Those who Served
Leonard Kingman DFC. RAF 12 Squadron My grandad was Leonard Kingman. He was in 12 Squadron and received the DFC. After he died his second wife sold his medal.
I would love to trace the medal so that I could return it to my mum who has hardly anything left of my grandad's as his wife either sold or burned anything from his past. As my grandad was only sixty when he died and my mum's mum died when she was very young, I would love to get any information I could for her. Can anyone help me? |
Sergeant R V Kingshott . RAF 59 Squadron |
F/O Alan Kingsley . Royal Canadian Air Force rear gunner 10 OTU |
Major James Stirling "Seamus" Kinnear . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from Forfar, Angus) I would love to hear from anyone who served in RAMC with my father, Major James Kinnear, in Iceland, E.Africa, Normandy. The snatches of wartime reminiscence to me as a young girl in the 50's are so bitty, humorous and tragic. He went on after the war to be a great surgeon in Dundee. He died aged 67, in 1980. Please contact me with any memories or service info. Thank you |
Flight Officer J R Kinney . RCAF 10 Squadron My husband's father, F/O Kenneth Seymour Lear, served in WW2 and flew in a Halifax bomber. We were told by my husband's mother, who is now deceased, that her husband was stationed at Marston Moor. I am trying to find out any history for him as he was reported missing in action and I think in the end declared dead on the 20th December 1943. My husband, like so many born during the war, never knew his father. We don't even have any photos of him. How can I find out if he was stationed at Marston Moor and if he was, if anyone has any pictures of him. He did also go to Canada for training. Can anyone help? We also don't have a date of birth for him but know he was 20 when he died.
Information from lostbombers.co.uk:
Halifax HX164, Operation Frankfurt, airborne 1637 20th December 1943 from RAF Melbourne. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near Dahlen, where those killed were buried. Their graves are now located in the Rheinberg War Cemetery. F/L Whitmarsh gained an Immediate DFM, Gazetted 31Aug43 for his outstanding airmanship during a raid that same month to Mannheim.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Walter Whitmarsh DFM KIA
Sergeant Peter Mill Hayes KIA
Pilot Officer Cyril Priest KIA
Flight Offficer J.R.Kinney RCAF PoW (confined in hospital due injuries)
F/O K.S.Lear KIA
F/S R.G.E.Buckner KIA
Sgt M.H.Britton KIA
Sgt K.R.Norton KIA |
Flight Officer J R Kinney . RCAF 10 Squadron My husband's father, F/O Kenneth Seymour Lear, served in WW2 and flew in a Halifax bomber. We were told by my husband's mother, who is now deceased, that her husband was stationed at Marston Moor. I am trying to find out any history for him as he was reported missing in action and I think in the end declared dead on the 20th December 1943. My husband, like so many born during the war, never knew his father. We don't even have any photos of him. How can I find out if he was stationed at Marston Moor and if he was, if anyone has any pictures of him. He did also go to Canada for training. Can anyone help? We also don't have a date of birth for him but know he was 20 when he died.
Information from lostbombers.co.uk:
Halifax HX164, Operation Frankfurt, airborne 1637 20th December 1943 from RAF Melbourne. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near Dahlen, where those killed were buried. Their graves are now located in the Rheinberg War Cemetery. F/L Whitmarsh gained an Immediate DFM, Gazetted 31Aug43 for his outstanding airmanship during a raid that same month to Mannheim.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Walter Whitmarsh DFM KIA
Sergeant Peter Mill Hayes KIA
Pilot Officer Cyril Priest KIA
Flight Offficer J.R.Kinney RCAF PoW (confined in hospital due injuries)
F/O K.S.Lear KIA
F/S R.G.E.Buckner KIA
Sgt M.H.Britton KIA
Sgt K.R.Norton KIA |
P/O Wilf M. Kipp . Royal Canadian Air Force 434 Sqd. from Canada) |
Kirk . WAAF My mother WAAF Kirk was stationed at Ludford Magna and I am very keen to trace archive photographs of crewmen, and other WAAFS who served at this base. |
Sgt George Andrew Kirk . RAAF 460 Sqd. from Malvern, Australia) |
P/O Joseph Henry Kirk . Royal Air Force 21 OTU from Blackpool, Lancashire) (d.4th Feb 1942) |
Lt. G. Kirkbride . Home Guard D Coy. Workington Btn. |
W/OII B. D. Kirkham . RCAF 419 Sqd. from Canada) Sgt Kirkham was taken POW after Halifax DT616 VR-K was shot down on the 12th of June 1943. He was promoted to Warrant Officer2 whilst in captivity.
The crew were:
- Sgt B.D.Kirkham
- Sgt R.J.Hamilton
- Sgt H.A.Taylor
- Sgt D.B.Whittaker
- Sgt F.J.Callaghan
- Sgt J.A.Mills
- Sgt D.L.Gray
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Flight Lieutenant Kknowles . RAF 59 Squadron U-540 was sunk on the night of 16/17th October 1943 by Flt Lt Knowles of 59 Squadron RAF and W/O Turnbull of 120 Squadron RAF, in the north Atlantic. |
Sergeant Sheldon E "Bucky" Kline . US Army Medics 5th Infantry Division from Sussex NJ, USA) Sheldon served in the European theatre was on Omaha Beach on D-day, wondering if anyone knew him or knows how I can find any pictures for that division?
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Flight Sergeant G E Knight . RAF 59 Squadron |
Flight Lieutenant Knowles . RAF 59 Squadron U-540 was sunk on the night of 16/17th October 1943 by Flt Lt Knowles of 59 Squadron RAF and W/O Turnbull of 120 Squadron RAF, in the north Atlantic. |
Flight Lieutenant Eric Knowles DFM. RAF 59 Squadron My Dad was Flt Lt Eric Knowles DFM of 59 Sqn RAF. I'd like to hear from anyone who flew with my late father. |
Jozef Kondratiuk . Polish Army My father, Jozef Kondratiuk, was a prisoner in Stalag 6G, and escaped from it in, I think, 1942. At the outbreak of war he had been a student at Lwow University. He was called up to the Polish army as a reservist, and became a POW during the September campaign. After escaping, he made his way to Vichy France (with several adventures on the way), and stayed for some time in Annecy. When the Germans took direct control of this part of France, he evaded them again, crossing the Pyrenees into Spain. Here he was captured again and the Spanish authorities, who were neutral but sympathetic to the Nazis, put him in another camp, known as Miranda. Some time after this there was an agreement between Britain and Spain, and all Allied prisoners, including my father, were delivered into British custody. My father then spent six weeks in Gibraltar before being shipped to the UK. He joined the Polish army in Britain, and spent the rest of the war in Scotland. He remained in England after the war, settling in London. He died in 1985. |
Sgt. Hermus Koomans . Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers My Dad, Sgt. Hermanus Koomans was a Dutch Allied
serviceman of the Army's REME. He married my mother Joan Dorreen Jessop who served with the ATS, in 1946. Dad had recently been repatriated from
Belsen POW Camp in Germany. They lived in Holland but later we migrated to Australia.
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M/Sgt. Matthew H. Korzyniowski . US Army 2nd Btn. 172nd Field Artillery Rgt. |
Lieutenant Wladyslaw Kosmider . Polish Army 10th Regiment Infantry from Krepa, Poland) I came across this website and was wondering if anyone would have any information about my father who was a POLISH SOLDIER, fighting against the germans and captured, September 1939, in the September Campaign. He went to POW CAMP, Oflag II A and IIE, from 1939 to 1944, and another camp 1944 to 1945 when liberated by the British.
He worked for the BRITISH ARMY OF THE RHINE, Major General L. M. Weinstock. as a translator, and Polish Military Centre, served as a superintendant with MSO(WS) in 1947, Hamburg area, with Staff Capt Kirby.
I'm not sure of alot, like everyone here, he did not answer questions.
I should have done this inquiry a long long time ago, but with internet, I'm just learning how much is out here.
This is a shot in the dark, but maybe someone was a POW in the same place? Anything would be great help!
thanks so much.
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F/O J. F. Kyle . Royal Air Force 138 Sqd.
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