Luther Carr . US Navy USS Boise My friend was a crew-member of the USS Boise. His name is Luther Carr. He is a great man and father but lost all photos and memorabilia of his days on the USS. Boise to a house fire in the 70's. if anyone might happen to remember this man or have a photo of him aboard the Boise, Please reply. Thank you for your help.
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Margaret Ann Carr . Munitions Worker ROF Aycliffe from Wheatley Hill My Great Grandmother Margaret Ann Carr was an Aycliffe Angel
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Margaret Allan Hay Carr . Womens Auxilliary Air Force from Aberdeen Margaret Brown (nee Carr) served in the WAAF.
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RSM. Matthew Robert Carr . British Army Welch Fusiliers My grandad served with the Welsh Fusiliers between 1930/31 and 1957/58. He was at El Alamein, and Ceylon for the handover. I am led to believe he was the RSM, but I'm not certain. He served with the Welsh Fusiliers for 27 years in the artillery. Can anyone give me more information?
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Norman Frederick "Bunny" Carr . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers I don't know much about my grandfather's time in North Africa and Italy. His naem was Norman Carr, he was injured, shot in the leg. He was a mechanic by trade and as far as I know spent the majotity of his time repairing tanks etc. He was a good artist and left me his wartime sketchbook.
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Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Richard Carr . RAF No. 10 Radio School (d.25th April 1944) AC2 Ronald Richard Carr is buried at Morval (St Wenna) Church Cemetery.
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L/Bdr. Samuel Cooper Carr . British Army Royal Artillery from Houghton Avenue, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire Samuel Carr served with a Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, RA.
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Flt.Sgt Wilfred Gordon Carr . Royal Air Force 115 Squadron from Newcastle upon Tyne (d.4th April 1945) On 4th of April 1945, Lancaster HK555 of 115 Squadron, was on a mission to bomb synthetic fuel plant near Luneberg. The Lancaster collided with NA533 near Griefenthal, Germany. All eight crew of HK555, including Wilfred Carr died.
After the war their remains were reburied in Rheinberg War Cemetary.
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Able Sea. William Carr . Royal Navy HMS Somali from Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d.24th September 1942)
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T. R.T. Carr-Ellison . Royal Air Force
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Sgt. Robert Carr-Lewty . Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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Sgt. Robert Carr-Lewty . Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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F/Sgt. Patrick Charles James Eustace "Jock" Carragher . Royal Air Force from Arbroath My father Patrick Carragher was stationed at Padgate from 1938, and was in charge of the Physical Training wing at RAF Padgate.
He used to run amateur boxing matches on the camp. One night he had Jack London, Tommy Farr, and Peter Kayne as guests.
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Cpl. Harry John Carran . British Army 1st Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps from London (d.30th Apr 1943) I have only just come into possession of a number of letters written by a Lieut.J Millbourn and Capt. J.B. Cunningham to my aunt informing her of my uncle Harry Curran's death and I was impressed by the humanity and barely concealed sadness and exhaustion behind the words. Our family had not been aware of how and where he had died as he had married shortly before his death and we have no knowledge of what happened to his wife. However, I like so may of my generation, am immensely proud of my uncle and the part he played in the war and I want people to remember him
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Sig Gerald Douglas Carre . British Army No 1 Security Bay Royal Signal Corps from Worthing, Sussex
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Sgt. P. Carreau . 102 Squadron
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Capt. Michael Howard Carrick MC.. British Army 121st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery from Brunstock, Carlisle (d.27th June 1944) Michael Carrick served with the 121st Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. I know nothing about this gentleman other than I am in possession of his military medals which include his MC awarded for his service in North Africa in 1942. Any further information will be very welcome. He died during the Normandy campaign during Operation Epsom.
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Norrie Wylie Carrick . Norrie Wylie Carrick was a POW at Oflag IX Rotenburg/Spangenberg. Any info on these camps would be appreciated.
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W Carrick . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers W Carrick 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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Gnr. George Thomas Carrier . British Army Royal Artillery from Dartford George Carrier was with British Expeditionary Force in the battle of France. He was captured in St Valery after the evacuations at Dunkirk and transported to a POW camp in Poland, Stalag XXA as Prisoner number 17596. He did not return home until late 1946
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W/O. William John Carrier . Royal Australian Air Force 630 Squadron from Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia (d.27th Aug 1944) Warrant Officer Carrier was the son of George Ernest and Ada Elizabeth Carrier of Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia.
He was aged 21 when he died and is buried in a collective grave in the Skarrild Churchyard in Denmark.
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Sgt. Wayne Carringer . United States Army Air Corps HQ Sqn. 27th Bomber Group. V Bomber Command. from Robbinsville, N.C Wayne Carringer, Sergeant 6972776, served with the 27th Bomber Group, HQ Squadron, V Bomber Command, US Army Air Corps. He was captured and imprisoned at the POW Camp Fukuoka 17, Japan.
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P/O. Edgell Ralph "Carry" Carrington . Royal Air Force 78 Squadron from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad My Uncle Edgell Carrington was shot down in 1942 early in the war and hardly had time to know his crew. He had just finished induction. He was flying a Halifax Mark-2,JD330 to Essen on his very first mission and got shot down over Duisberg. The plane was on fire and Edgell bailed out hurting his leg on getting free of the cockpit. Only two others survived. He was upset about the loss of so many men when he was the pilot, probably had terrible guilt feelings. He was in his 30s and older than many men flying. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of the Germans. His POW no was L3 Camp 1810.
The young Luftwaffe officer that was in charge of them had met my uncle before the war in Trinidad, my uncle's home and birthplace. He had been in Bomber Command 4 Group with 78 Squadron at Middleton St. George, Durham from 10th of June 1942 and then went to Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire on 16th of September 1942
Edgell ended up in Stalag Luft 3 with other RAF officers and one of my cousins, Francis Carrington, recounts some of his dad's stories.
One day in the camp (Stalag Luft 3) one of the English prisoners sat down on the concrete that bordered the huts and it was the middle of winter. A young German guard came and gestured for him to get up. He just shrugged his shoulders to let the guard know that he should piss off. But the guard would not let it go. He started shouting in German. The prisoner continued to ignore him. Eventually the guard pointed his rifle at the prisoner. So this time the prisoner gave in and got up. But that became an incident because now the English felt they were being persecuted with a gun pointing at them just for sitting down. So grumbling started in the camp until some prisoner who understood a bit of German figured out what had happened. It turned out that the Germans knew only too well that if you sit on concrete in the middle of a German winter you get haemorrhoids because the blood flows to the area upon which you are sitting in an attempt to keep things warm. The German guards were used to being outdoors so they knew things like that. But the English were middle-class officers who were only used to (milder) English winters and did not have rural parents to pass down folksy information like that. So the guard felt it his duty to do the right thing and got so frustrated by his failure to communicate that he resorted to the only convincing argument he had - his rifle.
Dad said Stalag Luft 3 was really an officers camp so they were treated better than camps with enlisted men. His job with the tunnels was to be a lookout, he absolutely refused to go in any of them because he was convinced they would cave in. The camp was divided into two sections, one for Russians and one for everybody else. There was a fence between the two sections so the non-Russians could see the Russians through the fence, but there was no contact. The Germans hated the Russians because Germany was losing the war on the Russian front. They shot them quite frequently, by firing squad, for various transgressions of camp rules, but they did not treat non-Russians like that.
 Dad stated quite clearly that it was the Russians who won the war, it was their victory and nobody else's. When the Russians invaded Germany Hitler sent out the command that all prisoners of war were to be shot and Dad knew about it, or at least strongly suspected it. The German guards mulled over whether to carry out the order for a few days. Then they realised it was hopeless because the Russian army would soon be there and they would be killed for the crime. So they decided to take all the prisoners and try to march them as far as they could, away from the advancing Russians. When Dad found out he did what he considered his single bravest act of the 18 months he spent in Stalag Luft 3. He grabbed some photographs when the Germans weren't looking and stuffed them into the pocket of his RAF great coat. His idea was that the world did not know what war crimes the Germans were committing and he would risk his life to bring evidence taken straight from German files. Of course he had no idea about the concentration camps full of German Jewish civilians and what Hitler was doing to his own citizens. It turned out that, of the handful of photographs he grabbed, only one was of any value - it was of a Russian soldier being executed by firing squad. He let me look at the photographs and it was rather less impressive than it sounds. The Russian was blindfolded and facing the wall away from his executioners. He was just calmly standing there alone with his hands tied behind his back. The few Germans that formed the firing squad had not yet been given the order to raise their rifles so they were just standing around looking like they were waiting for a bus. At least that's the way I remember it. The other photographs were mostly wire fences and mud, no close-ups, no interior photographs, nothing interesting enough for me to remember. 
All these photographs were taken by German guards as part of required record-keeping procedures and they were kept in the files of the camp office. Dad said his great coat saved his life, because they were marching in winter. In the camp their diet had been mostly soup made with rotten turnips. I am not sure what they were able to eat on the march, but I remember Dad saying that everybody stuffed their pockets with as much stale German black bread as they could because they weren't convinced they would get anything to eat at all. 
He said the German guards were mostly too young or too old to fight on the Russian front so they were mostly the rejects of the German army. Even the soldier who arrested him the night he parachuted out of his bisected plane was just a teenager and was more scared than Dad was.
If anybody has stories of Edgell I would love to read them.
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Midship. J B Carrington . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria (d.26th Feb 1942)
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Midshipman J. B. Carrington . Royal Navy HMS Nelson (d.26th Feb 1942)
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Sgt. Walter Carrington . British Army 77th (Highland) Field Regiment Royal Artillery from 41 Abbey Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire My father Walter Carrington served in North Africa, at El Alamein I believe, then into Italy and eventually Greece, where I think he was wounded by a piece of shrapnel from a grenade thrown by a woman. My parents separated in 1954 or 1955. With my mother, he had 5 children including triplet boys born in 1950.
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Pvt. Raymond Gonzales Carrizales . United States Army Sternberg General Hospital, Manila. Medical Corps from Richland, Texas Raymond Gonzales Callizales, Private (Medic.)18043889, US Army Medical Corps. Unit served at was the Medical Department, Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, Phillipines. He was captured and survived the Oryoku Maru Hell Ship following which he was interned at the POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan.
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A. Carroll . Canadian Army Governor General's Horse Guards from Canada I am trying to trace a Canadian soldier named A. Carroll who was with the Governor General's Horse Guards from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and the Netherlands. Please contact me if you know something.
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A. Carroll . Canadian Army Governor General's Horse Guards A. Carroll served with the Governor General's Horse Guards from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and the Netherlands.
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Pte. Albert William Victor Carroll . British Army 1st Btn. Oxford & Buckinghshire Light Infantry from Brentwood, Essex (d.17th July 1944)
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