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7th July 1944 On this day:  Arrival  In Action  Reliefs  Patrols  Attack Made  Bombing congratulatory messages  Shelling    Recce  Bombers  Mines  Relief  Duty  In Support  Move  Orders  On the Move  Reliefs  Secret equipment retrieved  Orders  In Action  Band Plays  Bombing sortie in bad weather  Celebration  Ops Cancelled  Move  Quiet  On the Move  On the Move  In Action  First bombing sortie  Airfield in Austria bombed  Aircraft  Airfield bombed again  Air Raid  Gun Positions  At Rest  Recce  Shelling If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Remembering those who died this day. Conley John Wilson. Sig. (d.7th July 1944) McLeod Alexander. Pte. (d.7th July 1944) Smith Thomas Alfred. L/Cpl. (d.7th July 1944) Woodger John Alfred. Spr. (d.7th Jul 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 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 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. 16th Jan 2025 - 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 265273 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 FAQs 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. 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 July 1944? There are:39 items tagged 7th of July 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 July 1944 Sig. John Wilson "Bing" Conley. British Army, 18th Division Royal Corps of Signals. (d.7th July 1944) I am trying to find out details about my father Signalman John Conley (nickname Bing) 18th Division Royal Corp Signals service # 3129355 who died in Changi 7/7/44. He is buried at Kranji war Cemetery Singapore I am trying to find out about his capture at Padang Sumatra March 17th 1942 and how he got to Padang in the first place. I have obtained his Japanese Index Card (with the the kind help of Andrew Snow from the Death Railway Museum in Kanchanaburi)and it makes mention of him being captured at Padang and our family always thought he was captured at Singapore. The story we were told as children was that he had escaped from Singapore to Sumatra and then captured by the Japs but I believe if they caught an escaped POW they executed them, I would be grateful if anyone who has any information could contact me. I am more fortunate than most as I was at the opening of Kranji while in the Royal Air Force stationed at Changi, and visit his grave there twice a year. John Conley Add to this record. Pte. Alexander McLeod. Royal Air Force, B Squadron 1st SAS Regiment. (d.7th July 1944) Alexander McLeod was one of thirty members of the B Squadron, 1st SAS Regiment, all 20 year olds and all killed on a special mission, though details not known. They were buried together in the village cemetery at Rom in Deux-Severs 5km west of Couhe-Verac on the D14 road. Would love to know more of the details surrounding their deaths. Update From June to August 1944, B Squadron, 1st SAS was working behind the lines in German-occupied France. They were tasked (Operation Bulbasket) with blocking the Paris-Bourdeaux rail line near Poitiers. This was to hold up any German reinforcements which were needed near the D-day beach heads. The 2nd SS Panzer Group (Das Reich) was a unit which, it was believed, was heading to Normandy and a train carrying fuel intended for them was spotted by the SAS men. This was reported by the SAS and an RAF bombing mission later destroyed the train. B Squadron's base was near Verrieres. It was here that they were betrayed and the camp attacked. Some 33 men were taken prisoner and murdered. Another three wounded SAS men were later murdered in hospital. These murders were carried out in accordance with Hitler's order of 18 October 1942, usually referred to as the `Commando Order', whereby Allied commandos or saboteurs were to be killed without trial. After the war, this was designated a war crime and some Germans were brought to justice. Leon Macleod Add to this record. Spr. John Alfred Woodger. British Army, 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers. (d.7th Jul 1944) In Memory of John Alfred Woodger, Remembered with Honour at Taukkyan War Cemetery. John Woodger was a Sapper with the Chindit long range Special Forces, 54 Field Coy., Royal Engineers who died on 7th of July 1944 Age 23, of exhaustion, dysentery & beri beri. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Woodger of New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey. You are not forgotton John x Ashley Vingoe Add to this record.

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