JC Gibbons . British Army JC Gibbons 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 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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JR Gibbons . British Army JR Gibbons 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 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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JT Gibbons . British Army JT Gibbons 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 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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Nicholas Powers Gibbons . Royal Navy HMS Bedouin from Troon, Scotland
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R Gibbons . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Gibbons 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 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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Ronald Hilary Treharne Gibbons . Merchant Navy Ronnie Gibbons joined SS Port Sydney at Cardiff around September 1938. It departed New York 1 Oct 1938, due Sydney Australia 1 Nov 1938. Ronnie sent a wireless Christmas Greetings letter to his parents, via SS Reumera, on the return journey.
Ronnie stayed with the Merchant Navy during the war and was torpedoed off the east coast of the USA at some point. He was rescued, repatriated and managed to survive the war. I believe, SS Port Sydney also survived the war so, I am uncertain on which ship Ronnie was serving when torpedoed. The family believed that the torpedoed ship was the Tacoma Star of the Blue Star Line but I believe that ship was lost with all hands and Ronnie's name does not appear on the casualty list. He died on 21st Aug 1973.
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RT Gibbons . British Army RT Gibbons 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 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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Trooper Stanley Gibbons . Army 59 RECCE My mother married Stanley Gibbons on 23rd January 1943 in Leeds. Stanley gives his rank as Trooper 59 R.E.C.C.E. 4543978. I am compiling a family history and wondered if anyone could give me any information about where Stanley may have served during WW2.
Thank you.
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Pte. William Thomas "Spider" Gibbons . Australian Imperial Force 2/1 Batallion from Gulgong NSW William Thomas Gibbons, my Uncle, was captured at Retimo in Crete on or about the 30th May 1941. He was interred at Moosburg Stalag VIIA and remained there as POW 92173 until 14th April 1943 when he was moved to Stalag VIIIB in Poland near the small town of Lamsdorf. He remained at Lamsdorf after it was split up and renamed to Stalag 344 in December 1943, through until April 1945. He was also one of those who survived the Great March when many POWs were marched westward from Polish camps to flee the advancing Soviet armies.
Uncle Bill was repatriated to Australia in June 1945 and returned to his home town of Gulgong NSW where he remained for the rest of his life.
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Pte. Albert Edward Gibbs . Australian Army
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Pte. Arthur John Gibbs . British Army King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 27 St Mary's St, Beaminster, Dorset, UK Because Arthur Gibbs was swarthy his nickname was that for an Italian lad.
He volunteered for duty behind enemy lines. His stories like those on active service were many. He was part of a firing squad for soldier found guilty of collaborating with the enemy.
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Tel. Arthur Henry Gibbs . Royal Navy HMS Scylla from Great Yarmouth Arthur Gibbs, my father, was a well respected Telegraphist who was transferred from shore base duties to HMS Scylla in May 1944 escpecially for D-Day preparations. He had been trained on the new equipment that was installed on Scylla, the flagship for the Eastern Task Force at Sword Beach.
On 23rd of June 1944, HMS Scylla hit a mine while moving between Sword and Juno beach. It was his 24th birthday! Dad didn't talk much about his D-Day experience, only that it was one very busy time. Sadly Dad passed away aged only 58, just as I had started to probe more and ask lots of questions.
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CD Gibbs . British Army East Lancashire Regiment CD Gibbs served with the East 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 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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DE Gibbs . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DE Gibbs 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 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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A/Sgt Mjr. Donald "Budgie" Gibbs . British Army Royal Signals from Newbold on Avon
My Dad served in Malaya during WW2, at some point my Mum joined him there. Dad mentioned the Ghurkas and often told stories, wrote poems about the Char Whallas but I would like more information about what the Royal Signals were doing towards the end of the war please.
I have loads of photographs of the people he served with, most of them are unnamed. Exasperatingly my parents decided to take the pictures out of the captioned album and the transfer to a new album never happened! I would be happy to share these with people whose relatives may have served same time and place etc.
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Pte Edward Joseph "Ned" Gibbs . British Army 321st TC Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from Peckham
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FJ Gibbs . British Army FJ Gibbs 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 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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Rfm. Frank Gibbs . Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
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Rifleman Frank Gibbs . British Army 9th Battalion Cameronians from Great Yarmouth (d.11th Apr 1945) My Dad, Frank Gibbs was a rifleman in the 9th battalion of the Cameronians.
He landed in Normandy in June 1944 and made it all the way across Europe to Germany. On April 11th 1945 he was shot by a sniper and killed in Celle.
The war finished in May 45 and I was born in June 45. My Mum never got over his death or the war and never married again. I was named Frank after him and was their only child.
He is buried in Hanover War cemetery and last year my son and I visited his grave. We both found it a very moving experience. Even though I never knew him I felt so proud of the fact that he had laid down his life for his country. I would love to hear from anybody who knew him.
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S/Sgt. Henry Perry Gibbs . British Army My great uncle Henry Gibbs was a prisoner at Stalag 7a, his capture postcard is dated 12/10/1944.
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JB Gibbs . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JB Gibbs 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 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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JE Gibbs . British Army JE Gibbs 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 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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JS Gibbs . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JS Gibbs 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 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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Spr. Leonard Gibbs . British Army 663 Artisan Works Company Royal Engineers (d.17th Jun 1940) Leonard Gibbs of 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers lost his life in the sinking of the Lancastria.
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Gnr. Raymond Gibbs . British Army 72nd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery I was in the 72nd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery. When I joined I was 21 years of age. It was very tough up to the invasion we had a very big exercise in England and there were quite a lot of casualties, motorbike accidents and lorry accidents, it went on for quite a long time
We were moved then, all of a sudden to Berwick on Tweed on the Scottish border. I think it was to confuse the enemy as to where our Regiment was but Lord Haw-haw told us where we were going! We stopped up there a fortnight and then we were moved straight down to East Ham Docks. It was an Assembly Area outside the Docks in East Ham and to make certain that none of us went on leave or went home, they put barbed wire round it. Then, one morning we were told to move out. We went down into the Docks and then, all of a sudden, they said your all going to march back again! I don't know what all that was for! So then we went down the next day to board this ship. Well, of course I'd never been on a big ship in my life and so it was all exciting to me. Then we sailed off round the Isle of Wight towards the D-day beaches. On the way over we were talking to some of the medical staff and they put us in the wrong frame of mind because they would tell us how terrible it was on the beaches and the casualties. We came up alongside two British battleships and they were firing over the heads of our boat, inland, at the enemy positions. I had never heard a battleship open up and they opened up and went right over the back of us and then I could see traces of bullets and I thought, this is it! and I started to feel frightened.
We landed and drove off. We got onto the Landing Craft together with the ammunition trucks and then we drove onto the beach. Our trucks were all waterproofed so that you could go in water with them and the exhaust was turned up in the air. So we landed and I went down like that and the water came up higher and higher and I wondered if I would come out the other side because there were so many men drowned in tanks and in lorries.
As soon as we landed, whether it was a stray German shell or what or a lucky one a shell came over and it hit a big tree and of course on impact a shell will scatter into hundreds of pieces and it scattered all over what we called the MT line (the wagon line) well there was 8 men got hit straight away. The next thing happened as we were just going to drive off. We just got off the sand and I looked at the bank and there were two or three men who had been hastily buried - they hadn't been covered over, they had just thrown dirt over them, well of course, that did us straight away now, we'd never seen anything like that at all. There had been a terrific amount of hand to hand fighting. We came across British Infantry who had been in a farmhouse and met the Germans head on. There was German dead and British dead so there must have been bitter fighting.
What brought it home to me was the dead and the way that they were left there. You just couldn't get over that at all really. You know they were just left there, their helmet laid on their body and they were just only partly covered up, or a rifle by the side of them with some make-shift cross. The smell of dead horses and cows, oh it was terrible. You would go to a field and see these bloated cows on their backs all over the place, just horses and bodies it was a sweet, peculiar smell.
The luxury of going to a lavatory was the supreme thing so they would put a trip wire on the lavatory door or on the chain, you had to be careful not to touch anything. I was very frightened when there was these moaning minnies. They were these multi-barrelled mortars they would moan and you wouldn't know where they were going to drop. They would come over the trenches and you had to catch hold of your knees to stop them shaking.
We lost our second in command when he went into a German Ammunition Dump. Well the German ammunition boxes were marvellous. We used to use these to put cigarettes in. They weren't in tin, they were beautiful wood. So we would go in and pick things up. This time there was a ratchet mine! That’s a mine that goes off after a number of lorries go over it, usually about the fifth. He went in to pick up a box, I'd been in there and a couple more had been in there. He was unlucky and came out on the fifth and his jeep blew up. It killed him blew his legs off. The worse thing of the lot was when you saw your pals killed, that did really knock you for six. Once when we heard someone had been killed, we found out it was twins that had been killed. They were expert athletes and were in their prime and they had won everything within the Regiment, boxing any sport they went in for, they won it. But to know that they had been killed it just wasn't right. Another time, this chap came back into our gun pit and said I think I've been hit and he died, just like that.
I'll never forget their faces.
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RCW Gibbs . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RCW Gibbs 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 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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RR Gibbs . British Army RR Gibbs 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 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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Drvr. William Alexander Gibbs . Royal Army Service Corps My father was a POW in Stalag XXb from 1940 to 1945. His POW Number was 9628.
If anyone has any information available I would be more than happy.
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Sgt. William Edmun Gibbs . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Andover, Hampshire
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WJ Gibbs . British Army Royal Artillery WJ Gibbs 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 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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