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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

Capt. Harold O Binkley .     USAAF 20th Fighter Group

Captain Harold O Binkley flew P51 Mustangs and later Lockheed P38 Lightning aircraft from Station 367 King's Cliffe during the second world war. He is related to me, a cousin, and during his service he shot down two German Aircraft and was reprimanded for flying too low and snagging tree branches in his undercarriage.




WW Binks .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

WW Binks 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.




E Binns .     British Army Royal Tank Regiment

E Binns served with the Royal Tank 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.




F/Lt. Herbert Dennis Binns .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 138 Sqdn. (d.19th July 1944)

My grandfather served in 138 Squadron at Tempsford. He was killed on July 1944 at St Pair Sur Mer in France in Operation Shipwright 9 in a Halifax LL837-NF-P. The full crew were:

  • F/Lt H.D. Binns, Airbomber
  • F/O N.L.StG. Pleasance, Pilot
  • Sgt J. Allison, Airgunner
  • Sgt W.L. Dalglish, Airgunner
  • Sgt T.F. Fergus, Navigator
  • Sgt E.R. Hearn, Flt. Engineer
  • Sgt R.L. Lee, Wop/Airgunner

    Sgt Allison and Sgt Lee are buried in Bayeux War Cemetery. Sgt Dalglish is buried at Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery and the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.




  • LAC Samual Dennis Binns .     Royal Air Force 78 Squadron   from Cullingworth




    Wing Commander S. B. Bintley .    




    Pte. Bamusi Mbewe Binusi .     King's African Rifles 2nd Btn. (d.11th October 1943)

    Private Binusi was buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 6.




    Pte. Mbewe Bamusi Binusi .     British Army 2nd Btn. King's African Rifles (d.11th October 1943)

    Private Binusi was buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 6.




    Capt. Margaret Howard Binyon .     Auxiliary Territorial Service   from Hawthorndean, Hayes, Kent

    Margaret Binyon joined the ATS prior to the outbreak of the war. Subsequently, she deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force as a passive air defence instructor, with the rank of Private. Upon her return to England, she was commissioned and spent the rest of the war based at Woolwich Arsenal. The day after V-E Day, she deployed to Germany to work for Control Commission Germany (CCG). She demobilized six months later, thereafter raising three children with her husband, whom she had met in France whilst with the BEF.




    Gnr. Frederick Binz .     British Army 2nd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (d.8th Jun 1944)

    Frederick Binz age 25 died of wounds at Roehampton Military Hospital in London. He was the son of Frederick Theodore and Margaret Binz (nee Howe) of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and was born in Jarrow

    Frederick is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. His name was missing off the old plaque in the Town Hall, his name is still missing off the new plaque.




    Dvr. Albert Birch .     British Army




    LAC. Alfred Broyden "Pop" Birch .     Royal Air Force 214 Squadron   from Manchester

    My father was Alfred Birch. He served in the Heavy Conversion Unit attached to 214 Squadron at Stradishall and Chedburgh. He was a ground crew member and was a L.A.C. He was also in some way attached to the US Army Air Corps as he told me of the horrific things he saw which had happened to the American fliers. I don't know if there are any personnel alive who remember him or if any pictures of him there exist. He was one of the oldest on the base and was given the nickname Pop because of his age.




    Wg Cdr. Arthur Montague Aubrey "Monty" Birch .     Royal Air Force 107 Squadron   from Putney, London

    (d.18th Apr 1941)

    Arthur Birch died age 29. His aircraft was shot down over Norway on the way to bomb a German installation.




    E Birch Cp.     British Army 3rd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps

    E Birch served with the 3rd Regiment Reconnaissance 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.




    EGA Birch .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

    EGA Birch 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.




    J Birch .     British Army

    J Birch 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.




    J Birch .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

    J Birch 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.




    JF Birch .     British Army

    JF Birch 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.




    Supt. John Beaufoy James Birch .     Federated Malay States Police   from Queensland, Australia

    (d.2nd Jan 1942)

    Superintendent Birch was the Son of Charles Wickham Male Birch and Margaret Katharine Birch; husband of Rose Marion Birch, of Cleveland, Queensland, Australia.

    John Beaufoy James Birch was born in January 1905 at Nikko, Japan. He died on January 2, 1942 at age 37. His family lists the cause of death as: ambushed and killed by Japanese Army.

    He is buried in the Telok Anson Catholic Cemetery in Malaysia.




    SC Birch .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

    SC Birch 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.




    SR Birch .     British Army

    SR Birch 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.




    Sgt. Tommy Birch .     RAF rear gunner 101 Sqd.




    Gdsmn. Wilfred Leonard Birch .     British Army 5th Btn. Grenadier Guards   from Birmingham

    My uncle, Wilf Birch, was 33 when he joined the Guards and fought in Italy at Anzio and Monte Camino. His two elder brothers, Albert and Jim, had been killed in WW1.




    RM Birchall .     British Army

    RM Birchall 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.




    T Birchall .     British Army

    T Birchall 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.




    Wilfred Birchall .     British Army   from Manchester

    I have a POW card sent by Wilfred Birchall to a Mr Smith at 31 Dale St, Manchester. In it he says he's "alive and kicking" having been captured by the Germans again! "Just a bit of bad luck I had"! He wishes the staff Merry Christmas so I assume he worked for Mr Smith.




    Gdsmn. Wilfred David Birchall .     British Army Grenadier Guards   from Manchester

    I can only tell you that I recently bought two postcards sent by Guardsman Wilfred Birchall to his former employers, a textile warehouse at 31 Dale Street Manchester. The first card is an Italian card dated 15th of April 1943 from Camp 82, No. 1, Sector 3200, Italy, from which I deduce that Guardsman Birchall was captured by the Italians in North Africa before the Allied invasion of Italy. The second card was dated 9th of December 1943, again to his employers in Manchester, from Stalag XVIII-C which I understand was in Markt Pongau (now St. Johann im Pongau) in Austria. Both cards say he is doing fine, but maybe he had to say that.




    WJ Birchall .     British Army

    WJ Birchall 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.




    WH Bircham .     British Army

    WH Bircham 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.




    Ernest Birchley .     Australian Army

    My father, Ernest Birchley was held in Stalag Luft 3 from March 1942 until the end of the war. Sharing his barracks were: John Lietke, Syd Wickham, Keith Thompson, Les Dixon, Justin O'Byrne, Tom Walker and others.





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