John Thurgood . British Army Yorkshire Regiment My grandfather, Jack Thurgood, served in the Yorkshire Regiment. I believe he made a good friend of Captain Nicholson. It was thought that he had died in action. However, he returned home six months later saying he had been on official business elsewhere with Captain Nicholson at the time his regiment had gone forward.
If anyone has any information regarding my grandfather, or stories about his regiment, please contact me.
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Pte. Vic Thurgood . British Army I have just come across an old picture of my Uncle Vic Thurgood in a group photo in some woods, where he and the other prisoners had to work. The back of the picture, which is reproduced as a postcard, is marked Stalag XXB 324 Germany.
I don't know very much at all about his life or conditions in this camp. They all look quite healthy in the photo, but I was told when I was a child that when he came home, he had serious problems - nightmares etcetera.
The only thing I remember him saying was that one day two SS women paid a visit to the camp and one of the prisoners wolf-whistled them. The SS women pulled out their pistols and shot the man dead.
If this was true, and I have no reason to doubt otherwise, no wonder he had mental health problems when he returned.
I have enhanced the picture, taken out scratches and added the close up my uncle Vic at the top.
Does anyone know him or where this camp was?
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Cpl. William Edwin Thurling . Australian Army 2/24th Battalion
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Sgmn. Robert George Thurlow . British Army Royal Signals from London My late father Bob Thurlow served with the Royal Signals. Does anybody have any information on his service during WW2?
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Dvr. Walter William "Nipper" Thurlow . British Army 463th Water Tank Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from Suffolk (d.2nd March 1944) My Great Uncle Walter Thurlow joined the Royal Army Service Corps on the 27th of June 1940. He was attached to the Royal Tank Regiment on the 7th of August 1940. He spent the next two years with No.4 Mechanical Transport Stores Depot and later the 9th Armoured Car Company.
On the 1st of September 1942 He was posted to the 17th Water Tank Company and 9 days later departed for North Africa. By the 1st of February 1943 he was with the 463rd Water Tank Company he saw out the rest of the North Africa campaign with them and also I believe some of the Italy campaign.
He was torpedoed and killed, along with half the service men on the ship, on the 2nd of March 1944.
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Thurston . Royal Air Force My dad fought in WWII, as a navigator/bomb-aimer in Lancasters. He flew two tours to Germany and survived.
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F/O Henry Thwaite . 220 sqd (d.15th Apr 1940 )
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A/LCpl. John "Jack" Thwaite . British Army 2nd Btn. Border Regiment from Mossley, Lancs My Dad Jack Thwaite joined the TA in March 1933 serving with 7th Bn Duke of Wellington's Regt hence his Regtl number. He joined the Regular Army in Nov 1934 at the age of 20. Initially he served with 1st Border in Belfast then with 2nd Border in India from 1935 to 1943, including service on the NW Frontier with another Btn as a reinforcement.
He returned to the UK in 1943 & was posted to 6th Border. He landed on D Day 6 Jun 1944 with this Beach Group Bn. He transferred on breakup of the Battalion to the Lancashire Fusiliers, East Lancs and finally 7th RWF. He was wounded in action on the 18th of September 1944.
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JE Tibbets . British Army Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry JE Tibbets served with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 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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Alice Tibbitts . WAAF 428 Ghost Squadron My mother, Alice Gilbert (nee Tibbitts), was attached to the 428 Ghost Squadron at Middleton-St-George during the WW2 conflict. I understand she was one of WAAF's that charged the batteries for the plane's wireless.
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Pte. Arthur William Tibbs . British Army 1st Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.4th Aug 1944) Billy Tibbs is the soldier in a steel helmet, constantly shown in film of the D-Day landings, quietly looking around as his landing craft approached the beach. He landed on Queen Red sector of Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th of June 1944. He survived D-Day but was killed by a sniper on 4th of August 1944 in the Battle for Caen, nine days after his 21st birthday. He is buried in St Charles de Percy War Cemetery.
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Sgt Dave Tibbs . RAF 12sqd
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E Ticehurst . Navy HMS Nigeria I have a photo of H.M.S. Nigeria with lots of signatures on the back. It says Torpedo Division 1945 and is dated 19th September 1945.
The names are:
R G Stocker Geordie BurnsRonald J HarrisG KentP RaymentW WheatleyD ChapmanH J FisherD P Sweeney A WhitheadH LockearBlimp PalmerG. KentJ Arnold ~(Sussex) A ChapmanJames Robertson(Jock)R E FisherD MercerR E RileyW L GilbertF J Fulcher (Wind Bo'sun 1st class)D Hughes TGMG L BowersE TicehurstF C WelchG W Downes
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Pte. Frederick Alfred Ticehurst . British Army 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from Sussex (d.11th February 1945) Unknown to the family, I found his grave in the Reichswald War Cemetery. He was 18 at the time of his death and probably died in the Battle for Goch.
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F Tickle . British Army F Tickle 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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Gnr. William Tickle . Royal Artillery 226th Battery 101st HAA Regiment from Burton on Trent My grandfather, William Tickle, served in the 226th Battery, 101st HAA Regiment, Royal Artillery in WW2. He was part of the campaigns in India and Burma. He served on No.1 Gun.
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Joan Tiddeman . Land Army
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A/PO John Tideswell . Royal Navy
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FE Tidey . British Army Middlesex Regiment FE Tidey served with the Middlesex 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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L/Cpl. Allen Tidy . British Army Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment from Sittingbourne, Kent, U.K. Allen Tidy was my uncle (my mother's brother). During World War II he was a Lance Corporal in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. He, like many others, never talked about his horrific experiences during his internment. I have, through the Ancestry site, discovered documentation showing that he was a prisoner of war in Camp Stalag XXB at Malbork, Poland in 1942. His P.O.W. # 1085.
I am led to believe that he was captured at Dunkirk and was marched to Poland. On his release he was severely emaciated. He died in 1995. If anyone has photos of soldiers in his regiment who were interned at Malbork, I would love to see them.
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Pte. Ronald Tidy . British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.24th Jul 1940)
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Cpl. Edward Pinkham "Boy" Tierney . US Army 172nd Field Artillery from Cornish, NH Edward Tierney, Boy was my uncle. The first born of 11 children.
A great man, he was awarded a Bronze Star in Belgium, Good Conduct awards and several marksmanship awards.
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Tpr. Ernest James Tierney . British Army Royal Tank Corps from Wolverhampton
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Pte. Frank Tierney . British Army 2nd Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from Glasgow My father Frank Tierney served in the 2nd Battalion of the Camerons from May 1940 until just before the fall of Tobruk. Trained in Inverness he served in the Nairn Defence Platoon before shipping to serve in the Westen Desert, seeing action at Halfaiya Pass and other locations. He was part of the defence of Tobruk, serving in a mortar section prior to being evacuated following a wound on the hospital ship `Aba' prior to the fall of Tobruk.
He was subsequently transferred to the REME and saw action in North Africa until the capture of Tunis, taking part in the invasion of Sicily amd Italy before transfer back to the UK in early 1944.
He landed in Normandy on D-Day plus one and served in the British Liberation Army in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany before de-mob in 1946.
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Gnr. Patrick Tierney . British Army Royal Artillery (d.30th Oct 1940) Patrick was the son of Patrick and Mary Ann Tierney of Jarrow and husband of Mary E Tierney.
He died aged 33 and is buried in Perranzabuloe (St. Piran) Churchyard.
He is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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RSM. William Tierney . British Army 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers (d.11th Nov 1944)
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Sgt Thomas Bernard Tiernry. . 419 Sqd. (d.4th Oct 1944)
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Pte. Douglas Neil Tiffen . New Zealand Army My father was a Private in the New Zealand Army. His name is Douglas Neil Tiffen, known as Neil. He was a Prisoner Of War in Stalag 8B from sometime after the Battle of Crete (probably late 1941) until the end of the war when the camp prisoners were marched across Germany by German guards/soldiers to reach American forces in the south west of Germany.
Like all the others in this situation my father said very little about his time in Stalag 8B, I do know that he worked in the coal mines for extra . I have rather vague recollections of a school friend of mine mentioning Richard Pape being an uncle of his. I remember the book, written by Mr Pape, being in my friends’ possession, but never got to read it.
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Lt. Francis Victor Tiffin . British Army Royal Corps of Signals from Wembley, London
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TM Sid Tiffin . Royal Navy HMS Maidstone from Kingston-upon-Thames
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