H Boardman . British Army 13th Btn. Parachute Regiment H Boardman served with the 13th Btn. Parachute 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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Pte. Herbert Boardman . British Army Durham Light Inf from St.Helens, Lancs (d.1942)
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M Boardman . British Army M Boardman 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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CR Boast . British Army Royal Army Service Corps CR Boast served with the Royal Army Service 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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Kapral Boleslaw Alyois "Bolek" Bobrowski . Polish Army Ploch 8th Infantry Regiment from Chorosza Jel, Poland When I was little, I clamored over my dad, Bolek Bobrowski while he was on the couch, reading the paper. I noticed a little scar on the back of his neck, just off to the side of his spine. It wasn't very large, maybe 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch. It was the first time I had ever noticed it. I asked him where he got it from. His reply has stuck with me always.
"The Nazis. While I escape."
I never asked any again. Many years after his death, I began to put together the pieces of his time in both the Polish Army and the Polish 2nd Corps. It was there I found that he had been captured at the end of September, 1939 by the Germans, sent to Stalag 1A, and then sent onto Stalag 1B, and .... escaped.
He was later discovered by the Soviets and imprisoned in a Siberian Gulag in Komi.
I understand it was a good thing he escaped from 1B, as many didn't survive there too long.
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Primo Boccaleoni . Royal Italian Army Battalion Val Chiese 6th Regiment Alpini from Serramazzoni (Modena), Italy My great-grandfather, Primo Boccaleoni, was a simple soldier during WW2. He was sent to Russia with the Italian mountain troops (called Alpini), from July 1942 to February 1943. His battalion Val Chiese received, after the war, the Gold medal of military valor the highest military decoration in Italy.
When he returned from Russia he spent some time in a military hospital then he was captured by the Nazis in Vipiteno (Bolzano, Italy) 9 September 1943 (the day after the Armistice of Cassibile). He remained in Hoheinstein Stalag IB from 17 September 1943 to 10 September 1944, then he was sent to another stalag, whose name I don't know. He was released on May 1945 and he returned back to Italy.
When I was a child he told me about Russia... but not a word about the lager. Only after his death in 2009 I discovered documents concerning his internment.
I would like to talk with children or grandchildren of other ex-internees about Hohenstein.
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Pte. Joseph N. Bocchino . United States Army 1st Btn. Coy A. 143rd Infantry Regiment from Poughkeepsie, NY My father, Joseph Bocchino, was captured in Italy in January 1944 at the Rapido river crossing. He was transferred to Stalag 2B shortly thereafter. He spent 13 months there working on commando Stolp in the fields. In February 1945 they were removed from Stalag 2B and marched to Munich where they were liberated in April 1945.
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F/Sgt. Angelo Joseph "Boccy" Boccinfuso . Royal Canadian Air Force 103 Squadron RAF from Ormond Street, South, Thorold, Ontario, Canada Angelo Boccinfuso enlisted on the 22nd of September 1943, he was discharged on the 20th of February 1946.
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Sgt. August Wilhelm F. Bochardt . Dutch Army from Holland
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Flt.Sgt. Earl William Bock . Royal Canadian Air Force 626 Squadron from Echo Bay, Ontario (d.22nd Oct 1944) Flight Sergeant Earl William Bock served as a Lancaster rear gunner with 626 Squadron. He died age 21, when his severely damaged Lancaster barely made it back to England, and crashed on return.
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Hugo J. Bock . USAAF My grandfather, Hugo J Bock, was a POW in Stalag 9c after he was shot down in 1944.
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S/Sgt. Norbert H. "Bock" Bockerstette . U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, HQ Co., Ani-Tank  Platoon 84th Div. 334th Inf. Regt. from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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S/Ldr. Eric P.W. Bocock DFC. Royal Air Force 234 Sqn
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Sgt. David Boddy . Royal Air Force 102 Squadron (d.3rd June 1942) Sgt David Boddy Airforce no.1378930 was my uncle. He served in 102 squadron as a rear gunner and was based at RAF Topcliffe during 1942. He lost his life on 3rd June 1942 whilst returning from an operation in Germany, his plane crashing into the North Sea.
I would appreciate any information about my uncle’s service in the RAF including what type of bomber he flew in – Halifax or Whitley.
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E Boddy . British Army E Boddy 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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JF Boddy . British Army York and Lancaster Regiment JF Boddy served with the York and Lancaster 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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Mary Boddy . WAAF 106 Sqd. My Aunt Mary Boddy and my mother Winifred Boddy, as they were then known, were attached to 106 Sqd, my father Flt Lt John O'Leary flew with 106 Sqd.
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Winifred Boddy . WAAF 106 Sqd. Mother Winifred Boddy and her sister Mary Boddy, as they were then know were attached to 106 Sqd, my father Flt Lt John O'Leary flew with 106 Sqd.
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AB Desmond Arthur Edward Bodel . Royal Navy HMS Solent from Portsmouth, Hampshire Den Bodel worked as an Oxy Acetelyne Burner.
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Pte. Edward Stanley "Blondie" Boden . British Army Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Fascinating and moving to read accounts from ex-POW's in Stalag VII-A Moosburg. My dad, Stan Boden (known as "Blondie") must have been in that same camp. He never told me its name and, like so many men, would rarely talk about those times. Today, they'd be diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but for them, as soon as they were shipped home, it was back to the regiment to prepare for the Far East! No help whatsoever! Yet he'd been through Dunkirk, the Middle East, North Africa, Italian POW camp and spent six months on the run in the Italian mountains before being sent to Germany.
I've deduced that Stalag VII Moosburg was his camp from his stories of going into Munich to work on bomb-damaged buildings after air-raids. When he was captured he was asked what his civilian job had been. He answered, "Dressler Placer" - he loaded tiles onto the trucks that went into the kilns for firing (it was a tile-making company). The Germans took this to mean he was a tiler - on roofs! Consequently, he was considered useful on bomb-damaged buildings!
After the war, like others, he kept in touch with at least one of the Germans he'd worked with and vouched for him when the man wanted to emigrate to Canada. Dad had a standing invitation to take his family on a visit but we couldn't afford to do so in the years after the war and then contact was lost.
Would Dad have enjoyed reading these accounts? Maybe, maybe not. So hard to know.
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RR Boden . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RR Boden 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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Dvr. Stanley Walter Boden . British Army 229 Coy Royal Army Service Corps from Fulham My father, Stanley Walter Boden, was born on the 7th August 1923, to Walter William Boden and Lillian Kate Boden (nee Iggulden). Dad had three brothers, Cyril, Fred and Henry.
Stanley Walter Boden joined the army on the 18th February 1943 at the age of 19 years and 7 months, (having already served in the Home Guard) and after having been transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps (R.A.S.C) reported to number 2 training battalion at Heckfield, Maidstone on the 31st March 1943 with the rank of private and was immediately given the rank of driver and his service number was prefixed “T”.
His next posting was to 229 Company R.A.S.C. on the 12th April 1943. Dad seems to have led a rather un-eventful life until 29th January 1944 when he was awarded 10 days F.P (Field Punishment) by the Commanding officer for refusing to obey an order and using obscene language to an NCO.
229 Coy RASC moved to Southgate House, Clowne, Derbyshire which was a Small country house owned by the Bowden family. It would appear that this is where he met my mother Iris as she lived in the village of Balborough which is a couple of miles away.
On the 1st May 1944 at 04:00hrs, the company moved from Southgate House, to Surrenden Dering in Kent, (Surrenden Dering was a manor house, located in Pluckley, Kent) having staged overnight in Stevenage where they arrived at 16:00hrs on the 1st May. Leaving Stevenage at 10:00hrs on the 2nd May they arrived at Surrenden Dering at 18:00hrs.
From the 2nd May 1944 until the 11th May 1944 the company, under the command of Major H Shaw appears to have just waited for embarkation to North West Europe. On the 23rd May 1944 at 10:00hrs, the company embarked on a signals exercise called “Slasher” which concluded on the 24th May at 10:00hrs. On the 25th May 1944 at 10:00hrs the company commenced on signals exercise “Ramsey” which ended on the same day at 19:00hrs and the following day at 10:00hrs took part in signals exercise “Heinrich” which ended at 19:00hrs.
On the 30thMay 1944, 6 officers and 125 other ranks attended a “Service before battle” in Canterbury Cathedral. Coincidentally I believe that my Grandfather, Dad's dad, also attended a Service before battle at Canterbury Cathedral in August 1914 before going the France with the 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers.
On the 16th July 1944 the company moved to the marshalling area in London, arriving at 08:15 hrs. and 2 OR’s were dispatched to hospital. On the 17th July at 07:00hrs half of the company embarked from the London docks and on the following day the remainder of the company embarked and the arrived at Arromanches on the 21st July, half of the company disembarking at “Gold Beach” and a detachment took up positions at Sommervieu, which is 13.5 Km (9 miles) from Cully where the mystery photo was taken and I think adds weight to mum's claim.
On the 23rd July the remainder of the company disembarked on Juno Beach. On the 24th July the remaining elements of the company arrived and on the 28th July moved location to Cahagnolles, arriving on the 29th July 1944. On the 30th July the company reached Les Mesnil where it set up forward ammunition and petrol point and 1 OR was wounded and evacuated to 34 CCS (Casualty Clearing Station).
On the 1st August the forward ammunition and petrol point which was near Caumont was shelled with 1 OR wounded and on the 4th August the Coy moved to St. Martin des Besaces to set up an ammunition and petrol point, and on the 9th August Dvr W Price was declared a deserter. By the 11th August the company had moved to Tinchebray where it absorbed the rear point on route and one OR was admitted to 11 light field ambulance. On the 20th August the company moved forward to a location given as 724287 where a detachment was sent to Beny Bocage to assist in forming the Falaise cushion.
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GM Bodey . British Army 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars GM Bodey served with the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars 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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F/O Robert Bodie . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Israel Lejb Bodkier . French Army My father, Israel Lejb Bodkier, was taken prisoner in Sedan in 1939 till 1945.
He was a medical doctor, he caught Typhus during the treatment of Russian prisoners.
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F/O. William Fred Bodkin . Royal Canadian Air Force 41 Squadron (d.28th Aug 1941)
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Able Seaman Dennis George Bodman . Royal Navy MTB681 from London
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Sig. Edward Stanley "Lofty" Bodman . Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire
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Tpr. E Bodsworth . British Army 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Tpr.E Bodsworth served with the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 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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