Flt.Sgt. Raymond Adolf Rauch . Royal Canadian Air Force 433 (Porcupine) Sqdn. from Winnipeg, MB On the 9th of November 1943 Raymond Rauch was discharged from Army Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Vancouver BC as an Aviator Recruit. He served as a rear air gunner.
He officially changed his name from Adolf Raymond Rauch to Raymond Adolf Rauch.
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Cpl. Percy Raven . British Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) from Burton upon Trent (d.16th Feb 1945) Percy Raven served with the 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). All I know so far is that he died in the Battle of Reichswald Forest. I am trying to find out more information.
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F/O. Malcolm Ravenhill . Royal Air Force 229 Squadron from Sheffield (d.30th Sep 1940) My late grandfather witnessed F/O Malcolm Ravenhill's Hurricane circling round over the field next to his house on what my mother describes as a horrendous day of dog fighting with ME109'S over Ightham in Kent. Within a few seconds the Hurricane plummeted to the ground and burst into flames. My grandfather desperately tried to get to the pilot but was forced to give up as unexploded ammunition was going off from the plane's machine guns.
My grandfather was deeply upset by this but he was later told by the RAF that F/O Ravenhill had been killed in flight and the plane circling was doing so until the pilot slumped forwards which then caused the plane to fall from the sky.
Malcolm Ravenhill is buried in City Road Cemetery, Sheffiled. His headstone reads "Malcolm Ravenhill, Flying Officer (229 Squadron) Killed in the Battle Of Britain, Sept 30th 1940 Aged 27 Years. One Of The Gallant Few.
RIP M Ravenhill. Lest we forget.
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FO/Pilot Malcolm Ravenhill . Royal Air Force 229 Squadron (d.30th September 1940) Does anyone have any information about Malcolm Ravenhill? I look after his grave in Sheffield.
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L/Bdr. James Samuel Ravenscroft . British Army Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery
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Sgt James Thomas Ravenscroft . Royal Air Force 166 Squadron (d.27th Jan 1944 ) James Ravenscroft, known as Tommy served with 166 Squadron at RAF Kirmington.
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K Ravenscroft . British Army K Ravenscroft 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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WN Ravenscroft . British Army WN Ravenscroft 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. Donald Charles Ravine . Royal Air Force 1663 HCU from St. Albans, Hertfordshire (d.19th Aug 1943) I have been researching a Collision between two Halifax Bombers, one from Riccall and one from Rufforth, on 19 August 1943.
DG420, The Rufforth Aircraft was Piloted by Sgt Donald Charles Ravine (569748), known crew are Air Gunner Sgt Albert Edward Gilverson and Frederick Read. Possible codes and letters for the aircraft are OO-? Or SV-? Maybe H as a letter, it was built by Rootes Securities, Speke as part of a contract of 150 aircraft, Contract number ACFT/637, requisition HA3/E11/40. It had previously served with 76 Squadron under the markings MP-Q flew 4 operations, then sent to 1663 HCU, Rufforth.
 Pilot Sgt Donald Charles Ravine,on right, with others, not known.
R9497, The Riccall Aircraft, was Piloted by Sgt Terrance Claude Ashley (1337699) possible codes and letters, TT-? Or ZB-?. It was built by Handley Page Ltd, Cricklewood and Radlett as part of a contract of 100 aircraft. Contract number 69649/37, requisition 102/E11/37. It had previously served with 10 Squadron, Melbourne under markings ZA-V, then sent to 1658 HCU, Riccall
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WO1 George Ernest "Mickie" Raw . British Army Royal Artillery from Sunderland My father, George Ernest Raw, was captured during the defence of Dunkirk in April 1940 and was held as a POW at Stalag 344 (8b) until March 1945. However, in July 1942 until April 1943 he was transferred to Stalag 319. I am unable to find any reason for this, as the historians inform me only Russian or Jewish POWs were transferred to 319 from 344. Thankfully my father returned home safely.
Any information during this time will be of interest to my research.
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R Rawes . British Army Royal Tank Regiment R Rawes served with the Royal Tank 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 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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LH Rawle . British Army LH Rawle 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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Beryl Rawlings . Women's Land Army
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MDEW Rawlings . British Army MDEW Rawlings 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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L/Cpl. Reginald Rawlings . British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Lance Corporal Reginald Rawlings and the 17th Infantry Brigade including 6th Seaforth crossed the straits of Messina and landed in Italy on September 3rd 1943. By 2nd January 1944 they had returned to the west of Italy to take part in the operations to cross the Garigliano River. Unfortunately, Reginald was captured in Minturno on January 18th and ended up bound for Germany on a POW train. It was on this journey that the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including Reginald Rawlings, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men.
He survived the wreck but was captured once more and sent to Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland.
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Marn. Ronald John Rawlins . Royal Marines HMS Nelson from Staines Ronald Rawlins served with the Royal Marines onboard HMS Nelson.
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RSM Sam Rawlins . British Army 8th Army from Bradford Served in North Africa with the 8th Army.
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AF Rawlinson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps AF Rawlinson 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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Gnr. Arthur Rawlinson . British Army Coastal Defence Royal Artillery I am trying to trace anyone who served with my father during 1940-1945 either at Fort Picklecombe, Plymouth, The Shetland Islands or Anglesey N.Wales. He was Gunner Arthur Rawlinson 1606890.
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Able Sea. Walter Rawlinson . Royal Navy HMS Excellent Able Seaman Walter Rawlinson was on ship during the D-Day landings and served on her for eight months.
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Stf. Sgt. Ronald Rawnsley . British Army Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers from Ripon, Yorkshire
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Flt Sgt John Rawson . Royal Air Force 44 Squadron Flt Sgt John Rawson was shot down on the 2/3rd September 1941 on a mission to Frankfurt, he was the only crew member to survive. He was held prisoner in eastern Poland and spent some time in Auschwitz, a punishment for repeated escape attempts he arrived back in this country in late 1945 or early 1946 weighing only 7st. He left the RAF and joined the colonial service and worked in Nigeria for 11years. He later went on to work for Burmah oil. He sadly passed away on in June 2009 age 87. He was my uncle and Ii am proud to have known him
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Ord.Sea. Vincent Rawson . Royal Navy HMS Phoebe (d.23rd October 1942) Ordinary Seaman Rawson was 19 when he died and is buried in the Pointe Noire European Cemetery in the Congo.
On the 23rd October 1942, H.M.S. Phoebe was on her way to take part in operations off North Africa, when she was torpedoed off the coast of French Equatorial Africa. 46 men lost their lives in this engagement and 29 of them were buried in Pointe Noire European Cemetery in a large collective grave. This grave was later marked by a screen wall memorial, which carries details of all 46 casualties.
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W Rawson . British Army W Rawson 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. William Rawson . British Army Royal Corps of Signals from Glasgow
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CH Ray . British Army Royal Armoured Corps CH Ray 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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ER Ray . British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Tank Regiment ER Ray served with the 3rd Btn. Royal Tank 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 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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BSM. John Ray . Royal Artillery 133 Field Regiment (Welsh) from Walworth, London I have details of the Regiment's posting as Depot Regt, School of Artillery in 1943 when they were in Chichester (Tangmere). My Father Jack Ray, went with the Regiment when they were incorporated into the 2nd Canadian Division in Holland and Germany in 1944.
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Cpl. Robert Ray . South African Defense Force 2nd Transvaal Scottish from Johannesburg My Dad, Robert Ray, was captured at Tobuk on 21st of June 1942 by Rommel and was moved as a POW through Italy (Rome and Sardinia) to Stalag IVB (Muhlberg am Elbe) in 1943, nearby Stalag 304H (Zeithan) then later on to Torun in Poland which he said "hell it was cold there". Later with the Russians advancing he was moved to Fallingbostel, near Hannover and Bremen, from which he escaped and was picked up by British forces and repatriated. He lived till two weeks short of his 88th birthday.
His son visited the sites Stalag IVB and 304H in 2000.
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