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F/O. Wallace Kenneth Hutton . Royal Air Force from Beaconsfield, Tasmania (d.21st Jan 1944) Ken Hutton, my father's cousin and hero, was born in Beaconsfield, Tasmania in 1921. He grew up into a tall, handsome, smart and extremely successful athlete who won Australia's most prestigious running race, the Stawell Gift, in 1941.
He joined the RAF soon after, at the age of 21. Once in England he piloted a Lancaster bomber of 5 Group with his crew including 3 other Australians - Geoff Breaden,Ron Walker and Alan McInnes. 2 Englishmen "Taffy" Lightfoot and Ron Easton and an Irishman, James "Paddy" Houston.
On 8th of January 1944 he married Gabrielle Savage, a WAAF, whom he had met when she drove the men out to their planes each night. After a brief honeymoon he returned to duty.
Less than two weeks after his wedding, on the night of 21st of January 1944, he was part of a huge mission to Magdeburg, Germany. During the flight the plane was shot at by a Focke Wulf 190 nightfighter. On the first burst the two left side engines were hit. The nightfighter then turned around and on the second turn the two gunners (Easton and Walker)were killed. Damage was massive and Ken ordered a bailout, staying at the controls to give the other men a chance to jump. All 4 jumped clear and were taken prisoner after being attacked and nearly killed by local Germans.
Ken is officially said to have died in the plane crash. However, one of his crew members believes that he landed safely in his parachute and died at the hands of the Germans.
His mother is said to have never recovered from the loss. He left behind many heart-broken aunts, uncles, cousins, brother and parents, as well as his new wife, Gay.
My father died 2 years ago. In my living memory, I never saw him speak of Ken without becoming emotional. As I write now, I can remember so clearly his lip trembling, and a tear forming in one eye. It was a bitter loss for a young boy. Remembering Ken is part of me honouring my father's grief. I am also so aware that many of these men died at such a young age that they didn't have their own children or grandchildren to carry on their memory, and so I do this in my father's name too.
An interesting aspect of this story is that after the war, Ken's widow Gay, came to Australia to meet her in-laws, staying for a couple of years. Dad was in awe of her. A few years later she re-married but she remained close to her Hutton in-laws, with visits between the families over the years. In the 90s her husband David researched and built a model of the ship that had brought the Hutton ancestors out to Australia in the 1850s which he gave to my father and I now have.
At my own wedding, David sent out to Australia, as gifts, two beautiful silver-plated dishes that had been handmade by Gay before she developed Alzheimers. She has passed away now.
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NV Huxley . British Army NV Huxley 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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Cyril Huxtable . Royal Navy HMS Victory from Grimsby Cyril Huxtable was a telegraphist on HMS Victory from 28th of September 1940 to 25th of October 1940.
He also served on HMS Pembroke, HMS Claverhouse, HMS Quebec, HMS Salsette, HMS Salsette III, HMS Braganza III, HMS Copra, HMS Calliope, HMS Mauritius during 1938 - 1946. He was recalled for 18 months in April 1952 as PO Telegraphist on HMS Neptune but was released early in November 1953.
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F. A. G. Huzinga . British Army F. Huzinga served with the British Army. I had his dogtags and was delighted to get them home to his family.
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VG Huzzey . British Army VG Huzzey 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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Pte. Sydney Hyams . British Army 7th Battalion Black Watch from Hightown, Manchester (d.23th October 1944) Sydney Hyams served with the 7th Battalion, Black Watch.
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AE Hyde . British Army Royal Armoured Corps AE Hyde 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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Capt. Bert Hyde . British Army South Wales Borderers My father, Capt Bert Hyde of the SWB and Welch Regiments, was in Oflag XIIB at Hadamr, Franfurt-am-Main. He mentioned that the British prisoners knew that many people were entering the camp next door but few re-emerged. Was this the death camp of Hadamr? He also told of being marched out of the camp by the SS and then being returned to the camp.
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F Hyde . British Army F Hyde 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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Frederick Henry Leonard Hyde . British Army Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment from Croydon, Surrey
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Dvr Frederick James Hyde . British Army 23rd Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from Swindon
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Flt.Sgt. Galbraith M. D. Hyde . Royal New Zealand Air Force Flight Sergeant Galbraith M.D. Hyde served with the New Zealand Air Force during WW2 and was interned at Stalag XXA Thorn Pogorz, Poland. POW number 27495.
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L/Cpl. Geoffrey Hyde . British Army 4th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment from Ashton-under-Lyne My Dad, Geoff Hyde served in the 4th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment from February 1940. He has documented his experiences in a War Diary which he compiled shortly before his death in January 2009.
My Dad was captured during the battle for Tobruk in June 1942. He was wounded as a result of an argument with a German guard during a move from a POW camp in Benghazi to a camp in Tripoli and ended up in a military hospital in Caserta. He always said he had good memories of the way the Italian military treated the wounded and POWs. When his condition improved he was sent to a POW camp PG60 near Capua and then to one known as PG70 near to Fermo in a small town called Valtenna. The camp was across the road from a small chemical plant which is still there. When Mussolini surrendered they were all transferred to camps in Germany and he went to Chemnitz and eventually escaped from a cross country march as the Allied forces advanced on the Germans in April 1945 and met up with a group of American forces who he had a hard time persuading to accept he was British.
During his time in Camp PG70 he was involved in the production of a Camp 'magazine' called Lager Life. I have almost the full set of copies of this.
Fortunately, he took a Kodak Brownie camera with him when he was posted overseas and somehow this made its way back to his parents home when he was hospitalised in Cairo during the breakout from Tobruk in 1941.
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Ken "Tex" Hyde . Royal Canadian Air Force
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Cpl. RJ Hyde . British Army 15/19th Hussars Cpl.RJ Hyde served with the 15/19th Hussars 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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Cpl. Henry Thomas Hyder . British Army Dorsetshire Regiment from Coulsdon, Surrey
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Cpl. A Hydes . British Army Royal Armoured Corps Cpl.A Hydes 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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L/Bmbdr. Norman Hyett . British Army Royal Artillery
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Capt. Eric David Hyland . British Army 68th Medium Royal Artillery from Shipley (d.16th June 1944)
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Lt. Col. Finbarr Cornelius Hyland . British Army No 7 Field Hygiene Section Royal Army Medical Corps from Beecholm, 75 South Parade, Pudsey, West Yorkshire My dad Finbarr Hyland never really talked about the war, and he died when I was 13.
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Sgt Jack Hyland . British Army 64th Field Regiment Royal Artillery Jack Hyland served with the 64th Field Regiment Royal Artillery in WW1.
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P/O Peter Joseph Hyland . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 101 Sqdn. (d.29th July 1944) ABC Lancaster SR-V2 (LM462) from 101 Squadron, Ludford Magna was shot down near Orleans, France 28/29th July 1944.
All the crew were killed in action on this mission and are buried in Rebrechien Communal Cemetery. The crew were:
F/Sgt C.E. Smith - navigator
Sgt J. Hodgson - flight engineer
Sgt E.R. Brown - airgunner
Sgt T. Crane - airbomber
Sgt W.H. Engelhardt - wop
P/O P.J. Hyland - pilot
Sgt J.T.V. Moore - wop
P/O A.W. Turri - airbomber
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Pte Roger Lee Hymer . British Army 4th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) from Thornaby, Yorkshire My father, Roger Hymer served with 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). Recruits were trained at Bourton on the Hill, Moreton in Marsh, Cotswold.
Roger served in the 150th Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division at Arras, fighting for the BEF in France. Later to withdraw to Dunkirk after heavy fighting.
The unit was then sent to North Africa where the 150th Brigade, located at the Caldron became depleted of ammunition and were captured.
The prisoners were taken to PG 66 Capua and PG 53 Sforzacosta Macerata in Italy then finally to Stalag XVII B in Austria.
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Doreen Hynam . Land Army Doreen worked with me in Somerset, I would love to get in touch with her again.
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Herbert John Hynds . British Army 20 DID Royal Army Service Corps from Barnsley, Yorkshire Herbert John Hynds, my Uncle Bert, was my mother's brother and sadly no-one of that generation is still alive. I know that my uncle was in the British Army during WWII and from the few photographs taken of him at that time I can see that he was in 20DID RASC.
After the war he gave me a bracelet made of a silver coloured material. It consists of eight linked segments, all slightly rounded, each about half-an inch square. Each segment is stamped with a place name - Livorno, Africa, Napali, Pisa, Naples, Roma, Siena and Sicily. A photograph taken during the war shows him and 42 colleagues standing in front of St Peter's, Rome, Italy. Another taken in Durban, South Africa, is of Bert and two friends, all wearing shorts, shirts and forage caps riding in a local "taxi"/ricksaw, which can best be described as an open- topped two-wheeled sawn-off carriage which is being pulled by a South African in native clothing and wearing a very elaborate headdress. Another treasure he gave me after the war was an oblong cocktail watch with a bevelled glass and a plaited silk strap which has been replaced many times since. Bert told my Mum that he gave 2lbs of sugar for it and it came from Italy. Finally I have his medals.
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Pte. Frederick Frances Hynes . British Army 2nd Parachute Battalion Air Corp from Brighton, UK My late father, Frank Hynes, was in the 2nd Parachute Battalion of the Army Air Corps. He came from a long line of professional army men, enlisting in the 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards as a boy aged 14.
He served in North Africa and Italy and was captured at Arnhem where he received a gunshot wound to his left forearm. He was transferred Prisoner of War to Fallingbostel, Stalag 11B on 25th September, 1944 and was released on 23 April 1945.
He went home to Brighton, UK and worked in the Special Constabulary, a bar manager at the British Legion Club at Shoreham-by-Sea and as a diamond polisher in Brighton and London.
He emigrated to Sydney, Australia at the age of 30 where he met and married my mother.
He worked as a Plant Controller at the Shell Oil Refinery for many years, then as a Clerk of the Court. He died in 1978 of a stroke at the age of 56.
I was 23 when he died, and had not talked to him in detail about his war service or time as a POW, I had no idea really until recently when I began to look at my family history and obtained his military records. I would love to know more if anyone has more information regarding his service.
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GJ Hynes . British Army GJ Hynes 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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Joan Hynes . Womens Land Army Our Mum, Joan Hynes, was in the Farthingstone Hostel Litchborough in 1945/46 from the age of 16 or 17. We have no idea how long she served. She talked about a very tall woman who befriended her in the Land Army and is next to her in the group photo I found.
She met my father John Rickards at the Old Lion Pub through his father Lawrence (Yank) Rickards. They were engaged for 5 years while Jack served in the British Army of Occupation after WW2.
When she turned 21 she told her father that she was going to Kenya to marry her Rhodesian sweetheart. Mum travelled on a troop ship to Mombasa. Mum and Dad married in 1951 in Kenya whilst Dad was still in the British Army during the Mau Mau War. In 1953 they moved to Rhodesia where my Dad started farming with his Uncle Chummy Acutt. Dad eventually bought his own farm and Mum and Dad farmed in Centenary. Dad died at 58 of cancer and Mum passed away at 72 after a long illness.
We had a wonderful life growing up on the farm, going to boarding school, and being around Mum and Dad till their last days.
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P/O. Terence Gearld "Turlough" Hynes DFC.. Royle Air Force 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron from Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland Terence Hynes was shot down during a bombing raid on oil refinery in Glenererhin on the night of 29th of August 1940 and was a POW until May 1945 and as far as I know he was in Oflag VI B.
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A/Cpl. Wallace F R "Snow" Hynes . New Zealand Army from New Zealand My father, Wallace Hynes, served with the New Zealand Army in WW2 and was a prisoner of war in Italy and in Stalag 6A, I am looking for information, if anyone remembers him or his diaries.
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