Pte. Leslie Jennings . British Army 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry from Bristol (d.11th July 1944) Leslie Jennings was part of Operation Jupiter launched on 10th July 1944 to capture Hill 112.
He was killed in action a day later and was initially buried near Hill 112 before being re-interred at Banneville-La-Campagne War Cemetery.
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M Jennings . British Army M Jennings 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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2Eng.Off. Noel Patrick Jennings KCBC. Merchant Navy MV Empire Light (d.7th Mar 1943) Noël Patrick Jennings was lost at sea aboard the MV Empire Light en route from Manchester to New York, when the ship was attacked by U-638 South West of Cape Farewell. Aged 41 he was born in Jarrow in 1901. He was the son of Elizabeth Marion Jennings (nee Cocker) and the late Dr. William Munro Jennings (Surgeon) of Jarrow. He was the husband of Margaret Jennings (nee Amor) of Benton, Northumberland.
His older brothers Herbert Lowther and Eric Kingsley Jennings were of the fallen in WW1.
Noel is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
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NR Jennings . British Army NR Jennings 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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Sgt. P. J. Jennings . 102 Squadron
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PR Jennings . British Army PR Jennings 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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RA Jennings . British Army RA Jennings 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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RF Jennings . British Army RF Jennings 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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RJ Jennings . British Army RJ Jennings 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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Able Seaman Robert Harry Jennings . Royal Navy HMS Forfar from Kilburn, Middlesex (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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LACW Sydney Jennings . Royal Air Force 621 Squadron I know my father, Sydney Jennings, served in Mersa Matruh Egypt with 621 Squadron. Any friends or information very welcome
He died 6-1-1959
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WD Jennings . British Army WD Jennings 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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William Ernest Jennings . Auxiliary Fire Service from Birmingham My grandfather, Will Jennings had been badly injured whilst serving in France during WWI but it didn't stop him volunteering to join the Auxiliary Fire Service at the outset of WW2. The selection process involved climbing an extension ladder and although he had some difficulties with his leg, he didn't let that put him off and he completed the challenge. He worked as a plater during the day and then was based at Handsworth where he, my grandmother (who served in the ARP) and my mother lived. I remember my grandmother saying that when the enemy action was intense they could go several days without seeing each other. My grandfather was one of the officers involved when the Bull Ring was heavily bombed and his role was to ensure that there was sufficient water to tackle the fires. By creating pontoons they were able to re-cycle the water and save the area including St Martin's Church. He passed away on 15th September 1955.
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L/Sgt. Uriah Jennison . British Army 5th Btn. Highland Light Infantry from Bishop Auckland (d.30th December 1944)
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Fireman. Frederick James Jenns . National Fire Service from Forest Hill Frederick Jenns served with the National Fire Service in London.
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Nancy Marion Jenns . National Fire Service Fire Force HQ. Avery Hill from Forest Hill Nancy Jenns worked at Fire Force HQ, Avery Hill on the switchboard. She joined up during the war and on one occasion actually passed my father walking up to HQ. He failed to recognize her as she passed, as she had not told him she was joining the National Fire Service. Mum was also commissioned as an officer, my father failed to recognize that fact as he walked past.
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Pte. Laurits Sigvard Jensen . British Army General Service Corps. from Hinnerup, Denmark (d.4th November 1946) Laurits Jensen was the son of Niels Kristian and Margrethe Jensen of Hinnerup, Denmark.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Haldum Cemetery in Denmark.
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Major Owen E Jensen . United States Marine Corps (d.21st February 1945) Held as a Prisoner in Fukuoka 3b.
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Menig Svend Jensen . Canadian Army Black Watch Canada (d.25th July 1944)
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2nd Lt. C. N. Jenson . British Army 1st Btn. Welsh Guards
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PO Stoker Donald Jenson . Royal Navy HMS Manchester My father, Donald Jenson, served on HMS Manchester on the pedestal operation to Malta. The ship was scuttled he spent 8 hours in the sea and then was picked up by a U boat and taken to Tunisia. I would like to find out what camp he was in, date of release, etc as he died not long after aged 31.
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Martha Jenson . WAAF. 408 Squadron Martha Jensen was stationed in Linton-on-Ouse as a wireless operator, around 1942, She was from Western Canada I believe, does anyone have any info on her?
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Flt/Sgt. Sigurd Gerhardt Jenssen . Royal Air Force 129th (Mysore) Squadron (d.19th August 1942) Sigurd Jenssen was aged 24 when he died.
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Sgt. Keith Jenvey . Royal Air Force 104 Sqn (d.22nd Jul 1944) The records of the Air Historical Branch show that Sgt Keith Jenvey was serving as Rear Gunner on board Wellington LP200 of 104 Squadron when he baled out of the aircraft 10 to 15 miles North-East of Bihac in Yugoslavia, at about 0310 hours on 22 July 1944. The aircraft had taken off from Foggia Main airfield at 2035 hours on 21 July 1944 for a bombing mission to Pardubice Oil Refinery in Czechoslovakia. On the return journey the engines cut and would not immediately pick up again, the Captain gave the order to prepare to abandon the aircraft but about 30 seconds later the engines recovered. It was later presumed that Sgt Jenvey had only heard the last part of the Captain's order, as when the aircraft landed back at base neither Sgt Jenvey or his parachute could be found. Despite extensive investigations in the Bihac region after the War by the Missing Research and Evaluation Service (MRES), no trace of Sgt Jenvey could be found and he in consequently listed on the Malta Memorial. This memorial commemorates almost 2,300 airmen who lost their lives during the Second World War whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave.
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A Jeory . British Army A Jeory 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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Private Ernest Jephcote . British Army Sherwood Foresters from Ilkeston Derbyshire My father was one of those on the Lancastria when she was sunk. He was lucky enough to be rescued after a number of hours in the water. After the war he spoke very little about his experiences only saying that the survivors had to swim through burning oil. What he went through that day remained with him for the rest of his life. As a result he was never a well man, suffering from breathing problems every day until he died in 1977. If any one has any information about dad or knew of him I would love to hear.
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Michael Jepson . HMS Scylla was one of the Dido Class of light cruisers built at Scotts’ shipyard on the River Clyde and commissioned in 1942; her displacement was about 5250 tons. There were originally nine ships of the Dido Class and they were designed to carry ten 5.25 inch guns. However, supplies of these guns were getting short when Scylla (and her sister ship Charybdis) were being built and also the need for effective anti-aircraft fire was vital, and so these ships were armoured with eight 4.5 inch high angle quick firing guns. Being fitted with these smaller guns the two ships got the nickname ‘the toothless terrors!’ – however, German aircraft soon found out that they had good teeth!
Soon after she was commissioned, Scylla took part in her first Russian Convoy (PQ 18) to Murmansk and back (QP)15, during which Rear Admiral Robert Burnett (whom we knew as ‘bold, bad Bob Burnett!) flew his flag in her. Following that, Scylla took part in the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch): on her way home from the Mediterranean she sank a German merchant ship – a blockade runner. Back in the UK she first moored in the River Tyne (where I joined her) and then back to Scapa Flow. She then set off on her second Russian Convoy to Murmansk (JW53) and back (RA53) to Scapa. (Identification of Russian Convoys had been changed from PQ & QP to JW & RA).
Soon after our return to Scapa, King George VI came to inspect the fleet. He inspected Scylla and then we had the honour of taking him back to the mainland at Scrabster.
In early May 1943, we sailed to the River Clyde where we joined the escorting force for RMS Queen Mary on the first leg of her journey across the Atlantic carrying Mr Churchill to meetings with Mr Roosevelt, president of the USA. Scylla’s next assignment was the escorting of convoys of merchant ships from Plymouth to Gibraltar and back. These convoys were much pleasanter than the Russian ones, but there were always plenty of attacks from German aircraft when crossing the Bay of Biscay.
In September, before we joined our sister ship Charybdis and came under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian (flying his flag in HMS Euryalus) to protect the aircraft carriers providing air cover for the troops landing at Salerno, we put into Algiers, where all our guns, which had been almost worn out after the many shells we had fired, were re-barrelled.
Those who remember the ancient Greek legends are always fascinated by the fact that, on the way to Salerno, Scylla and Charybdis sailed together through the Straits of Messina on the night that Italy surrendered.
While at Salerno, Scylla was ordered to make a dash at full speed to North Africa to pick up as many additional troops as possible and bring them back to reinforce the landings. Shortly after this, and, we thought, as a result of the strain of this high speed trip and of the many near misses from German bombs, one of the main propulsion turbines in the Forward Engine Room was found to have cracked mountings. There was great excitement on board and everyone wanted to come down and inspect the damaged turbine – they realized that we would have to return home for repairs! We did not waste our trip home but took our last convoy back to Plymouth, at the same time giving passage to quite a few Army personnel.
After we got back, we set off for Chatham and there went into dry dock, where we had a major refit. Not only all our repairs carried out, but we had masses of new equipment fitted which was to prepare us for being Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian’s flagship at the D-Day landings. We were docked in Chatham from October 1943 till February 1944, after which we returned to Scapa to work up again to a high standard of fighting efficiency, and to test all our new equipment. At the end of April we sailed south again and were based at Portsmouth, where we spent the next month going on exercises with other ships and with the Army and the RAF, practicing for landings on enemy beaches.
On 5th June we set off for the Normandy beaches, and our time was taken up with, first of all, bombarding, then patrolling off the Gold, Juno and Sword beaches until, on the night of 23rd June (or D+17) we were mined. The damage was such that we could no longer move under our own steam so were towed back to Portsmouth and, a few days later, towed to Chatham. It was decided that there was no point in carrying out the extensive repairs needed and, in July 1944, HMS Scylla was de-commissioned and later broken up.
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T Jerdin . British Army Dragoons T Jerdin served with the Dragoons 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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Thomas Samuel Osman Jeremiah . Royal Navy HMS Dulverton (d.13th Novenber 1943)
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BB Jermy . British Army BB Jermy 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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