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TE Furniss . British Army Royal Artillery TE Furniss 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.
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Pte. John Edward Furnival . British Army 4th Btn. Gordon Highlanders from Nechelles, Birmingham
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AE Fursey . British Army AE Fursey 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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Galis Cornelis Fus . Dutch Army
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Arnold Fussey . British Army 1st Scorpion Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
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Tpr. MAT Futer . British Army 16/5th Lancers Tpr.MAT Futer served with the 16/5th Lancers 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. Jack H.D. Futter . British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Jack Futter fought with 2 Wiltshire Regiment at Cassino as part of 5 British Infantry Division, where they were involved in the crossing of the Garigliano. After being captured Jack was most likely taken to a transit camp at Frosinone, south of Rome. From here he was loaded onto a POW train bound for Germany on 26th January 1944, and it was on this journey that the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including Jack Futter, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men.
Jack Futter escaped the wreck with numerous slight wounds for which he was treated in Orvieto Hospital after being captured in Garigliano. He was then sent to POW camp Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland.
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F/Lt. Angus Graham Fyfe . Royal Air Force 108 Squadron from Geraldine, NZ On 12 May 1942 Wellington 1C bomber HF 829 of 108 RAF squadron took off from Nancekuke airfield at Portreath, bound for Gibraltar and eventually for Egypt. On board was a crew of six as follows:
- Sgt. S E Alcock (English) pilot
- Sgt. W. Robinson (N.Z.) second pilot
- Sgt. C. Hill (Canada) navigator
- Sgt. S. Pratt (N.Z.) bomb-aimer/rear gunner
- Sgt. J.A. Peacock (English) front gunner
- Sgt. A.G. Fyfe (N.Z.) wireless operator
Over the Bay of Biscay the pilot reported that the port boost had gone and immediately the observer set course for Portreath, then the intercom was useless, and after they had done another 40 miles the starboard boost went useless. From this moment the plane flew at a 100 ft above the water and the air-speed dropped to 75 m.p.h. The plane passed Bishop’s Rock and the captain circled the aircraft around the Mount and then to Portreath.
The captain was afraid to jettison the petrol due to the instability of the aircraft, he could not make the plane rise and when the approach was made the down-draught from the cliff at Portreath pulled the aircraft down, the front wheels luckily caught the wall at the top of the cliff and the plane burst into flames. All the crew came out through the astrodome, Graham Fyfe minus one flying boot and his false teeth. Jim Peacock had previously turned his (gun) turret to starboard and came out with his parachute. (time was approx. 11.45 a.m.) After crawling away from the aircraft they only went about 50 yards and then the plane exploded and ammunition was flying all around.
Much of the above information came from Jim Peacock in a letter dated September 1978. The hole in the wall at Portreath was still there when we visited in May 2006.
My father joined the RNZAF on 15 March, 1940, and left for Britain on 14 September 1940. His original log-book was lost in the crash at Portreath, so I am a bit hazy about exact dates of his early service, although I know that he served with 18 Squadron in Oulton, Norfolk prior to leaving for Egypt.
The crew left Lyneham for Gibraltar on 29 May 1942 in Wellington Mark 1c, No DV607, and arrived at Kilo 17 in Egypt via Malta on 2 June, 1942. Pilot was Sgt. Alcock, although for most of Graham Fyfe's time in Kabrit his pilot was Sgt Brooks. His last flight was on 20 October 1942, and total operational hours with the squadron are recorded as 256.15 Most of the flights were over North Africa, except for one over Crete. I have a copy of his logbook from May 1942.
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D Fyfe . British Army Royal Armoured Corps D Fyfe 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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Squadron Leader John B Fyfe DFC. RAF 59 Squadron
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William Fyfe . British Army
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Pte James George Kemp Fyffe . British Army Cameron Highlanders from Glasgow
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L/Sgt. Edward William Fynn . British Army Bedfordshire Royal Signals Edward Fynn is my grandad he was a POW in Stalag 383 but escaped.
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Mjr. George Alwyne Fyson MID.. British Army Royal East Kent Regiment from London SE9 My father, George Fyson, was in the Buffs and no. 3 Commando. He was in the Lofoton Islands raid on the Vaagso raid as a Corporal. He was Mentioned in Despatches. He was not at Dieppe as he had been sent for officer training, which my mother said saved his life as his platoon was wiped out. He finished the war as a Major.
I also have a number of regimental photos which are not titled, often with my father front and centre as the officer. He was shot in the leg during house to house fighting; unfortunately I don't know where or when, and was saved by his batman. He appears in a photo I have seen several times online of soldiers returning from the Vaagso raid on HMS Leopold. Whilst training in Scotland he lay on barbed wire for men to cross over him, and acted as ski instructor as he was the only person who had skied before the war. The officer asked 'Anyone skied before?' My father said he had. 'Right, you are the instructor' said the officer! These are the very few things that I learnt from him before he died at the age of 59 in 1977. Two brothers died in WW2: PO Jack Fyson in RAF and Lieutenant Don Fyson RNVR.
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Pte James Douglas Fyson . British Army 1/5th Battalion Welch Regiment from Ely, Cambridgeshire (d.11th April 1945)
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Thomas G Fyvie . British Army Thomas Fyvie 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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