J Blacker . British Army J Blacker 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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Cpl. Leslie Blacker . British Army 5th Btn. Black Watch from Barnsley (d.18th Mar 1943)
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W Blacker . British Army Highland Light Infantry W Blacker 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 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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Dorothy Blackett . Munitions Work from Aycliffe My great great nanna, Dorothy Blackett was one of the Aycliffe Angels. She made bombs in Newton Aycliffe in WW2 and they were known to Hitler as the Aycliffe Angels. We are very proud of this.
She was also a land girl in Gloucestershire, on a farm, milking the cows, threshing the corn and many more farm duties. She loved ballroom dancing, loved her family and loved baking, knitting, painting and drawing.
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TW Blackett . British Army TW Blackett 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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Pte. Walter Blackett . British Army 2nd Btn. South Wales Borderers (d.8th June 1944) Walter Blackett served with the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers in WW2. He was killed at Sully Chateau on the 8th of June 1944 aged 19 years. According to his mate, Bill Evans, Walter was executed with ten of his comrades on the lawn in front of the Chateau.
He is buried Bayeaux War Cemetery in France. Son of Mrs E. Blackett of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.
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J Blackford . British Army J Blackford 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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L Blackie . British Army L Blackie 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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David Blacklaw . British Army from 32 Ruthrieston Circle Aberdeen I think my father, David Blacklaw who died in 1958, was captured at St Valery and ended up in a POW camp in Poland. He was route marched from there at the end of the war as the Russians approached in 1945. I would like to find out more about his and others' experiences.
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Lt. George Blackler OBE. Royal Navy from Saltash
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Pte. Harry James Blackman . British Army 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers from Abertillary Harry James Blackman - my father - served in Norway 1940 and then in North Africa where he became a POW. Sent to POW camp in Italy (Cressina near Bari) then onto a POW camp in Germany (Stalag 142).
Married after war to my mother - Ada- and had two sons Harry and Peter (me).
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Pte. Harry James Blackman . British Army 1st Btn. South Wales Borderers from Abertillary
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KWA Blackman . British Army Royal Armoured Corps KWA Blackman 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 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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Leonard Blackman . Royal Navy HMS Manchester
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Gnr. W. L. Blackman . Trinidad Volunteers (d.16th November 1942) Gunner Blackman is remembered on the Special Memorial in the Westbury Cemetery, St. Michael, Barbados
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Pte. Frank Blackmore . British Army 5th Btn. Blackwatch from Moston, Manchester (d.7th April 1943 ) Frank Blackmore was born on July 1913 in Moston, Manchester, Lancashire to Frank Ernest and Harriet Alice Blackmore (nee Shirley).
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Pte. James Henry Blackmore . New Zealand Army 2nd NZ Division from New Zealand James Blackmore was captured during the Battle of Crete.
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RA Blackmore . British Army RA Blackmore 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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Flt.Sgt. Winston Woolley Blackmore . Royal Canadian Air Force No. 428 Squadron from Cardston, Alberta, Canada (d.18th Aug 1943) Winston Blackmore was the pilot of aircraft DK238, which was lost on the morning of 18th of August 1943 as part of the raid on the German rocket development site at Peenemuende. His Halifax bomber crashed near Barth, Germany. Sergeant Blackmore and his flight engineer, F.S. Williams, maintained the damaged aircraft while the remainder of the crew bailed out. Blackmore and Williams were both killed in the crash. The remaining five servicemen (F/Sgt. N.F. Oliver, F/Sgt. W.S.E Wood, Sgt. J.J.P.R Richard, Sgt. G.F. Hodson, and Sgt. R.G. Seaborn) successfully escaped the aircraft and were taken prisoner by the Germans.
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EC Blacknell . British Army EC Blacknell 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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D Blackshaw . British Army Sherwood Foresters D Blackshaw served with the Sherwood Foresters 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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Chief Fire Officer Dennis Healy "Blacky" Blackshaw . Royal Air Force I had a grandad,who passed away 10 years ago, who was based at Catterick during 1946, I think thats what he told me.
He was chief fire officer, nickname Blacky. I`m his grandson who misses him everyday. I used to hear his stories about the RAF & just wondered if there`s anyone out there who knew him or got any pics that I could have. Please, I miss him so much. His name was Dennis Blackshaw, lived near Cromer in Norfolk. He had three daughters, Mags, Dianne, Christine & his wife was Ruby.
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E Blackshaw . British Army East Lancashire Regiment E Blackshaw served with the East Lancashire 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 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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G Blackshaw . British Army G Blackshaw 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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Gnr. John Blackshaw . British Army Royal Artillery I found an old photo which my grandmother sent to my grandfather, John Blackshaw when he was in a Prisoner of War camp. It is also stamped as Geprueft, on the back so must have reached him.
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N Blackshaw . British Army Royal Armoured Corps N Blackshaw 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 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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Aaron A "Buster" Blackwelder . United States Navy USS Boise CL-47 from Rock Hill, SC My grandfather was Buster Blackwelder and along with two of his brothers, Brent and Otto, served on the USS Boise from mid-1941 before the war through 1942 when the Boise returned to Philadelphia Navy Yard for repairs after the Battle of Cape Esperance. "Buster" was my grandfather's nickname, but when he enlisted that was the name he gave. Years later when he joined the Reserves he updated his records to show his "real" name which is Aaron A. Blackwelder. The Boise took my grandfather all over the world before and during the war with stops in many exotic locales. He had a large world coin collection that he put together that eventually made its way into my hands. Many countries from his travels are represented in these coins!
During the war the men were not supposed to keep diaries in the event that
Japanese got their hands on them and learned something from the information. Somehow my grandfather found a way to keep a journal which is now in my possession. His first entry was a few weeks before the war, dated 18 November 1941, and he wrote that the Boise was escorting merchant ships to Manila in the Philippines. This was almost 3 weeks before the Japanese attack on Pearl. It appears that he wasn't keeping the diary every day and probably went back to add or edit information days after it really happened because some of the dates and events don't line up exactly with the official records of the Boise. Regardless, his short entries, when he decided to note something, are to me an interesting view of how a typical seaman saw world changing events happening around him. He notes things like spotting Japanese subs at night, meeting up with other ships to
patrol, spotting and chasing enemy ships, Christmas dinner while stuck aboard ship and docked at Surabaya, and the fall of Corregidor, Many other entries repeated several times the boredom of waiting to leave port or simply steaming to another assignment. Most entries are a terse 2 or 3 lines in length. The importance of the Battle of Cape Esperance in comparison to all other events prior to October 1942 are revealed in the page and a half he gives the afternoon of Oct. 10 leading up to the battle and the battle itself which happened just after midnight on Oct. 11.
For days after the battle he wrote that they kept finding and removing bodies and parts of bodies from the turrets that had been blown up in the battle. My grandfather loved talking about the Navy (he stayed in the Reserves until 1979), but I don't recall him ever talking about that experience although my grandmother told me once that he had told her of the overpowering smell of those bodies as they slowly rotted in the tropical heat before they could be removed from the damaged areas. He lost his best friend in one of those turrets so I can't imagine that made the labor of repair and body retrieval any easier. The last entry of my grandfather's journal was the day the Boise finally arrived in Philadelphia --19 Nov 1942-- which was a year and a day after he started his diary. While his brothers Brent and Otto stayed aboard the Boise for the duration of the war my grandfather was transferred to another ship. His future wife, my grandmother, traveled to Philadelphia and they spent some time
sightseeing there and in Boston before my grandfather was eventually transferred to his new ship that patrolled the North Atlantic based out of Canada. Later, he would be transferred to another ship before the war ended. It wasn't until after his death in 1989 that I even knew my grandfather had served on a ship other than the Boise because the Boise was all he ever talked about. He loved that ship and attended a number of reunions (if not all of them) before his death in 1989 in Rock Hill, SC.
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A Blackwell . British Army Royal Armoured Corps A Blackwell 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 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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Sgt. Donald E. Blackwell . British Army 5th Btn. Essex Regiment (d.15th Apr 1944) Donald Blackwell was my grandfather's brother. He is buried in the regimental cemetery in Bari.
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DR Blackwell . British Army DR Blackwell 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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