JJ Blackwell . British Army Royal Artillery JJ Blackwell served with the Royal Artillery 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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John Blackwell . British Army 4th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry My grandfather served in Italy, Africa and Greece during WW2 with the 4th Btn Somerset Light Infantry.
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W Blackwell . British Army Royal Armoured Corps W 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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WJ Blackwell . British Army WJ 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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Sgt James Lawson Blackwood . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 90 Sqdn from Ayr (d.2nd Dec 1943) I believe James Blackwood to be a member of my extended family and his death is commemorated on the War Memorial in Wellington Square, Ayr. However, there is no next of kin details recorded on the CWGR website. Can anyone fill in some of the obvious gaps, eg why is he buried in Esbjerg Cemetery, Denmark, does anyone have any information which might help trace close relatives? Any help, however small will be greatly appreciated.
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Tommy Sunderland Blackwood . British Army Cameron Highlanders from Crowhill Road, Bishopbriggs My dad, Tommy Blackwood, was in the 51st Division with the Cameron Highlanders during the Second World War. He was captured at Saint Valery in June 1949 he was a prisoner of war for five years Stalag 8b. That's all I know.
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Pte. William "Blackie" Blackwood . Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Sunderland, Co Durham  I can only speak on behalf of my father who would never talk much about his days in World War 2.
He served in North Africa he used to say to me he wasn't frightened of anyone he was fighting apart
from a tribe named the Fuzzy Wuzzys, he told me they scared him to death. He used to say about
the maggots that were in his cigarrettes and food and how he dreamt of his roast beef yorkshire pudding dinners.
My dad went into the army after being ill with pernicious anemia, at that time there was very little cure for it,
he eventually got well but was still weak and told that he should not join the army,
he made sure he joined to fight for his country. The sadness of all this is when he returned home
there wasn't many jobs to seek. It saddens me that I did not find out more about his days in World War 2
as I was quite young when he died. I have photographs of him with his friends in Africa but would love to hear from anyone who served there with him.
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Pte. David Bladen . South African Army Die Middelandse Regimant from Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa David Bladen enlisted in the South African Army on 16th April 1940, in the service of South Africa and the British Commonwealth of Nations. His designation was Vickers Machine Gun team member.
David served in Die Middelandse Regiment in the 2nd South African Division and saw service at Libya, North Africa. He was wounded in Bardia on 2nd of January 1942 and returned to the front in time to be taken POW at Tobruk on 21st of June 1942.
David spent six months in a POW camp at Benghazi, and was then shipped to Italy. He worked as farm labourer on an estate near Brindisi until September 1943 when he was trucked to Germany (Stalag 8A at Goerlitz). He was sent to work in a sugar factory in Schweidnitz in southern Poland for nine months. David returned to Goerlitz for six months, and then was sent to a lumber mill in the Black Forest. He returned to Goerlitz in time to start the 500-mile walk westward, ending up at Kreiensen, from which he escaped in April 1945.
He was demobilized in May 1945. He returned to England and then to South Africa.
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William George Bladen . British Army 18th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps William Bladen served with the 18th 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 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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Captain Blades . USAAF 44th Heavy Bomb Group 66th Squadron My Dad, La Verne L. Carvo, would like to know if there is anyone who has information about the armorer personnel who serviced the guns on the B24 bombers headed by Captain Blades.
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KD Blades . British Army Royal Armoured Corps KD Blades 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. Geoffrey Philip Ramsey Bladon . Royal Air Force 138 Squadron from 8 Courteney Place, Teignmouth, Devon
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J Bladon . British Army 16/5th Lancers J Bladon served with the 16/5th Lancers 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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S.Sgt. HR Blagdon . British Army Royal Tank Regiment S.Sgt.HR Blagdon 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 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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A Blagg . British Army A Blagg 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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W Blaikie . British Army W Blaikie 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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Arthur Frederick Blain . British Army Parachute Regiment My Uncle Arthur Blain served in the 1st British Airborne Division and was captured in the town of Arnhem in September 1944. He was kept at the Stalag 9C, Mulhausen camp.
At some point during the battle he was sent to find help as his group was cut off in the town. He took cover behind a rock and had his big toe shot off.
He went back to Arnhem for the 50th anniversary.
Many years after the war, when we were growing up, he would tell my sisters he lost his big toe in the strawberry patch and they would look for hours in the garden for his toe.
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L. Blain . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd. L. Blain was a flight engineer with 419 Squadron
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WA Blain . British Army WA Blain 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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AEJ Blair . British Army AEJ Blair 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/Cpl. Alexander Youngson Blair . British Army
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Flight Lieutenant C E Blair DFC. RCAF 59 Squadron
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F/O. Pilot Ernest Anthony Blair . New Zealand Air Force No. 172 Squadron, RAF from Bayswater, Auckland, New Zealand (d.13th Apr 1942) A memorial to five air crew of a Wellington bomber was discovered by my son and family during a cliff walk in Devon. A keen family historian, I was determined to find out about "these boys", and so the journey began. All five names have been submitted to your website and they are all buried in the Heaton Punchard (St. Augustine) Churchyard, Devon. Four are side by side, and one a row behind. Their plane crashed at the base of the cliffs where their memorial was erected in 1988. The crash happened on the 13th April 1942, and as I understand it the 172 Squadron RAF was only formed on the 4th April 1942. These are the five: Ernest Blair was from New Zealand; Hamar Russ was Canadian; and Charles Daniel, Frederick Le Bon and Leslie Noble were British. We hope to visit their graves, now that we know where they are. R.I.P.
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J Blair . British Army J Blair 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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JA Blair . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JA Blair 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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Pte. Jack Blair . British Army Seaforth Highlanders from Port Glasgow My Uncle Jack Blair was a private in the Seaforth Highlanders. He served in France in 1939 and was fortunate enough to be evacuated at Dunkirk where he had taken shrapnel which was never removed from his body. A good friend Don was captured by the Germans and Jack later found out that Don had taken his own life on route to internment at a POW camp.
Jack also served in the North African campaign possibly present and fought at El Alamein and also served in Italy where he fought at Monte Cassino. He remembered crouching in his foxhole at night on many occasions feeling his helmet being touched by a hand followed by a grinning Gurkha smiling at him brandishing a Kukri saying 'you ok tommy sleep well' before they crawled off into the night in search of an enemy helmet.
Jack never spoke about his wartime experiences to his family but told me one evening when I was around 16 a matter of months before he passed away in 1979.
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Major James W Blair . British Army Seaforth Highlanders
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JK Blair . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JK Blair 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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P Blair . British Army P Blair 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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