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Sgt. H. Malkin . 102 Squadron
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Pte Ernest Albert Mall . British Army 2nd Battalion Ernest Mall served in Burma. I have found my Dad's ruck sack that he used on the voyage to Burma and want to find out about his exploits during the war.
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Mallam . Merchant Navy Mallam MN is listed on the Jarrow war memorial, I am researching the listings, can anyone provide further information?
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J Mallard . British Army J Mallard 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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Lawrence Joseph Mallard . Bevin Boy from Oldbury My father, Lawrence Joseph Mallard, was a Bevin Boy sent down the mine at Cannock in 1944. He was known to his colleagues as "Big Joe" and would have been about 20 when he was called for duty. Unusually, I believe, for a Bevin Boy, he worked at the coalface. I would love to hear from anyone who can recall him from those days. He lived in Oldbury, and used to motorcycle to Cannock each day for his shift. I have details of where he trained and his ballot number.
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Fus George William Mallatratt . British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers
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Able Sea John James Mallen . Merchant Navy SS Fort Athabaska from 10 Short Row, Jarrow, Co Durham (d.11th Dec 1943) John James Mallen is my second cousin on my paternal line. I have only just discovered details of his death in WW2 at the age of 22 and have seen a photograph of his grave in Bari Military Cemetery, Italy.
I would like his name included with those who perished as a result of the attack on Bari Harbour on 2 December 1943.
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N. D. Mallen . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Frmn. Oliver Mallen . Merchant Navy SS British Mariner (d.20th Oct 1941) Oliver Mallen died age 35. He was the son of Bernard and Anne Mallen of Jarrow and was born Jarrow in 1905. He is buried in
Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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P Mallen . British Army P Mallen 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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Flt.Sgt. William James "Dennis" Mallen . Royal Air Force 103 Squadron from Ipswich, UK Hi my father William Mallon is still alive and well living in Adelaide South Australia. He was in the RAF and fought in the 2nd World War.
He was in the 103rd squadron in bomber command and was an air gunner over Germany between 1939 and 1945. He has many medals which he proudly wears on Anzac Day. I noted this year he was the only person still able to walk in his squadron. There were 2 other aged gentleman being pushed in their wheelchairs by their carers during the March.
Our family is very proud of our father and the sacrifices he has made to give us the best possible life we could have had. He is a man of few words when it comes to talking about his years during the war. He has told me he lost many of his mates as they were shot down in action. Can only assume they died or were captured by the Germans at the time. My youngest brother Nick has been researching and is very interested in any knowledge he can obtain about the number of flights and air attacks my father may have been involved in.
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F/O. William Brown Mallen . Royal Canadian Air Force 76 Squadron from Quebec (d.21st Feb 1945) Flying Officer William Mallen was a navigator in the RCAF.
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F/O. William Brown Mallen . Royal Canadian Air Force 76 Sqdn. from Regina, Saskatchwan, Canada (d.21st Feb 1945) William Brown Mallen was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1910. He left Scotland for Canada in 1929 and worked as a woodman, sawyer, until he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1935 and enlisted five years later.
He was a Flying Officer Navigator of Halifax Bomber NR-191MPE which did not return from a night raid on Worms, Germany on 21st February 1945. All the crew died and are buried at Rheinberg Cemetery in Germany. It was their 19th sortie and so close to the end of operations for 76 Squadron in May 1945.
- P/O. H L Ball - pilot
- W/O. E Boydell - W/Op
- Sgt J Falkner - Flight Eng.
- F/Sgt. J J McNeil - Air Gunner
- F/O. W B Mallen - Nav.
- P/O. J Pennington - Air Gunner
- P/O. W J Phillips - Bomb Aimer
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Pte. Archibald Mallett . British Army 2nd Btn. Gloucester Regiment from Sticklepath, Devon Dad, Archibald Mallett was part of the BEF 145th Brigade sent to France in May 1940 and on to Orchies on the Belgium border. They were then sent on to defend the road to Dunkirk at Cassel. He was captured at Cassel on 27th May 1940 after receiving a shrapnel injury to his head. He was subsequently incarcerated in Stalag XX1B and he remained a POW until his release at the end of the war, suffering at the hands of the Germans.
His regiment was almagamated with the 1st Btn the Glosters and he went on to fight in Korea at the battle of Gloster Hill and the Imjin River, managing to survive and return home.
Dad never spoke of his war years and it is only in recent years that our family have learned of his past and how heroic he was. I am very proud of Dad, sadly he passed on in 1989. I have enclosed some of his papers showing different camps where he was held.
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WO Douglas C.W. Mallett . South African Army (Union Defence Force) On 28 January 1944, during World War II, the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, was the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group of a train filled with Allied prisoners. Most of the POWs had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome, and had been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance.
One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below.
Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
He was captured at the Desert campaign. He survived the wreck with broken ribs with loss of blood from respiratory tract. He was previously at Camp 66 and was sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
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Marine Henry Arthur Mallett . Royal Marines HMS Phoebe from Thorneywood, Nottingham (d.23rd October 1942) Henry Mallett was the son of Arthur Ernest and Bertha Mallett; husband of Muriel Maud Mallett, of Thorneywood, Nottingham.
He was 28 when he died and is buried in the Pointe Noire European Cemetery in the Congo.
On the 23rd October 1942, H.M.S. Phoebe was on her way to take part in operations off North Africa, when she was torpedoed off the coast of French Equatorial Africa. 46 men lost their lives in this engagement and 29 of them were buried in Pointe Noire European Cemetery in a large collective grave. This grave was later marked by a screen wall memorial, which carries details of all 46 casualties.
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Capt. William John Mallett . British Army 1st F.O.U. (Airborne) Royal Artillery from Billericay Captain William Mallett was captured on the morning of the 26th of September 1944 on the northern bank of the Rhine after evacuation of Airborne troops from the Oosterbeek perimeter had ceased. He was attached to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron but became separated from them soon after landing by parachute on the 17th September and subsequently made his own way towards the bridge, most likely with the 2nd Battalion.
After being paraded through the streets of Arnhem with other captured soldiers he was loaded, with them, on to cattle trucks and eventually arrived at Oflag 79 via Oflag XllA (Limburg) and Oflag XllB (Hadomar), on the 20th of October 1944.
They were liberated by the Americans on 23rd of April 1945.
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Cpl. John Edward Malley . British Army Royal Irish Fusiliers from Bray, Co Wicklow My father, John Edward, joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers in, I think, 1938. He served in Palestine, Malta and the Dodecanese Islands. He was taken prisoner and sent to a POW camp in Europe. He told me he ended up in a camp in Poland and was marched west during the winter of 1944-45. Alot of prisoners died on this March.
I wish I had more information and had listened or asked more about this time. I remember a photo in my grandfather's house of my father standing with a bespectacled sergeant. I have his campaign medals and am very proud of his service. Just wish I knew more details.
He died in Nov 1980
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PFC. Steve R. "Biff" Mallinak . US Army II Corps from Barberton, Ohio, USA The following is from a handwritten note by Steve Mallinak:
- Queen Elizabeth, board ship 3 Jan 43
- Sailed 6 Jan 43
- Arrived 8 pm, 11 Jan 43 at Gorik, Scotland
- England Liverpool
- Monarch of Bermuda, board ship 6 Feb 43
- Arrived 13 Feb 43 at Oran, N. Africa
- Azer Meeker
- Board ship 2 July 43
- Sailed 5 July 43, 8am
- Arrived 10 July 43, 7am, at Gela, Sicily
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BA Mallins . British Army Black Watch BA Mallins served with the Black Watch 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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B Mallinson . British Army 149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps B Mallinson served with the 149th Regiment 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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H Mallinson . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment H Mallinson served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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 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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J Mallinson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Mallinson 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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KM Mallinson . British Army KM Mallinson 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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Cath Mallison . Womens Land Army I've recently got hold of a book that my granddad Luke Kearns wrote about his life for his grandchildren to get to know more about him after he died.
He came over here as an agricultural labourer, and for a period of time in 1945 for about 6 months he worked the land at Lincolnshire with Mick Murray, John Feerick, Mattie Lyons and they drank and sang at The White Horse Inn. They worked Richard 'Dicky' Dennis' farmland until the foreman 'Sulky' replaced them with prisoners or war workers after a pay dispute. The group had to split up and move out, my granddad ended up at Youngs farm the 'other side of Sleaford' with Paddy Byrne. Sometimes the living conditions were good if they got a group going, but mostly lads had to sleep in the barn among the cattle faeces. The Youngs were very kind and helpful though and he and Paddy stayed in a caravan there
Paddy and my granddad drank at The White Hart. There was a Land Army Girl, about 20, called Cath Mallison that my granddad had a romance with but he suffered a bereavement and had to leave, and because he was grieving didn't answer her letter, there is a whole chapter on this! They went on dates to The White Hart, and my granddad would sing and play melodeon there. He helped out at the local vicarage garden party and accompanied Mrs Grimshaw who played the piano at dances. Before he left he got them all to bet on a horse at 45-1 following a tip off from an American man. The horse, Kerry Piper, won
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Stew. Ronald Morriss Mallitt . Royal Navy Ronald Mallitt was a POW in Germany Stalag Mehlenburg. I am wishing to find out more for geneology purposes.
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Pte. William John Malloch . British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch from Kenmore, Perth William Malloch served with 6th Black Watch. Born on 8th of December 1912 he was captured on 28th of May 1940 and held in Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf as
POW Number 13007.
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Pte James Preston Mallory . British Army Sherwood Foresters Regiment My Uncle James Preston Mallory was a prisoner in the Stalag VII-B camp n/o 344 in Lamsdorf Poland, formally known as Lambinowice.
He served in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment from 1939 – 1945, after the War in 1945 he subsequently joined ‘Commission Control’.
I was told that he escaped from the camp and was recaptured and duly returned to the camp, he also took part in the March from Poland to Germany.
I have been told that during the infamous 'long march' from Poland to Germany he and his friends used to take potatoes from nearby fields and boil them up quickly to sustain them on the journey.
In order to preserve the soles on his boots he strapped pieces of wood to his soles and due to this ingenuity when he arrived in Germany his soles were nearly unworn.
If anyone remembers or even knew him I would be very grateful to know.
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James Preston Mallory . British Army from Yorkshire, England I met James Preston Mallory in Tanzania in 1969. He was then the director and part-owner with Hardy Kruger of Momella Game Lodge. He told me a few things about himself during the war, but he said he was in North Africa. After the war he worked in the Foreign Office in Germany and later came to Tanganyika, East Africa in 1954, which is now Tanzania.
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Sgt. Lorne Mallory . RCAF air gunner. 433 Sqd. from Canada During a recent coach tour in Alsace Lorraine we passed what was obviously a memorial to some RAF airman. We were only able to remember a RAF Badge and the words, "Sergeant", "Halifax" as we swept by. Interested, I did a little digging and today I received the following wording from the memorial sent by the local tourist bureau. I have been able to establish that Halifax MZ 807 had been on 433 RCAF Sqn at Skipton on Swale.
Il s’agit de la stèle inaugurée en Mai de cette année sur la route des crêtes après la ferme auberge du Freudstein et dédiée à l’équipage anglo-canadien du Halifax MZ-807 « Corkscrew Charlie » qui, au retour de bombardement sur la ville de Hagen (nœud stratégique situé un peu au Sud d’Essen) et nécessitant 504 avions, s’est écrasé sur le Riesenkopf.
Parti à 17h de Skipton-on-Swale (entre Leeds et Manchester) le bombardier largue ses bombes sur l’objectif à 21h, puis met le cap au Sud. Touché probablement par la FLAK (Flieger Abwehr Kanone), les dégâts sont irrémédiables, l’avion est à la traîne et ne peut franchir la crête des Vosges. Le pilote tente une manœuvre desespérée, mais le bombardier heurte le massif et s’abîme en forêt à 23h en ce 2 Décembre 1944. Tous les occupants périssent dans les flammes. Seul le mitrailleur dorsal, grièvement brûlé, survit ; il est receuilli le lendemain par le propriétaire de la ferme et emmené à Willer sur Thur où il est hébergé et caché. Le 8 Décembre le village est libéré et l’aviateur remis à la 1ère Armée Française qui le transporte à l’hôpital américain de Neuilly. Il atteindra le Canada en Février 1945. Ses coéquipiers, enterrés dans une fosse commune, ont été transférés en 1950 au cimetière de la Royal Canadian Air Force à Choloy (à côté de Toul).
La stèle a été inaugurée le 7 Mai 2006 en présence du Sgt Lorne Mallory (seul survivant du drame), accompagné de son épouse Constance et de membres de sa famille. En présence du Cdt C. Gautier (Attaché Défense à l’Ambassade du Canada), Mme M. Diffon (Conseillère Régionale), Mr M. Habib (Conseiller Général), du Ltn-Col. J. J. Borel commandant la Base aérienne 132 de Colmar Meyenheim (Délégué Militaire) et du Maire de Willer sur Thur : Mr A. Delestan. Une exposition, avec des pièces et une maquette de l’appareil, avait été organisée dans sa Mairie.
Translated by computer: This is the stele was inaugurated in May this year on the road crests after the farm of Freudstein and dedicated to the crew Anglo-Canadian Halifax MZ-807 "Corkscrew Charlie" which, in return bombing on city of Hagen (strategic node located just south of Essen) and require 504 aircraft crashed on Riesenkopf.
Party to 17h of Skipton-on-Swale (between Leeds and Manchester) bomber dropped its bombs on target to 21h, then takes off the South. Probably hit by FLAK (Flieger Abwehr Kanone), the damage is irreparable, the aircraft is lagging behind and can not cross the crest of the Vosges. The pilot tried to maneuver desespérée, but the bomber struck the massive and crashed in the woods at 23h in December 2, 1944. All occupants perish in the flames. Only the dorsal gunner, badly burned, survives and is receuilli the next day by the owner of the farm and taken to Willer on Thur where it is hosted and hidden. On December 8 the village is freed and handed over to the airman 1st French Army who carries the American hospital in Neuilly. He will reach Canada in February 1945. His teammates, buried in a common grave, were transferred in 1950 to the graveyard of the Royal Canadian Air Force at Choloy (near Toul).
The stele was inaugurated on May 7, 2006 in the presence of Sgt Lorne Mallory (sole survivor of the tragedy), accompanied by his wife Constance and members of his family. In the presence of C. Cdt Gautier (Defence Attache at the Embassy of Canada), Ms. M. Diffon (Regional Adviser), Mr M. Habib (General Counsel), Ltn-Col. J. J. Borel commander of the Air Base 132 of Colmar Meyenheim (Military Officer) and the Mayor of Willer on Thur: Mr A. Delestan. An exhibition, with coins and a model of the aircraft, was organized in its City Hall.
The Halifax took off at 17:49 on the 2nd of December 1944 from Skipton-on-Swale. At the time the cause of loss and crash site was not established. F/S Mallory was treated for his injuries in a French Hospital, the rest of the crew are buried in Choloy War Cemetery.
- F/L W.H.Cook
- Sgt R.E.Ainsworth
- F/O J.E.Grant
- F/O R.H.Shiells
- P/O J.B.Pittman
- F/S L.A.Mallory
- Sgt J.W.Ash
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