LAC John Philip Matthews . Royal Air Force from Bilston, South Staffs I lost my father, John Matthews in 1989. I would dearly like to know if anyone who may have known him and any stories you may have. I don't even have his service number, but I do know he was an L.A.C. and a fitter/mechanic on aircraft gunnery.
A long time has passed since WW2 but I do hope there is someone out there who might be able to help.
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P.F.C. Johnie Newton Matthews . US Army from Rash, Alabama
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Bdr. Kenneth Richard "Jessie" Matthews . British Army Royal Artillery from Northwood
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Sgt. Leslie Albert Matthews . RAF navigator 12 Sqd
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Cpt. Lionel Colin "Duke" Matthews MC.. Australian Imperial Force 8th Divisional Signals from Australia (d.2nd March 1944) Lionel Matthews from Stepney, South Australia, had fought bravely in Malaya, gaining the Military Cross before becoming a prisoner of war. In captivity he was involved in secret underground activities until betrayed, tortured, and executed. During this ordeal he 'steadfastly refused to make admissions to implicate or endanger the lives of his associates'.
He is buried at Labuan War Cemetery, Labuan, Brunei Bay Area, Borneo
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Norman Walter Matthews . British Army Gloucestershire Regiment from Gloucester I am trying to trace what happened to my Dad, Norman Matthews when he was a POW. I have found several photographs with the Stalag VIII B stamp on the back. I hope someone can remember my dad or fill in what happened to him. I believe he was in the Gloucester Regiment and I remember him talking about a long march from Poland.
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R Matthews . British Army R Matthews 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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Sgt. R. C. Matthews . 102 Squadron
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RD Matthews . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RD Matthews 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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Able Sea. Reginald William Matthews . Royal Navy HMS Acheron from Epsom, Surrey (d.17th Dec 1940) Able Seaman Reginald Matthews was my Grandfather. He served with the Royal Navy since the age of 16. He left in 1935 when my father was born. He was called up at the start of WW2 and served on HMS Acheron as a stoker until his death in December 1940. He was 35 years old and left behind his wife and my fathe.
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RG Matthews . British Army RG Matthews 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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S Matthews . British Army S Matthews 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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Sydney Matthews . British Army 384 General Transport Coy Royal Army Service Corps from Clavering (d.15th Feb 1942) I am a local historian researching the names on the WW2 memorial in my village and have been told a story that I would like to check out, but I can't find anything online about it. It concerns one of the men commemorated on our village war memorial in Clavering, Essex, Sydney Matthews who served in the RASC and died 15 Feb 1942, his name is on the Alamein Memorial. The local story is that he was a PoW on a ship which was accidentally sunk by the Allies as it was not marked as a hospital ship. This would presumably be in the Mediterranean on 15 Feb 1942 but I can't find such a ship among the list of those lost. If anyone can direct me to some sources, I would be very grateful then we can record more about Sid Matthews, if it was him involved in this incident.
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Sgt T Matthews . RAF 12sqd
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T Matthews . British Army T Matthews 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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W Matthews . British Army W Matthews 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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W Matthews . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment W Matthews served with the Kings Liverpool 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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Wilf Matthews . Royal Air Force 51 Squadron Our crew was stationed with 51 squadron on three separate occasions, as we had three different skippers & two different bomb-aimers, which meant going back to con-unit for the necessary training with these chaps. We did our christening on the Nuremberg trip of 30 March '44, and made a forced landing at Wing (Otu) near Leighton Buzzard, Beds. After which our skipper, F/lt Joe Pawell, who was an American, flying in the RCAF, went to hospital in London with an ulcer, and after that first visit we didn't see him again. Back on the squadron, we did 'spare bod' trips, during which we lost our bomb aimer, Bob Burgum, on a raid near Aachen.
we went back to 'con unit', where we crewed up with new Skipper, F/o Danny King, RAAF. and bomb-aimer 'Grem' Emlyn-Jones. Danny had been with 77 Sdn, where we understand, he pranged on take-off with a bomb-load and was awarded an M.I.D. that he never talked of, but he did wear the emblem. Later on, we met one of his previous gunners, a F/sgt 'Herby' Holroyd. "Grem' came to us from a crew who had pranged at Garrowby Hill, where he has since erected a memorial to them. I remembered one of his gunners from my training days, a nice guy named Sid Booker. Grem and I are in fairly regular contact. We only did five trips with Danny, and on the last one he had a break-down, 17/7/44, was taken off flying 'heavies', and the last we knew, was on single -engined planes.
Back to con-unit where we teamed up with F/O Bob Gray, and at the end of his training we returned to Snaith to do a 'Bull's- eye' to Overflakee on 17/9/44, after which we carried on the usual squadron life up to the end of the war. The only change being that the squadron moved from Snaith to Leconfield, to do the 'final trip' to Wangerooge on 25/4/45. I am fortunate to still have my log-book and a stack of memories. I'm also grateful to my daughter, who is always ready for my stories, and who found this web-site.
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William John Matthews . Royal Navy HMS Newcastle from Eccles My uncle, Bill Matthews, served in the Royal Navy throughout the war. I have a postcard from him in 1943 in the Pacific somewhere. He had The Burma Star and Pacific Bar as well as the three main medals for the war. He was a singer and recorded with the Hastings Swanea Minstrels after the war. He was a brilliant cartoon artist, and a TV scene painter, as well as a model in his time.
Anyone who may have any knowledge or wartime photos please get in touch.
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P/O C. A. Matthews. . Royal Air Force 434 sqd.
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Sgt George Alexander Matthews. . 220 Sqd
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Sgt Leslie Matthews. . RAF 12Sqd. Leslie Matthews was held as a POW in Stalag XXA, Kopernikus.
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AJK Matthewson . British Army 15th (S) Regiment Reconnaissance Corps AJK Matthewson served with the 15th (S) 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 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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G Matthewson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps G Matthewson 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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M Matthison . British Army Durham Light Infantry M Matthison served with the Durham Light Infantry 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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T/5 Rupert Russell Mattingly . United States Army 1st Armoured Division from Louisville, Ky My father, Rupert R. Mattingly, was also captured at Fiad Pass in Northern Africa on February 14th, 1943. He was under the leadership of Col. Waters, the son-in-law of General Patton. Col. Waters was also captured during that battle. Col. Waters oral history was an interesting read about that battle and his capture. My father was a "scout" and was out on patrol when he was overrun by German tanks thus captured.
He was boated to Italy where he was forced to worked for the German army transporting ammunition and gasoline and watched our planes destroy them. He then was marched to East Prussia where he was a prisoner in a number of camps. According to war records he was liberated from Stalag 2b-Hammerstein. Dad never talked about his time as a war prisoner. We have no pictures, information beyond an article that appeared in a local newspaper upon his return. I have uploaded the stories. Any one with any pictures or any info about that battle a Fiad Pass please post.
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WO/2 Frederick Thomas Mattison . Royal Canadian Air Force 407 Sqdn. from Toronto (d.20th Jan 1943) Fred Mattison was my dad's cousin. During the War I was very young and never did understand how a person could go missing, but everyone in the family knew he was in action over the English Channel and were notified he was missing in action. Only in recent years have I gathered information about Fred and his role in the 407 (Demon) Squadron.
407 Squadron was active across the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay in search of enemy submarines and shipping. The 407 suffered a high level of losses per capita, compared to other units. On one of these attack missions Fred failed to return and was presumed killed in action. Fred will always be remembered by all the remaining family for his supreme sacrifice.
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F/O William Francis Mattison . Royal Canadian Air Force 420 Squadron from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bill Mattison served with 420 and 428 Squadrons
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PFC. Ralph A. Mattox . United States Army 26th Infantry Regiment from Ohio My father Ralph Mattox went ashore on Omaha Beach in Normandy and was captured near St. Beth in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He spent the rest of the time in Stalag IV-B and was eventually liberated by the Russians.
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