Those who Served
Francis William "Frank" Guest . 2nd NZEF D Company 20th Battalion I'm trying find anyone who may remember my father, Francis (Frank) William Guest, a NZer who fought and was wounded in D Company (I think) of the 2ndNZEF (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force) 20th Battalion at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, Libya in November 1942 before being transferred (via about three Italian camps) to Campo 52 in Chiavari. He was moved to Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, just before Xmas day 1943. In the Italian camp and the German camp, he gave lectures, some of which were for courses accredited by the University of London external degree programme. I'm really keen to find anyone who attended his lectures which were on philosophy, psychology and law. I'm working on a short memoir of him for a history of the University of London external programme. The university has commissioned this history to mark the 150th anniversary of its external programme.
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Sidney Guest . Royal Navy HMS Manchester from Kidderminster, England) Sidney Guest joined the Navy aged 18. He served onboard HMS Manchester during Operation Pedestal, when the ship was torpedoed he was identified as 'essential personell', and transferred to HMS Pathfinder.
In 2006 he was made an honorary citizen of the Maltese capital of Valletta in a newspaper article published in the Dorset Echo at the time he said:
"In many ways it was a nice surprise, but it brought up a few things which I would rather forget.
"I was quite moved when I received it. There are a couple of small incidents I recall that still upset me. I was on action stations on the bridge the whole time. One colleague nearby was firing a gun at German bombers overhead when his gun got stuck. The plane was bearing down on us but I managed to clear the ammunition for him, and he shot it down just in time. Some of the memories are a bit vague, but other parts I remember clearly. I will never forget being on that deck, drowned in seawater. We had plenty of near-misses, and of course I was scared. But I was so busy, I had a job to do and got on with it. We were awake solidly for five days and four nights. How we kept our eyes open and wits about us all that time, I'll never know. I remember longing to get to Valletta to put my head down, but we never got there. Once the merchant ships were in, we got out of there as fast as we could.
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William Joseph Guest . Royal Navy |
Claudine Dorothy Guillaume . Womens Land Army My Aunt Claudine is now 94 years young. She is very proud to have received her Land Army badge and was thrilled to attend the special ceremony held at Guildford Cathedral on Sunday 23rd November 2008.
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W G Gulliksen . RNAF 57 Squadron I am looking for information about my uncle, Niels Christian Evensen, shot down near Dieppe, France on 17/12/1944. Is there anyone who remembers him?
The crew were:
Capt N.C.Evensen RNAF
F/S W.G.Gulliksen RNAF
F/O John Roger Garling RAF, 154595 (name on Runnymede Memorial)
Sgt H.G.Bjoroy RNAF
W/O Albert Thomason RAF VR 1117171 (buried Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery)
Sgt A.R.Powell RCAF
Sgt D.S.Scott RAF |
Molly Gunn . Land Army I served in the Land Army in Devon. |
F/O Peter Foley Gunter . RAF VR 101 Squadron from Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland ) (d.3rd July 1945) My uncle Peter Gunter served at Ludford Magna in 101 squadron as a bomb aimer/navigator. On completion of his ops he went to Canada to help train aircrew on Liberators and was killed when a plane taking off was put on same runway as a landing plane. His crew were all buried in abbotsford cemetery British Columbia. I would like to here from anybody who knew him in his time with the RAF VR. |
Phillip Gunyon . Merchant Navy SS. Athenia |
Mary Elma Guthrie Smith . Land Army I have found several photographs of women who served in the Land Army with my Mother. Their names, as far as I can gather are, B MacMurray (1941), Suzanne Buchanan, (Kippen, 1941), Anne Geddes, (Blairhill, 1946), Jean Galt & Agnes Day (1945, Taken in Dunoon), Mo McPherson (1945, Taken in Dunoon). |
Sgt. Charles Mathieson Guy . Royal Air Force flight eng. 514 Sqd. from Glasgow, Scotland) (d.30th Jul 1944) Charles Mathieson Guy stationed at Waterbeach from 1943
to mid Summer 1944 along with twin brother Robert Calder Guy. Both were killed in action during June and July '44.
Charles was lost when his aircraft went down returning from
Caen over the English Channel on the 30th July 1944. Robert went down at La Celle Le Bordes France on the 8th of June 44 and is buried in the village. Charles had survived a serious crash on return from Nuremburg on the 31st March 1944.
On return to Waterbeach they were baulked on finals by another Squadron aircraft and crash-landed while attempting
to go around. The crew were:
- P/O W.E.Chitty
- Sgt C.M.Guy
- Sgt L.A.Ive
- Sgt R.Fox
- Sgt A.B.Pattison
- Sgt C.Pratt
- Sgt J.Shepherd
Charles' second crew were lost without trace and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
- F/L W.E.Chitty
- Sgt C.M.Guy
- W/O L.A.Ding
- F/O W.S.Bonell
- F/S J.E.Richardson
- F/S E.W.Jenner
- F/S G.C.Wells
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Flight Sargeant Robert Calder Guy . RAFVR Air Rear Gunner 514 Sqdn from Glasgow, Scotland) (d.8th Jun 1944) Robert Calder Guy who along with twin brother Charles Mathieson Guy stationed at Waterbeach from 1943
to mid Summer 1944 when both were killed in action during June and July '44.
Robert went down at La Celle Le Bordes France on the 8th of June 44 and is buried in the village
along with two colleagues, his twin brother was lost when his aircraft went down returning from
Caen over the English Channel, I am trying to trace P/O W.L. Mc Gowan from Glasgow who evdaded capture
when Robert's aircraft came down or any person who was on the operation to bomb rail facilities in
tactial support at Massy Palaiseau.
Robert's crew was:
- P/O W.L.McGown
- Sgt J.Clarke
- W/O A.N.Durham RAAF
- P/O L.W.C.Lewis
- W/O K.E.Bryan RAAF
- F/S J.G.S.Boanson
- F/S R.C.Guy KIA
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F/S Robert Calder Guy . Royal Air Force 514 Squadron from Glasgow) (d.8th June 1944) I have been tracing my wife's late cousin F/S Robert C Guy and have come across the story of Sgt. J. Clarke who was in the same Lancaster Bomber that crashed landed at Le Celle Les Bordes on that fateful evening 8th June 1944, I have traced all the colleagues of Robert's plane, also traced Sgt J Clarke through Buchenwald C.Camp to Stalag 111. I would like to know if J Clarke is still alive or any relatives that has any knowledge of the crash, as we have visited the cemetery in France and the graves of the 3 colleagues who did not survive plus the 4th unknown person who died that night mentioned on the memorial put up by the French villagers in their memory. I would like to hear if P/O L.W.C Lewis is still alive or where he was taken when captured in Paris during Aug 1944 POW no. 86489 in Camp 12A/L1.
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