JC Petchey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JC Petchey 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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Stanley William Petchey . British Army Royal Artillery Stanley Petchey served with the Royal Artillery. I can't find out any thing about my dad's war records.
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Tech Sgt. Matthew J. Petek . United States Army F Coy. 38th Infantry Regt. (d.15th Jun 1944) My husband's uncle Matthew Petek made it through the D-Day Invasion on Omaha Beach, but was severely wounded at Trevieres, France. He was sent to a hospital plant 4113 in Frome St. Quintin, Dorset, England and died on June 15, 1944. I am trying to find out any information about this hospital and Uncle Matt's injuries but have had no luck so far. His name was Technical Sergeant Matthew J. Petek from Milwaukee, Wisconsin , U.S. Army 38th Infantry, 2nd Division "F" Company. He is buried in the Cambridge Military Cemetery in Cambridge, England. We were fortunate enough this past May to visit his gravesite. If anyone knows anything about this hospital I would appreciate the information.
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Jack Peter . 7thBatt'n from Lochee, Dundee, Scotland I think that my paternal uncle Jack/John Peter is one of the men in your photo of the 7th Battalion. He is the second from the left (looking at the photo) of the men who are kneeling. He was in the Pipe Band. He was a barber, having taken over the business and shop of his father, and my paternal grandfather, after whom I was named. My grandfather was very badly injured in WW1. I am well into my 60s now, so interested in family history. Sadly most of them are no longer with us.
Regards,
Bill Peter
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Gdsm. William Edward Peterkin . British Army 5th Btn. Coldstream Guards from Leeds, West Yorkshire Eddie Peterkin served with the 5th Coldstream Guards.
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AB William Peterkin . Royal Navy HMS Glasgow from Glasgow
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Alec James Frederick Peters . Royal Navy T.S.Arethusa HMS Chatham from Battersea, London Alec Peters was my great grandfather and served upon many ships between 1929-1941 including T.S. Arethusa and HMS Chatham. He survived the war and died in 1971. In researching my family history I've come across a long history of Royal Navy men running through my family.
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Bernard "Pete" Peters . New Zealand Army 5th Bgde Artillery 2NZEF My uncle was captured in Greece in 1940. He served with the 5th Brigade Artillery 2NZEF. He was interned at Stalag VIII in Austria.
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F/O C. E.T Peters . 97 Squadron
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Pte. Christopher A. Peters . British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade from London Chris Peters was a member of the 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade in the Second World War. He admitted that he found Army discipline difficult at first but soon became an accomplished Rifleman within the Battalion.
He landed on the Normandy Beaches and amazingly survived the campaigns throughout France, Belgium and Holland and the breakthrough into Germany as part of 22nd Armoured Brigade within 7th Armoured Division. He operated throughout in mechanized platoon in a Bren Gun Carrier. He proudly wore the Red "Desert Gerboa" on the sleeves of his battledress and this was captured in a superb portrait by a German National with whom he was billeted immediately after the war north of Hamburg.
He was a proud soldier and returned home to create a very successful building and construction business in London and had his own horse in stables close to Hyde Park Corner and frequently rode out in Rotten Row. He regrettably died of cancer in Rottingdean in Sussex many years after the end of the war.
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CJM Peters . British Army CJM Peters 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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Drvr. Earnest William "Buck" Peters . New Zealand Army 2nd Division from Winton Driver Ernest Peters was captured on Crete. He spent from 3rd March 1942 in Stalag 8B in Germany and then in Stalag 4Cc until he arrived safe in the UK on 17th May 1945.
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Edward "Micky" Peters . National Fire Service Station 34 D 4 from My relative Edward Peters was in the Auxiliary & National Fire Service, and served at station 34 D 4, has anyone got any idea where this station was? All I know was that it was West London.
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W/O. Edward Thomas Peters . Royal Air Force Kirmington 166th Squadron from Bury This is a poem my dad, Ted Peters wrote for all flight engineers it has been seen all over the world.
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EHJ Peters . British Army Devonshire Regiment EHJ Peters served with the Devonshire 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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Pte Ernest Dominic Peters . Canadian Army North Nova Scotia Highlanders from L'Ardoise, Nova Scotia My Grandfather was captured during the D-Day invasions near Authie, France. He was taken prisoner by Kurt Meyers Division. After he was captured he was shortly after force marched to Rennes where his group was accidentally strafed by US aircraft. He managed to survive and ended up in a POW camp in Rennes. While in the POW camp, the allies bombed the area, including the POW camp he was held captive and was hit by shrapnel in the leg. He ended up in the hospital where his leg needed to be reattached by the Germans. He spent around 10-12 days in the hospital where he was then put in a box car and shipped off to Germany. He was documented staying in Stalag IV B and was later moved to another POW camp. He managed to survive all of this and went on to testify in the Kurt Meyer trial. I am still digging for more information.
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F Peters . British Army F Peters 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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FG Peters . British Army FG Peters 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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Capt. Frederick Thornton Peters VC, DSO, DSC.. Royal Navy HMS Walney from British Columbia, Canada (d.13th Nov 1942) Frederick Peters was killed in action on the 13th of November 1942, aged 53. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth.
He was the son of Frederick and Bertha Hamilton Peters, of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
The citation in the London Gazette of 14th May, 1943, reads : "For valour in taking H.M.S. Walney, in an enterprise of desperate hazard, into the harbour of Oran on 8th November, 1942. Captain Peters led his force through the boom towards the jetty in the face of point-blank fire from the shore batteries, a destroyer and a cruiser. Blinded in one eye, he alone of the seventeen officers and men on the bridge survived. The Walney reached the jetty disabled and ablaze, and went down with her colours flying."
Captain Peters survived this action and was taken prisoner by the French. He was released several days later and, on 13th November 1942, he was returning to England on a Sunderland Flying Boat when it crashed. He did not survive.
Mount Peters, near Nelson, British Colombia is named in his honour.
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Pte. Frederick Peters . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment from Chatham, Kent My granddad Fred Peters was nearly 36 years old and in the Army Reserves when he got his call-up papers. He joined the BEF and is listed as arriving in France on 11th Sept 1939. From my research, the 2nd Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) joined the 131st Infantry Brigade in early May and took part in The Battle of France from 10th May 1940. He is listed as a Prisoner of War on 11th July 1940. Like so many other POWs, he didn't talk much about his wartime experiences. However this is a summary of what we do know:
He and another soldier were captured trying to escape on a German motorbike they "borrowed". He was transferred to Stalag XXB, Marienburg on 1st November 1940. We do not know much about his time there apart from the fact he was sometimes sent to work at a local farm, where the farmer treated him decently.
Early in 1945 he and the other POWs were forced to march for hundreds of miles. Again, he didn't go into great detail but he did say they were so desperate for food that they dug up root vegetables from the frozen ground to survive. He had a scar on his back after a German soldier hit him with his rifle because he stopped to go to the toilet. He also told how he collapsed towards the end of the march and was put in a wheelbarrow and pushed for miles by his mates to save him from falling behind, a deed which he said saved his life.
He was liberated by American soldiers in mid-April 1945 and landing back in England on 28th April 1945. After being demobilised, he returned to his job in Chatham Dockyard.
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Gordon Peters . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd. Gordon Peters served as a navigator with 460 Sqd.
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Ldg.Wren. Gwendoline Alice Peters . Women's Royal Naval Service HMS Glendower from Leatherhead My mother, Gwen Peters, joined the WRNS on 6th November 1941 having originally applied to join in December 1940 but rejected as her teeth were in poor condition. She joined at HMS Pembroke and after 3 weeks was transferred to HMS Glendower as a writer (typist). She was promoted to Leading Wren on 31st May 1943 remaining at HMS Glendower until April 1944. She was then drafted to HMS Monck at Largs in Ayrshire. On 1st October 1944 she was drafted to HMS Eaglet where she worked in the Liver Building until she was re-drafted to HMS Nightjar (RNAS Inskip) until her discharge on 21st May 1946.
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P/O. H. N. Peters . Royal Air Force 90 Squadron (d.22nd June 1943) 90 Squadron Royal Air Force, Bomber Command, Stirling Mark 3 serial number EE887 WP-T. With a seven man crew took off from West Wickham at 2345 hrs on 21st June 1943 on a bombing mission to Krefeld, Germany. The aircraft was shot down in the early hours of 22nd June by a night fighter, later identified as the German fighter ace Hauptmann H.J. Jabs, and crashed at Hoogwoud North Holland with the loss of all of the crew. Crew members were: - Pilot Officer H.N. Peters Royal Australian Air Force
- Sergeant D.J. Davies Royal Air Force
- Sergeant David Gillis Royal Air Force Volunteers Reserve
- Sergeant E. Bradshaw Royal Air Force
- Sergeant B.A. Abraham Royal Air Force
- Sergeant A.S. Andrews Royal Air Force
- Sergeant R.R. Law Royal Canadian Air Force
All are buried in Bergen General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
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Hans H. Peters . Luftwaffe It was early morning in October 1944 on an airbase in Cottbus, Germany.
It was still dark outside, when suddenly the runway lights were switched on.
We were stunned as a Boeing Fortress B17 landed on the airfield. The aircraft rolled out but the runway was to short and so the B17 slided with the front landing gear in a waterless ditch. We could see that the crew (5 or 7 people, I can't quite remember)came out and fled. But they were captured after a short while. One crew member made it to a small forrest where he was found injured on the next morning. After he was medically attended he and his crew members were hauled off to Cottbus city.
This incident is affirmed by some other still living colleagues of mine. After 60 years.
One of my colleagues could tell, that the Cottbus tower has confirmed that a B17 has sent a mayday call after it was under fire by german flak and that one crew member was injured. So the tower decided to switch on the runway lights.
I am wondering if anyone of the crew is still alive and can tell some more about the circumstances how and why they landed in Cottbus.
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J Peters . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Peters 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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James Peters . United States Air Force I would like to contact any relative of Jim Peters who died whilst returning from a bombing raid over Germany. Whilst carrying out the raid on a city, which saw most ferocious bombing, the plane was hit but managed to turn and whilst flying home was attacked, broke up and fell into the sea. Jim has now gone to the light after helping many others.
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Pte. James Peters . British Army 4th Btn. Border Regiment from Whalley, Lancashire
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Spr. James Joseph Peters . British Army 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers from Doncaster Jim Peters served with 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers and was held in Stalag20B.
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JC Peters . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment JC Peters 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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F/Sgt. Kenneth George Peters . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 207 Sqdn. (d.2nd March 1943) F/Sgt Peters was a member of the crew of Lancaster ED533 EM-N which was lost on the night of 2nd/3rd March 1943. The full crew were:
Sgt R Isaacs, RAFVR
Sgt R Brown, RAFVR, Flt. Eng.
F/O GA Bissett, RAFVR
F/S KG Peters, RAFVR
Sgt WO Shelley, RAFVR, Wop/AG
Sgt JW Webster, RAFVR
F/O FB Hawkins, RAAF
The Lancaster had taken off at 1833 from Langar to lay mines in French waters. It was presumed lost over the sea. Sgt Brown, whose body was washed ashore on 27th May 1943, is buried in the Department of Basses-Pyrenees at Biarritz (du Sabrou) Communal Cemetery. The others have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. F/O Bisset was a graduate from Aberdeen University.
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