Jean Marcel ClavÃ? . French Army from France My grandfather Jean Marcel Clavé was a prisoner of war in Stalag 13B.
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Bmdr. George Henry Claw . British Army Royal Artillery from Surrey My Great Grandfather was called George Henry Claw and he was a prisoner of war at the Stalag XXb camp. He survived the war and died in 1972. I don't know much about his time there as he died before I was born but I am told that he refused his medals and became a pacifist. So if anyone has any information on him, I would be very grateful.
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Gnr. Cecil Arthur Claxton . British Army 1st Regiment Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment from Rotherham
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PFC. Oscar Truman Claxton . US Army 334th Infantry Regiment from Cobden, IL (d.3rd Mar 1945) The only photo that is known of my grandfather, Oscar Truman Claxton. Very little is known about him. My Grandmother and Truman were just married within one year when he was killed during WW2 in Baal, Germany. My Grandmother always say that I am spitting image of Truman Claxton. I wished for nothing more in this world than that I could have had a chance to get to know him.
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C Clay . British Army Royal Armoured Corps C Clay 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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Spr. Eric Victor Clay . British Army 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers from Sleaford, Lincs. (d.18th June 1944) Eric Clay is my uncle. With his wife Enid they had one son Eric James Clay born May 1942. As far as I know, Eric Victor landed on Juno beach in the second wave. We believe he was killed by a land mine at Bernieres Sur Mer. He is buried in Bayeux Cemetary. He had one older brother, three younger brothers and one sister. All the brothers served in various army regiments. I don't have any further information about his military service.
The 262nd (Sussex) Field Company, Royal Engineers were engaged on beach obstacle clearance with the 3rd Canadian Division.
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Pte. Leo William Clay . Australian Army
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A Claybrough . British Army A Claybrough 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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PFC. William Conrad Claycomb . United States Army 45th Infantry Regiment from Kentucky My father William Claycomb was a POW at Stalag 7a, near Moosburg from Sept 14 1944 to May 1945.
He just passed away at the age of 92, and of course many stories abound from his service.
One especially that he was able to work on a farm for a while where the Germans got their produce from. One day this old WW1 soldier, who lived there, took him back to the camp. As they reached his gate my father noticed the latch was broken and he offered to fix it. The old man said nah, nah and handed Dad his rifle while he climbed over the fence and Dad gave it back to him so he could get over fence too. Ha! Dad knew the old gun didn't shoot. But he didn't let the old man know. He couldn't run because of an injury so it was no use trying.
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CPO. John Frederick Clayden . Royal Navy HMS Indomitable from Gosport John Clayden was my grandfather. He served as a shipwright from 1937 to 1946. I hope to find out much more if I can. His ships were, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Torquay, HMS Invincible, HMS Eagle
and HMS Indomitable.
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Pte. Frank Claydon . British Army
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Pte. George Frederick Claydon . Royal Air Force from Romford My grandfather George Claydon volunteered for the 1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment, Territorial Force on 9th of February 1914 and served throughout WW1 in the Essex Regiment.
Towards the end of the war he was in Palestine and Egypt and transferred on 15th of May 1918 to the Royal Air Force with the Egypt Expeditionary Force near Cairo at Abbassia.
He spent most of the next 20 years in the RAF and went back on active service at the start of WW2 with the rank of Warrant Officer. He appears to have been evacuated from France on 2nd of June 1940.
He was Gazetted MBE on 11th of July 1940 for Distinguished services rendered in recent operations, but always told my mother it was for organising sports and social events at RAF camps!
He has, I imagine, the pretty rare distinction of having been at Gallipoli and Dunkirk.
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Sgt. Alan Harvey Clayton . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 150 Squadron (d.15th November 1942) John Duncan was my uncle and came from Aberdeenshire. Like many of their generation the tragedy was seldom referred to by his brother and sisters. He had left after home leave and on returning to his base must have gone straight out on his final mission almost immediately if not that day. The period was so short the family initially thought he had been killed on his way back to his base. Apparently during a visit to the cemetery in 1947, they were advised that the plane had been blown up in the air while on route to bomb submarine pens. The following is a list of the bomber crew from 150 Squadron who were shot down on 15th of November 1942 and are interred at Dinard Cemetery: - Alan Harvey Clayton, Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 1376606
- John George Duncan Sergeant (Obs.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 21 1346350
- Francis Ferguson Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 1370437.
- Hugh Laurence John Mackender, Flight Sergeant (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 25. 924909
- John James Perry Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 150 Sqdn. Age 27. 1261701
- Vivien James Wotton Pilot Officer (Bomb Aimer) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 20, 126963.
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Pte. Albert Edward Clayton . British Army 8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment from Flitwick, Bedfordshire (d.28th Feb 1942) My Great Uncle Albert Clayton enlisted into the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment before the outbreak of the war.
When war broke out he joined the 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was sent to France as part of the Expeditionary Force.
He was captured at Dunkirk and spent the next 2 years in a POW camp in Poland.
I think it may have been Stalag XXA at Torun, but this has not yet been confirmed.
He died of TB on 28th of February 1942 and is buried at Malborg Cemetery in Poland.
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E. Clayton . Auxiliary Fire Service Horsham
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2nd Ofcr. Edward Boniface Clayton . US Merchant Marines from New Jersey My father Edward Clayton sailed on the American Manufacturer on two occasions during WWII: 10th to 14th of January 1942 and 19th of February to 16th of June 1942.
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Sergeant F Clayton . RAF 59 Squadron
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FG Clayton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps FG Clayton 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. Frederick George Clayton . British Army Royal Signals from Wembley Frederick George Clayton was a Special Radio operator.
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Harry Clayton . British Army West Surrey (Queens Royal) Rgt. My grandfather was a POW at Stalag XXA in Poland from 1940 until 1945.
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Sgt. Henry Clayton . RAF air gunner. 15 Sqd (d.16th Nov 1944)
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Pte. Horace Wilfred "Yorkie" Clayton . British Army York and Lancs from Snaith Horace Clayton was a regular in the Army when the war broke out. He trained in France and was sent to Norway where he was captured and became a prisoner in 1940.
He worked mainly on farms and became friendly with the Polish family he worked with. He used to escape through a hole in the fence to steal veg and any other food he could boil up for his hut mates. He was hit on the side of the head by a guard for not bringing the hut to attention and had a cauliflower ear for the rest of his life.
He was on the long march in Feb 1945 when the guards took them out of the camp away from Russian and American troops. He was liberated by the Americans weighing only 6 stone and spent a number of weeks in hospital with a severely infected neck.
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Canteen Asst. Horace Clayton . Royal Navy HMS Walney Horace Clayton was my father. He served on HMS Walney from 13th of June 1941 to 14th of June 1942. He requested to remain on Walney but was transferred.
I still have an article about the sinking of Walney in battle, which affected him deeply. He even called one of their homes Walney.
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Spr. Richard Clayton . British Army 1047th Port Op. Coy., Section B Royal Engineers from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (d.27th January 1945) Richard Clayton was my uncle, I never knew him but my mother always said what a wonderful man he was. He left a wife Lily and son Tony when he died.
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Pfc. Robert D. Clayton BSM.. United States Army 2nd Btn. 30th Infantry Regiment from Illinois
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S Clayton . British Army S Clayton 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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Thomas F. P. Clayton . Canadian Army 23 Battery 1st Medium Regt Royal Canadian Artillery My brother, Thomas F.P. Clayton, 23 Battery, 1st. Medium Regiment was stationed at Borden, Hant's, England, in 1939/40 as a Canadian soldier. As he landed in England he recieved a letter "welcoming him to the shores of England, the son of Thomas James Clayton", (a British Beoer War Vetran and C.E.F. WW1 Vetran). He never got to even finish reading that letter as he was wounded, and it was lost in the English Hospital, and now he is requesting me to ask if it would be possible to get a copy of that letter or that type of historical document? Does anyone have a copy?
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Flight Engineer Thomas Charles Clayton . Royal Air Force 514 Squadron
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Thomas Charles Clayton . Royal Air Force 514 Sdq. Thomas Clayton was my Grandfather, he served as a Royal Air Force Flight Engineer for 514 Squadron. I don't know much about his service, but the Lancaster he flew for most of the war was blown up by its own bombs. While being re-armed in a rain shower by the ground crew, a static discharge caused the bomb bay to release its load on the ground. The ground crew were all killed.
He survived the war, emigrating to Canada in 1956 with his son Roger, and his wife Gertrude Chitty who had served in the WAAF.
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W Clayton . British Army Royal Tank Regiment W Clayton 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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