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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

Sgt. Patrick Fitch .     Royal Army Medical Corps 149 Field Ambulance   from Glasgow, Scotland

(d.4th Sep 1944)

Patrick Finch served with 149 Field Ambulance, RAMC and was killed in action on the 4th September 1944, aged 29. He is buried in Annoeullin Communal Cemetery and German Extension in France. Patrick was the son of John and Mary Fitch and the husband of Agnes P. Fitch, of Glasgow.




Spr. Stanley Lashwood Fitch .     British Army 663 Artisan Works Company Royal Engineers (d.17th Jun 1940)

Stanley Fitch of 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers lost his life in the sinking of the Lancastria.




Ernest Albert "Jim" Fitchett .     Royal Navy HMS Fitzroy   from Wood Green, London

Ernest Fitchett served in HMS Fitzroy. One story is when he was asked to bring the meal back to the mess. The sea was very choppy and coming down the spiral staircase everybody's fish and chips went flying! He was not the crews' favourite that day.




Ernest Albert "Jim" Fitchett .     Royal Navy   from Wood Green, London

Ernest Fitchett served with the Royal Navy in WW2




George Henry Fitchett .    

Can anyone help me? My grandfather, George Henry Fitchett, served on Russian convoys during WWII. Does anyone remember him?




W Fitchett .     British Army

W Fitchett 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. R. Fitchner .     Royal Canadian Air Force nav. 419 Sqd. (d.28th Oct 1944)




J. R. Fitchner. .     419 Sqd. (d.28th Oct 1944)




Sgt. Richard Louis Fitsell .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 10 Squaron   from Leighton Buzzard

(d.12th September 1941)

Richard Fitsell served with 10 Squadron, he is commemorated on the Runnymead Memorial.




Lt.Col. Arthur Oswald Fitt .     British Army 5 Base Ordnance Depot, Middle East Force Royal Army Ordnance Corps   from Smalley, Derby

My late father, Arthur Fitt, was a territorial called up in September 1939 to RAOC and posted to France in 1940, based in May at Arras from where he retreated for eventual embarkation at St Nazaire. He held the Rank of Sergeant at that stage. He was re-classified as Clerk Class 1 at Stromness in August 1940, selected for OCTU September 1940 and was commissioned in December 1940, posted July 1941 in RAOC to Egypt and Palestine. He held a series of roles in Gen Stores, Tech Stores, Returned Stores and ended war as T/Lt.Col. in Cairo, had responsibility at one time for supervision of Italian POW's.




RO. John Francis Fitz-Gerald .     Merchant Navy SS Cymbula   from Murroe

(d.5th Oct 1946)

Radio Officer John Fitz-Gerald was the son of Francis and Margaret Fitz-Gerald, of Murroe. He is buried in the S.W. Corner of the Abington Old Graveyard, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland.




H Fitz-john .     British Army 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment

H Fitz-john served with the 42nd Btn 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.




Fitzgerald .    




AA Fitzgerald .     British Army Yorkshire Regiment

AA Fitzgerald served with the Yorkshire 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.




AKL Fitzgerald .     British Army

AKL Fitzgerald 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.




Dan Fitzgerald .     British Army   from Mountjoy St, Belfast

My father's youngest brother, Dan Fitzgerald, was one of the 350,000 plus British soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. Thankfully he was rescued by the amazing fleet of 'little boats'. He was one of many in the hold of the rescue ship. He looked across at another weary soldier who looked at my uncle Dan and said "I know you", my Uncle Dan replied, " you should, you are married to my sister. Rosina."

What are those odds, out of the rescued, over 300,000 men that two brother-in-law, from Belfast, were on the same ship? I enclose a photo of uncle Dan's homecoming. This has just come to light and must have been in a local Belfast newspaper, I know not which paper. The photo is very blurry but I would like it to be told. My Uncle Dan is in uniform, my granny, his mother, is beside him. There are other members of the Fitzgerald family including my dad and mum, Charlie and Sadie Fitzgerald




Harry Fitzgerald .     British Army 5th Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment

Like many others, my dad Harry Fitzgerald never spoke a great deal about his time in Stalag 4b. He served in the 5th Btn King's (Liverpool) Regiment and was taken prisoner in Sicily in 1942 or 1943. If anyone remembers him I would be thrilled to hear from them. He had very red hair.




HG Fitzgerald .     British Army Royal Artillery

HG Fitzgerald served with the Royal Artillery 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 Fitzgerald .     British Army East Kent Regiment

J Fitzgerald 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.




JA Fitzgerald .     British Army

JA Fitzgerald 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.




Flt.Sgt. John Ernest FitzGerald DFM.     Royal Canadian Air Force 166 Squadron   from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

(d.27th Aug 1944)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) John FitzGerald was the Son of John Ernest and Effie Viola Fitzgerald, of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He was 19 when he died and is buried in a collective in Rye Churchyard in Denmark.




JP Fitzgerald .     British Army

JP Fitzgerald 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 Kenneth Brian Fitzgerald .     RAF Watton No.21 Squadron   from Orpington

(d.6th May 1941)

Kenneth Fitzgerald was lost in action on 6th of May 1941. We do have a telegram and other documents to say Kenneth was killed in action while attacking enemy shipping off the Dutch coast aged 19. His father was Thomas Moffet Fitzgerald who was Pay Master commander to HMS Wellesley, Liverpool.




Sgt. Reginald George Fitzgerald .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 210 Sqd.   from Glasnevin, Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

(d.2nd Sep 1940)

My Great Uncle Reginald George Fitzgerald was attached to 210 Squadron as a Sargeant flying Short Sunderlands. He died aged 20, missing in action on the 2nd September 1940, I am not sure whether he was stationed at Pembroke Dock at that time. His name is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.




Sgt. Reginald Charles Fitzgerald .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 31 Sqdn. (d.12th October 1944)

Liberator KH158H, with eight crew, disappeared on a supply dropping mission to Italian partisans on 12th/13th October 1944 and was never found. The full crew were:

  • F/O T.R. Millar, RAAF, Navigator
  • Mjr S.S. Urry, SAAF, 1st Pilot
  • Lt. G.A. Collard, SAAF, Navigator
  • 2/Lt. P.J. Lordan, SAAF
  • WO(2) G.E. Hudspith, RAF, 2nd Pilot
  • Sgt. R.C. Fitzerald, RAFVR, Airgunner
  • WO(1) L.B. Bloch, SAAF, Airgunner
  • Lt. N.W. Armstrong, SAAF, Airgunner

    All are commemorated on the Malta Memorial.




  • WJ Fitzgerald .     British Army

    WJ Fitzgerald 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. Terence Maurice "Ted" FitzGibbon .     British Army B Coy, 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry   from Slough, Bucks.

    I know very little of my father Ted FitzGibbon's war-time experience, except that he served as part of the 8th Army under Montgomery and was part of the invasion of Sicily.

    He mentioned once having to hoof it back to camp in Egypt because the allied soldier's bad behaviour on the local buses had led to a ban on the bus drivers taking the troops back to camp after a certain hour. Passing an obviously drunk Aussie soldier at the bus stop, and well past the cut-off time, Dad advised the soldier to not wait to which the Aussie replied that he knew the bus would be making an exception that night. Knowing the bus was soon to pass that stop Dad decided to wait a few minutes just in case. The bus soon appeared and, judging by its approaching speed, clearly had no intention of stopping. At the opportune moment, the Aussie staggered to his feet and hurled a rock straight at the windshield, which shattered and prompted the driver to stop, mopping the blood and rock residue from his face. "Told you it would stop tonight", said the Aussie, "Let's get on".

    One other anecdote which Dad told me, thousands of British troops were marshalled in Egypt in the run-up to the battle of El Alamein. The army occupied them with drills and other work in the hot desert sun. Hoping to avoid this fate, Dad and a few friends volunteered to repair the dance floor of an air-conditioned dance club that had been turned over for use as a temporary officers' club. The vibration from bombs had sprung the oak planks. None of the workers had any experience repairing a dance floor they had lied about their qualifications. It took perfect timing to complete the work immediately before they left for the front secretly burning several planks they never could get to fit.




    L.Sgt. Miles Fitzmaurice MM.     British Army East Riding Yeomanry

    L.Sgt.Miles Fitzmaurice served with the East Riding Yeomanry 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.




    A Fitzpatrick .     British Army

    A Fitzpatrick 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. Arthur Allen Fitzpatrick .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron (d.28th April 1943)

    Sergeant (Air Gunner) Arthur Fitzpatrick is buried in a collective grave along with his crewmates in Reerslev Churchyard in Denmark.





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