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F/Sgt. J. D. Hadlington . 97 Squadron
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L/Cpl. CP Hadlow . British Army Queens Bays L/Cpl.CP Hadlow served with the Queens Bays 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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PF Hadlow . British Army PF Hadlow 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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RH Hadlow . British Army RH Hadlow 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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RJ Hadlow . British Army RJ Hadlow 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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Cpl. William Thomas Hadlow MM. British Army 1st Btn. King's Dragoon Guards Cpl Hadlow was awarded the Military Medal for service in Egypt. The award was posted in the London Gazette of 16th February 1943. Other corps members awarded with him were:
Sgt. James Joseph Martin (Luton)
Sqd Sgt Mjr. Norman Henry Morgan (London)
Sgt. Benjamin Joseph Hogarth (Bradford)
Sgt. William Lay (Birmingham).
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LAC. Frederick Hadrick . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 84 Sqd. from Aycliffe, Co. Durham (d.16th Feb 1944)
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EF Hadwin . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment EF Hadwin served with the Kings Liverpool 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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Sgt. Maurice Ernest Haffenden . Royal Air Force 77 Sqdn. from Hailsham, Sussex (d.23rd September 1943)
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Jmdr. Abdul Hafiz VC.. British Indian Army 9th Jat Regiment from India (d.6th Apr 1944) Abdul Hafiz was a 19 years Jemadar in the 9th Jat Regiment when he was awarded the VC.
"On 6 April 1944 north of Imphal, India, Jemadar Abdul Hafiz was ordered to attack with his platoon a prominent position held by the enemy, the only approach to which was across a bare slope and then up a very steep cliff. The Jemadar led the assault, killing several of the enemy himself and then pressed on regardless of machine-gun fire from another feature. He received two wounds, the second of which was fatal, but he had succeeded in routing an enemy vastly superior in numbers and had captured a most important position."
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Jemadar. Abdul Hafiz VC.. British Indian Army 3rd Btn. 9th Jat Regiment from Rohtak, India (d.6th Apr 1944) Abdul Hafiz is buried in the Imphal Inidan Army War Cemetery in India.
He was the son of Nur Muhammad and Hamidan and husband of Jigri Begum, of Kalanaur, Rohtak, India.
Rge citation for his VC was published in the London Gazette on the 23rd July 1944:- "In Burma on 6th April 1944, 10 miles north of Imphal, the enemy had attacked and occupied a prominent feature. Jemadar Abdul Hafiz was ordered to attack with two sections up a completely bare slope, very steep near the crest. Jemadar Abdul Hafiz so inspired his sections that from the start the attack proceeded with great dash. The enemy opened fire with machine-guns and grenades, causing several casualties, but the assault continued without hesitation up the last few yards of the hill. Jemadar Abdul Hafiz was wounded, but seeing a machine-gun firing, he immediately went towards it and, seizing the barrel, pushed it upwards whilst another man killed the gunner. He again advanced, killing several of the enemy, but was badly wounded in the chest. He died shortly afterwards. The inspiring leadership and bravery displayed by Jemadar Abdul Hafiz in spite of having been twice wounded so inspired his men that the position was captured and severe casualties inflicted on the enemy. His complete disregard for his own safety, and his determination to capture and hold the position at all costs, were an example to all ranks."
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P/O A. Hagan . Royal Air Force 77 Sqd. P/O Hagan was in the same crew as my father John Gardner. Their Lancaster was shot down over Holland in the early hours of the 22md of June 1943. P/O Hagan evaded capture, the other survivors were taken as prisoners of war.
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D Hagan . British Army Durham Light Infantry D Hagan served with the Durham Light Infantry 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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James Hagan . USAAF I am 63yrs old and just found out who my father was.He was an american man called James Hagan and was in the USAAF. He was in the Yarnfield area in staffordshire in 1943 where he met my mother who was working in an ordnance factory there. I have only his name to go on. I have found a James Hagan who flew with a crew called Rohans Crew from Sudbury in 1944 hewas in the 833BS. I have come to a standstill if anyone has any information I would be very grateful
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T/Cpl. Samuel Hagan . Royal Air Force 129 Sqdn. I asked my father about what he did during the war and all he ever said was that he was a mechanic and worked on Spitfires. My father, Samuel Hagan was trained as fitter of engines at No.2 School of Technical Training. He served time as a mechanic at the maintenance unit before moving to 6129 Servicing Echelon associated with No.129 Squadron where the Spitfire picture was taken.
When my father passed at 98 he left me with a small shadow box that showed him sitting on the left wing 2nd from left on a Spitfire, along with 23 other crew members, a picture of him standing on a barrel working on a Spitfire, and his Squadron patch.
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Pfc. George J. Hage . US Army 2nd Battalion, HQ Co. Anti-Tank Platoon 84th Div, 334th Inf. Regt. from Ft. Plain, NY, USA
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JP Hagedorn . British Army JP Hagedorn 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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Paul Albert Hagedorn . United States Army 1st Armored Division Paul Hagedorn is my great uncle. This article about him by Mark H Hunter was published in the Denver Post on the 27th of May 2002:
'We were slaves; it was terrible' Vet survived Nazi camp, death march'
The best way to describe World War II veteran Paul Hagedorn is that he is a survivor.
The 84-year-old Army veteran survived some of the war's bloodiest battles, two years of starvation and slave labor in Nazi prison camps, and a grueling winter "death march" across Germany in the closing days of the war.
Hagedorn is also surviving a lifelong battle with war-related health problems and the effects of a stroke, a broken hip and two heart attacks.
"I can tell you things you wouldn't believe," Hagedorn said. "Sometimes I don't believe them myself." The only problem is, the terrible wartime memories overwhelm his emotional control and words can't come out - only tears.
"I don't know whether I feel fortunate or not. I feel guilty . . . so many of my buddies never came home," Hagedorn said after composing himself. "It was only by the grace of God. I don't know how else to look at it."
Hagedorn was born and raised on a potato farm in Southern Colorado's San Luis Valley. Drafted into the Army in 1940 and assigned to the 1st Armored Division, Combat Engineers, he built bridges and roads in North Africa.
His unit survived several battles with Gen. Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps, but it was overwhelmed in the 1943 Battle of Faid Pass. Hagedorn and others escaped only to wander in the Tunisian desert for six days before being captured.
"I carried a wounded buddy all night while we hid during the day," Hagedorn said. "The Americans kept pushing Rommel a day ahead of us. We couldn't find them."
Four miles from the American lines, near Kasserine Pass, Hagedorn was captured. His group was force-marched to Tunisia, then flown to Italy, packed into railroad cattle cars and moved to Germany, where he was incarcerated in several stalags POW camps.
While being held at Stalag 2B, the men were beaten and tortured while they dug ditches and rebuilt bombed-out factories, Hagedorn's wife Marjorie explained while he daubed his eyes. "The Lord kept him alive for me," she says, softly.
The men were transferred to Stalag 5B, where they worked in potato fields and chopped wood in nearby forests. For 27 months their only food was potato-sawdust soup.
"I was skin and bones. We were slaves," Hagedorn said. "It was terrible."
Malnutrition drained half his body weight, and endless labor ruined his back, denying him his postwar dream-job of operating a dairy farm.
Ironically, while Hagedorn's captors were beating him and confiscating his Red Cross packages, back home in the United States, German POWs incarcerated in the Monte Vista Armory were treated well, local historians say. Many German POWs worked on area potato farms, including Hagedorn's own family farm.
"They were doing what they felt was the right thing to do," Hagedorn said. He holds no grudge toward his farmer friends and family. "But it hurt me when I came home."
The winter of 1945 was one of Europe's coldest and was especially hard on men who were forced to work outdoors all day and sleep naked in unheated barracks.
"They'd take our clothes at night so we wouldn't escape," Hagedorn said. "Even if we did, we had nowhere to go."
As the Soviet Red Army swept across Europe, the Germans retreated, taking their captives with them.
Germans didn't want to be captured. They knew the Russians didn't take any German prisoners alive," he said. In early February, "in the dead of winter in knee-deep snow," he said, 12,000 Allied prisoners began walking across Germany. When Russian troops liberated them in early May, "there were only about 500 of us left.
I saw more hell there than at the front lines," Hagedorn said. "I had some buddies killed right in front of me."
As the war ended, so many American POWs were liberated that the Army gave them passes to make their own way to England. A week later Hagedorn was back in America.
There were no parades, no celebrations, no nothin'," Hagedorn said sadly.
He's raised a family, outlived his first wife, worked many jobs and now keeps busy puttering around the townhouse he shares with Marjorie, his second wife. They knew each other before the war but married others. After their spouses died in the 1980s they found each other again and renewed their love.
Hagedorn is a member of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Disabled Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He often spends quiet afternoons reading the "Ex-POW Bulletin," a monthly magazine that features several pages of "Taps" obituaries, evidence of America's loss of about 1,000 World War II veterans a day.
"There aren't too many of us left," Hagedorn said. "Out of 37 guys who served with me, only three of us are left."
As with many POWs, Hagedorn's war-related health problems were ignored by the Veterans Administration, and he didn't receive medical benefits until the mid-1950s.
He was also ignored when the Army passed out postwar medals. In 1996, after former U.S. Sen. Hank Brown called the Pentagon, he got his POW medal.
In spite of governmental neglect, he still loves his country.
"Glad I went, and I'm glad I could do what I did for my country - but when I came home, I was on my own," Hagedorn said. "I just don't know why it took them all these years."
His advice to young people considering a military career is cautious.
"It all depends. Some kids just can't find themselves, and they ought to try it. There are good opportunities for education and it's not a bad income," Hagedorn said. "I don't think I'd encourage my son to go, though."
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Pte. Frank K. Hager . United States Army from Huntington, WVA Frank Hager is my father-in-law. His service papers said he was a Prisoner of War at Stalag 7A Moorsburg Bavaria
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S/L D C Hagerman . RCAF 419 (Moose) Squadron S/L D C Hagerman J9656 was a pilot based at Middleton St George now Teeside airport and flew Lancaster's from this base for 419 RCAF Moose Squadron which included VR KB 734 F
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Staff Sergent William E Haggard DSM.. US Army Company H 12th Infantry Regiment from Kennett, MO, USA My grandfather, William Haggard was a mortar man, he was part of the first wave on D-Day, then fought through France and Belgium. I learned what little I know about his service through research. I saw 'When Trumpets Fade' without knowing my grandfather was involved in the battle that film was about. He was captured in Echternach, Luxembourg. I found out through a letter I found in his house that his squad was in a building basement and the Germans fired three artillery shells into the building and killed some of the men with him and they surrendered because they were out of ammo. They were then taken to Stalag 4B. He said they would be fed potato soup that "looked like one potato and 55 gallons of water". I admire him and all World War 2 veterans because in my mind he was a hero and there were literally millions of men in that war who were like him.
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R.S.M. Haggart . Army The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
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D Haggart . British Army D Haggart 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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JK Haggart . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JK Haggart 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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A Hagger . British Army Royal Armoured Corps A Hagger 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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Tpr. Albert James "Mick" Hagger . British Army Reconnaissance Corps from Pampisford, Cambridgeshire My father, Albert Hagger volunteered for service in WW2, and during his time he was evacuated from Dunkirk. He served as a tank driver. His regiment was reformed and sent to the Middle East, where he got to see the Holy Land. He was captured by the Germans and handed over to the Italians. I know he must have passed through Italy before he ended his war as a prisoner (number 226596) in Stalag IV-B in the Czech Republic. I'd love to know what happened to them between their capture and eventual release at the end of the war. I seem to recall him saying that they were forced to work down a mine.
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Tpr. Albert James "Mick" Hagger . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from Pampisford, Cambs My father Albert joined the Army in March 1939 aged 20. He enlisted in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment and became a trooper driver. He escaped from Dunkirk after sabotaging his truck by draining the sump and running the engine until it seized. Later he was posted to Egypt and fought in the epic tank battles, gaining and losing ground whilst driving a Matilda tank. He mentioned harrowing stories of recapturing ground and having to extract his dead comrades from destroyed tanks in desert heat conditions. That was all he ever told me and would say nothing more of his experiences there. He ended up in the Qattara Depression in the Western desert of Egypt where his battalion was surrounded by superior German forces and his CO ordered a surrender. He and others spiked their tanks with grenades down the barrels to the anger of the Germans! They were treated well and told to take all they could for a long march into captivity. Unfortunately, they were marched away and handed over to the Italian army as prisoners and were promptly robbed of all their belongings. I never found out how dad got to Sudetenland (now the Czech Republic). He was interred in Stalag 4C in Wistritz Bei Teplitz as POW No. 226596. He was put to work in the coal mine and told me they sabotaged the coal wagons by putting sand in the axles, but the Germans then made them carry on using them as a punishment! The only other story about camp life he spoke of was how for cigarettes from a friendly guard they offered to teach him English. After many months of coaching and cigarettes he proudly addressed his colleagues and declared in English, Me Gerry bastard! He was demobbed in January 1946 and earned the 1939-45 War Medal and Africa Star.
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Pte. Bernard Cecil "Billy" Haggerty . British Army 5th Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment from Chatham
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Ivan Haggerty . British Army from Bedlington Ivan Haggerty served in the British Army during WW2.
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GE Hagon . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GE Hagon 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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