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GF Glover . British Army Royal Armoured Corps
GF Glover 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.
Flt.Sgt. Henry Raymond Glover . Royal Air Force 7 Squadron from Chislehurst, Kent
(d.25th June 1943)
My brother, Henry Glover is mentioned in the "Memoirs of Group Captain T.G. Mahaddie: The story of a Pathfinder." The plane he was in was shot down over Holland and he is buried in Castricum Protestant Churchyard Noord, Netherlands. Plot J Coll.grave 6. His squadron flew Stirlings, from Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
CPO Herbert Frank Glover . Royal Navy HMS President 111 from Saltash
(d.8th June 1942)
J Glover . British Army
J Glover 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 J. Glover . 102 Squadron
Rflmn. John Robert Glover . British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade from London
My dad, Rifleman John Glover, was part of the expeditionary force and was captured in 1940. He spent the remainder of the war in Stalag VIIIB in Poland and was part of the long march.
Rflmn. John Robert Glover . British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade from London
Rfn. John Robert Glover . British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade from London
Pte. Leslie Glover . British Army 5th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.6th April 1943)
My great uncle Leslie Glover died at Wadi Akarit and is buried in the cemetery at Sfax, Tunisia.
Richard Glover . British Army South Staffordshire Regiment
I found this photograph found in a family album. Could he have been a boyfriend of my mother? Other than the details shown on the photograph I know nothing more about Dick Glover. If anybody recognises the man perhaps you will let me know?
WA Glover . British Army
WA Glover 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.
WC Glover . British Army Hampshire Regiment
WC Glover served with the Hampshire 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.
Stanislaw Glowacki . Royal Air Force
Does anyone remember Stanislaw Glowacki? He was stationed around Northallerton during the war and towards the end of the 1940s. He was a fighter pilot. He was killed in a motorbike accident in Northallerton in 1953, he was only 28 then so he would have been very young during the war.
Sgt. William Frank "Dick" Glue . British Army 1st Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment from Midhurst
(d.10th May 1943)
Dick Glue was my Nan's brother, he was born in 1914 and died in Tunisia in 1943.
F/O. R. L. Glyde . Royal Australian Air Force 87 Squadron (d.13th Aug 1940)
P/O. M Gnius . RCAF 434 Bluenose Squadron. (d.20th Jan 1944)
F/O. Mike Gnius . Royal Canadian Air Force 434 (Bluenose) Squadron from Regina, Saskatchewan
(d.20th Jan 1944)
Mike Gnius flew 6 missions in a Halifax; 5 as Middle Upper Air Gunner and 1 as Rear Air Gunner. On November 18, 1943 during an operation against Ludwigshafen, the aircraft was attacked by an FW 190. Rear Gunner Hill and MU/AG Gnius fired and F/O Brest took evasive action. F/O Brest and P/O Gnius were interviewed the following day and their account of the fight and flight back to base on 3 engines and an inoperable rear turret was reported in the Canadian Press. Also mentioned in the article were Wilf Kipp, James Snowsell and Jack Morgan.
ENA Goater . British Army
ENA Goater 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.
Pte. Edgar Warren Gobby . British Army 4th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from 158 March Road, Coates
Edgar Gobby is my Great Uncle, he served with the 4th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment.
CSM. George Arthur Godbold . British Army Leicestershire Regiment
George A. Godbold started as a boy soldier with Leicestershire Regiment in 1924. He became a POW following the Fall Of Singapore in 1942, and was sent to Fukuoka No. 17 after surving the sinking of the Japanese ship "Hofuku Maru".
Lt. John Ralph Mackie Godbold MC.. British Army 2/4th Btn, D Coy. Hampshire Regiment from Durban, South Africa
John Godbold was seconded from the South African Union Defence Force and served with the 2/4th Hampshire Regiment in Italy. He commanded 18 platoon D Coy.
He commanded Y crossing of the Gari River on the night of 11/12th May 1944 in the final battle of Cassino. His task was to ferry the 2nd Btn Kings and 2 Btn Somersets across the Gari. For his gallantry that night he was awarded the Military Cross. On 14th May he was wounded in the battalion attack on Massa Vertechi, an action for which the Regiment won a Battle Honour.
AP Goddard . British Army
AP Goddard 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.
Gdsmn. Cecil Lawrence Goddard . British Army Coldstream Guards from Partridge Green, Horsham
My late father, Cecil Goddard, I believe served with the Coldstream Guards from 1940 to 1945 in North Africa and Italy.
Gdsmn. Cecil Lawrence Goddard . British Army Coldstream Guards from Epsom, Surrey
Larry Goddard served in North Africa and Italy from 1943 to 1945. He was wounded on 11th of November 1943 at 11.00am.
Gdsmn. Cecil Lawrence Goddard MID.. British Army 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards
Guardsman Cecil Lawrence Goddard . British Army 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
S/Sgt. Denis George "Lofty" Goddard MID. British Army Royal Artillery from Bentworth, Hants
My Father Denis George "Lofty" "Badgie" Goddard joined the Royal Artillery Boys Service in Woolwich in 1938. His early wartime service 1939-42 included being a very young staff sergeant training anti tank crews in Wales, most of whom ended up in North Africa.
Overseas wartime service from 1943-45 included Special Operations Executive (SOE) attachment as radio operator in various Greek Islands followed by special forces operations in the Balkans, Northern Italy and Southern France in the following units:- Special Raiding Squadron (SRS), Raiding Support Regiment (RSR), and Special Air Service (SAS)
He finished the back end of the war in a 25 pounder RA unit (the Ayeshire Yeomanry) in Northern Italy (Argenta gap etc.) and Southern Austria where he was part of the operation that handed back to the Soviet Red Army the White Russian Cossacks who fought for the Nazis.
Post WW2 Lofty continued as a professional soldier until 1972. Units included 33rd RA, 66th RA, 7th RHA, 17 RA. Postings included:- India 1945/6 , Palestine 1946/7, Malaya 1950/52, Singapore 1952/53, Dusseldorf 1954/56? , Cyprus 1956?/60 then was UK based after that.
Lofty faded away in June 2007.
F/Lt. Gordon Frank Goddard . Royal Air Force 115 Sqd.
JE Goddard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps
JE Goddard 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.
LAC. John Rance Goddard . Royal Air Force from Shrewsbury
My father Jack Goddard told me of one experience he had at Marston Moor RAF station was retrieving very badly burned airmen from a plane crash. He also told me he met Guy Gibson and his CO Group Captain Chesire as he used to box for the RAF mainly against the US Airforce
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