DBA Ritchie . British Army 15th (S) Regiment Reconnaissance Corps DBA Ritchie 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 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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Able Sea. Edward Ritchie . Royal Navy HMS Merlin from Musselburgh Edward Ritchie served on 9 Different ships from 4th March 1941 to 23rd April 1946.
He was wounded in Action on the 3rd of September 1944
and served at HMS Merlin from the 17th of June 1945 to 23rd of April 1946.
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Pte. James Berry Ritchie . Btitish Army Queens Own Cameron Highlanders from Edinburgh The only information I can supply is that my father James Ritchie was a veteran of Dunkirk. He often spoke of a "McGinty" from Clydebank and another soldier who came from Manchester and had been employed by a Manchester newspaper prior to to the war. The first ship that rescued my Father from the beach was sunk and he was eventually rescued and brought home having inhaled fuel oil from the wreckage of the first ship. He was pensioned out due to his injuries in 1943 and died in 1999 at the age of 80 years within Erskine Hospital for ex service personnel. The photograph is my father and 3 other comrades, two of which have crosses marked on their arm. I believe they were killed in action but I do not know their names or location of their deaths. After Dunkirk my Father's Regiment was sent to India.
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F/O. James Ritchie . Royal Air Force 77 Squadron (d.15th February 1945)
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Ord.Sea. James Ritchie . Royal Navy from Penshaw, co.Durham James Ritchie served with the Royal Navy during WW2.
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Rfm. John Ritchie . Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
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Sgt. John "Jock" Ritchie . British Army 64 Anti-Tank Rgt. Royal Artillery from Paisley, Scotland My father, John Ritchie from Paisley, Scotland, was a Troop Sergeant serving in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and finally Austria until his discharge in 1946. I believe he served in the Royal Artillery, Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry 64 Anti-Tank Regiment. He enlisted in May 1939. He died in 1969. Does anyone remember him?
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Owen Fitzroy Ritchie . Royal Air Force My Dad, Owen Ritchie volunteered for the RAF from Jamaica, W.I. He was one of the first black men to ever serve in Wick. He tells of fond and not so fond memories of Wick in 40's, but overall the experience made him a better man.
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Gnr. Thomas McKenna Ritchie . Royal Navy HMS Biter from Glasgow My father, Thomas Ritchie and grandfather Colin Ritchie, were both crewmen on S.S. Athenia when she was torpedoed September 3rd 1939. My father
subsequently served on HMS Biter and other various ships. My Grandfather
served in the First World War, I think in the Argyll & Sutherland Reg.
He did not talk too much about what happened, but I think he was captured
at some time by the Germans.
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Sgt. Thomas Ritchie . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borders from St. Boswells Thomas Ritchie was recruited in 1939. He served in India and Burma and thought to have been part of the Chindits.
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F/O J. Ritchie. . (d.15th Feb 1945) F/O Ritchie was killed on 15/2/45 on Ops South of Zeland.
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Lt. Neil Ritchie. . USAAF 327th Bomb Squadron
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Able Sea. Joseph Ritson . Royal Navy HMS President (d.28th Mar 1943) Joseph Ritson died aged 22, he was born in Jarrow in 1920, he was the son of George and Mary Ritson of Jarrow.
He is buried in Newmachar Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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MD Ritson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps MD Ritson 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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W. J. Ritte . Royal Air Force 320 Squadron (Netherlands) from Holland (d.30th July 1943) WJ Ritte, a Dutch national, served with 320 (Netherlands) Squadron, Royal Air Force.
On the 30th July 1943 his plane, a Mitchell FR144 of 320 Squadron, crashed into the sea from 300 ft. altitude during an ASR flight.
Crew members were:
- W.J. Ritte - MIA
- Lt. A. Roessingh - MIA
- E. Van'T Emd - MIA
- C.P.J.M. Van der Does - MIA
- Cpl. W.L. Blok - MIA
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H Rittman . British Army H Rittman 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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Spr. Victor Rivans . British Army Royal Engineers from 20 Gloucester Road, Urmston, Manchester My dad Victor Rivans served with the Royal Engineers but also had an intelligence Corp badge he wore on his blazer.
He went over to Europe in July 1944.
He told me he was helping to interpret various languages for captured prisoners.
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Cpl. Cyril Robert Rive . British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from Jersey, Channel Islands (d.16th Apr 1941)
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S.Sgt. George Henry "Swanny" Rivers . British Army Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment from Croydon
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Pte. Numa William James Rivers . South African Army from Johannesburg, South Africa Numa Rivers married my father's 1st cousin, Ethel Mary Palmer, on 28th of July 1945 at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge, London. On this marriage certificate it shows his Residence as Johannesburg, South Africa. His father was Numa Charles Rivers, a Carpenter. Unfortunately, we know nothing about him except from online records.
He was a Private in the South African Land Forces with Army No. 33394 and POW No. 223601 at Camp Stalag 4C at Wistritz bei Teplitz, Czech Republic. Whether he died at the camp I have no knowledge. I have not as yet been able to find out this information. His bride remarried on 1st of April 1947. We have assumed he did die in the camp. There is no member of the family alive who can give us any further information. I feel, though, having found this site he should be remembered upon it having obviously fought bravely through out WW2 traveling from South Africa to help the Allied Forces. God Bless Him.
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Cpl. Douglas Alfred Rix . British Army The Royal Corps of Signals from London
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Sergeant James A Rix . RAF 578 Squadron My uncle, James A Rix, flew from RAF Burn with 578 Squadron in
1944.
Handley Page Halifax III, NA568 LK-Q, took off 11th September 1944 16.04 hrs, Op: Gelsenkirchen. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed 18.30 hrs. in Kirchhellen. All crew survived and made POW except Sgt J A Ridley who sadly was killed. Sgt J A Ridley is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Crew:
P/O T S Coram RAAF
Sgt L Blundell
F/S J M Tregoning
F/S J Callingham RCAF
Sgt C Inge
Sgt J A Rix
Sgt J A Ridley
I have a copy of the crew photo taken at my uncle's wedding shortly
before being shot down. James Rix now lives in Australia with his wife and had 3 daughters
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AS Rixon . British Army Royal Armoured Corps AS Rixon 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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Pte. Colin Frederick Rixon . Australian Army 8th Light Horse Regiment from Biggara via Corryong, Victoria. My Uncle Col Rixon was an athlete and fine horseman, a pre-war member of the Corryong Light Horse with his brother Norman. He served in the Middle East from December 1940 and Greece in April 1941. When the Germans began to overrun Greece, Col along with a few other soldiers commandeered a large yacht and managed to sail sixty miles to the island of Crete.
The German invasion next sent in a large contingent of airborne troops to Crete and captured surviving Allied troops. Col was reported missing in action in June 1941 and was found that November as a prisoner of war at Stalag VIIIB (renamed Stalag 344) at Lamsdorg, he was then transferred to Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel until 27th April 1945.
His papers state: - ‘Recovered POW - arrived in UK on Western Europe 14th May 1945, disembarked Sydney 17th June 1945. Discharged 12th July 1945’
Like so many stories previous, he never spoke of his ordeal.
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Gdsm. Leonard Frederick Rixon . Grenadier Guards 5th Btn. from George Green, Buckinghamshire (d.28th Apr 1943)
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Sam Rizza . US Navy USS Milwaukee I was on board the USS Milwaukee, Convoy JW58, when we took our ship to Russia for the lend-lease program in 1944. I came back to the UK on a British corvette and was on temporary duty in Southern England until D-day. I returned to the US on the Queen Elizabeth.
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Cpl. Bruno Anthony Rizzo . British Army 2nd Battalion, C Company South Wales Borderers My father, Bruno Rizzo (now deceased) is known to have served in France, Germany and possibly Holland.
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Capt. Bjoern Naess. RNAF . Royal Air Force 76 Sqd (d.17th Jan 1943 )
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Sgt. Charles Elmore Roach . United States Army 106th I am searching for anyone who had contact with Sgt Charles Elmore Roach while in Stalag 4B. He was a radioman with the 106th.
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FA Roach . British Army FA Roach 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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