They were so hungry they ate a pound of butter without anything, no bread, just the butter.
He had trouble with his feet throughout his life because they had been frost bitten during his time in captivity.
This is all I know of his service. He was my dad and he didn't talk at all about the war. This little bit of information was obtained through relatives.
Any further information I might be able to obtain will be appreciated.
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Pte. Gordon Eric "Buster" Ainger . British Army Parachute Regiment from Harwich (d.9th Dec 1943) Gordon Ainger, son of James and Florence Louise Ainger, of Harwich, Essex, originally enlisted into the RAF before transferring to the Army.
He qualified as a military parachutist on Course 78, which ran at RAF Ringway during August 1943, and was posted to 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion.
He died on 9th of December 1943, aged 22 years old, during the Italian campaign and is now buried at Sangro River War Cemetery, near Taranto, Italy.
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Sgt. Stanley R.J. Ainger . Royal Air Force No. 49 Squadron from Pensthorpe, Norfolk I'm currently carrying out research for a possible book about Stanley Ainger who served in No. 49 Squadron at RAF Scampton. He and his crew were shot down 6th of April 1942. Stanley, who was serving as an air gunner, bailed out of their Hampden bomber and managed to evade capture. I've seen at least one account of him as being killed and buried in a war grave in Belgium which is incorrect. He survived the war and took part in the Berlin Airlift, passing away in 2001.
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Pte. Harry Ainscough . British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Wigan, Lancashire (d.18th July 1944) Harry Ainscough is still missed by his family.
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H Ainsworth . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment H Ainsworth served with the Kings Liverpool 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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RHT Ainsworth . British Army RHT Ainsworth 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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Sgt. Richard Eric Ainsworth . RAF(VR) flight eng. 433 Sqd. from England (d.2nd Dec 1944)
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Pte. Adam Sim Shiels Aird . British Army Cameronians from 5 Cameron Drive, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland My father, Adam Aird, Cameronians was captured in Sicily. He was in camp 8B and then on the Death March. He had many memories of the March but did not bear a grudge. He was friendly with a group of Scotsmen, including Garry McKrindle from Glasgow and a Mr Knowles from Aberdeen, who looked out for each other. In the 1960s he met one of the German guards and they shook hands.
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Able.Sea. Walter George "Cocky" Aird . Royal Navy HMS Penelope (d.22nd Nov 1942)
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S/Sgt Cyril Airey . British Army Royal Engineers from Bury St Edmunds  Cyril Airey enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps and was assigned to No 1 Coy, 4th Training Battalion, on the 14th of August 1941.
He transferred to the Royal Engineers and joined No 3 (Line of Communication) Depot Battalion on the 18th of September 1941.
He was promoted to Acting Staff Sgt on the 10th of October 1941.
He was with 3rd Depot Battalion at Halifax from 16th of April 1942.
Then served in Sierra Leone West Africa from 9th of May 1942 to 25th November 1943, where he contracted Malaria. The family did not find out about Malaria until he went into malarial fever in around 1980 and informed them. He was in Bristol from 30th of December 1943, then Wells from 20th of March 1944, Gloucester from 2nd of January 1945.
He joined 4th Depot Battalion on 24th of July 1945 and was posted to Holland where he served from 21st August 1945 to 8th May 1946. His Company worked in Holland rebuilding the dykes and his dumper truck was blown up by a landmine whilst rebuilding near Blankenberg, he spent a number of weeks in hospital.
He was then Posted to 213th Works Section on 15th December 1945.
Released to Army Reserve 1 August 1946, he was discharged on 2nd of May 1955
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L/Cpl. Edmund Harold Airey . British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment from Manchester Edmund Airey volunteered in 1940. "Bl**dy fool!", his father's opinion, "joining the infantry. With his brains."
He was never very forthcoming on his experiences beyond the facts that he fought in North Africa before crossing via Sicily to Italy and, ultimately, to the Battle of Monte Cassino.
At Cassino, he was seriously wounded in the neck (sniper fire), left arm and left torso (mortar bomb).
Fortunately, he was discovered, and survived, being repatriated to the UK where he spent the remainder of 1944 in hospital. Though he eventually regained the use of his left arm he was assessed to be 30% disabled, unfit to return to active duties, and was transferred to the Army Pay Corps.
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JHJ Airey . British Army Lancashire Fusiliers JHJ Airey served with the Lancashire Fusiliers 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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T Airey . British Army Lancashire Fusiliers T Airey served with the Lancashire Fusiliers 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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Joyce Lucy Airs . Women's Land Army from Actually, I would love to hear from anyone who might have known my mother when she was in the Women's Land Army.
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F/O. Wilfred Glennie Airs . Royal Air Force 7 Squadron (d.29th June 1944) Flying Officer Bill Airs became one of the top navigators in the Royal Air Force with the famous Pathfinders Squadron who in Lancasters (and Mosquitoes) led the bomber fleets to the correct target and also had to circle it dropping flares to ensure all the fleet found it. The death rate was 1 in 6 for Pathfinders crews but he successfully completed his tour of duty of 70 missions and could have taken a safer training role.
But he shrugged off his young pregnant wife's fears and volunteered for another 70 missions though he told my father that "every time I take off I just wonder if it's my last op".
Cruelly, aged 29, on 29th June 1944 and their wedding date was the 29th, his flight was shot down and he was killed over the Pas de Calais, France, over a V1 rocket base.
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F/O. Wilfred Airs . Royal Air Force 7 Squadron from Edinburgh (d.29th June 1944) Wilfred Airs was my wife's father and we do know that he was lost during a raid in the Pas-de-Calais during late May 1944 or late June 1944. He was a navigator on one 7 Sqdrn's Lancasters.
Editor's Note: Wilfred was lost on the 29th of June 1944 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
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Pte. John Airy . British Army No. 3 Commando John Airy was a private in No. 3 Commando. His landing craft came ashore at Sword beach ten minutes behind Lovat and Millen. He didn't hear any pipes and his memories of landing was just the horrific scenes of carnage.
Fifty years after D-Day he recounted his recollections of the landing: "There was spasmodic shelling on the beach as we arrived. Many bodies lay sprawled all over the beach, as young men of the East Yorkshire Regiment who had been in the first wave of the landing, now lay mutilated or dying".
No. 3 Commando landed and marched inland to join up with Lovat's beloved No. 4 Commando. Before they had even spotted Lovat and his men, they could hear the bagpipes playing in front of them. Airy has pleasant memories of hearing 'Millin's cheerful playing' in the middle of the invasion.
Our next task was to meet up with the 6th Airbourne Division who were holding the bridgehead over the River Orme. By 2 p.m. with Lord Lovatt at our head, his piper playing a cheerful tune, we then crossed the bridge under heavy sniper fire.
Across the bridges, Airy volunteered for a stretcher party to move the wounded back down the line for safety. He came across a German patrol and was surrounded by Germans in a wood. Captured, Airy was transported across Germany into Poland, Stalag VIIIA. As a commando, the young private was interrogated and put into solitary confinement. He was then marched further across Poland, in ˜near artic conditions" and put to work in a Polish sugar factory for 12 hours a day. He laboured at the work camp for over a year and he received a ladle of soup and 1/5th of a loaf of bread per day.
In February 1945, the Russians freed the POWs and Airy made his way to the River Ebve where he was finally rescued by the Americans.
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P/O. Aidan Aiston . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 192 Squadron
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Charles Aitchison . British Army Gordon Highlanders from Dundee Street, Edinburgh My grandfather, Charlie Aitchison, Gordon Highlanders, was captured at St Valery 1940 and consigned to Stalag VIIIb until the end of the war. He was 6' 2" tall and was 32 years old when captured. He never spoke a word about his time in the camp, but the family believes he worked in a salt mine.
The only story I heard about his wartime experiences was told to me by my mother. It seems that he had been demobbed and had arrived home only a few days earlier. He took mother out for a walk (she was 11 at the time) and as they were walking along the street, they came across some German POWs working on the roads. My grandfather stopped and spoke to them in fluent German. After speaking to them for a few minutes, he walked off and went into a shop and came back with four pies and twenty cigarettes which he gave to the Germans.
My mother asked him why he gave them to the POWs. "They're just Jerries," he said. My grandfather told her that they were just working men like him, who had been captured, fighting for their country.
It was my privilege to know this man until he died in 1968 when he was only 60 and I was 14. Any knowledge of him would be gratefully received.
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Robert Scott Aitchison . Royal Air Force I am looking for information on my dad Bob Aitchison who was a cook in the Royal Air Force where he met my mom, Mary Govan, also in Air Force during WWII. They are both gone and I know nothing about their Air Force time.
My mom's service time was 8/1/43 to 12/12/46 from what I have been told my dad was there before her. If you can help me out I would truly appreciate anything you can provide. Thank you.
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