Sgt. A. G. McIlquham . 102 Squadron
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F/Sgt. Thomas McIlquham . Royal Canadian Air Force 102 Sqd. from Carlton Place, Ontario, Canada I am looking for information on Flight Sergeant Thomas McIlquham who flew with the 102 Squadron Bomber Command during 1941 and 1942. He was nicknamed Lucky by his chums. Ralph Barkers book The Thousand plan talks about one of his missions. He was Rear Turret Gunner on a Halifax Bomber. I know that he came from Carlton PLace Ontario Canada. I think he had a tough going after the war.
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P/O William Alexander McIlroy . Royal Air Force 408 Sqd.
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Matthew Mcilwain . Royal Marines 42 Commando from Glasgow Matthew Mcilwain served with 42 Commando, Royal Marines.
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Able Sea. David Main McIlwraith . Royal Navy HMS St. Angelo from Girvan, Strathclyde, Scotland
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P/O James Hamish Cameron McIlwrick . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 295 Sqdn. from Edinburgh (d.19th February 1943) Fourteen aircraft from 295 Squadron were tasked with a raid on three electricity transformers at Distre, near Saumur. Two aircraft were brought down by anti-aircraft fire. The crew who died on this mission and are buried in Saumur Communal Cemetery are:
F/O D.H. Upsher (pilot)
Sgt I.W. Arnold (navigator)
Sq.Ldr C. Campbell-Miller
Fl/Lt M.E.J. Croker (airgunner)
F/O M.C. Hayes (pilot)
F/Sgt T.W. Holland (airgunner)
Wing Co. P.M.V. Lysaght (pilot)
F.Sgt K.R. Marshall (wop/airgunner)
Sgt W. Mather (navigator)
P/O J.H.C. McIlwrick (pilot)
WO/2 J.E.S. Sasseville (wop/airgunner)
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Cpl. Charles McInally . British Army 7th Btn. Cameron Highlanders (Queens Own) from Balmore My grandfather served in the 7th Btn. Cameron Highlanders. I have some photos taken in Greece and Africa. He was a tailor to trade and I think he might even have been a regimental tailor. I will look out the photos when I get a reply in an email.
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Pte. Francis McInally . British Army 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Ayr Francis McInally was captured during the Battle for Crete and was held prisoner until the war ended.
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Sgt. McInerney . British Army Army Air Corps My father was a sergeant in the AAC and, when captured after sustaining extensive injuries in North Africa on 19th December 1943, was to be taken to Germany. Whilst en route he became too ill to continue the journey and was admitted to a military hospital near Verona, Italy which I think was a `reserve' military hospital. The building was, apparently, a convent and the nursing staff were nuns. The majority of patients were airmen and it could possibly have been near Bussolengo.
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Sgt. Geoffrey Louis McInerny . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves 12 Squadron from Bedford Park, Middlesex (d.22nd Oct 1941) This story is written to the best of my memory, as there are none of the family left from that time. Geoffrey McInerny was aged 23 when he was killed. On returning from a mission the aircraft crashed on the edge of the airfield. The only survivor was the tail gunner who, because of wounds, was unable to come forward as was apparently normal practice.
Geoffrey was the son of Augustine Aloysius and Louisa Marian McInerny, he is remembered with honour and lies in Binbrook (St. Mary) Churchyard.
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Lamp Trimmer Angus McInnes . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar from Isle of Harris, Scotland (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Ord.Sea. James F. McInnes . Royal Navy HMS Nelson (d.12th Aug 1942)
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Pte. Jim Mcinnes . British Army Gordon Highlanders from Oban, Argyll My Granddad didn't speak much about the war at all. One story he did tell was of marching through France as a prisoner when a villager threw a crust of bread towards him, he stopped and bent down to pick it up and was shot in the hand, the bullet hitting him in the finger. He told that story to my Granny and we never heard it until after he died.
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W Mcinnes . British Army W Mcinnes 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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P/O. McIntosh . Royal Air Force 9 Squadron P/O McIntosh was a pilot of Wellington bomber with 9 Squadron based at Honington in Suffolk.
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Sgt Angus McIntosh . RAF 10 Sqd
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D Mcintosh . British Army D Mcintosh 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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Sgt. Douglas Howie McIntosh . Royal Air Force 103 Squadron from Berri, South Australia Uncle Doug McIntosh was someone I heard of as a child. I still have his guitar and many stories. He was by all accounts, a big man who liked a joke, rowing and music. I always believed he was a tail gunner in a Lancaster but the official version was that he was an air bomber in a Wellington.
Wellington X9812 of 103 Sqn RAF took off from RAF Station Binbrook, at 2310 hours on the night of 25/26th June 1942, to attack Bremen, Germany.
The aircraft participated in the Third "Thousand Plan" attack of 1942, Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base.
The Crew were:
- RAF Sqd Ldr Atkinson, Captain (Pilot).
- RAAF 403432 Sgt J.G.O'Sullivan, Observer. 1481 Flt RAF
- RAAF 407603 Sgt D.H.McIntosh, Air Bomber. 1481 Flt RAF
- RAAF 403495 Sgt A.N.Blackley, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. 103 Sqd RAF
- RAF Sgt Waller, Air Gunner.
Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was established that the bodies of Sgt O"Sullivan (RAAF) and Sgt McIntosh (RAAF) were washed ashore at Vlieland and Terschelling respectively, and their remains are interred in the local cemeteries. These islands are two of the Friesian group of islands off the north west coast of Holland. It was presumed that the aircraft had crashed in the North Sea, and that the remaining missing members of the crew had lost their lives at sea. Their names are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing at Runnymede, UK.
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Pte. George David "Jock" McIntosh . British Army 7th Btn. C Coy. Seaforth Highlanders from Paisley My Father, George McIntosh joined the Army 12 Feb 1942, aged 19, basic training at 11th Infantry Training Center at Fort George. Once training was complete he was posted to 7th Seaforth Highlanders. During Op Epsom he was wounded and was returned to the UK. Once declared fit he returned to North Western Europe on the 12th of November 1944. He was wounded again on the 16th of February 1945 in Germany. He survived the War. I have done research into his time in the Army getting his Service history to help put everything together.
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J. McIntosh . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 419 Sqd.
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CSgt. James McIntosh . British Army 6th Btn. HQ Coy. Seaforth Highlanders from Elgin, Moray, Scotland My Father James McIntosh was a member of the 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (TA) HQ Company Elgin, Scotland.
He served in Belgium, Dunkirk, N. Ireland, Madagascar, Sicily and Italy before being wounded whilst driving over a land mine.
He spent six months in hospital before returning to Fort George (Depot) as CQMS until the end of the war.
I remember him pulling out pieces of shrapnel from his legs on a regular basis up until he died in December 1965.
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Gnr. James Alexander "Jock " McIntosh . British Army 86th Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Dufftown, Scotland James McIntosh served with 86th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. He is mentioned in the diary kept by Lieutenant Sidney Beck during the advance in Normandy 1944
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Leonard Wayne McIntosh . United States Army Coy A 30th Infantry Regiment I am trying to find some information for my friend's Grandfather, Leonard Wayne McIntosh who served in 3rd Infantry 30th Battalion Company A 3rd Division under General George Patton. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was injured and sent to the Seventeenth General Hospital where he spent 3 months. The problem is I am trying to find out if any medical records, would still be available in the UK? This gentleman is deserving of the Purple Heart but unfortunately all records in the U.S were destroyed in a fire so unless I can find proof of his injury and hospitalization or someone who can recall him being here he will not get this medal. Any help or direction anyone can put me in would be most gratefully received
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Cpl. Norman Bruce McIntosh . from Tiverton, Ontario
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Bmbdr. William Douglas Telfer "Mac" McIntosh . British Army 6th Anti Aircraft Regiment, 1st Searchlight Bty. Royal Artillery from Southampton In 1943, Lance Bombardier William Douglas Telfer McIntosh, of the 1st Search Light Battery, 6th Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Dad) was a Prisoner of War in Campo 78, Fonte d’Amore, Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy.
He had been captured on 8th of April 1941 whilst on the African desert and was transported to Italy where he was incarcerated in Campo 78, Fonte d’Amore near Sulmona, Abruzzo Italy for two years.
Some time in this year he developed a kidney stone to his right kidney. He became very unwell, the doctor of Campo 78 at that time was a Dr Torinto Sciuba. He made sure that Dad was taken to the Hospital (L’Annunziata) in the main street of Sulmona for the removal of that stone by an Italian surgeon. The building is now a museum, tourist information office and church.
The hospital at that time was run by nuns. Dad was gravely ill and weighed only about 6 stone. He was on the first floor of the hospital in a room on his own. He should not have been kept in there for long. It was not for prisoners of war, but because he was so very ill he couldn’t go back to Campo 78.
Maria Ginnetti worked in the laundry room at the hospital at that time and her daughter Paola used to go with her mother to help. Paola was 16 or 17 years of age at that time. She had been married and was already widowed. Her husband being killed in the war. I don’t know how or where.
Paola and her mother used to share their food with Dad, bringing it into the hospital to try and build him up. Dad always said that he was visited by a very nice young Italian girl. There wasn’t much food for anyone in those days, so it was a very generous act by these two women.
When there was a patrol by the Germans in the hospital area, Maria and Paola used to hide Dad under his bed, or in a wardrobe until the danger had passed. These two women were very brave and put their lives at risk by helping Dad. Paola did not know what had happened to Dad. One day he wasn’t there.
She didn’t know that he had been taken to Germany and spent two years as a POW there in Stalag X1A, Magdeburg. Dad didn’t speak of this time. Only saying that the Germans were "a little less kind than the Italians".
Paola was very pleased to know that Dad had survived the hard times he had endured. I told her just how ill he had been and on his arrival in Germany spent some time in a hospital there. I don’t know how long. I also told her that on his return to England he met Mum (Phyllis) in Hospital in Manchester in 1945 and later that year they were married and that Dad, in 1946, developed TB and spent a good deal of time in a sanatorium near Eastleigh in Hampshire.
Paola married again, a man called Pasquale. She had two daughters, Rossella and Angela. What a coincidence, my own sister being Angela. Her daughter Rossella Di Iorio, has one daughter called Fabrizia Presutti. Rossella’s husband is Claudio Presutti and they live in Sulmona.
Her other daughter Angela is married to Alberto Ginnetti, a coincidence about the same surname, they have two sons, and live in Rome.
Alberto speaks very good English, this is how I have gleaned so much information. On Tuesday 29 August 2006 my husband and I went to the Europa Park Hotel, Sulmona to meet with Alberto, Angela, Rossella and Fabrizia. We needed to meet on mutual ground as neither side knew if the other were genuine or not. Alberto told me that Paola had remembered that the English man in hospital was called William. We eventually established that we were speaking about the same man.
Alberto invited Jerry and me to Paola’s apartment to talk about the time in 1942/43. Paola is a lovely gentle lady, as are all her family. She was widowed about 7 years ago. She was 80 years old on 25 August 2006. She showed us photographs of her when she was young. When we showed her the photograph of Dad taken in Campo 78 she immediately recognised him and remarked that I was very like him to look at.
Dad didn’t actually ever stay with Maria and Paola at Via Roma 15, Sulmona, the address they were living at during that time. The help they gave was at the hospital only. Having now made contact it is my intention to stay in touch with the whole family.
I hope, one day, if her English is good enough, that Fabrizia may be granted a bursary and come to England.
My Dad served Overseas with the
British Expeditionary Force from the 14th of September 1939 to 13th of June 1940, in Egypt from 23rd of July 1940 to 7th of April 1941
and was in Italy as a PoW from 8 April 1941 to 13th June 1944
the in Germany (PoW) from 14th of June 1944 to 25th of April 1945.
His
Military Conduct is listed as Exemplary and his
Testimonial reads:
"A good type of man. Thoroughly honest, sober and reliable. He has been a POW in Italy and Germany for years and in spite of the experiences he has gone through he has returned with morale high."
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William Douglas Telfer McIntosh . My father, William Douglas Telfer McIntosh, was transferred to Stalag X1a in 1944 from Campo 78 Sulmona, Italy. I have a lot of information on Italy, but he was most reluctant to speak about his time in Germany. He died in 2003. I don't have any photographs of his time there. Does anyone have any?
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Alfred McIntyre . Royal Air Force My father, Alfred McIntyre was in the RAF. He survived Stalag Luft 6 and the long march to Fallingbostel which, sadly, many did not. I have his wartime log which has poems etc by other British POWs. Their names are: Alick Yardley, Stan Tyson, Eric Bickey, Bill Gilroy, Doug Pinney and Fred Bowler. I would love to hear from any family members and especially about my dad `wee Fred'.
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F/Sgt. Allan McIntyre . Royal Australian Air Force
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Spr. Archibald Burgess McIntyre . British Army 663 Artisan Works Company Royal Engineers (d.17th Jun 1940) Archibald McIntyre of 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers lost his life in the sinking of the Lancastria.
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Sgt. Donald Van Norman McIntyre . Royal Canadian Air Force 101 Squadron from Winnipeg, Canada (d.31st Mar 1944)
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