Sqd.Ldr. John Theodore Hanafy . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 180 Squadron (d.25th May 1943) John Theodore Hanafy died aged 25, born in Bromley in 1918 he was the son of John (real name Mohammad) Zaky Hanafy and the late Agnes May Hanafy (nee South) of Jarrow
John is buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension. He iscommemorated at Cambridge University Peterhouse World War 2 War Memorial
and also on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
From other research: The following is posted on the Airfield Information Exchange website blog but is only an assumption:
A 1943 B25 Mitchell crash which has left three crewmembers buried in a local (Pende) cemetery. The aircraft, part of a flight of Mitchells of 180 Squadron (based then at Foulsham) came down on 25 May 1943 near Pende, ten minutes from St.Valery-sur-Somme. They had semi-successfully attacked Abbeville airfield, which had by then become the home of the "Abbeville Boys", a gang of Focke-Wulf 190's who played havoc with allied bombers. Three of the four-man crew of the B-25 are buried at Pende, Gunners DRN Reynolds and J Palmerley and Navigator RJ Fowler, yet the pilot, Squadron Leader JT Hanafy lies in Abbeville Cemetery, and I am again puzzled as to why the team has been separated in this way.
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AD Hanberger . British Army Royal Tank Regiment AD Hanberger served with the Royal Tank 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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Pte. Walter Hanbury . British Army Middlesex Regiment from Riddings, Derbyshire. On an International Red Cross document list Walter Hanbury as being transferred to Stalag 344 on 17th of April 1944 and also lists 10th Battalion Arbeits Stalag Konigshutte.
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William Hanclosky . US Army Air Force I am looking for anyone that served with William Hanclosky in the USAAF at Bovingdon in 1944
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A Hancock . British Army North Staffordshire Regiment A Hancock served with the North Staffordshire 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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2nd Lt. Denys Hallen Hancock . British Army 6th Royal Tank Regiment Royal Tank Corps from Knightsbridge, London (d.20th November 1941) Second Lieutenant Denys Hancock, lost his life on 20th of November 1941 at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, His father and brother were also in the military.
His brother, Clarence Henry Bramley Hancock, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (USA). He was a captain in the RFA. As a FOO he was awarded his medal for gallantry during the battle for Suggerath, Germany.
His father, Ralph Hancock was a successful and famous landscape architect.
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FE Hancock . British Army 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment FE Hancock served with the 3rd Btn Royal Tank 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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Sea. Fredrick George Hancock . Royal Navy HMS Cornwall from Islington London
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Private George Harvey Hancock . Army Lincolnshire Regiment (d.5th October 1944) During the second World War the Allied and German soldiers, who were killed in Goirle, Noord Brabant, the Netherlands and in the neighbourhood, were buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery from the parish St. Jan in Goirle.
After the war the remains of the German soldiers were reburied in Ysselsteijn (near Venray) and most of the allied soldiers were reburied in Bergen op Zoom (War Cemetery and Canadian War Cemetery) and in Leopoldsburg (Belgium, War Cemetery).
At this moment there are 27 Allied graves in Goirle. Every year we commemorate the victims of World War II, both soldiers and civilians. We know their names, but who were the persons behind the names? What were their lives before they died? Where did they come from? How did they die? Under what circumstances?
It is my intention to give the victims a face, to write and keep the story behind the gravestones because we always will remember the soldier who died for our liberty. We can forget names, but not faces. I will try to write down all their stories for the next generation so they will know who was commemorated.
Maybe someone can help me with Private George Harvey Hancock, lincolnshire REgiment 14725238, who died on the 5th October 1944, age 19.
Send me a letter or an e-mail with additional information, a photograph or a copy of any personal document, which I can use for The Memory Book or a website. Thank you in advance for your help.
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HH Hancock . British Army HH Hancock 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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HL Hancock . British Army South Staffordshire Regiment HL Hancock served with the South Staffordshire 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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John Ernest Hancock . Royal Air Force from Amersham,Bucks My father Jack Hancock served as a Ammunition Truck Driver. My mum recently died and amongst her belongings was a photo of dad and his pals lined up in front of, I think, a Lancaster. The details on the reverse give his Squadron number and the year 1942.
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Pte. Kenneth Hancock . British Army 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment from Meir, Stoke on Trent My father, Kenneth Hancock, fought at Arnhem and was POW thereafter until release in April 1945. For some of the time he was in Stalag 12A at Limburg and worked at coke ovens at Malsch from Novermber 1944 until January 1945. He was also in Poland initially but I do not know where.
He was part of one of the Death Marches.
He died in 1995 and I am trying to piece together his wartime experience for myself and is grandchilden.
I would appreciate any information you may have.
Thank you
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Pte. Kenneth Hancock . British Army 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment from Meir, Stoke on Trent Kenneth Hancock enlisted aged 18 in 1943. Fought at Battle of Arnhem in B Company, 2nd South Staffords under Major Cain.
He was taken POW at Oosterbeke in September 1944 and transported to Stalag XIIA Limburg, as POW No. 93200, initially before being transferred to Stalag VIIIC at Sagen, Poland. As a private he worked as Arbeitskommando in a sugarbeet factory and a coke plant. He then took part in a death march westwards being liberated near Munich in April 1945. He always felt he was lucky to have survived the depravations and had many stories to tell.
After 9 months home leave he was transferred to the Royal Artillery Army Reserve until demob late 1946.
He attended the 10th Commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in 1954 and died in 1995 having visited the 50th Commemoration the year before.
I shall be visiting Arnhem in September 2019 for the 75th Commemoration along with his three grandsons. We are all very proud of his wartime service.
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2nd.Radio.Off. Norman Hancock . Merchant Navy SS Medjerda (d.17th Mar 1941) Norman Hancock who died when the SS Medjerda was sunk, was aged 27 born in South Shields in 1913, the son of William and Isabella Hancock (nee Smith) of South Shields and the husband of Christina Hancock (nee Gray) of Jarrow.
Norman is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Coder. Ronald Richard Hancock . Royal Navy HMS Brixham from Camberwell, London My father, Ronald Hancock was born in September 1924. He attended the Caldecot Road Junior Mixed school London and then the Loughborough Central School in London from 1936 to November 1939. He was an child evacuee and was sent to Swanage. By all accounts he enjoyed his time there.
He tried to enlist in the RAF but was rejected because he was under age and the RAF required a birth certificate. He then tried the navy, who were not as particular, and was enlisted in April 1942. He served in the Mediterranean on the minesweeper and convoy escort HMS Brixham as a Coder until being discharged in March 1946.
He worked in London until emigrating to Australia in April 1955 with my mother and three children (including me). He had a successful life in Australia and returned periodically to the UK to visit family. He passed away in December 2014.
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SF Hancock . British Army SF Hancock 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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Sid Hancock . Royal Air Force I am looking for anyone who knew, or served with my grandfather, Leslie Hermiston-Hooper, during the Second World War, specifically the following:
Syd Hancock
P. Vaughan
A. Haxman
Alex Henshaw.
All of these, I believe, flew with him on April 16th 1940. I have a photograph which he took on that day from the cockpit of his Whitley Bomber.
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Pte. William Henry Hancock . British Army 1/5th Btn Leicestershire Regiment from Leicester (d.22nd Feb 1945) William Henry Hancock was my mother's cousin. He served with the 1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. I was always led to believe he was a prisoner of war in Japan, but through research I find he was a prisoner in Poland at Stalag xxa and Stalag 357. He is buried in a cemetery outside Berlin. He died on 22nd February 1945 I presume not long after he arrived there after the 'Death march.' from Poland. I know very little about him, just his name and the story of being a prisoner in Japan. I think what makes his story so sad, is that his mother Harriet Hancock, had 13 children, William being the youngest. Eleven of the children died as babies or toddlers, then William died in the war. He had one surviving brother named Fred.
I am pleased I did find a little more about his short life. He was 25 when he died.
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Wing Cmdr. Mortimer Nugent "Hank" Hancocks MiD.. Royal Air Force from Birmingham My Father, Mortimer Hancocks, served with the Royal Air Force in WW2. He flew Sopwith Camels in WW1, ending as a Flight Lieutenant, promoted to Squadron Leader, then Wing Commander.
He was sent to Canada to help with training pilots for WW2. My Mother, Ida Mary Hancocks, later joined him there. I have at least four photograph albums of his journey across Canada from east to west (Weyburn)
I know he had four medals and a Mention in Despatches but I do not know what that was for. I just have the certificate signed by Winston Churchill.
I would like to find out more of his time there, warts and all.
Dad died 1968
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Alice Hancox . Women's Land Army from Pontefract, Yorkshire My mother Alice Hancox joined the Land Army and served in Cumberland.
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L/Sgt. George Roland Hancox . British Army 617 Assault Sqn. Royal Engineers from Hillfields, Coventry (d.17th April 1945) Lance Serjeant Hancox was the son of James and Fanny Geraldine Hancox; husband of Iris Hancox of Hillfields, Coventry.
He was 34 when he died and is buried in the Ede (Otterlo) General Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherland.
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H Hancox . British Army H Hancox 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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SA Hancox . British Army 50th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment SA Hancox served with the 50th Btn. Royal Tank 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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HW Hand . British Army HW Hand 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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J Hand . British Army J Hand 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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K Hand . British Army Royal Armoured Corps K Hand 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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R Hand . British Army R Hand 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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SE Hand . British Army SE Hand 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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