Marine. Fredrick George Walter Bartup . Royal Marines HMS Scylla from 24 Bear Rd, Brighton Fredrick George Bartup served as a l Marine Gunner on HMS Scylla and HMS Victorious.
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Pte. John Barty . British Army 1st Btn. Black Watch from 25 Alexander St. Dundee (d.9th May 1940) My late mother was Ann Hay Barty and 2 of her brothers - John and Robert were in the Black Watch Regiment. John appears in several Rolls of Honour and I have seen him appear in records at Edinburgh Castle, The Black Watch Museum in Perth and the City of Dundee. Robert appears to have died in 1940 in Glasgow from a heart condition. I intend to visit the Choloy Cemetry in the next couple of years.
I am attaching photographs of both of them in uniform (don't know who is Robert and who is John) but can find no trace of Robert having served in the Black Watch. I also have a photograph of my grandfather John Barty in uniform but I do not know the regiment he was in. Is anyone able to help identify the regiment from the photo?
I am researching my Scottish Ancestry now and would dearly love to know more about my relatives and the roles they played in the British Army
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Pte Thomas Rooney Barty . Black Watch Victoria BC from Dundee (d.23 October 1942) I saw his name on the Honour Roll in the Black Watch Museum in Perth when I visited in 2016.
I can only find that he was buried at El Alamein War Cemetery XXii. H. 16
Thank you
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AB. Alwyn David Barwell . Royal Navy HMS Dinosaur from Barry Island Our father, Al Barwell served on: - HMS Raleigh 30.12.1942 to 15.03.1943;
- HMS Victory X 16.03.1943 to 04.04.1943;
- HMS Dinosaur 05.04.1943 to 31.08.1943;
- HMS Copra 01.09.1943 to 28.10.1943 as an Ordinary Seaman and as an Able Seaman 29.10.1943 to 31.10.1945;
- HMS Victory 01.11 to 14.12.1945;
- HMS Vernon (Vesuvius) 15.12.1945 to April 1946
- HMS Victory 02.05.1946 to 27.06.1946
. He never spoke much about his time in the Royal Navy but did say he was involved in D Day landings. A fellow sailor and friend contacted my father and they were going to meet but my father died shortly before his friend did however very kindly attend our father's funeral. We have 4 of my father's medals.
Al died in August 2005
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Gunner Anthony Albert Barwick . British Army 69th Medium Regiment, 242 Battery Royal Artillery from Liverpool I have researched much of Dad's war but parts frustratingly elude me. He was Tony Barwick and he enlisted from Liverpool in 1938
and after the war was a professional soldier all his working life. I guess many men had his sort of war,
taking part in big events but only realising it afterwards and doing their duty for their country through
injury and sickness. He was away for 3 years from 1943 to 1946. The following are some pointers.
I have read his service record and the available unit diaries at Kew as well as researched books and the
internet. For many years he led a battalion at the Dunkirk Veterans reunion each year. He died in 2007
aged 86 still carrying a shrapnel mark from the Dunkirk beaches under his heart and a German bayonet scar
on an upper thigh from Cassino. And he was in the Artillery! In 1940 he was part of 69 medium Regt, 242 battery
and was ambushed at Wormhoudt whilst retreating to Dunkirk, 27-28 May. The Earl of Aylesford commanding
his group was killed. The 2nd Warwicks (1& 2 24th of Isandlahwhana) were then defending it,
one of Gorts strongholds. One of his unit Gnr. Parry was caught and ended up in the S.S. massacre in
the barn, but Dad's group ran the lucky way and made it to Dunkirk.
I'd like to know What ship he boarded. He got off by carrying a stretcher onto a warship alongside the mole
following an officer with a loaded pistol. This dates it because Gort only agreed to stretcher wounded being
evacuated after MO's pressures late in the evacuation. One stretcher took the place of 10 standing men you see.
I have the Royal Navy official report on the Dunkirk evacuation and HMS Worcester is the best candidate.
Dad went to Egypt in SS Samaria 1943 in time for Alamein. That ship also brought 101 Airborne of DDay fame to
UK from America. Does anyone know Where the unit diary is for this North African period? (Kew National Archive hadnt got it when last I looked); Then across the western desert (I have pictures of him and his mates with some names from this
time) to Anzio, Cassino and via Marseille with the Americans and back up to Wormhoudt and then to the
Ruhr until 1946. I have various sources eg Walter Lord's "The Miracle of Dunkirk", Gunner Parry's
"Massacre on the road to Dunkirk" and the internet eg 58th Regiment RA has a superb site with a detailed diary
and Dads C.O. of 69th was in command of both Regiments for while during the Dunkirk retreat.
Hence some of Dad's movements can be traced via that wonderfully detailed site. Any relative of a member of 69th Medium Regt.R.A. is welcome to contact me and I will be happy to pass on the more extensive information I have on Word file.
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Able Sea. Ernest Ralph Barwick . Royal Navy HMS Copra Ernest Barwick joined the Royal Navy 7th of May 1941 aged 20. From his service record, he appears to have spent most of the war between HMS Pembroke, HMS Quebec and HMS Copra, which I understand to be training bases for commandos/special forces. I do have a photo of my father driving a landing craft.
He told me a few stories of his time in the Mediterranean around the Adriatic near Corfu. It seems he suffered some of the worst storms and rough seas he had ever experienced in these waters. There was also a story of being involved in the Sicily landings, particularly Operation Ladbrook. This was evidently one of the worst cases of friendly fire and my father told me of rescuing parachutists from the water thinking they were German only to find it was our own commandos. It appears the American pilots released the gliders too early and ran away when the invasion fleet opened fire on them at night. No one had told the fleet that the planes with gliders were coming so they were thinking they were Germans attacking the fleet. 1200 paratroopers were killed. A more detailed source for this record can be found in a book by Geoffrey Regan, Blue on Blue A history of Friendly Fire dated 1995
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Cpl. Thomas James Barwood . Royal Marines S.S. Highland Princess. from England (d.26th October 1939) Cpl. Barwood is buried in the Buenos Aires (Chacarita) British Cemetery, Argentina, War Graves Plot. Grave 2.
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Sgt Arthur Leonard Baseley. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.4th Jul 1943) Midd Upper Gnr. Arthur Baseley was kiled on 4th July 1943 in Lancaster ED820 PH-A of 12sqd
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Charles Edward Basey . Royal Marines HMS Dinosaur from Shoeburyness My father, Charles Basey was born in Woolwich and joined the Royal Marines at Eastern Barracks on 27th of May 1942. He served on the ships HMS Dinosaur, HMS Hamilton, HMS Copra, and HBL RM Figyp (the spelling on his record sheet). He was discharged on 19th July 1946, class A.
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S/Sgt. Charles E. Basham . United States Army Ordnance Department from Kentucky, USA
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Pte. Edward Joseph Inkster Basham . British Army 2/7th Btn. Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey) from London (d.13th September 1944)
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Raymond Basham . My step-father Raymond Basham was at Stalag 4b for a year and a half. He died in 1992.
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Pte. Wilfred Donner Basham . British Army from Gristhorpe, Nr Scarborough Wilfred Basham was captured at Tobruk and taken to Stalag 8A as POW number 81028. He worked as a miner.
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S/Sgt. Nowell Royson Rex Bashford . British Army 71st Line of Communication Workshops 2/1 (NY) KAR Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Brighton Rex Bashford served from 1st of November 1940 to 28th of September 1942 with the 15th Battalion, Sussex Home Guard.
He was transferred to Marston and joined the newly formed REME on 22nd of October 1942.
Various postings followed, where he undertook Driving, Mechanical and Fitter Training.
In July 1943 he was transferred to TREME Mobility Centre, Arnold prior to embarking for East Africa Command on 17th fo July 1943.
On arrival in Kenya he joined the 2/1 (NY) Kings African Rifles and then moved to the East African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers serving with 71st Line of Communication Workshops under the command of the Kings African Rifles.
Having attained all his 1st Class trade certificates, rapid promotion followed and in 1944 he was a Staff Sgt and in charge of 71st LOC Workshops.
In July 1945 he was posted to 405th Base Workshops in Nairobi and in July 1945 posted to EAEME (ex KAR) and sttached to Transit Camp.
UK leave was granted between 30th of August 1945 and 23rd of November 1945 before his return to (2/1) (NY) Kings African Rifles which he remained with until his return to the UK on 9th of July 1946.
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Sgt. James Phillip Bashleben . United States Army 192nd Tank Battalion Co. B from USA POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Henry Baskerville . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd.
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L/Sgt. John Daniel "Jack" Baskeyfield VC. British Army 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England (d.20 September 1944)
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William Basnett . Royal Navy HMS Ameer from 11 Lowry Street, Everton, Liverpool 5, Lancs. My father, William Basnett, was in the Royal Navy from 30th of November 1942 to 15th of May 1946.
He had relatively short periods onHMS Gosling, HMS Daedalus, HMS Tern, HMS Raven, HMS Waxwing, HMS Malagas and HMS Bermuda but spent most of his service on HMS Ameer from 5th of December 1944 to 18th of November 1945.
They were carrying 845 squadron & later 804 squadron avengers & wildcats. On 26th of July 1945 they were attacked by a Japanese Kamikaze but managed to deflect it into the sea with the ships armaments. During his time on HMS Ameer they were involved in operations, Lightning, Matador, Sankey, Stacey, Collie, Carson, Jurist, Beecham, Tideraceand Zipper in the Battles in Burma and Malaya and to re-occupy Malaya and Singapore.
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PFC James H. Basquil . United States Army 104th Infantry Regiment from Manchester, New Hampshire (d.12th Nov 1944)
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Annie Basquill . Womens Land Army from Scarborough
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Cpl. Edwin John "JayBee" Bass . British Army 470 MAC Convoy Royal Army Service Corps from Stranford Rivers, Onagar, Essex In Feb. 1944 I enlisted as an Apprentice Tradesman at 14 yrs of age and saw service overseas including being in Palestine during the close of the mandate.
What I wish to tell is not that story. This happened during the hot summer of 1942; About 7 of us youngsters were swimming in a pool in the River Rhoding behind the White Bear, Stanford Rivers in Essex. I was born in this little village which is not far from the Hill Hall POW camp. A group of German POWs, escorted by two sweating, British Tommies marched across the field and settled under some trees obviously about to start their haversack lunch. I was startled by a tall, young man calling to me, "Hey young!" he said "be is it so good in the water?" I shouted back, " You´re a Narzzee. en yer!I don´t talk to`no nartzzees." He straightened up and said, "No no. You get it wrong. I be a good Cherman not one of them. Hokay hokay so you no speak with me who is just a boy a little older than you." I shouted, "Well, how old are you squarehedaß" and he answered that he was only a few years older than me. He then added, "We could hear you from two fields away, you boys make so much noise..." he pointed a finger at me, "That is why we comed here for our meal. My name is Johanness -- in English she be John. And one of you boys is also John -- " I interrupted loudly, "That´s me. I am John and my Mum said you Germans wuzz only young boys what
got dragged into the forces --" "Your mother was very right," Johannes said,
"We didn´t want to fight anyone..."
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Kenneth Bass . Royal Air Force 206 Sqdn. My grandfather, Kenneth Bass, served in 206 Squadron and flew from RAF Donna Nook on one of the 1,000 bomber raids.
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F/O.. Robert Walden Bass . Royal Canadian Air Force 223 Squadron from London, Ontario, Canada Bob Bass was a high school math and physics teacher in Ontario before the war. He grew up on a farm just outside the small town of Thedford, ON about 30 minutes from Sarnia. He attended the University Of Western Ontario, now Western University, at 17.
He enlisted at Rainy River, ON in 1943 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. Bob initially trained as a pilot but later switched to navigation as he felt he was more suited for it. Following all his flight and navigation training in Canada, he was transferred to the No. 111 Operational Training Unit in Nassau, Bahamas.
He went to England in August 1944 and was attached to the 223 Squadron at RAF Oulton. The 223 Squadron, at the time and seemingly still today, was a secret flying unit that flew electronic counter measure flights for bomber raids with 100 Group. He flew on 21 operational missions, day and night, as a navigator.
Bob was ready for another assignment in the Pacific but on his return home to Canada in August 1945, Japan surrendered and both theatres of war were over. Bob always said that the best lessons he learned in life he learned growing up on the farm. He returned to education after the war where he had a very distinguished career. Bob died in 2013 at age 95. His entire family thanks him for his service to his country in a time of great need. He is sorely missed by us all.
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Sgt. William Allen Bass . US Army from San Antonio, Texas My father, William A. Bass was a POW at Stalag 4. He escaped twice and the second time was the charm. He was found sick, in the woods by German sisters who lived on a farm. They nursed my father and his buddy back to health. I wish I could thank them. He was awarded two Purple Hearts
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Sgt Cliff A Bassant . RAF 12sqd
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Gdsm. Christopher Thomas Elijah Bassett . British Army Grenadier Guards from Tolworth, Surrey Our dad, Christopher Bassett was 18 when he was sent to war. He was a Grenadier Guard, and he was in the Battle of Anzio. He was taken POW three times during the war, and one of those times he was in Stalag X1A. He wasn't there for liberation day as he had managed to escape from the camp before that day.
After the war, he suffered with his nerves for the rest of his life and would often relive the experiences by telling us his stories frequently. He did see and experience some awful things as did so many others. He was understandably deeply affected by the experience. He died in 2008 at the age of 86.
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Sgt. Claude Stanley Bassett . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 625 Sqdn. from Hampshire (d.5th June 1942) Sgt Bassett was killed when his aircraft was involved in an aircrash on 5th June 1942. He was the son of Mr Arthur Henry Cash Bassett and Mrs Gertrude Alice Bassett of Ropley, Hampshire, England and is buried in Hillingdon and Uxbridge Cemetery, Row SE Grave 3. He was on Night Fighter Duty: Search Light co-operation. Take-off Tangmere 8 May 1942 0005 hrs. Up 3.54 hrs. Crashed 0359 hrs.
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Ord Sig. John Charles Bassett . Royal Navy HMS Scotia from 17 Oxford Street, Gelligaer, Hengoed, Glamorgan Jack Bassett served on HMS Scotia from 30th of June 1944 to 14th of December 1944 then transferred to HMS Drake.
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