|
|
|
7th November 1944On this day:
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
|
Remembering those who died this day.
- Judson Charles Henry. LAC. (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Linsey Percy Raymond. Stwd. (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Mayfield William Mabry. Pvt (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Mayfield William Mabry. Pte. (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Redding William. WO. (d.7th Nov 1944)
- Sunderland John. Pte. (d.7th Nov 1944)
The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
please
Add a Name to this List
|
|
|
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
Announcements
- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
- 27th April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264001 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please read our Family History FAQ's
- The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. |
|
We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates.
If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page.
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
Want to know more about the 7th of November 1944? There are:33 items tagged 7th of November 1944 available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
|
Stories from 7th November 1944
|
Pvt William Mabry Mayfield. United States Army, Company E 414 Infantry Regiment. (d.7th Nov 1944) My uncle William Mabry Mayfield received training at Fordham University and later at Carson Springs, Colorado. He arrived in Cherbourg, France in August of 44 and was killed in the Battle if the Dykes on November 7th, 1944. He was in Company E of the Timberwolves 414 Infantry. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 7th. I have just inherited a trunk of letters which tell his story. After a letter sent to Mabry was returned and marked Missing, my grandmother began contacting the mothers of the men in the same division to find out what happened to her boy. She received many letters from the mothers and finally a letter from Bill Myers, a good friend of Mabry's who had reported that he was hunkered down in a fox hole near Moerdjik, Holland and had received an 88 mm direct hit into the fox hole. My grandmother immediately sent a letter to the Mayor of Moerdjik, Holland and began corresponding with a family who searched in vain for his grave. The family's name was Kieboom and in 1949 Ann Baltussen came from Holland to Shreveport, La to visit my grandmother. These letters tell the story of a mother desperate to bring her boy home. When I was a child we would visit the family cemetery. My grandmother would always tell me that Mabry was in the Tomb of the Unknown soldier. My grandmother also received letters from Gen. Eisenhower and the White House. She stopped at nothing.
A funny story that Dean Hopson wrote to my grandmother was that it was Mabry's lot to carry the Bazooka and since it was named after a musical instrument, he took it upon himself to sing all the current popular tunes using the barrel of the gun. A soldier named Bill Myers was so kind to my grandmother and continued to write to her and show concern for her after her loss. I don't know if these gentlemen, Dean Hopson and Bill Myers are around but I would love to thank them for their friendship.
I have some interesting photos, letters and artifacts and I would love to hear from any one who has any information about my uncle. He isn't listed under missing in the archives. I am wondering about this also.
Peggy Mayfield Gouras
|
Pte. William Mabry "Molly" Mayfield. United States Army, 114th Infantry, Company E Timberwolf Infantry. (d.7th Nov 1944) My Uncle, William Mabry Mayfield was reported missing in action on Nov. 7th, 1944. In April of 1944 The War Department sent word that he was a prisoner of war. Soon after there was correspondence from them that that had been a mistake. I inherited a chest of letters from my grandmother that tells a fascinating story of a mother trying to bring her boy home.
Right after my grandmother, Josephine Mabry Mayfield received word that Maybry (Bill) had gone missing, she began to write a series of letters to the other mothers who had had sons in Company E asking them to please write to her to let her know what had happened to her boy. The mothers wrote that they had written to their sons asking for information. A wonderful friend, Bill Myers, (I would love some info on him) began to write my grandmother on what an amazing young man her son was. Everybody loved him and they gave him the nickname "Molly Mayfield" after an advice to the lovelorn columnist. He also wrote that after landing at Cherbourg, it became Bill's lot to carry the bazooka, since it was named after a musical instrument, he began tooting out the current popular tunes while carrying the cumbersome gun.
Letters came that said Charles Juday was Bill's buddy and if my grandmother could just get in touch with him, he would know of Mabry's plight.
There is a letter signed by Eisenhower telling my grandmother that he had received her information and that they were seaching for Mabry. She also received letters signed by Ulio and letters from the White House all saying the same thing.
This is the story of a mother's frantic search for her boy.
Finally, after interviewing some of the few remaining guys, (My research is showing that Company E had about 180-190 guys and only 20 remained after the war's end) a letter arrived from that sweet friend, Bill Myers who said he had interviewed someone who had withnessed an 88 mm. shell with a direct hit on Bill and Charles Juday's foxhole. He said they felt no pain. He was killed about 10:00 pm. They were relieved by the first Canadian Army at midnight.
My grandmother then began to write to mayors in Holland post war to see if anyone would go look for her boy. A family answered her letters in English. My grandmother described some artifacts on Bill's body, watch etc. and this family began their search. After several years of correspondence, my grandmother hosted the daughter of this family, Ann Balthesson at her home in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Also she wrote the Timberwolf newspaper asking for eyewitness information. She received wonderful and informative letters from David Bossler from Miles City, Montana that described details that are so valuable to a searching mother in November of 1946.
He was with Bill at Fordham in New York where the program they were in got cancelled so they were sent off to Camp Carson to train for the infantry. They went by train to St. Louis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and finally to New York City where they boarded a ship captured in the previous war from the Germans and renamed the George Washington.
He told the details of arriving at Cherbourg 10 days later; Marching to the other side of the peninsula near the Guernsey Islands. They then left by boxcar around the first of October then went on to a town called Mallnes north of Brussels. She also received a letter from his mother.
From the article in The Timberwolf, she also received another informative letter from Dean Hopson. Also several other letters. One stating that the Timberwolves were dug in in foxholes about 500 yards from Moerdijik Holland. Any information would be appreciated. Peggy Gouras
|
Stwd. Percy Raymond Linsey. Royal Navy, LST.420. (d.7th Nov 1944) I have been researching my uncle Percy Linsey who died in active service on the 7th of November 1944. He was travelling to the Walcheren Islands on LST420. As they were trying to land in heavy seas it became impossible. So they were instructed to return to England. As they were leaving Walcheren, unfortunately, they hit a mine and the craft broke up.I have had quite a good response over the last few years. However I have come to a standstill.
I was just looking on this website and spotted all the Royal Arthur pictures. I don't know if my uncle is on any of the pictures. I would be gratefull for any copies of any group photos.
My uncle was Percy Raymond Linsey, he served on: HMS Royal Arthur from 4th of May 1943, HMS DrakeII from 8th June 1943, HMS LakerII from 20th August 1943, HMS Caroline, HMS Domett from 20 September 1943 and LST 420 until 7th of November 1944.
Any other information would also be helpful and appreciated.
Christopher Raymond Antcliffe
|
WO. William Redding. Royal Air Force, No. 1 Base Signals and Radar Unit. (d.7th Nov 1944) My grandfather William Redding was on the HM LST-420 when it hit a mine coming out of Ostend. I know his remains are buried in Belgium but I know little more than that about what happened. Amanda Jopson
|
LAC. Charles Henry Judson. RAF Volunteer Reserve, . (d.7th Nov 1944) Charles Judson was on Landing Ship Tank 420 which was sunk by a mine in the English Channel on 7th of November 1944 with the loss of 14 officers and 224 other ranks.Meri Snowdon
|
Pte. John Sunderland. British Army, Corps of Military Police. (d.7th Nov 1944) John Sunderland drowned near Calais on 7th of November 1944 and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. It is the only information I have. Frances Sunderland
|
|
.jpg)
