R Black . British Army Reconnaissance Corps R Black served with the 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.
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S/Sgt. Racine Black . USAAF 94th Bomber Group I just read the story on this website of the crash landing of the B-17 called Little Sir Echo in England. My uncle was Racine Black the waist gunner. My aunt Wanda Shults was married to him and she is still living in Okemah, Oklahoma. I would love to get more history on my uncle and his crew of Little Sir Echo.
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RJB Black . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RJB Black 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.
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SW Black . British Army Royal Armoured Corps SW Black 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.
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SW Black . British Army Royal Armoured Corps SW Black 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.
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F/O T. W. Black DFC.. 97 Squadron
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W Black . British Army W Black 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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W Black . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers W Black served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 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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W Black . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers W Black served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 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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Asst.Stwd. William Black . Merchant Navy S.S. Abbotsford (d.8th Mar 1940) William Black died aged 21, he was the son of Mary Gambie of Jarrow.
William is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
His name was missing off the old plaque in the Town Hall, Jarrow.
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William Crosbie Black MM, DCM, BEM.. Merchant Navy Reina Del Pacifico from Liverpool William Black was my grandfather. He was born in Ramelton in Donegal Ireland in 1880.
He was a sailor in the Mercantile Marine. He was mobilised into the Lancashire Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery on 25th of May 1915. He received a hand written duplicate letter requiring to report to the Sefton Barracks in Upper Warwick Street together with a detailed list of personal supplies and clothing to which he would receive a gratuity of £5 on reporting for duty.
He served until 12th January 1919.
He was awarded the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred War Medals, but also awarded the DCM and Military Medal. There is a Certificate for the Gallant Act he carried out to receive the Military Medal whilst serving with the Second Army.
He also received a Mercantile Marine Medal from the Board of Trade.
In WW2 he was a Quarter Master on the Reina Del Pacifico, owned by the PSNC, which was converted into troopship. He was 59 when WW2 started. He was in many theatres of the War which included the Second Battle of Tobruk and the Invasion of Sicily.
He was awarded the Africa Star with Clasp, Atlantic Star, Italy Star, Pacific Star and Burma Star.
In the Honours List announced on 9th January 1946 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service.
He ended his service on SS Orbita when his Sea Service and his War Service Certificate was issued on 29th May 1947 when he was 67.
He was a much loved father and grandfather, and died aged 82 in 1962.
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William Francis Blackadder DFC. Royal Air Force
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Pte. Sergaent Alfred Blackall . British Army 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment (d.1st Jun 1940)
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AJ Blackburn . British Army AJ Blackburn 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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AL Blackburn . British Army Highland Light Infantry AL Blackburn served with the Highland Light Infantry 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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Pte. Charles Vernon Blackburn . British Army 1st Btn. Bedford and Hertford Regiment from London Charles Blackburn served in Palestine, Crete and Burma.
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L/Stkr. Douglas Gerald Blackburn . Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm from Sleaofrd, Lincs I have just received my father Jed Blackburn's service record - he joined at HMS Royal Arthur in Skegness in October 1945 at the age of 17 and went on to serve on various ships and in the Fleet Air Arm. Like many men he was reluctant to talk about the war and his service life so details are sketchy but he remained a tar to the end of his days and died wearing a naval t-shirt. His service record ends in January 1948 - he died in his mid 80s and was fit as a flea up the end - I am entering his details purely to add his name to Royal Arthur's list so that his spirit can rest peaceful with his Navy friends where I believe he'd want to be - RIP - goodbye xx
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Pte. Edward Blackburn . British Army 12th Battalion (Yorkshire) Parachute Regiment (d.7th June 1944) Edward Blackburn served with the Parachute Regiment. He is buried in Ranville Churchyard.
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Henry Blackburn . British Army ksli2 Stalag 8b
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HG Blackburn . British Army HG Blackburn 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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J Blackburn . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment J Blackburn served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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JK Blackburn . British Army JK Blackburn 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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Joan Blackburn . Womens Land Army from Lincoln My mother Joan Blackburn was in the Women's Land Army from 1939 to 1949. She was based at Sturton-By-Stow near Scampton in Lincolnshire for a year and then on Tresco on the Scilly Isles.
My mum is now 94 but often talks about the Land Army days. She remembers riddling potatoes in the snow, and weeding onions with a bottle of cider in the bottom of the hedge to keep them going in the baking summer weather.
Tresco was an idyllic posting because of the mild weather and the beautiful sea. On Tresco the land girls had the use of a boat and a room where there was a piano, courtesy of the Dorian Smith family who owned the island. They formed a concert party and went to the other islands to give concerts.
One day they were machine gunned on the beach by a passing German plane and had to make a run for it.
Joan received her 10 year medal at Buckingham Palace and had tea at the Mansion House in London.
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JT Blackburn . British Army North Staffordshire Regiment JT Blackburn served with the North Staffordshire 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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R Blackburn . British Army Reconnaissance Corps R Blackburn served with the 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.
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Tony Blackburn . Civilian I was born in 1938 and lived on the outskirts of Liverpool throughout the war. We had an Anderson shelter in the garden and I can clearly remember being dressed in my siren suit and taken down to the shelter, hearing the sound of German aircraft and the thump of the nearby ack-ack guns taking them on.
I had all the war-time privations - no sweets - never had an orange or a banana until I was about 7 years old. Also, no chocolate. I remember helping my mother bring home the rations. I also remember children at school who we all had to pray for because they had lost their fathers, mostly in the Merchant Navy. I did the usual things, like collecting shrapnel from the ack-ack guns and seeing aircraft fuselage being transported from Liverpool docks.
We had a black American regiment stationed near us who were very kind and threw chewing gum over the school hedge to us.
I remember the celebrations of VE night and VJ night and wondered why my mother and the other women were crying.
My father was a policeman during the war and he would sometimes be able to pop in when there was a bad Liverpool blitz to see if we were OK. My parents are now both dead but I only realised in later life what they had gone through and how they must have worried for me and my brother and sister. We owe their generation a massive debt.
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Alan James Blacker . British Army 51st (Highland) Reconnaissance Regiment from Glastonbury, Somerset Alan Blacker is my father. Unfortunately, upon being deployed to Egypt he got such a sunburn on his face and hands that he was eventually shipped back home. He has ginger hair and fair skin, and was unable to adjust to the environment. I believe he was in hospital in Lebanon when El Alamein started.
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DA Blacker . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DA Blacker 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.
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Sgt. Elva Joan Blacker . Womens Auxiliary Air Force from Sutton Elva Blacker, whose service duties were in motor transport, was an artist and sketched or painted over 1000 air and ground crew at RAF Biggin Hill. Her work is owned by the RAF Museum and includes paintings of many ace pilots.
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