F/O. William Duncan McGregor . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 129 Squadron (d.8th November 1945) William McGregor served as a pilot with 129 Squadron.
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J. H. McGregor-Cocks . Royal Navy HMS Manchester
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F/O Duncan P McGregor. . RCAF 1659 HCU (d.15th Jan 1945)
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Sgt R E McGregor. . Royal Air Force 434 sqd. (d.20th Feb 1944)
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Sgt Henry John Leacock McGsachie MM. British Army 2nd Btn Seaforth Highlanders
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P/O William Chester McGuffin DFC. RCAF 419 (Moose) Squadron P/O William Chester DFC J15712 was a pilot based at Middleton St George now Teeside airport and flew Lancaster's from this base for 419 RCAF Moose Squadron which included VR KB 745 V
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Cpl. Charles McGuigan . British Army Royal Engineers from Edinburgh (d.3rd November 1943) Unfortunately, my mother and father, Charles McGuigan split up when I was very young and I never got a chance to know him. My brother, his namesake, passed away aged 14 years in April 1945. Both sadly missed but never forgotten
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Peter McGuiggan . British Army Royal East Kent Regiment Two photographs of my father, Peter McGuiggan who I believe served with the Royal East Kent Regiment in World War 2. The first is of three soldiers posing in Naples, Italy in about 1944. My father is the one on the left with his hands behind his back. The second is also of three soldiers bathing at a location near Trieste, Italy towards the end of the war, my father again on the left. I have no other information.
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Gnr. Edward Joseph McGuinness . British Army Royal Artillery My grandfather, Edward Joseph McGuinness, was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. I understand he was born about 1917 in Ireland and was based at the Devonshire Regiment Barracks on Topsham Road, Exeter in the 1930s, where he remained until the outbreak of war. He married Marjorie Barker in 1934 in Exeter.
He was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and sent to Stalag 383, where he remained until the end of the war and his return to Devon.
I also understand there was a camp artist, as I have a picture of my mother, which was drawn simply from my grandfather's description, and is treasured. Does anyone have any information about Edward, the artist or the camp?
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GW Mcguinness . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GW Mcguinness 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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R Mcguinness . British Army Gordon Highlanders R Mcguinness served with the Gordon Highlanders 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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Gnr. George Taylor McGuire . Canadian Army 7th Medium Artillery Regiment from McLeod Lake, British Columbia, Canada George McGuire was my grandfather. He served in Europe with the 7th Medium Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, 2nd Army Group RCA, 1st Canadian Army. He saw action in Normandy, the Seine, Boulogne, Calais, the Scheldt, Bergen op Zoom, and Nijmegen. In 1945 in Ems, the Rhineland, he was transferred to the 14th Armoured (Calgary Tank) Regiment.
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Pte James McGuire . British Army Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Stirling
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JJ Mcguire . British Army Royal Army Service Corps JJ Mcguire served with the Royal Army Service 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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John L. McGuire . United States Army 310th Infantry Div. from USA During WWII I served with `E' Coy., 310th Infantry Division and was captured on 14th December 1944. I spent time in POW camps at Bohn, Limburg, Hammelburg, Nurnburg and Moosburg, where I was liberated on 29 April 1945. I would like to hear from anyone who spent time in these camps and may recal having had contact with me.
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Sgt. Laurence Felix McGuire . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 166 Sqdn. from Glasgow (d.5th April 1945)
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L/Sgt. Thomas McGuire . British Army Scots Guards from Hamilton, Scotland Thomas McGuire is my grandfather and the person I am named after. Sadly he passed when I was only 16 and didn't yet realise what he had been through.
He was initially missing presumed dead but was apparently held in Stalag 4B. Only now that I am entering my later years I realise what all of these people experienced. I bow my head to each and every one of them on all sides.
May your god bless you and may you all rest in peace.
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Sgt. Thomas McGuire . Royal Air Force 413 Squadron from Greenock, Scotland My father, Tommy" McGuire was a rear gunner with 413 squadron. Unfortunately, he died in 1955 when I was 4 years old, so I do not remember him.
I know he was on the crew when the 1st PBY arrived in Scotland and he served in the Middle East.
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Vernon Lee McGuire . My brother, Vernon Lee McGuire, was a POW in Stalag 3C for about nine months in 1945. He was a paratrooper and jumped behind enemy lines during the Normandy invasion. He and eight or nine other troopers were captured by a German motor patrol several days later. Sometime after that, they were loaded into a small rail boxcar with 30 or more other men, many of whom were wounded. They were on this train for 28 days before reaching a prison camp. One night during the train ride they were in the heart of Berlin as it was being bombed by the Americans. Luckily there were not hit. He may have been in more than one camp, but was in 3C shortly before they were freed by three Russian tanks. At that time they were being marched to another camp when the tanks came upon them. He told me that the tank commander of those three tanks was a buxom blonde Russian woman. After they were freed all of the POWs scattered and slowly worked their way back to the American lines.
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LBdr. Albert Henry McGuirk . British Army Royal Artillery from Belfast My Uncle Bert joined the Territorials before the Second World War. He was called up as soon as war broke out and was at Dunkirk. He was captured in North Africa he was in Sulmona for a period of time. He survived the War and died in the early ninties
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Pte. Charles McGurk . British Army 4th Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (d.10th to 13th June 1940) Charles McGurk of the 4th Btn. Black Watch was killed between 10/06/1940 and 13/06/1940.
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Gnr. Kenneth Francis McGurk . British Army Royal Artillery from Axminster, Devon My grandad, Kenneth Francis McGurk, was a POW in WW2, his POW number was 22208301. He was captured on 21st June 1942 at Tobruk and was taken to Italy, first to Camp 75 then to Camp 54. He escaped while in Italy after cutting the fence wire and remained free for three months, but was recaptured by three Italians and two German soldiers.
He was then sent to Germany and was a POW from 7th March 1944 until 15th May 1944. He was first in Stalag 1VB then he was sent to Stalag 1VC where he worked at the Petrol Works, Brux from May 1944 to May 1945 and at an Air Raid Shelter, Halle from March 1944 to April 1944. He left the camp on a motorbike on 15th May 1944 with another man until they found some American soldiers.
The names of other men he mentioned, although I am unsure if they were in his regiment at Tobruk, in Italy or in Germany with him, are Frank Revel, Ken Poulden and Kenneth Rochford.
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Pte. John Henry McGurty . British Army 10th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.11th Jul 1944) John Henry McGurty died aged 24. He was born in Jarrow in 1920, son of John and Elizabeth McGurty (nee Wilson) of Hebburn Quay.
John is buried in Tilly-Sur-Seulles War Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Pte. John McHale . British Army 2nd Btn. Parachute Regiment This is the story as told by my father, John McHale, shortly before his death in 1984.
He was a Red Beret, who had parachuted into Arnhem in September 1944. He was a trained sniper, and carried a special rifle for which he said he would have been shot immediately by the Germans had they found him with it.
My father reported that once on the ground there was no form of communication and as the paratroopers did not all land in the same place, he did not know where his unit was or where to go.
There were more Germans than expected. He recalled crawling in the gutters of the roads at night to try to avoid detection. He told how he had been given shelter by residents of the town, and spent some days in the loft where he sat on a tin bucket as the Germans, in checking the houses, would fire machine guns through the ceiling into the loft. He survived this, but decided that he needed to leave as he was putting the lives of the family in danger.
Upon leaving the house, he was coming down the stairs as a young German started to come up. My father said that there was a split second when their eyes met and both men would much rather have just passed on the stairs with a nod. However, it was down to who could shoot first, and my father killed the German before running out of the house.
He was captured in Arnhem and taken to Stalag XIIA in Limburg where he remained until the end of the war. He reported the conditions to be appalling, and as he was Scottish, he was treated worse than the English soldiers being the last to get food, and very little of it. This was all he ever said about his war time experiences.
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Major. Kenneth Wilis McHarg . British Army 6th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment from Shipley, West Yorkshire (d.16th June 1944) Ken McHarg was the only son of Mr and Mrs William Stewart McHarg (mother Hannah Stangoe Willis) of Nab Wood Drive, Shipley. Born 1914 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He was keen on sports and was the winner of the Territorial Cup in the Open Golf Championship held in York in 1939. He went to Shrewsbury School and won 14 sports' trophies.
In 1941 he married Patricia Thornton, daughter of Mrs and Col. W. H. Thornton M.C, T.D., Officer commanding 4th Battalion, Home Guard.
He spent 2 years in Iceland as adjutant for his regiment. He was presented with a huskie dog by a Norwegian unit whilst there.
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Sgt. D. C.J. McHendry . 102 Squadron
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Sgt. Jack "Jock" McHoul . Royal Air Force No. 166 Squadron from Perth, Scotland
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Pte. John McHugh . British Army Cheshire Regiment from Stockport, Cheshire John McHugh was captured at Salerno, Italy on 10th September 1943, after being wounded. He had previously been at El Alamein and the following battles. John never spoke of the war, so all knowledge has been gained from army records and his POW identity card, which we have.
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Sgt Thomas J McHugh . RAF 220 Sqd (d.6th Aug 1941 )
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Marie McHutchon . Women's Land Army from Dunoon, Scotland I started work for the Benmore Forestry Commission at the age of 17, after leaving Dunoon Grammar School. In 1940 the Forestry Commission became the Women’s Land Army (FFG). I was married and became Mrs Kent in 1943 and had to resign from the Land Army when I moved to London. After the war I moved to Cornwall where I lived with my husband until he died in 1989. I have two children and 2 grandchildren. Since 2003 I have lived in Spain with my daughter, son in law and my grandson.
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