Marine William Albert Vernon . Royal Marines from Hendon, London My Grandfather, William Vernon of the Royal Marines, was captured in Crete and imprisoned in Stalag 4C. He died in 1918
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Arie Verouden . Dutch Navy Marine from Holland My father, Arie Verouden, was a Dutch Marine and was interned in Stalag XIa. He was sent there from Amersfoort, Holland on 13th May 1943 until 27th May 1943. Then he escaped but was captured by the Gestapo at the end of December 1943. He was transported to a prison and Stalag Va. In April 1945 he escaped again and came home. After the liberation he returned to the Marines.
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Able Sea. Frank Benjamin Verral . Royal Navy SS Ocean Wayfarer (d.7th July 1943) Frank Verral is buried in the Buenos Aires (Chacarita) British Cemetery, Argentina.
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Joan Verrall . Land Army My name is Joan Hollins (nee Verrall) I served in the Land Army in the Kent villages of Headcorn and Smarden. I would like to hear from anyone who served in either of these villages betwween 1942 until 1945
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PO. Leon Maurice Verrall . Royal Navy from Southend On Sea Leon Verrall served in the Royal Navy as a Petty Officer Chef. Details taken from my father's record of service.
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Guido Verrengia . US Army Medical Corp from USA My father, Guido Verrengia, was a medical corpsman stationed at what is now Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
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PFC. Harvey D. Vershum . United States Army 23rd Infantry Regiment, Coy B from Toledo, Ohio Harvey Vershum was a POW at Stalag XIII-C having been captured at the Battle of the Bulge.
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Grenadier Koos "Jack" Versteeg . Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers IIe Bataljon 3e compagnie from The Hague My grandfather, Koos Versteeg joined the Royal Durch Army in 1936. He fought in the Battle in Ypenburg, The Hague and he was a POW from 1943 untill 1945.
He arrived on the 29th of May 1943 in camp Amersfoort. He was taken to Altengrabow (Stalag 11A) on the 3rd of June 1943 After a month he was taken to Muhlberg and stayed in Stalag 4b and 4c.
After a while he was taken to Knippelsdorf to work on a local farm. The farmer was called Lehmann and I would like to find out more about him.
During his time in Knippelsdorf he was taken to a French Lazaret in Jessen several times together with Jack Tromp. I was fortunate to talk to my grandfather about the war and he told me a lot when I was little.
He kept a journal and registered all names of the people he met.
So perhaps if my grandfather is in the timeline of anybody, please contact me.
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Lt. Alexander Milan "Sascha" Veselinovic . Yugoslav Army from Kikinda, Yugoslavia My father, Alexander Veselinovic was a prisoner of war for almost 4 years in Trier, Germany. He worked in the brick factory there where they gave them little food which was moldy bread and maybe some cheese. His friend, Ivan helped him with extra food and with his escape attempts. While he was in the camp, he used his medical knowledge to help keep soldiers from other countries alive.
During his 4th escape attempt, Alexander swam the Rhein to the American Allies camp on the other side. There, he helped the CIC map the mines that the Germans laid and worked as a translator and driver for the American Army.
He was such a good soldier who gave them vital information that helped the Armies advance against the Germans. He gained recommendations from the higher ranking officers that vouched for his character and received papers to come to America. He came in past Lady Liberty on the USS Ernie Pyle and went to Nebraska to look up his friend, Harold Swan of the US Army. He gave him a job, Alex met his wife Virginia there and married, they had 6 children were married for 38 years and lived in Glencoe, Mn.
We have a picture of him playing his violin with other musicians in front of a room full of Nazi officers.
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TM Vesey . British Army TM Vesey 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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HE Vessey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps HE Vessey 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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Mary Vest . Munitions Worker ROF Aycliffe from Durham My Mother-in-Law, Mary Vest was an Aycliffe Angel
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Milton O'Neil Vest . United States Air Force Milton married my auntie Olive Wilson in 1945. They had a son, Milton jr, in January 1946 and another son, Roy Anthony about four years later. Milton stayed in the Air Force after the war, serving in the States Phillipines (about 1953) than back in England late 1956 he was stationed in Suffolk. He went back to States about 1958. I visited the family in Arizona with my nana, another auntie and cousin in November 1952, till he was sent to Phillipines with his family in 1953. I cannot remember where he was when he died, my auntie died in California, so did his eldest son his youngest son served in the coast guards of California. He was a well loved uncle.
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E Vezza . British Army E Vezza 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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AR Vial . British Army AR Vial 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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PFC. Robert G. Vial . US Army 1st Infantry from Cobb, Wisconsin My Uncle Bob Vial was a POW at Stalag 12A and 9B from 23rd of November 1944 until liberated by the Russians. The Russians saw, and stole his wristwatch when he was being liberated. He also had mentioned his wound was itching so he unwrapped his bandage to discover there was a spider under it.
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Cpt. Philip Louis Vian . Royal Navy HMS Cossack
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Charles Gordon Vicary . Royal Air Force 101 Squadron from Exeter I flew on Lancaster PA237, 23rd of Feb 1945 in the raid of Pforzheim and was shot down. When jumping out the landing looked to be a good one, but it turned out to be a ploughed field that had frozen! I was taken POW and was taken to Moosberg.
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Vicek . United States Army My father was a POW and kept a diary/journal. He moved from Oflag 64 to Oflag 3a. He left Oflag 64 for Germany on 21 January 1945. He said that as the Russians came the treatment and conditions got worse. He had volunteered for guard duty and he and a friend walked out early one morning back to the US lines. In his diary he describes how they walked out of a hole in the fence - he, Ross and 12 others - they met a Norwegian with a map and followed railroad tracks west. They went through Juterburg, rested at Seehausen, targetted heading for Wittenburg. They got a pass from a Russian officer to cross the Elbe at Wittenburg and they traded cigarettes for a bike.
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James Anderson Vick. . Royal Air Force
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Mike Vickerman . Royal Air Force Mike Vickerman flew Lancasters from 1943. He did his basic training in Scarborough, then went to Rivers, Canada for pilot/navigator training.
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Pte. Walter Vickerman . British Army 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment from Brighouse, Yorkshire, England (d.24 September 1944)
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Vickers . British Army Royal Engineers Vickers served with the Royal Engineers 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 Vickers . British Army A Vickers 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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Betsy Vickers . Auxiliary Territorial Service Attch. Royal Corps of Signals I have many memories of my days in the ATS from 1942 to 1945. I was stationed in London for my last three months, attached to the Royal Corps of Signals. I was a despatch rider. I am ashamed to say I cannot remember the unit number but we were at St John's Wood Barracks. I was only there a short time and the war was all but over when I went there. I was stationed in Manchester, Kent and Merseyside, attached to the Royal Artillery.
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Edward Vickers . Royal Navy HMS Sussex I'm trying to find a bit of my father-in-law's wartime history. He served on HMS Sussex in 1945 and was at the liberation of Changi in Singapore later that year. His name was Edward (Ted) Vickers and he came from Middlesbrough. He received the Burma Star. If anyone know of him or any history of the ship around that period I would love to hear from you.
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My father was serving on HMS Black Swan at about the same time and place. He recalled that they took some of the most seriously injured (and mentally damaged) ex-POWs from Changi to Australia for medical attention. The less serious were eventually returned to the UK so the Sussex might have been involved with that most harrowing of tasks. I might add my father in later life would walk for miles rather than buy Japanese goods as a consequence of what he saw at that time. As you might imagine, with the passage of time, that became a more and more a difficult job as he searched for his new TV etc. We owe so much to that generation of British men and women whose country we have inherited. - Chris Pownall.
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My father was on HMS Sussex when it left Malta in 1945 and headed for Alexandria and then Port Said then through the Suez Canal for Columbo and the base at Trincomalee. Whilst there they went out for 2-3 days at a time and bombed targets in Burma. During one of these excursions he saw HMS Squirrel (a mine sweeper) hit a mine and sink. The destroyer HMS Racehorse picked up survivors and transfered them to the Sussex. During this time the Japanese Kamakazi attacks started. One headed for the Sussex and exploded before impact, causing minor damage to the starboard quarters of the Sussex. With the end of the war declared on the 14th August 1945 the Sussex headed for Singapore and accepted the surrender of the Island on 4th September 1945 led by General Seishiro Itagaki and Vice-Admiral Shigeru Fukudome, surrendered to British forces Led by Lieutenant-General Alexander Frank Philip Christison and Vice-Admiral Cedric Swinton Holland on board the HMS Sussex in the Straits of Singapore. My father was taken ashore to signal the troop ships into Singapore with supplies and troops. He later, with another signalman Jackie Batt, went to Raffles and hoisted the Union Jack flag. The Sussex was used as a hotel ship and accepted some POWs onboard till they were shipped home. The Sussex went onto Indoniesia including Surabaya, Batavia and Semarang to drop troops and help liberate these areas as well. My dad was dropped eventually at Tanjong Priok were he stayed for a year till the Dutch came and took over. He returned to Singapore and Blakang Mati (now Sentosa) for a week before returning to the UK in 1947 on HMS Salvage Duke. He is not sure where the Sussex went after he was dropped at Tanjong Priok. - Antony
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Stoker Bob (Sharky) Ward served on HMS Sussex 1944-1945. Can any one help? The way I remember it was like this, after comming off the first dogwatch on Sunday evening when the captain announced that we would bombard Phucket, after that all hell broke loose when we were attacked by Kamikaze aircraft. Half the ship's company went down with food poisoning, the Captain put it down to going into action. I was on the starboard side of the upper deck at the time and saw the Kamikaze hit the ship. What I would like to know is, why wasn't I at action station? my action station was magazine B turret. - Sharky.
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Pte. George Vickers . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from Bethnal Green, London My father, George Vickers passed away recently, whilst sorting through his paperwork I found details of his service during WW2. He was in N.W. Europe between 14.11.1944 till 29.10.1945, then he was posted to the Middle East from 19.12.1945 till 14.08.1946. I would be grateful if anyone could tell me anything that might help me find out what he did. He never talked about the war to me but he mentioned once to my brother, when pressed, that he was a stretcher bearer and he saw some awful sights.
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Pte. George Vickers . British Army 1st Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.12th Oct 1944) George Vickers was the son of Alfred and Elizabeth Vickers of Primrose Jarrow.
He served with the South Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion, and died aged 23 in October 1944.
He is buried in the Overloon War Cemetery, in Holland and is also commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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R Vickers . British Army R Vickers 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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R Vickers . British Army R Vickers 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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