B Gill . British Army B Gill 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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CE Gill . British Army CE Gill 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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AB Clifford Gill . Royal Navy (d.10 July 1944)
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Doreen "Bobby" Gill . Women's Land Army from Acocks Green In 1940 I joined the W.L.A. only because I was too young for the armed forces. After threshing, hoeing and muck spreading I became a trifle disenchanted with the Land Army until I saw a note of the hostel board asking for volunteers for 'Cub-Excavating'. I immediately volunteered thinking it was to help rescue baby fox cubs. Imagine my astonishment when I found I was to drive an 8.1/2 ton excavator - and what's more I had to start it with a starting handle!! The object of the operation was to reclaim land for agriculture. Together with two other land girls and living in a gipsy style caravan we cleared and straightened many rivers thus allowing them to flow smoothly and for the land to drain again for cultivation. We worked with either 20 Italian or German P.O.W.'s who were accompanied with a 'ganger' and a very old guard, who both seemed to spend their time sleeping! It was hard work, but we worked hard and we played hard and we wouldn't have swapped the job for anything. One of the advantages was that we always seemed to be working near an Air Force camp and so were invited to their dances etc. I met my late husband at one of them - so it had its compensations!
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E Gill . British Army Royal Armoured Corps E Gill 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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Pte. Edward Gill . British Army 8th Battalion, C Company Durham Light Infantry from South Stanley, Co Durham (d.26th May 1940)
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Bmbdr. Frank Ernest "Mick" Gill . British Army My grandfather served in the 8th Army. He was intensely proud of being a Desert Rat under Monty.
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H Gill . British Army H Gill 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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Sgt. Harry Gill . British 24th Coy Royal Army Service Corps from Stone in Oxney, Kent I recently found this website and thought i should put finger to key in memory of my father Harry Gill T/45024 who served with the R.A.S.C.
He enlisted at Canterbury on 31.12.1930.These details come from his paybook, which I found recently. His first posting was in 1932, to Shanghai with the 12th coy. where he spent two years.Before being transferred to Eygpt where he serve with the 31st coy .Spending three years here. On returning home in March 1937 he was placed on the reserve list.
He was mobilized on 16th August 1939, and sent to France with the 24th coy attached to 2nd div BEF. He kept a diary of the events leading up to the Dunkirk evacuation. But it was lost or stolen along with his kitbag on a boat home. I wish now I had talked to him more about these historic times he lived through. But I remember his disapointment at the Belgium goverment for letting the Germans through. Also the desperate scenes of drunken soldiers milling about. And the destruction of supply dumps to stop them falling into the hands of the Germans, although he filled another kitbag with cigarettes at one of these before it was blown. Which made him quite popular on arrival back at camp in England. He also told me he drove all the way into Dunkirk, refusing to disable his truck on the outskirts as ordered. Perhaps it was an ambulance with wounded aboard (he always was a bit of a rebel). Then climbing a rope to board a ship in the harbour. Which upon arriving at a British port was turned away again as it was a French ship, and the French were still fighting. So he had to return to Dunkirk and find another ship home. His paybook states that was on 1st June 1940, a day when 68,000 troops were rescued. In May 1942 he was posted to East Africa with 22 LTC. And later with 31st I.B. coy. Where he helped push the Italians out of Abysinia and Somalia. Coming home to be demobbed at Guildford on 19.10.45.
I doubt there are many of his old comrades still about now. His best friend was a Scotsman named Nick, who I was named after, but whose address he lost long ago.
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J Gill . British Army 149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps J Gill served with the 149th Regiment 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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Ldg.Stoker J. Arthur Gill . Royal Navy HMS Nelson from Sutton, St Helens, Lancs Arthur Gill was my uncle and I have come into possession of his service record from his joining in September 1933 and training on HMS Champion, through his service on HMS Resolution, Challenger and Hebe. He served on Nelson from around 1940 until he was discharged on 1 September 1945 in Portsmouth, so it looks like he wasn't on board during the surrender of Japan on 2 September but could have seen plenty of action during the time he was on board. What heroes all these men were. Sometime after the war he returned to Sutton with his wife, Gladys, who was from Somerset. They had no children and he died round about 1982. If anyone has any recollections I would be interested.
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L/Cpl. James Gill . Home Guard 23rd (Washington) Battalion Durham
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Ken Gill . Royal Air Force nav. 9 Sqd.
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F/Lt. Kenneth Gill CdG.. Royal Air Force 342 (Lorraine) Squadron from West Bridgford, Nottingham Having taken his civilian pilot's licence as a young man in the late 1930's, my father, Kenneth Gill was welcomed into the RAF as a Trainee Pilot Officer at the outbreak of war. He ended his service in the rank of Flight Lieutenant. On more than one occasion, he piloted Field Marshall Montgomery and, at the end of the war, literally on V.E. Day the 8th of May 1945, he flew the high ranking war criminal (and former Austrian Head of State), Arthur Seyss-Inquart, to his trial at Nuremberg and subsequent execution, courtesy of Mr Albert Pierrepoint, in October 1946. It's all in his Logbook.
Much of Dad's war was spent ferrying aeroplanes and high ranking staff to various locations all around Britain, so he had experience of many different aircraft, including those iconic Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes. His combat training, however, was for twin-engine light bombers and, in the Spring of 1944, he carried out an incredible 31 bombing missions in his fast and very powerful (2x1000hp) American-built Boston IIIA seconded to the famous French Groupe Lorraine (342 Squadron) which was based at Hartford Bridge during the war. These missions were mainly carried out over Northern France as part of the softening up process during the build-up to the D- Day landings. The payload was usually 4 x 500-pound bombs and his log-book typically lists targets such as marshalling yards, ammunition dumps and enemy troop concentrations.
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Tpr. Samuel Gill . British Army Royal Armoured Corps My uncle Sam Gill spent some time at Stalag IVb having been captured at Tobruk fighting against Rommel troops. He also travelled to other camps, amongst them Stalag IVg Oschatz, Germany. I am reading notes that he left at his passing away about his experiences in these camps. He was away from home in Sheffield for about four and a half years.
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P/O. T. H. Gill . Royal Air Force 9 Squadron (d.5th Sep 1943) Pilot Officer T.H. Gill was in command of Lancaster ED666 WS-G of 9 Squadron which was lost on Operations to Mannheim on 5th of September 1943, crashed at Ludwigshafen.
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Sgt. Thomas Gill . Royal Air Force 115 Squadron from Ayr, Scotland (d.16th Nov 1942) I recently discovered an obituary clipping pasted inside a poetry book my grandfather gave to his second wife, my Scottish-descended step-grandmother. The name of the RAF pilot is Sergt. Thomas Gill, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gill of 149b Prestwick Road, Ayr. I would like to know who he was and how we are connected, plus his service record. I am guessing he was a friend or cousin of my step-grandmother, Margaret Cook Hall, whose parents Agnes and ? Cook came to Philadelphia in America from Glasgow. The obituary says Thomas Gill was educated at the Russell Street School and Ayr Academy prior to joining the Air Force in March 1941. He had been employed as a clerk with the Scottish Stamping and Engineering Works, Ayr.
I am a student of history, an English teacher and adjunct professor at a local college in Philadelphia, my paternal grandfather also served in WWII in Cuba, as well as my maternal uncle in the infantry in Germany and France. In addition, my father-in-law was an Army Air Corps air traffic controller from North Africa through Italy and Germany. This mysterious man intrigues me, and I would be interested in learning what became of his remains, his life story, and his family. I also have Scottish Highlander ancestry on my maternal grandfather's side.
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SAC. William Gill . Royal Air Force 210 Squadron from Glasgow, Scotland Bill Gill was my father, he was Assigned to Coastal Command 210 Squadron, then off to 1PRU and 540 Squadron at Station Benson in the early days of Photo Reconnaissance. He was posted after 1PDC to 156 Maintenance Unit, Northwest Africa Aircraft Repair Unit as a Senior Aircraftsman. I was 14yrs when he passed in May 1969 and I am now tracing his WWII experiences. His War Record states he was a Commercial Photographer in Civilian Life, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Sgt Alan Arthur Gill. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.12th Jun 1943) Bomb Aimer Allan Gill was killed on 12th Jun 1943 in Lancaster W4791 PH-W of 12sqd
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Fus. Frederick George Gillan . British Army 1st Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from Eltham, London (d.27th March 1945) Two weeks ago I lost my last uncle. When he died a few papers and information came to me about the first uncle who died and the first to die in W.W.2 in Italy. I have been trying to find out when and where he died and visit his grave as both my parents, when they were alive, wanted to go and pay their respects. Going by my mother's information, my Uncle Freddy, as my mum call him, died and was buried at Monte Cassino.
When I checked with the War Graves Commission they checked their records and could not find him. I only had his name and that he had died in Italy, was all the information my mother had. The papers that my uncle had showed that Uncle Freddy died on the 27th March 1945 and was buried and the reburied in Bologna Commonwealth War Cemetery in 1947 and that my uncle, unknown to my parents, had visited the cemetery in Bologna.
I contacted the C.W.G.C. who gave the information as to the name of the cemetery and his date of death, with his service number. I am trying to find out when my uncle joined up and where he served where and how he died. Any information you can provide will be gratefully received.
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Pte Joseph Gillan . British Army 2nd Btn Highland Light Infantry
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L/Cpl. Robert Gillan . British Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Sunderland (d.22nd March 1943) Lance Corporal Robert Gillan was serving with 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry during the Battle of the Mareth Line, unfortunately the Company he served in is unknown at present. He was killed in action on 22nd of March 1943 as were many other men from the 8th Battalion on that day. He may have died from enemy shell or tank fire during the intense enemy action of the 22nd, his remains were not found and he has no marked grave but his name is remembered with honour in the Medjez-El-Bab Memorial in Tunisia along with others of the 8th Battalion. He was 23 years old when he died and was the son of Henry and Mary Gillan of Sunderland, Co Durham.
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Sgt William Andrew Gillanders. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.12th Jun 1943) Nav. William Gillanders was killed on 12th Jun 1943 in Lancaster ED522 PH-U of 12sqd
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Cpl. Harold Victor Gillard . British Army from Reading My Grandad, Harold Gillard, served between 1943-1947. He got shot overseas in France. He is now 92 and lives by himself in Reading, I am one of 7 grandchildren, and he has 11 great grandchild and 1 great great grandchild.
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Flying Officer J E J Gillard . RAF VR 59 Squadron
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A/Sgt. Oswald John Gillard MID. Royal Air Force 150 Squadron from Bristol
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PO John Leonard Gillborn . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria from Nottingham
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Edward Charles Gille . United States Navy USS Saratoga from Chicago My Grandfather Edward Gille, served aboard the Saratoga during World War 2 as an Aircrewman. One of his last memories he writes about was the attack on Rabaul on November 11th, and how he and his pilot, "Smokey" Stover, we're hit. They were going to try to make it back to their ship, as neither wanted to bail out over Japanese territory. They had a fighter escort out of the area, but after that a decision had to be made. Bail out (No!), land back on the Saratoga (Not a popular idea with the crew and commanding officer due to the fact that they could lose control and cause serious problems, and cause damage to the flight deck and potentially injure crew members.), or ditch and (hopefully) get rescued. Opting for their third choice, they dumped their load and headed for the screen of destroyers around their carrier. Smokey tried to land as flat as possible, but it was still a hard hit, and my Grandfather hit on his left side, including his head. He doesn't know what happened to his pilot, Smokey, but eventually he was picked up by a rescue crew from one of the destroyers.
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Pte. Louis Gillen . British Army Black Watch from Enniskillen N. Ireland My father, Louis Gillen,joined the Ulster Rifles and was at El Alamein with the Black Watch. He was captured in Italy. I don't know where he was held, but he managed to escape and was re-captured again approx 12 months later. He was taken to Stalag XI A where he remained until the end of the war. I would love to hear what life was like there as my father never really spoke about it. Sadly he passed away in 2003 aged 81yrs.
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Pte. Louis Gillen . British Army Black Watch from Enniskille My father, Louis Gillen, was captured after the North African Campaign. He was captured in Italy but managed to escape twice. He joined the army with the Ulster Rifles but was attached to Black Watch in 8th Army. He was eventually captured and sent to Stalag 11a in Altengrabow. He remained there until they were liberated. He passed away in 1983. He was a wonderful man. Does anyone have any information on him as I would be delighted to hear anything.
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