James Patrick Lynch . British Army 5th Battalion Black Watch from Widnes
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Pte. John "Benny" Lynch . British Army from Maidstone, Kent My father John Lynch, cycled to Kent after having both legs broken in a mining accident in the mines in Wales aged about 12 when he was working as a miners boy having been orphaned by WW1. Before he joined the army he worked on the orchards for a family that more or less adopted him and a friend he always expressed his gratitude to the family that give him work and took care of him.
He served in India 1.1.34 to 1.1.38, Palestine 2.1.38 to 20.3.39 Malta 21.39 to 10.6.43, Mid East 16.11.43 to 22.9.43 Samos/Leros Islands 23.9.43 to 15.11.43 was a POW 11.16.43 to 13.5.45 and returned Home 14.5.45 being discharged 14.2.46 That is his service record taken from his discharge book. His commanding officer was Major Percy Flood who my father spoke very highly of and we have a letter from Mayor Flood sent after the war. We did have another member of his company from London who with his family stayed with us just wish I could remember names. His experiences molded him in to the most loving father a boy could ever wish for he is missed by all three of his sons.
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John A. Lynch . United States Navy from Southampton, PA
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Nav. John Lynch . Royal Air Force 138 Sqdn. (d.December 1943)
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Fus. John Lynch . British Army 1/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers from Leigh, Lancs (d.10th November 1940) John Lynch is buried in buried in Leigh Cemetery.
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Pte. John Lynch . British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch (d.28th May 1940) John Lynch served with the 6th Black Watch, he was 21 years of age when he died.
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S/Sgt. Joseph Charles Lynch . USAAF 338th Bomb Squadron from Altoona, East Juniata, Blair, PA (d.17th Oct 1942) I never knew my Uncle Joe Lynch as I was three and a half years old when he died. He was my mother’s youngest brother, and I know his death affected her greatly, especially since her husband Merwyn had died in an accident just a few short months before. I don't remember his funeral or burial but I remember being told the story that upon hearing of his death my Uncle Bill McIntosh on his way back from buying a gallon of beer, dropped the beer on the sidewalk.
A local newspaper, the Altoona Mirror, reported the following about his death in October 1942:
“Staff Sgt. Joseph Charles Lynch, 23, of Cresson, Pennsylvania was among 11 aviators who lost their lives in the crash of a four-engined bomber in New Mexico. The plane had departed from its base in Rapid City, South Dakota and was on a routine flight.
Born in Amsbry, Pennsylvania on 9 August 1919, S/Sgt. Lynch was a graduate of Cresson High School (class of 1938) and later enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Camp at Hiner, Clearfield County. Later, he was employed in Altoona, Pennsylvania by the Hoffman Ice Cream Co. He was inducted into the Army in October, 1941. Five days after reporting to the New Cumberland Induction Center, he was granted a release that allowed him to enlist in the Army Air Corps. He subsequently graduated from a training course at Kessler Field, Mississippi, and on 31st of June 1942, he graduated as a flexible gunner from Tyndall Field, Florida. He was transferred to the air base at Rapid City just three weeks before the crash. He had been assigned to the 338th Bomb Squadron as a crew member of the "Nippon Miss", a B-17E Flying Fortress bomber. The crash occurred in the early morning hours. It was reportedly very windy and foggy that morning, and the plane was off course. They unknowingly flew into the side of a mountain.”
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Sgt. Martin John Lynch . Royal Air Force 619 Sqdn. (d.27th November 1943) Lost during the Berlin campaign. DV381 619 Sqdn. PG-B Op. Lancaster BI.
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Sgt. Martin John Lynch . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 619 Sqdn. (d.27th November 1943) Lancaster DV381, aircraft code PG-B left Woodhall Spa at 17.22hrs on the evening of 26th November 1943 for Berlin. It is believed to have come down in the sea. Two bodies were recovered - those of F/Lt R.D. Rayment and Sgt M.J. Lynch, who were buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Air Force Memorial at Runnymede (details from BC. Losses (Chorley)). The crew were:
F/Lt R.D. Rayment.
Sgt M.J. Lynch.
F/O J. Kellett.
Sgt W. Archibald.
F/Sgt J.T. Richards.
F/Sgt C.S. Cook.
F/Sgt J.A. Fowler.
You can find commemoration details at www.cwgc.org
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RFT Lynch . British Army RFT Lynch 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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RV Lynch . British Army 1st Regiment Reconnaissance Corps RV Lynch served with the 1st Regiment 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 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/O Paul Lynch. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.28th Jul 1943) Nav Paul Lynch was killed on 28th July 1943 in Lancaster III EE142 PH-G of 12sqd
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Douglas "Ginger" Lynd . Royal Navy HMS Barham
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FG Lyne . British Army 52nd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps FG Lyne served with the 52nd Regiment 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 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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Ralph Lyne . British Army Royal Corps Signals
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RL Lyne . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RL Lyne 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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FO James William Lynes . Royal Air Force 9 Squadron from Oxford (d.20th Dec 1942) Flying Officer Lynes was my father. He was killed one month before I was born. His plane was Avro Lancaster ED347 on which he was the Navigator. I grew up knowing little about him or my paternal family, but after the death of my mother and with the advent of Broadband I have been able to discover what sort of man he was. I feel deeply proud of him and all the young men of Bomber Command. What I have been hoping for is that I may discover someone whose family might have known F/O Lynes or known of him. If such person is out there I would very much like to hear from them.
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SE Lynes . British Army SE Lynes 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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Gnr. Thomas Frank Lynes . British Army Royal Artillery Gunner Thomas Frank Lynes 1137679 Royal Artillery spent three years as a POW (No. 128084) in Italy and Bavaria. Records show he was in Stalag 7A. He was born in 1923 in Warwickshire, England and married in early 1942. Demobbed he was killed in an accident on a building site in October 1946. This the extent of my knowledge of my cousin Tom. I would love to find out more about his time in the Army and as a POW. If there is anybody still living that remembers Tom or anyone that has in their own research come across any details about him then I would love to hear from you. In fact I would be grateful for any help anyone can offer that would help me piece together his short life.
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P/O John Christian Lynn . Royal Air Force pilot 149 Sqd. from Haslemere, Surrey, England (d.18th Aug 1941) John Lynn lost his life on Ops to Duisburg when his Wellington was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Haelen in Holland. He is in Jonkerbos War Cemetery near Nijmegen in Holland, he was 31 years old and was married.
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Robison Field Lynn . To date I know that my grandfather Robison Lynn was captured in Italy before being sent to Prisoner of War camp in Germany.
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SM Lynn . British Army 4th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps SM Lynn served with the 4th Regiment 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 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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Vernon Lynn . US Army 1st Battalion, A company 327th Glider Infantry Regiment from Wardell, MO, USA (d.5th Jan 1945)
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Greaser William Lynn . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Ldg.Sea. Donald Frank "Ben" Lyon . Royal Navy HMS Manchester from Southampton My father Donald Lyon, known as "Ben" after the radio programme "Life with the Lyons" joined the RN 10/1/1939 and went to Holbrook School. After spells at St Vincent, Portsmouth, St George on the Isle of Man - a former holiday camp complete with jolly murals of laughing policemen, pixies etc, and a few days back at Pompey, he joined HMS Manchester on 30/05/1940. This turned out to not be such a holiday camp and Arctic convoys followed, including the infamous PQ17. Amongst other duties he had to collect empty shell cases as they were ejected from the HA guns, as red hot shell cases rolling about the deck did no one any favours. Hours spent in the DF station on top of "B" turret froze him solid and that was when he started to smoke, eventually able to roll cigarettes with one hand.
Flying the Walrus flying boat off the ship was always fraught with peril. However, to recover a Walrus the ship has to swing hard over to produce a smooth lagoon in any kind of sea for the aircraft to be safely recovered. One day whilst craning in the Walrus aircraft, too much time was spent connecting the crane hook to the upper mainplane. The navigator had to stand on the wing to receive the hook, the engine ticking over all the while. Sadly a wave came into the lagoon, and the poor navigator lost his footing and disappeared into the propeller and was instantly shredded. Heavy hearts on board that day.
When HMS Manchester was torpedoed the first time, Dad was sent below with others to asses damage, as being quite small he could gain access through the damaged hatches. The sight of bits of shipmates swilling in and out of the hole left by the torpedo stayed with him for a long time afterwards. The ship went to Philadelphia for repairs, and this was an enjoyable time for all concerned!
Returning to Pompey they were dry docked for more remedial work and radar upgrades when an air raid took place. Firing at the enemy aircraft began to shake the shores out from under the ship, so firing ceased lest it fell into the dock. Dad could date pictures of Manchester by the type of radar array at the masthead. On their way to Malta and Pedestal, he was taken off at Gibraltar with rheumatic fever. Subsequent events meant that it was lucky move for him, as Manchester was torpedoed off Tunisia shortly afterwards. He remembered Manchester as his favourite ship, and kept in touch with old shipmates right up until his death in 2000.
A number of ships followed Manchester, HMS Elgin - a minesweeper, and later HMS King Salvor out in Hong Kong. This vessel was being used to lift and clear wrecks from Hong Kong harbour. He was in HMS Volage which was being used to keep the Albanians and the Italians apart in 1948/49. He helmed a landing craft based in Malta, crewed by ex-jailbirds. They had signed up against a promise of reduced sentences, and somehow managed to "purloin" all kinds of materials and booze from the dockyard which they either drank or sold on to the Maltese. There were lots of Light Admiralty Grey houses on Malta for a while.
He then joined HMS Perseus, where development of the steam catapult was under way. To measure the acceleration of the catapult, he was involved in setting up an experiment involving a number of electronic time interval counters, spaced out along the flight deck. These instruments were state of the art, loaded with valves and very expensive. The switches for each one were worked by lanyards stretched across the deck. The plan was that as the catapult shoe went down the flight deck, the time intervals recorded as the switches were broken would reveal the likely acceleration of the aircraft and provide all kinds of other useful data. Imagine the surprise when the somewhat over-engineered lanyards dragged all the timing gear with it down the flight deck and slung the whole lot over the bows and into the oggin. Red faces all round, and back to the stopwatches for a while.
After a brief spell in HMS Indomitable, his RN service ended in 1952 when he was invalided out with a second bout of rheumatic fever. He finished his days helming SS Shieldhall where all his old upper deck and seamanship skills came in very useful.
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G Lyon . British Army G Lyon 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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Sqd.Ldr. R. V. "Tex" Lyon DFC. Royal Air Force 241 Squadron I was told by my late mother that Captain Lyon was my father. He was a captain and squadron leader in the 241 Squadron Royal Air Force Squadron. He was awarded the DFC medal in 1944. His nickname was Tex, as he was living in the USA before enlisting, although he was English. I'm now 72 years old and have always needed to have more information. I only learnt about his existence when I was 30 yrs old but was forbidden to ask any questions and never to discuss the subject again by my stepfather. Please can anyone help?
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T Lyon . British Army T Lyon 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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