Sld Johan Christiaan Behn . Dutch Army from Holland
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Pvt. Karl Behringer Bronze Star. US Army Hq. Coy. 3rd Battalion 508th Parachute Reg. from Bronx New York My dad Karl Behringer was assigned to Headquarters Company 3rd Battalion 508th Parachute Regiment 82nd Airborne. Dad made two combat jumps in Normandy and Holland.
During Operation Market Garden while on Patrol Dad lost his best friend Billy King when they made contact with the enemy and came under heavy enemy fire.
On December 22nd 1944 during the Battle Of the Bulge Dad and two other troopers were sent out on Patrol to try to locate a four man motorized patrol that failed to return in the area of Provedroux Petite Langlir Road in Belgium. On Christmas Eve Dad became a prisoner of war and was sent to Stalag # 7 in Germany until liberated in April 1945.
When Dad returned to the United States and was able, he made a trip to a small town in Illinois called Centralia where he met with Billy's mother. Dad and Billy had made a promise to each other that if one of them did not return they would meet with their parents.
During my youth we would drive down to Illinois from New York and visit with mother King, what a great lady and friend.
Dad would really never talk about his experience during the war to me, and I understood that, because in September 1972 I joined the military and became a Paratrooper. I was assigned to various Airborne Units until my retirement.
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G/Capt Beill. . Polish Air Force G/Cpt Beill was Station Commander at RAF Faldingworth.
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Sqd.Ldr. Jack Rife Beirnes DFC & bar.. Royal Canadian Air Force 438 Squadron (d.1st January 1945) Jack Beirnes flew with 438 Squadron.
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John Beisly . Royal Air Force 433 Squadron
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Gnr. Robert Beland . British Army 5th Light AA Royal Artillery My grandfather served with the 5th Light AA Battery, Royal Artillery from 1943 to 1945 in Sicily, Italy, France and NW Europe.
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Pte. Ernest Belanger . Canadian Army Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal Regiment My father, Ernest Belanger, was a private in the Fusilier Mount-Royal Regiment. He was taken prisoner during the raid on Dieppe on August 19th 1942. He was a POW in Stalag 8b for about 33 months.
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Joseph Donald Belanger . US Army 992nd Engineer Treadway Bridge Company from Worcester, MA Joe Belanger served in the 992nd Engineering Treadway Bridge Company.
He mentioned a buddy nicknamed Wishy in a letter he wrote.
He drove the vehicles that did bridge building, and had his Sharpshooter Carbine.
His discharge papers list that he was in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe campaigns.
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Maj. Douglas Francis Belcham . British Army Royal Engineers from Carn Brea (d.2nd Dec 1945) Major Douglas Belcham was the only son of Mr and Mrs D Belcham nee Beringer of Pendeen, Barncoose, Carn Brea. Husband of Dorothy Belcham nee Marchall.
He is buried in the Ipoh (Connolly Road) Christian Cemetery in Malaysia.
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Sgt. Donald Peter Belcher . British Army 4th Btn. Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from Bromham, Wiltshire I have no outstanding events just routine. I did see active service in Sicily, D Day, Ardennes, Rhine crossing also when the war ended served in Palestine, as a regular. I was demobbed February 1949 I would dearly like to be able to contact some or if anyone is still out there with army numbers around mine, it would be interesting to see us trying to step out at light infantry pace.
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Pte. Philip Rodney Sykes Belcher . British Army Reconnaissance Regiment from Ealing Philip Belcher landed with 49 Division on D-day plus 3 or 4, and was wounded in the fighting for Caen. Philip was evacuated for treatment and recuperation. He rejoined his unit in Holland, and fought through to the end of the war into Northern Germany. He was commissioned into the Essex Regiment after the war.
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Belcik . United States Air Force 306th B17 Sqdn. from USA If anyone has information about an airman who served in US Air Force 306th B17 Squadron by the name of Belcik would they please get in touch. I am trying to gather information on 306th's base airfield at Thurleigh on behalf of a colleague.
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Belcik . United States Air Force 306th B17 Bomb Sqdn. from USA I am researching Thurleigh Airfield, home of 306th B17 Bomber Squadron, pre-1945. Can anyone help?
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Sgt. Gilbert Gerard Belec . Royal Canadian Air Force 407 Squadron (d.3rd November 1942)
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LE Belfall . British Army LE Belfall 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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Frank Belfield . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd. Frank Belfield was a flight engineer with 460 Sqd.
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Sgt. Ida Emily Belfield . Auxiliary Territorial Service 35th Searchlight Regiment, 342nd Bty. Royal Artillery from Meerbrook, Staffs My mother Ida Belfield was an ATS Sergeant in the 35th Searchlight Regiment, 342nd Battery, Royal Artillery in WW2. I would love to trace her story.
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Sgt. William Belford . Royal Australian Air Force
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Pte. H. Beliskey . British Army Royal Army Service Corps
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Pte. Joseph Ovila Marcien Belisle . Royal Canadian Army Perth Rgt. from Vancouver (d.8th January 1945) My uncle, Marcien Belisle, was killed in Italy on 8th January 1945. I never met him. As a boy, his memory and death was always present in my father, also a veteran. The loss of his brother was always solemnly revered. To this day, I read his war letters (framed now in remembrance). Does anyone remember him?
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Bell . British Army 89th Para Regiment My dad joined the British Army on 9th September 1939. He was wounded at Dunkirk and came home to Belfast, Northern Ireland. When he returned, he enlisted in the newly formed paratroop training outfit. He was in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was demobbed in 1946. He left for America in 1947, then brought us out in December 1948. He was never the same after the war and there were few times when he would talk about it. He died in 1953 and my grandchildren are at the stage where they want to know about him and his war service. If anyone might know how I might get any information about the 89th Irish Para Regt I would be grateful.
Update
My name is Kevin Morrison. I am a collection holder at Glasgow Caledonian University. My collection relates to the Home Front during the Second World War. I have a government publication from 1945 called `By air to battle: the official account of the British First and Sixth Airborne Divisions'. I have had a look, but I couldn't see any mention of the 89th Irish Para Regiment. It does, though, have some really good information on the formation of the Paras and also accounts of the desert and Italian campaigns. If you would like to give me your address I can photocopy the relevant parts and send them to you. My website address is: http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/speccoll/morrison/index.htm.
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AB Adam Baxter Bell BEM. Royal Navy
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Ornance Articifer 4th Cls Albert Thelus Farlam Bell . Royal Navy HMS Forfar from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Pte. Albert Alexander Bell . Australian Army
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Amelia Gertrude Bell . Women's Land Army from Highburyn, London I was 20 at outbreak of war in Sept.1939. My childhood sweetheart was quickly sent to Belgium as he was in the Territorial Army. He came home on a leave in April 1940 and we got married. We had five days together & he had to rejoin his regiment in Lille, Belgium. He was killed on the beaches of Dunkirk during the evacuation on May 28th 1940. The Blitz began in Sept & my home was blown up by a landmine. Moved to a flat also in Highbury & that too was damaged. I decided to get out of town so I went for a weekend stay with friends in Northamptonshire where I met up with a farmer berating the government because they had taken his farm workers as soldiers. He said he'd been offered a land army girl "what use would she be?" I asked him if he would take me on (not having ever been on a farm in my life) & he said he would. I returned to London, went to WLA HQs & said I would volunteer if I could go where I wanted. They said OK. That's how I started, in Northamptonshire, but this farmer turned out not to be of the best, he treated me as if I was male labour & I was working from 6am to 10pm on haymaking, harvesting, milking, foddering, muck carting etc. He sent me into the bull's pen to clean him out, a vicious looking animal, but for me, ignorance was bliss & I just pushed him around whilst cleaning the floor, even tweaking the ring in his nose! I had even been careful to shut the door so that he couldn't get out! He didn't touch me. He sent me up the fields to shepherd the sheep, not telling me there was a ram amongst them, but I soon found out when it butted me. One day he sent me with a scythe to cut the nettles down, how I ever came out of that with both legs I'll never know!! Fortunately after 2 months a WLA rep. came & promptly decided I should never be working under those conditions & I left that farm, but luckily I was taken on by another very nice farmer in the area. Even he sent me on the errand of getting a horse out of another farmer's field - as notified by the local postman - the horse, an ex-hunter, was frolicking with the mares there. Off I went, with a bowl of cowcake which I knew he liked with all the confidence in the world, but old Jack knew differently, having managed to get his head harness on & leading him to the break in the hedge he had got through, he promptly threw his head up, I went flying & off he galloped back to the mares - I swear he was laughing. But I didn't give up I tried again but no way, he just wouldn't budge this time & I had to return without him. Yes, it was hard work but I have never regretted it. My experiences were quite something, for a town girl, but as we all did, I got down to it. If I had my time again, I would have rather gone in with a crowd of other girls in billets, more fun & help, but it all worked out well, I was in with very good local people & eventually married a local chap. I found too that the locals accepted me very well as I was a worker amongst them, often helping other farmers when needed. I only had to retire upon the birth of my daughter, but afterwards still went on helping the locals. I am now nearly 90 years of age, have got my badge etc. not in the best of health but battling on.
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Ft/Sgt Andrew Bell . Royal Air Force 153 Sqn. from Old Kilpatrick, Scotland I believe the picture of this Lancaster crew to have been taken at RAF Scampton in 1945. The pilot, I believe, was F/O Clark and the crew member on the extreme left was my father, Ft Sgt Andrew Bell whose role was that of Air Bomber.
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P/O Angus Hugh "Bob" Bell . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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F/O. Angus Douglas Bell . Royal Air Force 40 Squadron from Haddington, East Lothian (d.7th December 1942) Angus Bell served with 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
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Annie Bell . Women's Auxiliary Air Force My grandparents, Annie Bell and Charles Clifford Booth. They both served in the RAF in WW2. They were both stationed in Doncaster in 1946, she was a cook and he was a fireman (later a sewing machinist?). I don't know much more than this except she was discharged from the air force due to being pregnant in 1946 and gave birth at the Doncaster Institution. Does anyone recognise these names? I am trying to find more information.
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Cpl Clarence Bell . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Christon Bank, Northumberland My father Clarrie Bell was a driver in the RASC in units 98 PTC, 33 GT Coy and 633 Coy. He landed in Normandy on 6th of June 1944 and moved through France and Holland ending up in Berlin.
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