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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

Pte. Samuel Blank .     United States Army 228th Signal Corps   from New York, USA




Francis "Bud" Blankley .     US Navy USS Boise




DG Blanks .     British Army

DG Blanks 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.




J Blanks .     British Army

J Blanks 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.




Stok1. Percy Blanks .     Royal Navy HMS Manchester   from 84 Beaston Way, Hounslow Rd. Feltham, Middlesex

H.M.S. Manchester must have been in the U.S. port of Philadelphia, Pa. on 29 of Oct 1941. Percy Blanks and some of his shipmates signed my great aunt's autograph book. She worked with the U.S.O.




S Blanksby .     British Army

S Blanksby 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.




EH Blant .     British Army Sherwood Foresters

EH Blant 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.




PS Blant .     British Army

PS Blant 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.




L/Cpl. Jack Mortimer Blanton .     Australian Army




F/O. Howard P. Blatchford .     Royal Air Force 41 Squadron




KJ Blatchford .     British Army

KJ Blatchford 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.




Tpr. JH Blatherwick .     British Army 4th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment

Tpr.JH Blatherwick served with the 4th Battalion 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.




S/Sgt Robert Blattman .     United States Army B Battery 1st Battalion 200th Coast Artillery

My great uncle, S Sgt Robert Blattman served with B Battery 1st Battalion 200th Coast Artillery. He was one of the galiant defenders of the Philippine Islands in the opening days of World War II. After the surrender of Bataan on the 9th April 1942, Blattman would spend 3.5 years as a prisoner on war. He was transferred to Fukuoka in 1944.




GE Blaxley .     British Army 15th (S) Regiment Reconnaissance Corps

GE Blaxley served with the 15th (S) 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.




Peter K. Blay .     British Army

Peter Blay 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.




Sgt. Reginald William Blaydon DFM..     RAFVR 9 Squadron (d.1944-08-08)

Reginald Blaydon was an Air Gunner in Wellington bombers and was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk. And on the night of 11th January 1941 as part of a 6 member crew took off for a bombing mission to Turin. Aircraft WS- R1224 was forced to land near Miserieux in France and all crew were uninjured however they were all interned. Five of the grew managed to escape and eventually returned to the UK and took place in further operations.

He was promoted to Flying Officer awarded the DFM and was killed whilst flying a mission on the night of 8th of August 1944.




R Blaylock .     British Army

R Blaylock 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.




FJ Blaymires .     British Army

FJ Blaymires 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.




Cpl. William Joseph Blaymires .     Royal Marines   from Elswick Grove, Birmingham

I was told William Blaymires, who served with the Royal Marines in WW2, went in to France on D Day minus 2 and came back plus 2. He later served on many ships including the air craft carrier Indomitable. He was originally in 255 S.S. Squad at Chatham. He was in Burma and there was a long story about getting lost escorting General Slim's doctor. He was put in for a special award but it was never processed. William later became an RSM in the Canadian Armoured Corps. I have many war photos.




HJ Bleach .     British Army Hampshire Regiment

HJ Bleach served with the Hampshire 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.




R Bleaken .     British Army

R Bleaken 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.




JF Bleakley .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

JF Bleakley 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.




Pte. William "Wuggy" Bleakley .     British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders   from Glasgow

William Bleakley served with the 1st Gordon Highlanders.




Blease .     British Army Royal Signals Corps

My father was in Royal Corps of Signals during WWII with the 8th Army.




Joseph Blease .     British Army 10th Battalion Highland Light Infantry

My father, Joseph Blease, from Warrington was enlisted into the 10th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry on 18th of May 1944. He was reported missing on 30th December 1944, on the Western Front. This was reported in our local newspaper, the Warrington Guardian. I am struggling to find out what happened when he was captured by the Germans.

After the war, I think that he served in Palestine, but again can find very little detail. Dad died in 2006.




T.Mjr. H Bleazard .     British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment

T.Mjr.H Bleazard served with the Kings Liverpool 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.




Charles Bledsoe .     United States Army   from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

As Army soldier, Charles Bledsoe was being loaded into a Jeep with a gunshot wound to the abdomen nearly 70 years ago, he head someone say: "Give him his last rites."

"I looked around to see who that was getting the last rites," Bledsoe recalled, "I went, 'The hell,' It was me."

He recovered, but the April 19, 1945 wound was never recorded on his discharge papers so he hadn't received a Purple Heart. The oversight was corrected as Sen. Tim Johnson presented the 88-year-old World War II veteran with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star in Sioux Falls. He had not really pushed for the medal until about a year ago when he tried to become a member of the Sioux Falls chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.




Sgt Harold F Bleksley .     RAF. 220 SQD (d.11th Feb 1940)




Sgt. Arthur Frank Blencowe .     Royal Air Force No. 103 Squadron   from Camberwell

(d.26th Apr 1942)

Vickers Wellington Mk IC Aircraft, Reg DV579, went missing after having made a bombing mission from RAF Elsham Wold. The aircraft went down in the North Sea NW of Ameland in the Netherlands. It is possible that it was the same Wellington claimed to have been shot down by Uffz Heinz Grimm 5./NJG2 in the North Sea NW of Ameland at 03:37 on 26 April 1942. The bomber’s crew all perished and are commemorated as follows:

  • R/78203 Flt. Sgt. Charles Lorne Bray DFM RCAF, Runnymede Memorial Panel 102.
  • 1259439 Sgt. Frank O'Kearney Eivers, Runnymede Memorial Panel 82.
  • 1280517 Sgt. Sydney Harold Harle, Runnymede Memorial Panel 85.
  • 1258441 Sgt. Arthur Frank Blencowe, Runnymede Memorial Panel 78.
  • 929396 Sgt. Harry Bircham Bullen, Runnymede Memorial Panel 79.
  • 1161384 Sgt. Dennis William Musgrove, Runnymede Memorial Panel 90.




F/O. John Dawson Blencowe .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 149 Squadron   from Sevenoaks, Kent

(d.24th Feb 1944)

John Blencowe is recorded at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission his Date of Death is 24/02/1944 he was aged 29 serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 149 Sqdn. He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial and was the son of Capt. Frederick John and Ethel Helen Blencowe.





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