RC Egan . British Army RC Egan 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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William J. Egar. . USAAF 327th Bomb Squadron
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PW Egdell . British Army PW Egdell 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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SR Egdell . British Army SR Egdell 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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Pte. Edward Egerton . British Army 1st Btn. Ox & Bucks Light Infantry from Wolverhampton (d.19th April 1943) Pte. Egerton died on Monday 19th April 1943, aged 21 and is buried in Grave 26, Wolverhampton Borough Cemetery.
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WJ Eggleton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WJ Eggleton 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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VG Eglen . British Army Royal Armoured Corps VG Eglen 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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Kenneth Eglin . British Army Lancashire REME 318 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Burnley, Lancashire I have a facebook page that I created for my father's wartime information. I found a photo album in 2016 in the basement storage of my parent's home in Kitchener, ON. Dad died in Kitchener in October 1981. This photo album had been in our basement since we moved there in 1973 in what we called the 'crawl space'. Many things were put in there when we moved and I only found them in the past year. Oh the questions I have.
I know he was a mechanic, and once a jeep or other vehicle did some type of backfire and his arm caught fire. There was no scarring that I could see, but it was memorable enough for him to tell us the story.
I hope someone can use the information on the facebook page to connect their own wartime dots. Wish he was still here.
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Tom "Rags" Eglin . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Hexam My Dad, Tom Elgin was called up in 1940 and joined the REME and was posted first of all to Titchborne in Leicester and then deployed to both Africa and Italy where I think he finished his service. He was a driver mech with the rank of CFN for a while he was attached to 'M' section 750 base in Worksop.
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GD Eglinton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GD Eglinton 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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Frederick Elliot Ehmann . United States Army from Doylestown, PA His wartime experiences, were a highlight of his life to Frederick Ehmann. In his 90s, he learned to use a computer and wrote of being an Army gunner in a B-24 bomber shot down over northern Italy on Dec. 28, 1943.
The plane was on a mission to bomb oil refineries in Ploiesti, Romania, when it was hit. Remaining behind in the crippled aircraft to rescue a fellow gunner, he was burned before bailing out and parachuting into a canal.
"Don't shoot. I am an American," he told the elderly man on the ground who held a gun to his head.
Turned over to the Germans, he was sent to Stalag 17B in Krems, Austria, where he and 4,500 other prisoners struggled to survive the subzero cold and thin rations of rutabaga soup and bread.
There was no brutality. If anyone tells you something other than that, they're a liar. There was a shortage of food. We would be fed once a day. Sometimes it would be a lousy soup. The men's quarters were abandoned World War I buildings, unheated except for two potbellied stoves that were stoked with boards stripped from the latrine building. Despite the conditions, morale remained high.
The prisoners never had a two-way radio or a working tunnel system, as depicted in Hogan's Heroes. But they did build a crystal radio for listening to the BBC. The radio antenna was hidden in the prisoners' clothesline, the other pieces throughout the barracks.
The POWs stayed busy planning and carrying out exploits to upset their captors.
Once, the prisoners were given a giant sausage. It looked good from a distance, but was full of maggots. The prisoners named it Adolf, dressed it in a uniform, and laid it out on a board. Then they marched it around camp and gave it a decent burial in the latrine.
The prank brought armed guards on the run. One who spoke English wanted to know what the men were doing. After he was told, he smiled and said, "You all are crazy,"
On April 15, 1945, after 15 months, a German captain gave an order to evacuate the next day. We were told that the Russians had captured Vienna, which was only 35 kilometers away, and that they would be taking the camp in less than two days. After nine days of forced march, the POWs arrived at their new camp in a forest at the fork of the Inn and Salzach Rivers.
On the other side of the water was Germany.
On the morning of our fifth day, I was sitting by the edge of the road when a military jeep came by with four American officers and a machine gun. Several of us stood up and shouted that we were Americans.
The officers stopped and said, 'What the hell are you guys doing here?' They said they would be back within 24 hours with help. They left us, and we all had a feeling I will never be able to describe.
The next day, American soldiers arrived with trucks. Within an hour, they had subdued the German guards. We were finally able to say we were free.
Frederick Ehmann's captivity officially ended May 2, 1945. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze service stars.
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Herbert Ehrich . United States Army A story that in the June 10, 1944 issue of The New Yorker Magazine titled "A Reporter At Large: Room 11, Stalag 7-B," pp. 48-59, by Daniel Long.
concerns the experiences of Herbert Ehrich from Brooklyn, NY who was captured during the Sicily campaign and sent to Stalag 7-B. He was repatriated in late 1944 due to the severity of his wounds.
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Pte. Peter Graham "Darkie" Ehrlich . British Army Royal West Kent Regiment from Gosport Dad, Peter Ehrlich started with the Hampshire Regiment and was then transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment. He saw service in North Africa, Italy (including Monte Cassino) Greece and then the Middle East. I would love to find out more about my father's war time service. He spoke very little of it until nearing the end of his life. I have tried many avenues to find out accurate information to no avail. I have his army service records but the dates stated do not tie up at all. I believe from what he said that he could have been involved with the Longe Range Desert Group and carried out behind the lines missions. At the beginning of his Army life he was sent to Winterbourne for training of some sort. I also believe he was sent on a PE Instructors course, but why this would happen during the war when fit young men were needed to fight? On leaving the army his papers said he was a Stretcher Bearer. I cant see how this was so as he had never mentioned that he did this. Would the MOD lie on service records to cover up Secret Stuff? Does anyone know??
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Pte. Hyman "Harry" Eichen MID.. British Army 7th Batallian Seaforth Highlanders from London (d.15th Feb 1945) My father Harry Eichen died on 15th February 1945 during a Battle in Reichswald Forest, Nr Cleve. He was part of Operation Veritable. I understand from an article in the Walthamstow Guardian that he was Mentioned In Dispatches for his part in capturing a German unit as he could speak German. I was 3 years old so never knew him. I have letters from his Captain and chaplain sent to my mother. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Grave in Reichswald Forest and I was able to visit his grave in 1997, travelling from Australia. I wonder if anyone remembers him. He was 34 years old when he died and both he and his brother volunteered as soon as war broke out. I believe prior to being posted to the Seaforth Highlanders he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery.
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Cpl. Tjeerd Eijsvoogel . Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
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Sgt. Wilhelm Eduard Eilbracht . Dutch Army
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Henry Eintracht . United States Marine Corps 1st Division from Cherry Hill, NJ Henry Eintracht participated in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal.
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Sgt. Wallace J. Eisenhauer . British Army 5th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment My Dad, Wallace J. Eisenhauer
- who is still alive at the age of 86 - was a POW at the following POW camps until the liberation by Russians: Jacobstahl, Benghazi, Tuturano, Stalag IVB.
He has much memorabilia including his POW dog-tag from Stalag IVB and a suberb cloth signed by over 100 fellow POW's !
He collected this whilst encarcerated - so they are original names from over 60 years ago!
He was a Sargeant in the 5th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment
I would love to hear from others who are still with us or their relatives.
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Brig-Gen. John Eisenhower . United States Army 71st Infantry Division from Trappe, MD John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a member of an accelerated wartime program at West Point, graduating on June 6, 1944 -by coincidence, the date of the Allied invasion of Normandy presided over by his father. Part of the new lieutenant's graduation leave was spent in Europe as an aide to his father.
The next month, he went to infantry school at Fort Benning and in October was assigned to the 71st Infantry Division, which was later sent to Europe
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HC Eke . British Army HC Eke 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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Pte. Peter Atang Ekineh . The Royal West African Frontier Force African Pioneer Corps (West Africa), (d.16th April 1942) Peter Ekineh was buried in the Limbe Botanical Gardens Burial Grounds in the Cameroons.
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RE Ekins . British Army RE Ekins 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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Kwm. Pieter Ekkebus . Dutch Army
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Fus. Willem Ekkebus . Dutch Army
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Pte. Howard Sylvester Ekre . United States Army F Btry 60th CAC Regt (AA) from Washington
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DJ Elam . British Army East Kent Regiment DJ Elam served with the East Kent 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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Sgt. Raymond Elam . from USA Sgt Raymond Elam was billeted in Hemel Hempstead or Bovington, Herts around 1943 or 1944. He served in the US Army or the USAAF.
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L Eland . British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regiment L Eland served with the Loyal North Lancashire 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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C Elcock . British Army 15/19th Hussars C Elcock served with the 15/19th 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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