Vera Margaret Cecilia "Vee" Byng . Land Army My mother sadly passed away earlier this year, leaving few clues as to when she joined up or when she left the LA.
I was born in April 1943, so it is reasonable to assume that she would have ceased working some months before!
She married my father in 1939, and lived with him in Deal, Kent. He was in a Reserved Occupation throughout the war as a Chief Sanitary Inspector/ Acting Borough Surveyor for the local council, as well as being a captain in the Home Guard responsible initially for anti-gas precautions. He is occasionally mentioned in passing in a book on Deal at War.
The marriage was not a happy one, for various reasons, and Mum hinted that this and a feeling that she should be doing "something" for the war effort contributed to her decision to join up.
She worked at Solley's Farm at Ripple, just a couple of miles inland from Deal. Today it is well known for it's diversification into ice-cream making(delicious!) and running a farm shop. The same family still own and run the farm. Sadly, the generation that may have known my Mum have since passed on, and she was,unfortunately, strangely reticent about this chapter in her young life.
About a year before she died she did tell me, however, that she always looked forward to the hearty farmhouse-style breakfasts which somehow overlooked the fact that food- rationing existed! On another occasion, for a dare, she sat on back of the farm's prize bull!
The marriage finished soon after the War, and she remarried, becoming Vera Royle. Regrettably, she left no photographs,or other ephemera, of her work in the LA.
She was widowed in the 1970's and eventually moved to a beautiful cottage in the Cotswolds.
I'm hoping to visit the National Archives in the near future to see if I can trace her service record.
I'll keep you posted.
Ray
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Irene Mary Byr . Women's Land Army from Cleethorpes I would dearly love to get in touch with any of my old chums who served with me in the Wainfleet area in 1946-47
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Pte. Alfred Mitchell Byrd . United States Army 18th Airborne I am looking for anyone who knew Private Alfred Mitchell Byrd. He was in the 18th Airborne. He fought in the Battle of Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, Normandy and the Northern France Campaigns. During a battle he received a head wound. A bullet grazed him at the upper part of his forehead. We are desperately trying to find a woman he was involved with while in the war. She was a French nationalist and worked as a doctor. They had two children together (a boy and a girl) who were most likely born in the mid 40s. If anyone knows anything of him please get i touch.
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Lt/Col. Cornelius Byrd . (d.7th Feb 1945)
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Pte. Henry Byrd . British Army Sherwood Foresters from Burton on Trent
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Acting Sub.Lt. (E) Ronald Clifford Byrd . Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Forfar (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Sergeant William Alfred Byrd . RAF (d.30th March 1945) During the second World War the Allied and German soldiers, who were killed in Goirle, Noord Brabant, the Netherlands and in the neighbourhood, were buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery from the parish St. Jan in Goirle.
After the war the remains of the German soldiers were reburied in Ysselsteijn (near Venray) and most of the allied soldiers were reburied in Bergen op Zoom (War Cemetery and Canadian War Cemetery) and in Leopoldsburg (Belgium, War Cemetery).
At this moment there are 27 Allied graves in Goirle. Every year we commemorate the victims of World War II, both soldiers and civilians. We know their names, but who were the persons behind the names? What were their lives before they died? Where did they come from? How did they die? Under what circumstances?
It is my intention to give the victims a face, to write and keep the story behind the gravestones because we always will remember the soldier who died for our liberty. We can forget names, but not faces. I will try to write down all their stories for the next generation so they will know who was commemorated.
Maybe someone can help me with Sergeant William Alfred Byrd, RAF 544393 who died on the 30th March 1945, age 24.
Send me a letter or an e-mail with additional information, a photograph or a copy of any personal document, which I can use for The Memory Book or a website. Thank you in advance for your help.
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Sgt. Arthur James Byrne . Royal Australian Army Service Corps from Australia POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Bosun's Mate. C. Byrne . Merchant Navy SS. Orama
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Lt Col. Cecill Noel Byrne . British Army East Yorkshire from Somerset This man is in my local church year and I have just found his grave. Does anyone know him, please.
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Flt.Sgt. Christopher Patrick Byrne . Royal Air Force from Dublin I have a prayer book with the following written on front page "Flight Sergeant Byrne POW no 118691 Stalag Luft 7, Bankau, upper Silesia". Then also in his hand "given to me by Father Berry 17-1-1945".
Christopher Byrne was my father-in-law and he died in 1973 and came from Dublin before he enlisted in RAF. I wondered if anyone has any information about him as a POW.
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Pte. James Byrne . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.27th Jun 1942) James Byrne died age 28 whilst serving with the 9th DLI. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Byrne (nee Marron) of Primrose, Jarrow. Born in Jarrow, James is remembered on the Alamein Memorial.
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Sea. James Byrne . Merchant Navy from Liverpool James Byrne, was my uncle, my fathers only brother, known to have survived torpedoing twice, and living to tell the tale.
After demob. he was manager of two Liverpool pubs, the first at the bottom of Spellow Lane, near Everton's ground and were he and my father Thomas Joseph Byrne were great supporters. Jimmy survived many years after the war, leaving family of 5 and wife Josie, who has also died.
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Sgt. James P. Byrne . Royal Air Force 232 Squadron I know very little about James Byrne except that he was my dad's (Bernard Chrismas) best man in 1943. He was always known as uncle Jimmy tho' we don't know if he was a relative. I hope that through this we may get contact from a living relative.
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John Christopher Byrne . British Army 1st Btn. South Lancashire Regiment John Byrne served with the 1st South Lancashire Regiment and 56th Recce Regiment.
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RC Byrne . British Army Royal Engineers RC Byrne served with the Royal Engineers 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.
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TF Byrne . British Army TF Byrne 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.
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Pfc. Vincent Joseph Byrnes . United States Army 423rd Infantry Regiment from Milton, Ma. USA
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Fus. Cyril Byron . British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment from Gloucester (d.13th Aug 1944) My uncle, Cyril Byron, arrived in France in July 1944 with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Less than one month later on Sunday August 13th Cyril died aged only 18 years old of injuries he had received. He is buried in Bayeux cemetery, France.
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Pte. Cyril Byron . British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment from Coney Hill, Gloucester (d.13th Aug 1944)
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Frank Bysouth . British Army Sussex Rgt. My father served in North Africa during the war. He never talked about it.
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Able Sea Harry George Bywater . Royal Navy HMS Penelope from Lichfield, Staffordshire (d.18 Feb 1944) My Uncle Harry Bywater went down on the Penelope. I have a photograph of him in uniform and a handkerchief sent to the family with the Penelope crest on if anyone would like to see them.
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Georges Bégué MC.. British Army Royal Signals from France
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