L/Cpl. Mark Brownlow Makin . British Army Royal Signals from Salford, Lancashire
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R Makin . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Makin 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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Constance Marjorie Making . Women's Land Army
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HG Makins . British Army HG Makins 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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Able Sea. Richard Alexander Makinson . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria from Horden, County Durham My uncle Richard Alexander Makinson (whose name I proudly bear) joined the Royal Navy in September 1935 he was 17 years old. He served on HMS Nigeria from September 1940 to January 1944. When he was discharged from the Royal Navy in 1957 he returned to coal mining. He died in 1955. To my shame and regret I know nothing else, so if anyone has any information I'd be grateful.
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A/SM. George Makison . British Army Royal Artillery from Sheffield George Makison was my dad. He was in the Royal Artillery reserves from 1938 through to the Second World War. He passed exams to join the Royal Air Force, but was a trained gunner and was needed in the Army, where he was offered a commission but preferred to remain an NCO. He was a desert rat who fought at El Alamein and was, I believe, injured in 1942. He received the long service medal.
My dad was a member of the ex-servicemen’s fellowship until his death in 1975. There is a photo of him doing the Highland Fling at one of the reunions. He was a family man and a loyal friend. He had a terrific sense of humour and he was a wise human being. His former comrades attended his funeral and carried his coffin. He was much missed after he died, and I miss him every day 44 years later.
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Pte Mario Rico "Jock" Malangone . British Army Royal Scots from Clapham My Uncle Mario Malangone served with the Royal Scots.
My Aunt told me he was very proud to have served in this battalion.
They had a verse, but I can't recall.. "first to, ....."
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Sgt. Harry W. Malaniak . United States Army 106th, 422nd Regiment Infantry Division from Detroit, Mi., USA I am trying to locate anyone who may have been a prisoner at Stalag 4B during January to June 1945. My father was Sgt Harry W Malaniak of Detroit, Mi. He was assigned to the 106th Infantry Division, 422nd Regiment. He was captured on or about 17th December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. I would appreciate any information from anyone who may have known him.
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Pte. Frank Malbon . British Army Royal Artillery from 8 Shaw St., Biddulph, Stoke on Trent Frank Malbon served with the Royal Artillery in 1940/41 in North Africa. He was taken PoW and held in Campo7 in Italy. In 1942 he was moved to Stalag 8b Lamsdorf-Blechhammer and in 1945 was on the Long March to Fallingbostell. He was llberated in April and demobed in 1947.
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L/Sgt. Alexander Malcolm . British Army 3rd Btn. Scots Guards (d.14th December 1944) Lance Serjeant Alexander Malcolm was 30 when he died and is buried in the Helmond Protestant Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
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GW Malcolm . British Army GW Malcolm 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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Robert Muir Malcolm . British Army Royal Artillery My grandfather, Robert Muir Malcolm, was captured in the Second World War in 1940 at Dunkirk and marched to Stalag 20b in Poland until the end of the war when he returned home.
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F/Lt. Robert M. Malcolm . Royal Canadian Air Force 150 Sqdn. from Winnipeg, Canada My father, Bob Malcolm, was born in Winnipeg and enlisted in the RCAF in February 1941 at the age of 31. He received his commission in November of 1941 and was posted overseas one month later. He was trained as an observer and all of his 330 operational hours were gained on the Wellington Mk III bomber. His navigational training took place on Ansons, Manchesters and Wellingtons.
The first operations entry in Dad's log book is for 30th May 1942. His aircraft (Wellington W476 piloted by F/S Walters) participated in the first 1000-bomber raid of the war on Cologne. The entry simply reads, "Operations - Cologne - incendiaries - clear moonlight - target identified." Nothing hinted at the destruction below.
On the return from one mission over Frankfurt in August 1942, the starboard engine failed 25 miles southwest of Brussels. The engine was jettisoned and pilot Sgt. Bennee hard landed at Manston. Nobody was injured and the crew caught the next ferry home.
Dad served with 150 Squadron in Blida, North Africa from December 1942 until April 1943. His log book entries for that period note that he was aircrew aboard Wellington HF690, piloted by Sgt. Matthews, for many of his sorties. He also flew on HF674.
Dad was one of the lucky ones in that in all his missions while in North Africa, his crew suffered only one fatality, Sargeant Doug Baird of Abbotsford, BC. On a raid to Trapani, Sicily, on February 9, 1942, Dad's log states, "some heavy and lots of light flak - coned on run up and Baird wounded - bombed target - no W/T aids - landed Maison Blanche. Baird died in hospital."
After his stint with 150 Sqdn., Dad served as a ground instructor at RAF Bournemouth. He was transferred to the reserves in July 1946, having attained the C.V.S.M. and clasp, the 1939-45 Star, Africa Star and Clasp, Aircrew Europe Star, Defence Medal, RCAF Ops. Wings and Air Navigators Badge.
During the war, Dad met and eventually married Prydwen Thomas, a nurse from Betws-y-Coed, North Wales. After their wedding in December 1945, Mom and Dad returned to Winnipeg where Dad continued with the RCAF reserves, the Post Office, Department of Veterans Affairs and ultimately teaching. Dad passed away in 1981.
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William W. Malcolm . Royal Canadian Air Force NO. 20 E.F.T.S. from Oshawa I do not know William Malcolm or his story in detail but I have his glasses case that he must have carried with him. Inside is a brilliant inscription that I thought I would share. The inscription reads "He little has and poorly fairs who takes no chance and nothing dares" I just recently lost my Father who was a flying instructor and the importance of remembering these gallant men has a special meaning.
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Pte. John Malefane . South African Forces Native Military Corps (d.1st July 1942) Private Malefane was the Son of Mr and Mrs Japheth Malefane.
He was 28 and is buried in the Aliwal North (Dukhatole) Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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P/O R. F.G. Malengreau . 87 Squadron P/O Malengreau was a Belgian pilot serving in the RAF
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PO. Philip Francis Males . Royal Navy H.M.S. Nelson from Pirton, Herts My father, Philip Males, served on H.M.S. Nelson for most of the Second World War. He was, I am given to understand, the youngest petty officer at the time. He was a carpenter by trade.
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Tech5. Stanley M. Maletz . United States Medical Detachment 634th AAA (AW) Battalion from Bound Brook, New Jersey Cpl. Stanley Maletz Army record was lost in a fire in 1973.
Camp Pickett had a huge medical training unit so this is where he received his medic training.
He arrived in England on 9th of November 1943 for more training manoeuvres preparing for D Day. He landed in Normandy during the D-Day invasion on the 6th of June 1944 in the 9th wave on Omaha Beach.
In looking for what division he was with I asked the historian Stuart Robertson on the Battle Bus Tour in Normandy. Since dad was in Virginia and landed 9th wave in all probability he was with the end of the 116th Regiment, 29th division (from the Virginia, Maryland area) landing on dog red, white or green near Vierville, France. His later unit 634th Anti Artillery Aircraft division under General Omar Bradley did not land in Normandy until a few days afterwards. The 116th fought in the Battle of Normandy until November 1944.
During this time he must have been re-assigned to the 634th AAA Battalion under General Courtney Hodges. He was there for the liberation of Paris for he remembers celebrating under the Eiffel Tower.
Reading now from his diary, they fought through to St. Vith, Belgium. On 16th of December 1944, his 634th Battalion was about to be relieved for rest and relaxation (R&R) but they were assigned to assist the 106th Division near Bierolf, Belgium.
The 106th division was attacked by the Germans near Schonberg on the Schee Eiffel ridge. This was the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. They fought on the 17th when the 422nd and 423th Battalions were surrounded and had to surrender. A group of 400 were reorganized by the 2nd Battalion ex officer Maj Albert A Quellette in the woods which had been the 2nd Battalion's assembly area.
This group attempted to move SW the following day, but were too surrounded. After destroying weapons and equipment Quellette's people surrendered on the morning of 21 December according to The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge by Hugh M Cole
Stanley was reported missing in action. The Germans marched the POWs east to Prum, Germany, then got on a train in a filthy boxcar. They walked again to Muttberg and got in another boxcar for 2 days. They arrived at Stalag 4B on New Years Eve.
He met some Polish prisoners since he could speak fluent Polish. These prisoners were captured during the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto. They treated him with food, cigarettes and Polish singing.
Since 4B was overcrowded, he was then on his way by boxcar again to Gorlitz on 13th of January 1945. He stayed in a POW camp Stalag 8A which was very close to Auschwitz concentration camp. In his diary he says "the stench from Auschwitz was foreboding".
He left on a forced march on 14th of February1945, west again through Germany for 2 months until they were liberated on 13th of April 1945 in Horsingen, Germany.
Upon release he was wearing a blanket, weighed 86 pounds and was sick with dysentery. He was in Camp Lucky Strike near Valery, France when he blacked out and woke up in a hospital.
He was diagnosed with malnutrition, gastro-enteritis, diarrhea and dysentery. In May he was ready to leave for the states when he had an attack of appendicitis and had it removed in the army hospital in Rouen. On 10th of June 1945 he went to La Harve and left for the USA on the SS Wakefield a hospital ship to Boston, arriving back in the US on 16th June 1945. He was discharged from the Army 18th of Nov 1945 weighing 145 pounds.
Stanley received the European, African, Middle Eastern Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal. In 2003 the POW Medal posthumously.
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Pte. Edward O. Maley . United States Army 513th Parachut Inf. Regiment (d.28th March 1945) Edward O. Maley died during Operation Varsity, he was awarded a Purple Heart & Oakleaf Cluster.
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Pte. Thomas Joseph Malia . British Army 7th Btn. Manchester Regiment from 182 New John Street, West Birmingham 19
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Sgt Mikoaj Malicki . Polish Army from Okno gm. Grzymałów Mikoaj Malicki served with the Polish Army in WW2.
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HEW Malin . British Army HEW Malin 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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JP Malin . British Army JP Malin 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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WA Malin . British Army WA Malin 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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Able Seaman. Arnold Malina . Royal Navy HMS Fishguard My Father was Able Seaman Arnold Malina, he trained at HMS Collingwood from 12 May 1943 August 1943 to 20 July 1943.
He served on HMS Fishguard from 1943 to December 1945. Convoy escorts in Indian Ocean from 21/11/1943 to 31/05/1945 out of bases HMS Tana, Kilindini, Kenya and HMS Lanka in Ceylon from 01/06/1945 to 31/10/1945
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Able.Sea Arnold Malina . Royal Navy HMS Fishguard My Father was Able Seaman Arnold Malina who trained at HMS Collingwood from 12 May 1943 August 1943 to 20 July 1943.
He served on HMS Fishguard from 1943 to December 1945. Convoy escorts in Indian Ocean from 21/11/1943 to 31/05/1945 out of bases HMS Tana, Kilindini, Kenya and HMS Lanka in Ceylon from 01/06/1945 to 31/10/1945
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ACH Philip George Malins . Royal Air Force 968 Squadron from Upper Parkstone, Dorset All I know is my father, Philip Malins was called up on 16th of October 1940 and he was 39 years old. Later he joined 4 Wing 4RC Unit and 968 Squadron in Ireland. I believe these were Barrage Balloon Units.
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Richard Malins . 428 Sqd. Dick Malins was a wireless operator/air gunner with 428 Squadron. He was shot down on 14th of Sept 1943 taken POW
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CJL Malkin . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers CJL Malkin served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 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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