KD Heap . British Army North Staffordshire Regiment KD Heap 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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P Heap . British Army P Heap 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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F/Sgt. R. Heap . 97 Squadron
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Stkr. Thomas Heap . Royal Navy
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Pte. John Richard Heaps . British Army Seaforth Highlanders My dad, John Heaps never talked much about the war He used to say "oh stop asking questions".
There was only one story he told us about which was during a battle. He and his mate had to dive into the hole and as they dived in, him one way his mate the other, his mate was blown literally in half straight down the middle whereas my dad had severe injuries to both legs.
What he saw of his mate haunted him till the day he died.
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C Heard . British Army C Heard 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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EF Heard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EF Heard 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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W/O John William Heard . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. (d.18th July 1943) W/O John William Heard was serving with 106 Squadron at the time of his death on 18th July 1943 in an accident on a gunnery training course. His Wellington III BK235 crashed 1 mile southeast of Appleby when it suffered a wing failure. The crew who died that day were:
Acting Sq.Ldr Philip Brandon-Trye, RAF (buried in Brigg Cemetery).
Group Capt Brian Everard Lowe, RAF (buried in Brigg Cemetery).
Wing Co Alister William Stewart Matheson, RAF (buried in Brigg Cemetery).
W/O John William Heard RAFVR (buried in Brigg Cemetery).
F/Sgt Daniel Breslin DFM, RAFVR (buried in Strabane Cemetery).
Group Capt Reginald Vere Massey Odbert, RAF (buried in Newark-upon-Trent Cemetery).
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Sgt. Kenneth William Heard . Royal Air Force 49 Squadron (d.12th Feb 1942) Sgt Kenneth Heard was posted to 49 Squadron in January 1942, based at Scampton in Leicestershire, flying Hampden bombers. He flew as Navigator on Operation Fuller - the Channel Dash - the operation to prevent the breakout of the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen from Brest.
His first mission in January was against the ships in Brest. He then attacked the ships in the Channel on 10th February, without success, and on his third mission on 1942-02-12 the aircraft and its crew, Pilot Sgt Phillips, W/OP Sgt Jackson, Sgt Toghill, Air Gunner and Sgt Kenneth Heard failed to return.
In recent months, Bomber Command had dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs on the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the light cruiser Prinz Eugen as they resided in the French port of Brest. The two larger ships had both been badly damaged, and the threat of further damage had prevented the ships from sailing out into the Atlantic on another raid against allied shipping. In a daring and well-executed operation, the Germans sailed their 3 ships straight up through the English Channel to bring them back to the greater protection of a German port.
What followed on the part of the British Command has since been labelled as a catalogue of catastrophes, needless to say that the German warships achieved their destination unharmed. Heavily armed and protected by the Luftwaffe, the Germans exacted a heavy toll during the gallant British attempts to stop their breakout; Fighter Command lost 16 aircraft and the Fleet Air Arm had 6 Swordfish destroyed.
Bomber Command's part in the action involved 244 aircraft of which 15 were lost in action, and a further 2 crashing on return. Only 5 Group had been on a 4 hour stand by, as bomber Squadrons made frantic efforts to prepare their aircraft. Eventually, 5 Group contributed 64 Hampdens and 15 Manchesters to attack the German warships; 9 Hampdens were reported missing and one crashed on return.
49 Squadron's participation was prompted by a signal from Group received at 10.00hrs requesting 20 aircraft to attack the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at sea!
Cpl Trevor Simpson recalled the urgency with which the preparations were carried out, and he is almost certain that this was the occasion when the Hampdens were taxied into a hangar, bombed up and then taxied out!
In low cloud and rain with extremely poor visibility, only 3 of the squadron's aircraft found the primary target.
It is now believed that two of the aircraft were shot down by German fighters, AE132 piloted by F/Sgt Charles Pollitt and AE396 flown by Sgt Edward Phillips. What we do know for certain is that these two crews plus that of Sgt Mervyn Holt (AE240) disappeared into the dark waters of the North Sea without trace
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Stanley Heard . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Pte. Walter Thomas Heard . British Army 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards Wally Heard served with the 3rd Grenadier Guards and was in Sgt Reike's Squad.
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William Garfield Heard . Royal Navy Sto HMS Maidstone from Marhamchurch, Cornwall
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H Hearder . British Army H Hearder 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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A Heargren . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment A Heargren served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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. Alec Frederick Hearn . British Army Royal Berkshire Regiment from Reading, Berkshire Alec F Hearn was a prisoner of war in Italy at 66 Capua transit camp. Ray, his son, doesn't know much and wants to know if anyone knew of the experiences he or others had in the camp. He came home after release and died in 1946, when Ray was 18. Ray is now at 90 would like to know the cause of death.
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Sig. Derek James Frederick Hearn . Royal Navy HMS Europa from Norwich, Norfolk Derek Hearn served in HMS Europa and I know he sailed on Arctic convoys and so far have found the Europa on his records. He recalled, as signalman, being on the bridge of the ship during attacks on the convoy and seeing what happened. He remembered arriving at a Russian port (Murmansk?) and that many of the workers at the port were women because the men were away fighting. He said if anyone was caught stealing they were made stand barefoot on the frozen ground.
As children, we were told the story of how a submarine was picked up by the ship's radar, depth charged and, as it rose to the surface, turned out to be a (blue?) whale.
He was told that he was lucky not to be able to swim because no-one should expect to rescued! I am trying to find out more about my father's war service.
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F/S Douglas Charles Norman Hearn . RAF w/op 15 Sqd (d.16th Nov 1944) I am looking for any information or anyone who may remember my Wife’s Uncle, Flight Sergeant (W.op/Air.Gnr) Douglas C N Hearn (Dougie) who was reported killed in action on 16/11/1944 in Lancaster III serial PB137 code LS-U from 15 Squadron.
The other members of the crew who were also reported killed in action were
Flt Lt (Nav) F G Sanders RNZAF,
F/O (Nav) C Stevenson RNZAF,
Sgnt (Bmb. Aim) A S Booth,
Sgnt (Flt.Eng) H J Bate,
Sgnt (Air.Gnr) J J Franklin,
Sgnt H Clayton
One member of the crew did manage to survive
Wing Commander (Pilot) W D G Watkins DSO DFC DFM
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Sgt. Eric Richard Hearn . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 138 Sqdn. (d.19th July 1944) Sgt Hearn served in 138 Squadron at Tempsford. He was killed on July 1944 at St Pair Sur Mer in France in Operation Shipwright 9 in a Halifax LL837-NF-P. The full crew were:
F/Lt H.D. Binns, Airbomber
F/O N.L.StG. Pleasance, Pilot
Sgt J. Allison, Airgunner
Sgt W.L. Dalglish, Airgunner
Sgt T.F. Fergus, Navigator
Sgt E.R. Hearn, Flt. Engineer
Sgt R.L. Lee, Wop/Airgunner
Sgt Allison and Sgt Lee are buried in Bayeux War Cemetery. Sgt Dalglish is buried at Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery and the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
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GAT Hearn . British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment GAT Hearn served with the Royal Warwickshire 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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Lt Cmdr H N C Hearn . RAF 825 Squadron My father was captured after running out of fuel over Norway, and interned
at Stalag Luft 3. His name is Lt Cmdr. H.N.C Hearn, 825 Squadron; he sadly passed away just before his 89th birthday December 2004.
I remember as a child Pete Butterworth coming round to see Dad with his new Austin Healey Sprite and occasionally we would also
meet Rupert Davies (of Maigret fame).
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Reginald John Hearn . Auxiliary Fire Service
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Pte. Robert Charles Hearn . British Army 30th Btn. East Kent Regiment (Buffs) from Acton London My Grandad started off in the 30th Buff then trained with No 12 Infantry Training Company and the 44 Special Training School and the 50 Special Training School. I do not know much about his time in the War as he would not speak about it but my Grandmother has told me how he went cow riding in Norway and was blown up while looking after a spy.
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Pte. Cecil "'Pop'" Hearnden . Army Royal Army Service Corps from Sulina Rd, Brixton Hill, Sth London My father served in WW1 having falsified his age to join up. He was in the reserve at start of WW2. and went with the BEF to France. During retreat to Dunkirk, he was in ambulance with other wounded and didn't make it to the beaches. They holed up in a barn for a few days but was captured by the Germans and ended up in Stalag XXB. From what I can find out this was the only camp in that area,but I distinctly remember my Mother addressing letters' Nr Konigsburg'. He said very little about his experiences, but he told us he was on the' Long March' he owed his life to a german soldier who dug up vegetables from the fields. I'm just getting around to doing my family history! If anybody can help I'll be very grateful.
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G Hearnden . British Army Middlesex Regiment G Hearnden served with the Middlesex 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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Ronald Hearne . Royal Air Force from Flackwell Heath, Bucks My wife's grandfather, Ronald Hearne, served in the RAF in Canada during WWII. Does anyone remember him or served with him in Canada?
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RW Hearsey . British Army RW Hearsey 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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S Hearson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps S Hearson 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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H G Heasman . British Army York and Lancaster Regiment H Heasman served with the York and Lancaster 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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Heath . British Army Heath 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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AR Heath . British Army AR Heath 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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