Pte. Bernard Baron . British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment Bernard Baron was at Arnhem and was one of the survivors who swam out across the Rhine.
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Jenny Baron . WAAF from Wrekenton, Co Durham
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Asst.Steward M. Baron . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar Baron was brought ashore after the sinking of HMS Forfar. He was one of the crew to have remained with the ship under the T124X agreement when she was requisitioned for Naval Service in 1939.
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Cpl. Barr . from London I found a suitcase with some details of a Cpl Barr. I would be nice to trace any relatives to see if it can be returned. Any help appreciated.
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Pte. Alexander Barr . British Army 2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry from Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire (d.29th July 1944) Private Alexander Barr was the son of Francis Barr, and of Janet Barr (nee McIntyre); husband of Helen Barr, of Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire.
He was 29 when he died and is buried in the Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery in Albania.
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Andrew William "Nicky" Barr MC DFC.. Royal Australian Air Force
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Able Sea. Bernard Hughes Barr . Royal Navy HMS Heythrop from Scotland My uncle Barney, Bernard Barr joined the navy in 1939 aged 17.
His first ship was HMS Heythrop which was sunk by a torpedo from U652 on the 20th of Mar 1942 in the Mediterranean.
Barney was briefly on HMS Sirius and then HMS Mauritius through to the end of the war.
He's still going strong at 97 years and has told me many a good story.
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Sgt. C. R. Barr . 102 Squadron
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WO2. Eric Forrester Barr . British Army 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders from Glasgow My father-in-law Eric Barr enlisted in Jan 1940 and was posted to France on 8th June 1940 for 9 days. Family history has it that he was parading with others in or around Dunkirk with a gun but no ammunition supposedly to give encouragement to other troops. He was posted back home after 9 days to home defence duties in 2nd Battalion Seaforths.
In 1941 he was in Catterick on Regimental Instructors Course, School of Signals. We have photos of him as an instructor at Signals course in Banchory in 1942 and of Signals Platoon 2nd Battalion there.
1942 saw him in Egypt and at El Alamein in October 1942 as Corporal. At Wadi Akarit April 1943 he was Sergeant and then to Sicily. He returned to UK in November 1943 and embarked for Normandy on 4th June 1944. In action in Normandy until 16th June when he was wounded. He was posted back to Europe October 1944 then in action at battle of Maas, the Ardennes Offensive, Crossing of the Rhine in March 1945. He was promoted to Colour Sergeant just before the capture of Bremervorde in May 1945 and the German surrender.
He ended the war as WO2 and we have photographs of the Seaforth Highlanders Sergeants gathering dinner in July 1945 at Cuxhaven.
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Harry Barr . United States Air Force My father, Harry Barr, was stationed at Duxford during WWII. He was with the USAAF, but flew Spitfires as well as P39s.
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L/Cpl. James Barr . British Army 1st Btn. Royal Ulster Rifles
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Sgt V H Barr . RAF 102 Squadron
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Arthur Barradell-Smith . British Army Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) from Scotland Arthur Barradell-Smith was captured on the way to Dunkirk in 1940.
He was taken to Eichstatt in Bavaria and saw out the war there.
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Sgt Richard Barrass. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.24th Aug 1943) Flt Eng Richard Barrass died on 24th August 1943 flying in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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ABJ Barratt . British Army ABJ Barratt 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: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact 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/O Elgar Barratt . Royal Air Force pilot 106 Sqd (d.16th Dec 1944) Avro Lancaster ND682 was shot down by a night fighter at 03:54 hours while flying at 2300 metres in the southeast part of the sea of Kattegat by a German JU 88 night fighter of 3./NJG 3.
The JU 88 was piloted by Hauptmann Eduard Schröder with the crew of Hessenmüller, Zeinert and Brunsendorf.
The body of Pilot F/O Elgar Barratt was found washed ashore at Kulla Gunnarstorp north of the Swedish town Hälsingborg and was laid to rest in Hälsingborg Municipal Cemetery.
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Pte. Harold Bristow Barratt . British Army 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment from Willenhall, Staffordshire (d.25th Feb 1945) Harold Barratt served with the 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. He was the son of Thomas Harold and Mary Barratt of Portobello, Willenhall, Staffordshire.
When you go home
tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow,
we gave our today.
The British Fourteenth Army was a multi-national force comprising units from Commonwealth countries during World War II. Many of its units were from the Indian Army as well as British units and there were also significant contributions from West and East African divisions within the British Army.
It was often referred to as the "Forgotten Army" because its operations in the Burma Campaign were overlooked by the contemporary press and remained more obscure than those of the corresponding formations in Europe for long after the war. For most of the Army's existence, it was commanded by Lieutenant-General William Slim.
The 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment was a regular army unit that served in the Burma Campaign from July 1942 to April 1945 with the 32nd Indian Infantry Brigade within the 20th Indian Infantry Division.The division was formed at Bangalore in April 1942. It was commanded by Major General Douglas Gracey and at first it consisted of the Indian 32nd, 51st and 53rd Brigades.
In July that year, the 51st and 53rd Brigades were detached to form the Indian 25th Infantry Division and replaced by the Indian 80th Infantry Brigade and Indian 100th Infantry Brigade (the latter brigade being transferred from the 34th Division which had recently disbanded in Ceylon).
The division was intended from the start for operations in jungle and mountain and was on a Mixed Animal and Mechanical Transport establishment for maintenance in rough country.
The division's insignia was a hand wielding a tulwar, in white on black.
After training in Southern India and Ceylon, the Division joined Indian XV Corps at Ranchi in Bihar in December, but from July 1943, it was transferred to IV Corps in Imphal.
At the start of the Battle of Imphal in March 1944, 20th Division was deployed forward to Tamu in the Kabaw Valley. To avoid being cut off, it retreated to the Shenam Saddle in the hills surrounding the Imphal Plain. Because the 17th Indian Infantry Division was in difficulty in its sector, the 32nd Brigade was temporarily detached.
During April and the first part of May, the division held the saddle against attacks by infantry, tanks and heavy artillery. It was then relieved in place and ordered to counter-attack, north-east from Imphal to Ukhrul. The monsoon had broken, and movement was very difficult.
After several Japanese counter attacks, at the start of July the division was transferred to the XXXIII Indian Corps and slowly eliminated large numbers of Japanese in and around the village, which had been made into a Japanese communication and logistic centre.
During the remainder of the monsoon, the division rested around Dimapur. As the monsoon ended, it moved into a bridgehead across the Chindwin River at Kalewa. It attacked southward on the 4th December and cleared Japanese rear guards from Monywa.
On 13th of February 1945, the division made a crossing of the Irrawaddy River 20 miles (32 km) west of Mandalay. The boats used were leaky and other items of equipment already worn out. The first precarious footholds were counter attacked every night for a week but eventually linked up into a solid bridgehead. It was probably during one of these counter attacks that Harold Barratt was killed
He was probably interred initially at the Mandalay cemetery as this was nearest to the place where he fell on the Irrawady River on 25th of Feb 1945.
The graves have been grouped together at Taukkyan to preserve the individuality of these battlefield cemeteries. Burials were also transferred from civil and cantonment cemeteries, and from a few of the isolated jungle and roadside sites.
Taukkyan War Cemetry is the largest of the three war cemeteries in Burma (now Myanmar). It was begun in 1951 for the reception of graves from four battlefield cemeteries at Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw, which were difficult to access and could not be maintained. The cemetery now contains 6,374 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 867 of them unidentified.
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S/Sgt. Joseph Barratt . British Army 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment from 30 Garrett Street, Stockport Staff/Sergeant Joseph Barratt was an employee of the hat manufacturers Christy & Co. Ltd. when he joined the Army in May 1939. Joseph left Britain in 1942 and ended up as a POW in Italy. He was on a POW train en-route from Italy to Germany when the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including Joseph Barratt, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men.
Joseph suffered bruising to his chest whilst escaping from the train, and was admitted to hospital at Orvieto. From there he was sent on to Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland. His wife received notification of his detention on 21st February 1944. Tony Barratt, their son, reports that during the action in which his father was taken prisoner in Garigliano, the commanding officer was killed and so his father took command. He was debating the best course of action (to wave the white flag or run) when the Germans captured them.
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Sub.Lt.(E) James Gordon Barre . Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Forfar from Barrie, Ontario, Canada (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Pte. Joseph Barreiro . US Army from Pawtucket, Rhode Island The truck Joe Barreiro was on crossed into German territory and he was captured.
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Daniele Barrera . Italian Army 265 Infantry Reg. Taken prisoner on the island of Crete, in October 1943 with the entire regiment,
transported by sea to Athens (Piraeus) and then launched into Germany with the military
led by Grecia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Germania up to 6C of Stalag Bathorn (Meppen).
The trip is lasting a month, because the rail lines had been bombed and some of the days you were still
on track and secondary is done on rail cars discovered wagons that were normally used for carrying coal.
We were 60 per wagon, pressed like sardines, and it was impossible to lie down on the floor for lack of space.
The rations consisted of 2 (TWO) loaves of black bread a kilo each for 60 (sixty) people per day,
and some of Gavetta brodaglia when it was possible.
From Stalag 6C were to take the middle class to bring to work in the countryside nearby,
we were at the end of November 1943 and in those bleak years it was very cold, too, because we
had just left our military uniforms without Pastro that was removed. Towards Christmas to all
in 1943 we were part of the mandates in Paderborn in a locomotive factory and in the evening
we brought the train in a camp nearby. After a month or so Paderborn was bombed and the factory
was almost transported destroyed.NOI came to Osnabrück in AUTOWERCKSTADREPARATUR that was bombed
in 1944 and transported to distrutta. Fummo MELLE and precisely where it was WELLINGHOLZHAUSEN workshop
that had been destroyed in Osnabrück finally came and freed by the Allies in April 1945.
In these two years we have suffered cold, hunger, ill-treatment varied humiliations that is
impossible to forget.
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PFC. Joseph Barreras . United States Army D Bty. 200th Coastal Artillery Regiment(AA). from USA Joseph Barreras was captured during actions at Bataan or Corregidor and interned as Prisoner Number 455 POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan.
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Fire Force Commander Barrett . Auxiliary Fire Service Norfolk
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CPO. Albert "Jim" Barrett DSM. Royal Navy HMS Ilex from Portsmouth Albert Barrett was my paternal grandfather, who was born in Romford in 1905. I never met him as he never returned to his family in Portsmouth and settled in Gateshead. He was awarded the DSM in recognition of his brave and resourceful service in the Dodecanese on 4th September 1940 whilst aboard the destroyer HMS Ilex. I believe he was once a gunnery instructor. My mother (his daughter) is now 87 years old, and I would love to be able to fill in the gaps of his life and find a photograph.
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Alfred Thomas Barrett . Auxillary Fire Service from Battersea, London I know very little of my father, Alfred TBarrett's time in the Auxiliary Fire Service during the second war.
I only know that he did fire watching on the roof of the Du Cane Court flats in Balham South London.
He had an accident falling from a ladder and was injured and went to hospital, but that is all I know.
He lasted out right to the end of the war and he lived until he was 84 years old. He passed away in 1989.
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Augustus William Barrett . Royal Navy HMS Sirius from Denchworth, East Hanney Gus Barrett served as a Steward on HMS Sirius.
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Tech. Sgt. Charles Paul Barrett . United States Army 556th Regiment from Belleville, MI
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Capt. Charles L. Barrett . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps My father-in-law, Lt. (later Capt.) Charles L. Barrett, RAMC was a POW in Italy from May 1942 until April 1943. However, I do not know where he was held. Can anyone help?
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Ethel Barrett . Women's Land Army My grandmother, Mrs Ethel Barrett, was the Cook/Warden at the Women's Land Army Hostel at Eastling in Kent. I remember that the hostel was located close to a large house called The Paddocks, which was the home of the Fisher family. This family farmed much of the local land.
I wondered if any one might have worked at Eastling and remember my grandmother?
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G Barrett . British Army Royal Armoured Corps G Barrett 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: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact 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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