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RE Skelsey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RE Skelsey 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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A Skelson . British Army 53rd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps A Skelson served with the 53rd 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 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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AD Skelton L.Cpl. British Army Coldstream Guards AD Skelton served with the Coldstream Guards 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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SPO Arthur "Red" Skelton . Royal Navy HMS Dido
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C Skelton . British Army C Skelton 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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Pte. Charles Courtney Skelton . British Army 7th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry from 4 Plymouth Grove, Pellon Lane, Halifax (d.18th Nov 1944)
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Gnr. John Skelton . British Army 22nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Halifax, Yorkshire My father, John Skelton, served with the 22nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in WW2. I understand he was badly injured in Greece and evacuated via Pireus then Barry and Milan in Italy and then on to the UK where he was admitted to a hospital in Cardiff. That's all I know.
It may be a long shot I know, but I think he was acting as Infantry with 4th Division possibly in Northern Greece, Salonika? Any information most gratefully received, I am trying to find out what happened.
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RE Skelton . British Army RE Skelton 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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Gnr. Robert Barker Skelton . Royal Artillery 5th RHA Regiment Robert Skelton, Royal Artillery - peace and war as far as Dunkirk. Enlisted at 18 years of age. On my own initiative I took a vehicle and brought back 35-50 men to the final defence perimeter, which was ready for firing. No record entered for despatches. Then went in search of food. Entered small room about 7 by 7 feet and heard, before I about turned to leave, the immortal order of General Alexander to a tall robust Guards officer "Take 200 riflemen to the rooftops and defend against the enemy." That officer went out and did his duty, personally slaying 39 Germans and, in the process, won the most coveted medal that can be bestowed, the Victoria Cross. His name was Captain Erskine. Upon my embarkation and landing at Dover I subsequently finished up in Bulford Hospital, then Tidworth Hospital, then convalescent at Romsey Hospital. I finished with a trade release.
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Bmbr. Sydney Skelton . British Army 4 Survey Regiment Royal Artillery (d.14th Nov 1942) Sydney Skelton was born in Willington Quay about 1916. He was the son of Ernest W and Mary A Skelton (nee Henderson) of Jarrow.
He died aged 26 and is remembered on the Alamein Memorial.
He is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Victor Skelton . British Army Royal Engineers
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Sgt. William Skelton . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 138 Sqdn. (d.14th April 1943)
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WO. Reginald Skepper . Royal Air Force 99 Squadron from Lincoln Reg Skepper was born in Fiskerton, Lincoln 1921. He worked as an Apprentice at Rustons Bucyrus in Lincoln until joined RAF in 1942. The house he lived in at the time, with his half sister Mary, suffered a direct hit from a 200lb bomb days after they both moved out as Mary was joining the WRAAF. Reg was sent to Moreton on Marsh OTU in April 1943, and then to Burma, Reg flew sorties over the Japanese in the ultimate Wellington, the Mk X. The crew he was with more or less stayed together throughout the war, being Tony May (Bomb Aimer), Jimmy Hatfield (Pilot) and Bill Gunn (Wireless op). They flew to Burma to begin operations on 5th of April 1943, taking an epic route from Moreton in Marsh, via Portreath, Tripoli, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Karachi, Jhodpur, Allahbad, and finally Jessore, arriving 8th June, the entire flight taking 48 hours over a month. They flew Costal patrol, leaflet dropping and Intruder raids, the first real War Op being the raid on Tuang Akyab, In Wellington Mk X HE 714. They were ditched once on 10th November 1943, at position 20 ° 45' N 92 ° 12' E, about 5 miles off the coast near Cox's Bazaar, in the Bay of Bengal and crew had to use dingies to escape, but luckily they were picked up next day by an American patrol. For having to use a dingy, the whole crew became members of the Goldfish Club. Jimmy Hatfield. the Pilot stopped flying with them on 10th of June 1944, and was replaced with a pilot called Sankey, and sometimes another called Sullivan, and the crew switched to flying a Dakota C47 FL611 or FZ604, ferrying freight, dropping supplies, and moving stretcher cases. He then was sent to El Shemer Staff Navigation School for 6 months, mainly flying Wellington XIV's and then was demobbed.
Reg went back home to Lincoln, resumed his job At Rustons, married, and bought a house at North Hykeham rising to the position of Chief Development Engineer, working at first on Diesel engines and large Megawatt Diesel Generator Sets, and then developing and building protoype Gas Turbines. He left Rustons when the entire Small Engines Division was taken over and moved to Cannock, and worked for Mirrlees Blackstone at Stamford, until he retired in 1981. Reg's lifelong passion was photography, and he was a leading member of Lincoln Photographic Club. His garage at North Hykeham never held a car, as it was converted into a darkroom very early on. Reg was one of the first amateurs to print colour photographs at home, and would also photograph weddings as a side business. Reg died aged 74 at St Barnabas Hospice in 1994 having been cared for at home. His wife Gladys, who also spent the war in the WRAAF, at died in 2017, aged 93. Reg and Gladys had two children Patricia, and Stephen.
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Dvr. Edgar Maitland Skerritt . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Carlton Rd., Gidea Park My step father, Maitland Skerritt, was a POW in Stalag 21A near Schildberg. He would never talk about his experiences as I think they were pretty terrible. All I know about his experinces is a newspaper cutting from The Recorder on the 27th of April 1945 reporting his escape from a column of POW's who were being marched from a working camp as the Americans advanced. He and 2 others rolled down a slope & escaped into woods. After a 10 day trek they found the American lines.
He has been captured at St Valery in 1940 and marched 350 miles through France, Belgium and Holland evetually arriving in the camp in Poland. He spend 5 years in the POW camp & sadly the privations led to his early death aged 51. I do have a small address book of his which I think has names & addreses of some of his army mates.
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Pte. Bernard Skerry . British Army 9th Battalion Parachute Regt from East Acklam, Yorks My father, Bernard Skerry was parachuted into Normandy 6th June with 9 Para objective Merville Battery. He was caught up in heavy fighting and captured within a week of D Day. He finally ended up in Stalag 4B but managed to get out on working parties including a coal mine, Leipzig Gas works and railway marshalling yards. He made 3 escape attempts obviously being recaptured twice. The successful attempt was during the March west when Russian tanks could be seen on the horizon North and South. They entered a barn saw a gap in the rear covered it with a great coat and waited until dark. He and another soldier, unidentified to me, then walked west to Wurzen where they believed the Germans had capitulated to the Americans. On the road they walked into an exhausted fully armed company of German Infantry resting each side of the road and walked through cleanly until they met an American jeep of soldier. My father was then transferred to Rheims in France where he was flown back to RAF Ford in a Lancaster flown by a 19 year old pilot.He was invalided out of the Regiment on his return following some psychotic problems believed due, in particular, to the heavy bombing he suffered at Leipzig railway yards where there were considerable casualties. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 84. This country owes my father, along with many thousands of other servicemen, a great debt that was never repaid and can never be so.
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Pte. Bernard Skerry . British Army 9th Parachute Btn. Army Air Corps from East Acklam My father was at Stalag IVG and worked at Leipzig Gasworks. It is believed he was billeted at Camp 271 Leipzig West. He survived the war after escaping from a moving POW column moving west from the Russian advance in Leipzig area.
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JH Skerry . British Army JH Skerry 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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Gnr. Percy Robert " " Sketchley . 12th Regiment from Upchurch, Kent (d.10th Apr 1945)
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AD Skidmore . British Army Royal Welsh Fusiliers AD Skidmore served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers 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. Harry Skidmore . British Army Cheshire Regiment from Lymm, Cheshire My grandfather Harry Skidmore joined the Army at the age of 16 and served 7 years in India before returning home in 1938 only to be sent out to France in 1939. His two brother's Charlie and Tommy were also sent over to Dunkirk as part of the BEF. Fortunately, both brothers managed to get home from the Beaches. My grandfather, however, having swum out to sea to a boat with his friend, were refused entry onto the boat because it was too full and had to swim back to shore where they were captured. I understand that they were then marched for very many weeks across Germany to Stalag XXI-A and then later he appeared to be moved to Stalag XXI-D. He was caught the very early part of the war and my grandmother had to wait 6 months before she learned he was POW 5249. He spoke little of his ordeal but did say he had two jobs, repairing shoes and patching up the horses from the Russian front. Apparently, he found this very distressing because many of the horses had awful wounds frostbite etc and they suffered horribly in pain. He also said he made a type of alcohol out of boot polish and that they were very very hungry. He did return home in 1945 to see his son, my father for the first time in 5 years. He lived a long life with his family close by. He had a great love of pigeons and spent a lot of time with my brother and I in his allotment which he shared with his brother Tommy. As a female civil engineer I once was involved in a contaminated site which made heavy water and mustard gas during the war and when I told him he was very very concerned telling me to keep clear of it. He then showed me a big scar on his arm. He had been to Porton Down to be used as a guinea pig with mustard gas in order to be given a weeks leave. He was a wonderful man and I have very fond memories of his as well as huge pride. I have just been to watch the newly released film Dunkirk with my father and my son.
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IH Skidmore . British Army IH Skidmore 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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RJ Skidmore . British Army Sherwood Foresters RJ Skidmore served with the Sherwood Foresters 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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W Skidmore . British Army Royal Armoured Corps W Skidmore 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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J Skilbeck . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Skilbeck 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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Norman Howard Skillern . British Army 15/19th Hussars Norman Skillern served with the 15/19th Hussars 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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DR Skillin . British Army DR Skillin 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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Gnr Hugh Brown Skilling . British Army Royal Artillery from Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland My father Hugh Skilling was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, he was captured in Tobruk in 1942/43. He was taken to Stalag 4c and he was there for 3 years. He worked down the coal mines in Wistritc, Teplitz, Czechoslovakia. He had a bad time there. He had the scars to prove it. He would never talk about his time there.
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HE Skillington . British Army HE Skillington 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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F/L J. Skingley DFC.. 97 Squadron
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H Skingsley . British Army H Skingsley 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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