Those who Served
Sgt William Henry Kibby VC. Australian Army 2/48th Infantry Battalion from Australia) (d.31 October 1942) |
Albert Edward Kidman . Auxiliary Fire Brigade Dockhead from Trinity Church Square) I have been trying to find out under which 'division' my father Bert Kidman, served from 1939-45. He received, or should I say through the help of my cousin, post-humously a Civil Service Medal. I have his Fireman's axe, photos of him in uniform & with his 'section' and his medal. I want to create a 'display' incorporating the pre-mentioned items in a case for my son & grandson - is it possible to be sent a 'logo' or emblem that my father would have served under to that I can carve it for the display. Was it the Auxillary or LFB he belonged to? Can anyone help me, I have tried the LFB museum - they wouldn't help.
Editors Note: The AFS and NFS badges are widely available online. |
RSM. P. Kilbey . British Army Coldstream Guards I collect POW mail and have a preprinted card in respect of a money transfer
sent from Stalag 383 by RSM Kilbey, P. serial number 2653008 sent to the Regimental Paymaster, Coldstream Guards on 30 Sep 1944 but not received by the addressee until 24 Feb 1945.
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L/Cpl. Stephen Kilcar . British Army 5th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from Knightswood, Glasgow) (d.19th Nov 1944) My uncle, Lance Corporal Stephen Kilcar, fought and was killed in action with the 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regt. at the Battle of Geilenkirchen.
He was wounded, we think, on the 18th of Novenber 1944 and succumbed to his injuries the next day on the 19th.
My Father recently visited his brother's grave in the Reichwald War Memorial Cemetary.
He is the first member of our family, and as far as I know the only member,to visit the grave site.
What makes this even more touching for my Dad is he was the last one to see my uncle alive, walking him down to catch the bus back to his regiment
after a well earned leave of absence.
The reason I am writing is my Dad is 78 now and would like some closure on how his brother was killed.
I know it is a big ask for information regarding these matters but if someone could provide me with any information regarding this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
I know there is a book named, "The Story of the 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regt. in N. W. Europe" and I do believe that my Dad has a copy of that book.
What I would really like to know is if any of the Officers who wrote that book are still alive and if they are is there any way of contacting them?
Any information you can pass on to me would be greatly appreciated as I promised my Dad I would help as much as I could in this matter.
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Sergeant P F Kills . RAF 460 Squadron |
Captain Richard Frederick Kinden . British Army Royal Warwicks/East Surreys from Rugby) POW transferred from Italy, having been taken prisoner in North Africa at Fort McGregor. Claims to have ended up in Offlag 79 but we can find no record of him there. Still alive and, though in failing health, wishes to clarify the records. |
Pte. George Kindon . British Army 5th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment from Kings Road, Birmingham) My Granddad was in the South Staffordshire Regiment from 1940 to 1946.
He never spoke too much about his time served until his latter years. Looking at his army records he spent a far bit of time in detention for being AWOL. It might have been something to do with the American GI's being barracked not far from where my nan lived (Pheasey). I do know that he had a bad time in Arnham as he was one of hundreds being dropped in by gliders. He was held up in a church, I think, being looked after by a young girl, name of Tula who was with the Dutch Resistance. |
W/O Alexander King DFC.. Royal Air Force 432 Sqd. from Macclesfield) On enquiring my late father, Sandy King's papers I saw that he was with 432 Squadron for 7 months from August 43 until March 44. In 1944 Dec he became Flight Sargeant then in 1945 became a Warrant Officer. |
F/O Danny King MID. Royal Australian Air Force 51 Sqd. |
Steward David King . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar (d.2nd Dec 1940) |
Edward "Ginger" King . RAF 48 Squadron I was a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner on Ansons flying Coastal Command out of Wick. I married WAAF Winifred Holmes, ambulance driver and chief's car driver. Does anyone know me, Win or of the whereabouts of Bob Best? |
Sjt. Eric Howell King . British Army 2nd Battallion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt.) from Sheffield) (d.30th May 1940) Serjeant King was my Grandfather but he was killed when my mother was only two. I don't have much detail but I know he was defending the perimeter of Dunkirk when he died at the time of the mass withdrawal back to Britain. |
Ernest King . Home Guard Feltwell Btn. |
R. King . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd. |
Reginald King . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Shropshire) Reginald King , served in Africa , Italy and Dunkerqe and was involved in MT / Dispatch riding /Mechanics. He died when I was young (1982).
He originated from Shropshire, but moved to British Steel in Scunthorpe after he left the service.
Would appreciate any photographs if anyone has groupshots with named servicemen etc. |
W/O Rolph Henry King . RCAF air gunner 77 Sqd. from Windsor, Ontario, Canada) (d.22nd June 1943) Rolph King was an airgunner in the same crew as my father, John Gardner. Rolph lost his life in the early hours of the 22nd of June 1943 when their Lancaster was shot down over Holland. |
Sergeant S E King . RAF 50 Squadron Manchester L7301,airborne 30th May 1942 from Skellingthorpe, was hit by flak over Cologne and very severely damaged. Subsequently abandoned by six of the crew, after which the Manchester crashed 0200 31st May 1942 into a dyke at Bree (Limburg), 21 km NNE of Genk, Belgium. The testimonies of the five evaders were instrumental in the posthumous award of the VC made to their skipper, P/O Manser. P/O L.T.Manser KIA P/O R.J.Barnes PoW Sgt L.H.Baveystock Evd P/O R.M.Horsley Evd Sgt S.E.King Evd Sgt A.McF Mills Evd Sgt B.W.Naylor Evd |
Sergeant S E King . RAF 50 Squadron Manchester L7301,airborne 30th May 1942 from Skellingthorpe, was hit by flak over Cologne and very severely damaged. Subsequently abandoned by six of the crew, after which the Manchester crashed 0200 31st May 1942 into a dyke at Bree (Limburg), 21 km NNE of Genk, Belgium. The testimonies of the five evaders were instrumental in the posthumous award of the VC made to their skipper, P/O Manser. P/O L.T.Manser KIA P/O R.J.Barnes PoW Sgt L.H.Baveystock Evd P/O R.M.Horsley Evd Sgt S.E.King Evd Sgt A.McF Mills Evd Sgt B.W.Naylor Evd |
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? |
Pte Bruce Steel Kingsbury VC. Second Australian Imperial Force 2/14th Infantry Battalion from Australia) (d.29 August 1942) |
Sergeant R V Kingshott . RAF 59 Squadron |
F/O Alan Kingsley . Royal Canadian Air Force rear gunner 10 OTU |
Reginald Clive "Muscles" Kinnane . Australian Army from Junee, NSW) |
Sgt. Duncan MacIntyre Kinnear . British Army Seaforth Highlanders I am looking for any pictures anyone might have of my granfather, Sgt. Duncan MacIntyre Kinnear, he served with the Seaforths during WW2, but before that was a professional soldier, he later went on to serve with the Royal Army Catering Corps and volunteered for the Glider Pilot regiment for the Arnhem landings but was injured during a landing and was discharged.
Any info or pics would be gratefully received as I am keen to pass on my grandfather's memory to my son, whom I named Duncan Macintyre after him.
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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 |
Lt. Ernest Francis Kinsey . British Army Army Education Corps My father Ernest Francis Kinsey was captured in Crete on the 1st of June 1941 and after spells in Oflag XC and Oflag VIB was transferred to Oflag VIIB in Eichstaett on 8th September 1942 and spent the rest of the war there. (The dates are all from his German 'Personalkarte I' which I still have). His POW no. was 3443.
At the start of the war my father was a regular soldier stationed in Egypt.
From there he went to Greece and then Crete. At the time of his capture he
was a Lieutenant (I think) in the Army Education Corps (A.E.C) probably
seconded to the Intelligence Corps. He was a ciphers officer (probably the
chief ciphers officer) on Crete.
My father was on the march from Oflag VIIB to Moosburg which was strafed by
American fighters. He never talked much about this and I only found out the
full horrific details a few years ago from internet searches. His only story about the strafing, recounted many times, was how his friend
Brian Porter had apologised profusely for having broken their biscuits after they dived into a ditch to take cover.
Oflag VIIB was close to the town of Eichstaett, site of the Benedictine Abbey
of St. Walburga. The tomb of St. Walburga is in the abbey and at regular
intervals oil produced by liquefaction used to flow from the tomb. Towards the end of the war my father was allowed to accompany the camp's
Catholic army chaplain Padre Tony Antrobus on a visit to the abbey. They
also met the abbess who presented my father with a vial of oil from the
tomb. The vial was kept in a finely embroidered container which my father
afterwards kept pinned to his vest. He had it on the march. After the camp
was liberated my father was flown back to England from Landshut. The plane
in front of the plane carrying my father crashed on take off from Landshut
killing all on board. You may or may not believe in miracles. I think my
father probably did. My sister is named Walburga.
The second story relates to the camp commandant, an old Prussian officer
name Blatter (I think) nicknamed 'Heldentodt'. Sometime during the war
period a German guard on night duty at the camp panicked when hearing
suspicious noises in the latrines and threw a grenade into the latrine
building. The details are not clear but someone was killed and after the war the commandant was accused of war crimes as a result of this incident. Padre Tony Antrobus gave evidence in his favour and 'Heldentodt' was cleared. As a sign of gratitude the ex-commandant presented Tony Antrobus with a large pen drawing of Eichstaett market square. Tony gave it to my father and we still have it today. The inscription on the back of the drawing confirms the story.
Father Anthony Antrobus was the Catholic Army chaplain at Oflag VIIB
and after the war returned to his native Liverpool and life as a parish
priest. He was great friends with my father.
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P/O Wilf M. Kipp . Royal Canadian Air Force 434 Sqd. from Canada) |
Pte. Fredrick Kirby . British Army 2nd Battalion Queens Own West Kent from Birmingham) (d.14th Nov 1943) My uncle, Fredrick Kirby, died in 1943. He was a Lance Corporal in the 70th Dorsets and in the Summer of 1941 boxed for the Regiment as bantam weight and won a trophy. He could have a good career but transferred himself to active service as a private in the Royal West Kent. He died in action on the 14th or 15th of November 1943. He is remembered in honor at Athern Memorial. I wonder if anyone has any informaton about him? |
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