DJ Leaver . British Army DJ Leaver 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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EG Leaver . British Army EG Leaver 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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GF Leaver . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GF Leaver 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 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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Flt.Sgt. Evered Arthur Reginald Rex Leavers DFM. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 21 Squadron from Dunkirk, Nottingham. (d.16th June 1941) Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Reginald Leavers was the son of Jessie Leavers of Dunkirk, Nottingham.
He was 24 when he died and is buried in the Baflo (Den Andel) Protestant Cemetery, Groningen in The Netherlands.
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DR Leavitt . British Army DR Leavitt 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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A.B. Clifford H. Lebbing . Royal Navy HMS Nelson (d.12th Aug 1942)
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1/Sgt. Joseph Roy LeBlanc . United States Army from Youngsville, LA Joseph R. LeBlanc Jr. was a First Sergeant in the Army during World War II. Joseph was captured by Imperial Japan while serving in the Philippine Islands, and was sent to Tokyo POW Camp (Shinjuku) near Shinjuku, Japan where 2,353 other American POWs were held. Joseph's capture was first reported to the International Committee of the Red Cross on May 7, 1942, and the last report was made on October 24, 1945. Based on these two reports, Joseph was imprisoned for at least 1,266 days (3 years and 7 months), one of the longest durations of captivity recorded. Ultimately, Joseph was returned to military control, liberated or repatriated.
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Henri Michel Leon LeBlicq . Beligan Army from Marcinelle, Belgium (d.19th Jan 1945) My uncle Henri Le Blicq died in Stalag 1B; I would like to find the circumstances of his death. His brother Joseph died in 1942 in Stalag II C.
Editors Note: the camp was dismantled at the latest in January 1945 which would have been about the time of his death. After the end of the war the remains of the Belgian soldiers were transported home.
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Dvr. Richard James Lechmere . British Army My grandfather, Richard James Lechmere, a driver, from West Sussex, was captured in 1941 and was a prisoner of war until 1945, most of which he spent in this camp. I have in my possession every letter he wrote to my grandmother, from the first letter he sent before his capture, to the telegram saying that he had arrived safely back in the UK. These have been carefully catalogued by my mother and include his medical records, dog tags and Red Cross parcel contents lists. My Granddad died two years ago. I hope to publish these letters in some form, as they are such an amazing record of years spent in the camp.
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L/Cpl. Lewis Leck . British Army 10th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) from North Shields Lewis Leck was reported missing in Norway but made his own way out with five comrades and returned home to his family.
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Sgt. William Mole Leck . British Army 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment from North Shields My father, Sgt William Leck, served with the 5th Battalion East Yorks Regt. He joined the army at Beverley Barracks in about 1938. In 1941 the Battalion was posted from Poole, Dorset to North Africa and during one of the battles there was injured in his head by grenade shrapnel. He was captured by the Italians and sent to a hospital near Naples (I think). Some time later he was handed over to the Germans and sent to Stalag IVB where he spent the rest of the war until liberated by the Russian Army in 1945.
All this information was passed to me by my mother as my father never spoke about his combat experiences or his incarceration as a POW. On one occasion, however, on a visit to me in Germany where I was serving, we visited a British war cemetary near Venlo in Holland and he became visibly upset when he read some of the East Yorks names on the headstones.
My father died aged 81 and apart from the above I have no knowledge of his wartime experiences and would love to know if there is any way to obtain access to his Battlion's War Diary to find what action he was wounded in and if there is a definitive book or papers about Stalag IVB.
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Rfmn. A. Leckenby . British Army 2nd Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) from Yorkshire A Leckenby and the 2nd Battalion joined Montgomery's 8th Army for the invasion of Sicily and the battle for Italy in 1943, and from there was involved with the Garigliano Crossing. Unfortunately, he was captured and ended up bound for Germany on a POW train. It was on this journey that the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including A Leckenby, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men. Leckenby was uninjured in the train crash, but was captured at Garigliano. He was sent to POW camp Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland.
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Pte. William Leckie . British Army 6th Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers from Bonnybridge, Scotland (d.2nd Nov 1944) William Leckie was my father's cousin and died aged 20 years. He is buried in Mierlo Cemetery in the Netherlands. He was the grandson of William Leckie of Denny.
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J. G. Lecky . Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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G Ledbury . British Army G Ledbury 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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Pte. William Nelson Ellsmore Ledbury . British Army 172nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Trowbridge, Wiltshire My father, William Ledbury, has written his own story and you can read this on the WW2 Peoples War website. He served in 172nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and was held as a PoW in Stalag 4c, Wistritz Bei Teplitz, He celebrated his 100th birthday last July and still has a good memory of wartime. He is now looking forward to his 101th birthday in July this year.
Journey into the Unknown
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F/O William Ernest Leddiman . Royal Air Force 100 Squadron from Poplar, London (d.13th July 1943)
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Pfc. Lester Thomas Ledford . United States Army Co L, 7th Infantry from Crandall, GA Lester Ledford was captured while on patrol in Italy but escaped shortly afterwards for a short while. He was recaptured by SS while eating with an Italian family at their home. He changed his name for fear of being shot if discovered he had escaped and used Retsel Drofdel (Lester Ledford spelled backwards). He was transported in railcar to Stalag 2B where he worked on a farm and in a blacksmith shop. He was moved from Stalag 2B to Stalag 7A
and marched on Death March until Liberated
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C Ledger . British Army C Ledger 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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Sqd. Ldr. Harry Ledger . Royal Air Force 9 Sqnuadron from Rothwell, West Yorks (d.29th July 1942)
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Capt. Hugh Hallam Ledger . British Army 51st Highland Division Royal Signals from Nottingham Hugh Ledger was my father.
After he came home to Nottingham in 1945. He told me nothing about his time in captivity, and died suddenly at the early age of 59. The only thing he ever told me was that he built a rudimentary waterproof radio receiver, which was hidden in a lavatory cistern.
I was a Merchant Navy Officer from 1957 and never really got to know him as he divorced my mother in 1946. Many regrets.
I have pieced together his time from capture at St Valery with the 51st Highland Division from what few details he left.
Strangely the daughter of the Padre, Capt. King, at Laufen camp, lives a few doors from me in Oxford. He too was captured at St Valery.
RIP Dad.
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J Ledger . British Army J Ledger 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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Pte. William Ledger MM.. British Army 186th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from Dunston-on-Tyne Bill Ledger served in the RAMC. He was quiet simply the kindest, most loveliest man I had the privilege to call my uncle.
He devoted his life to St John's Ambulance and the Dunkirk veterans association and also to the Royal British Legion.
He and his wife, Ann, lived in Dunston all their lives. He was well known and loved by all who knew him.
Even though he attended military commemorative events and wore his medals with pride he never talked of his time in the army except to play it down. For example when I asked about his Dunkirk medal he would just say "we got that for running away" wink and give a little cheeky smile.
His military medal citation reads: "On the night of the 20th/21st of March 1943 this Orderly was on duty in an advanced and unprotected Advanced Dressing Station at 628075 half a mile from the most forward Regimental Aid Post. During a period of very intense mortar fire and air bursts, he heard a wounded man crying in pain near 69th brigade HQ. Without any regard to his personal safety he set out by himself and
brought this casualty in unaided through heavy fire. By his gallant deed he most certainly saved this soldier's life. In addition
he showed the greatest coolness and endurance and was a continual source of inspiration to his comrades. It is felt
that the conduct of this soldier during battle merits immediate recognition."
When he died aged 84, his comrades gave him a full military funeral. I was so proud of him but I'm still finding more and more things about him.
Like finding the citation for his M.M which made me cry when I read it the first time.
We miss him dearly.
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J Ledington . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Ledington 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 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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Spr. Henry Joseph "Duke" Leduc . Canadian Army 11th Field Company RCE CASF Royal Canadian Engineers from Windsor, Ontario My father, Henry Leduc was captured at Dieppe. While in a Stalag he changed places with another French and English speaking prisoner from Montreal Quebec. This other soldier needed to work in the orchard where my Dad was in order to escape. Everything went as planned and the escapee made his way back to England and eventually back to Montreal.
At the same time my father was pronounced missing and he lived under the name of the man from Montreal. My father continued to write to my mother using this man's name but she was careful not to tell anyone for fear of "Loose lips sinking ships".
A-20336 Sapper Henry Joseph (Duke) Leduc served with the 11th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers during WW2.
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JA Ledward . British Army 4/7th Dragoon Guards JA Ledward served with the 4/7th Dragoon Guards 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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A Lee . British Army West Yorkshire Regiment A Lee served with the West Yorkshire 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 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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AG Lee . British Army Reconnaissance Corps AG Lee served with the Reconnaissance 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 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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L/Cpl. Albert Edward Lee . British Army 8th Btn., H Coy. Rifle Brigade from Barkingside, Essex (d.31st July 1944)
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Alfred Lloyd "Tansy" Lee . Royal Navy HMS Royal Arthur
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