Flight Sergeant Theophilus John Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Sergeant Theophilus Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Sergeant Theophilus Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Flight Sergeant Theophilus John Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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L/Cpl. Thomas Thomas . British Army 1st Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, S.Glamorgan, Wales
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Cpl. Thomas Thomas . British Army 1st Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from Ferndale, South Glamorgan.
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TJ Thomas . British Army TJ Thomas 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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TJ Thomas . British Army TJ Thomas 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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Pte. Victor Albert Thomas . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from St. Leger Crescent, St. Thomas, Swansea Victor Thomas joined the Army Service Corps when he turned 18.
He was sent unprepared and almost unarmed to Crete aged 23 he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Eastern Germany. In his words:
"We didn't have anything at all to defend the island, we were using rifles from World War One with two rounds each. They captured us and put us in cattle wagons and took us to Germany."
He caught Diphtheria in the camp and became so weak that he couldn't walk or work. He was looked after by New Zealand-born doctor and officer Earl Stevenson-Wright.
He was taken to Berlin with one guard to the hospital. When on the Berlin underground a lady gave him her seat as he could barely stand. She told him that her son was a POW in Canada and hoped people would do the same for him there.
The Germans were going to shoot Uncle Vic due to his repeated escape attempts. Dr. Stevenson-Wright stepped in and told the Germans that Vic was his batman and therefore shouldn't be shot. It worked and he became Dr. Stevenson-Wright's batman from then on until they were moved to separate camps.
He was in the following camps:
- Stalag VIII B (Lamsdorf, Silesia) in October 1941
- Stalag III D (Steglitz, Berlin) in 1941
- Stalag IV G (Ostritz, Saxony) in 1944
He witnessed many things, including seeing a barbed wire compound in a wood where the Germans had herded Russian POWs and left them to starve to death.
He saw the destruction of Leipzig by RAF carpet bombing and told me of the terrible effect it had on the camp guards who lived in the city with their families.
The German guards, despite being short of food for themselves and their families, always passed on the Red Cross parcels to the POWs whenever they occasionally made it through.
He also received food parcels, which arrived addressed from The Cafe. They were really sent by Miss Cascarini in St. Thomas, who did not put her name to them for fear of persecution of her family in Italy.
Almost at the end of the war they were marched Westwards, guarded by very jumpy Hitler Youth. He managed to slip away with another POW and head towards the Western Allied lines. Whilst hiding in a barn an American plane strafed them, killing his companion right at the end of the war. Upon being liberated he spent many months in hospital recovering from his ordeals and severe malnutrition.
After the war he re-visited Germany several times, to meet some of the Germans who despite everything had been kind to him. He never had a bad word to say about Germans in general, just specific people there who behaved extremely badly.
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Pilot Officer W J Thomas . 59 Squadron
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Pte. Walter Thomas . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Walter Thomas served in Aldershot in 1944 with the RASC. He survived the Second World War and died in 1983. Thank you for your service Walter.
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Pte. Walter Thomas . British Army 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders from Bradford (d.15th Feb 1945)
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Sgt. Wayne K. Thomas . United States Army 1st Army Engineers I am looking for information on Sgt. Wayne K. Thomas, US Army, 1st Army Engineers.
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Wilfred Thomas . British Army Black Watch I am looking for any one who can help tell me anything about Stalag Va,
my father, Wilfred Thomas was a prisoner there,he was in the blackwatch. I have photos of him there
and letters. I would also like to know if there are any trips to this camp.
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Cpl. Wilfred Owen Thomas . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers from Neath, South Wales (d.11th Nov 1944) I don't know a huge amount about Wilfred Owen Evans, Just that he was my Great Uncle on mum's side. He was serving in Italy in 1944 with the Royal Fusiliers 2nd Battalion and whilst on patrol came under fire. He was apparently the last JNCO killed in the Battalion in Italy. The patrol despatched to look for Wilf's patrol also came under fire. The Lt and Sgt killed in the subsequent action were the last Officer and SNCO killed.
If anyone can expand on this, or if anyone knew Wilf Thomas.I'd love to hear from you
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Rifleman William D. Thomas . Canadian Army Royal Winnipeg Rifles from Winnipeg (d.8th June 1944)
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Pte. William Thomas . British Army 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment from Middlesbrough (d.30th May 1940) Willy Thomas of 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment died during the evacuation to Dunkirk, presumed by Artillery shrapnel.
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Sgt Thomas. . RAF 608 Sqd (d.2nd Aug 1941 )
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Sgt William Frank Thomas. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.13th Jul 1943) Bomb Aimer William Thomas was killed on 13th July 1943 in Lancaster LM328 GZ-F2 of 12sqd
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Ange Thomaso . Ange Thomasco was a POW and was one of many POWs who were on a train on 28 January 1944 having been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance. They had mainly come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome. The Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, became the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group. One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
Described by hospital authorities as Mauritanian. He survived the wreck with wounds to his head and left hand and was sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
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Warrant Officer Albert Thomason . RAF 57 Squadron I am looking for information about my uncle, Niels Christian Evensen, shot down near Dieppe, France on 17/12/1944. Is there anyone who remembers him?
The crew were:
Capt N.C.Evensen RNAF
F/S W.G.Gulliksen RNAF
F/O John Roger Garling RAF, 154595 (name on Runnymede Memorial)
Sgt H.G.Bjoroy RNAF
W/O Albert Thomason RAF VR 1117171 (buried Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery)
Sgt A.R.Powell RCAF
Sgt D.S.Scott RAF
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Roy Thompkins . I refer to the note on Thomas Lawrence Williams being rescued from the Orama and taken prisoner, being held in Stalag 13A page.
My late father Roy Tompkins was also rescued from the Orama, and taken prisoner.
I would be interested to hear from anyone else, or relatives or friends of anyone who was also rescued from the Orama.
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Sgt. Thompson . British Army Pioneer Corps Sgt Thompson, Pioneer Corps survived the sinking of the Lancastria.
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Cpl. Acel E. Thompson . United States Army from Tremonton, Utah My grandfather, Acel E. Thompson, was a POW in WW2 in the Hammerstein Stalag 2B, and was in work kommando 1530. I have his journal he kept while he was a POW and there are tons of fellow soldier's names. I have seen Elmer Shaner's name on this website, but can't seem to get in contact with his grandson. It has outlines of dog tags and some of those soldiers and their hometown and address written inside each outlined tag that he was imprisoned with. Acel was there for a year and was in the death march as the Russians got closer.
I lived next door to him until his death. I learned a lot from my grandfather even though he was quiet, he always complained of those (!* damn cobblestone roads that he was marched on in the winter of early 1945 as the Russian front moved in his POW camp).
Acel was captured in Italy then taken to Stalag 7A then Stalag 2B Hammerstien and worked in the work Kommando 1530 when they learned he was a farmer. He said the Germans would have them make airplane fuel out of the potato peelings they dug up on the farm. He was recaptured by the US military as he says on 13th of April 1945 and was living the good life after that he stated many times in the journal, only after marching over 600 miles in the coldest winter of the war and only a loaf of bread for 6 to 8 men a day of they were lucky. He carried his friend Rudolph Blecha while he was sick to make sure he didn't get left for dead or killed, they would call each other every year on the day they were found by our military.
I will post all the names I have as time permits. Any more information or stories that relate to this Stalag would help me so much.
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Cpl. Albert George Thompson . British Army 7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment from Worcester (d.9th May 1945) My father-in-law was killed in the crash of Lancaster RF 230 (514 Squadron) which happened on 9th May 1945 near Roye Ami, France. It was bringing home POW officers who had been liberated.
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Fus. Albert Thompson . British Army 4th Btn. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (d.19th May 1940) Albert Thompson is buried in a little village in Flanders, named Sint-Lievens-Esse.
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AB. Albert Thompson . Royal Navy HMS Golden Hind from Barton on Humber The captain wanted to check on what appeared to be a Spanish fishing vessel. He asked those around him if anyone spoke Spanish. Someone told him my father, Albert Thompson, could speak Spanish. My dad was summoned to the bridge, handed a loudhailer and told to tell the Spanish boat that the Navy vessel was coming alongside.
Realising he had been set up (he couldn't speak Spanish), he hailed, "Heya, youa, we are acoming alonga sidea". Both he and the seaman who claimed he spoke Spanish were put in the brig for a month.
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Alex Thompson . British Army 1/7th Regiment 1/7 dukes regiment from hendon sunderland
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Sgt. Alfred Thompson . Royal Air Force 90 Squadron from Carlisle (d.23rd June 1943) Alfred Thompson served with 90 Squadron. I was his 4 year old cousin, at the time he lost his life, my birthday is the same as the date he was killed.
The story from my aunt which I learned was that, the bail out command had been issued. The pilot of the plane was unable to get out of his seat (due to firepower injuries). My cousin was readying himself for bail out but calls from his best friend (the pilot) had him go to his aid. Time ran out for them and two others who were afraid to jump. I understand three of the crew survived who related the story.
I would like to have access to any formal records that would be available.
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Pte. Allan Thompson . British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.26th May 1940) Allan Thompson died of wounds at St Venant. He is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial.
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