F Anderton . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment F Anderton served with the Kings Liverpool 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: 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/Lt. James "Andy" Anderton AFC.. Royal Air Force 99 Squadron from Bolton, Lancashire My father was James 'Andy' Anderton who completed 30 sorties with RAF 99 Liberator Squadron based in Dhubalia, India, between September 1944 and May 1945. The longest op was 15 hours and his log book entry was 'Day Ops. Marshalling Yards at Jumbhorn Isthmus of Kra. Very good results.' Several other ops were over 10 hours.
His Ball Gunner was Stanley Willis who has already posted on this site.
In his logbook, he lists his crew as follows:
- F/L Anderton, Captain;
- F/L D.Bryant, Co-Pilot No 1;
- F/O G.Holland, Co-Pilot No 2;
- F/O D.Welch, Navigator;
- F/O A.Pearce, Wireless Operator No 1;
- Sgt Fergie, Wireless Operator No 2, (RIP);
- Sgt R.Taylor, Wireless Operator/Beam Gunner;
- F/S N.Sherrard, Flight Engineer/Beam Gunner;
- Sgt L.Saxton, F/Gun;
- Sgt A.Clark, M.U.Gunner;
- Sgt S. Willis, Ball Gunner;
- F/O K.H.Sleeman, Rear Gunner.
I understand Sgt. Fergie flew with another crew and was sadly killed.
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Cyril Ernest Andre . British Army Royal Corps of Signals My grandfather was at Catterick Camp in August 1940 in Squad 378. He was in the RCS and went to Africa in December 1943.
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Pvt. Samuel Joseph Andreottola . United States Army K Co. 31st Inf Regt (US) Phil Div. from Massachusetts, USA POW at Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Sgt. "Andy" Andrew . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd. Andy Andrews served as a Flight Engineer with 460 Squadron.
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Lieutenant "Andy" Andrew .
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Sgt George Simpson Andrew . Army Royal Army Service Corps from Camberslang, Glasgow (d.1st Jun 1945) died in Borneo
captured in Garoet, Java whilst setting up communications for British invasion.
Supposed M.I.A (missing in action) one week before
Regular Soldier for 7 years.
Does anybody have any information on Sgt Geogre Simpson Andrew service number: 193921, RASC, or even know where I can look for a regimental photo. He Joined the Army reserve in 1937, then joined the RASC in 1938. I did hear at one point that there maybe people who were in the same POW camp in Borneo still alive.
Thank you for you time.
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Medical Orderly George Donaldson Andrew . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from 40 Dirrans Terrace, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland My father, George Andrew, was conscripted in 1941 and served in the Medical Corps. After spells in Leeds and Lincolnshire, he was posted to Malta, and after some time there,to Kos. He was captured by the Germans(3/10/43)- although they knew the Germans were coming, escape was impossible.
After capture,he spent 15 days in a train (in a goods wagon) travelling to Stalag 4b (Muhlburg) where he lived out the rest of the war. There was one piece of ground in the camp which the prisoners were not allowed to touch (although I believe they were allowed to grow vegetables elsewhere): the bodies of Russian prisoners who had died from typhus a few years earlier were buried there.
A few weeks after VE Day, with the rumour that the Russians were coming, he managed to get out and reach the U.S.lines with a friend; they had no food but a farmer's wife cooked her "laying hen" for them. The Americans flew them to R.A.F. Northolt (in a DC-3) and father said that seeing the White Cliffs of Dover was a wonderful feeling.
My father died in January 2006, just short of his 90th birthday.
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Spr. John Andrew . British Army Royal Engineers from John St. Furlong Lane, Burslem, Stoke on Trent My father, John Andrew, joined the Army in October 1939 for the duration of the war with the Royal Engineers as a Sapper, at the Drill Hall, Stoke On Trent. He was 19 years and 11 months old.
He was told to go to Plymouth by the Sergeant, and he went with his friend Albert who was from Fenton Stoke on Trent. They then moved from Plymouth to Dovercourt and on the 1st of December 1939 the company sailed to France and docked at Cherbourg, they stayed there for a short while then went to Boulogne, where they all slept in a fish market. They all moved out of the fish market, just as they had left there the Germans bombed the fish market. They all went into the army trucks and moved to Camiers then to Etaples then back to Boulogne. They were all surrounded by German snipers at the docks in Boulogne and all had to make a run for it to the railway station and they got there The Welsh Guards were already there. The Royal Engineers and The Welsh Guards had run out of ammunition. and were surrounded by the Germans. One of the German soldiers had his finger on the trigger and he was laughing when he said, well lads the war is over for you. They were all now prisoners of war.
They all left Boulogne on the 25th of May 1940 and had to march into Germany, which took three weeks, sleeping in open fields in all sorts of weather. Then they marched into Poland to a big city called Poznan. To an underground fort which had big metal doors. They were at the fort for 11 months. Then they left Poland by rail into railway wagons which had sliding doors, they were pushed like cattle and taken to a prisoner of war camp which was Stalag 344. They worked at a grave stone factory and the other half at a paper mill. Some of the prisoners were moved to Stalag v111B at Lamsdorf. My Dad was one of those people, he worked in the salt mines but he started to cough up blood and was moved to working in the Black Forest sawing down trees.
When Dad was in Stalag V111B he met Commander Douglas Bader, who was known for trying to escape. My Dad was interested in music, so were some other soldiers that dad knew. Dad played the harmonica; one played the banjo, the accordion also the guitar. Dad had been playing the harmonica since the age of three. An English Officer asked my Dad if he would play his harmonica in the concert Dad said that he was nervous in front of a lot of people. The Officer told him to close his eyes so he wouldn’t see anybody. So Dad agreed to play his harmonica in the concert. This was 1944. The Americans and the Russians joined forces with England and the prisoners heard that there was going to be an invasion which did happen in June 1944. The prisoners of war woke up one morning just after Christmas 1945, and found that all the guards had left the camp. The prisoners of war got into the army trucks that had been left and went their separate ways. Dad was helped by some Russian soldiers who gave him some food. Dad then reached the American lines and was deloused and taken by plane with some other prisoners of war and to England. My Dad didn’t go home straight away he was taken to Bournemouth Hospital until he could go home.
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Pte. John "Jack" Andrew . British Army Royal Engineers from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent My father, sapper John Andrew of the Royal Engineers, enlisted in October 1939 at the drill hall in Stoke. He was stationed at Raglan Barracks 2 miles outside Plymouth. He then moved to Southampton 1st December 1939 and sailed to France to Cherbourg & then they went to Boulogne.
His company were staying in an old fish market, they were ordered to move out by the Sergeant onto their army trucks because the fish market was under heavy fire. They then moved to Camiers and then to Staples then to Boulogne docks where they were surrounded by German snipers. Some of the soldiers were trying to get back to England across the English Channel.
My dad's friend was named Albert. They then made their way to the railway station and the Welsh Guards were already there. They had to go down steps to an underground air raid shelters and my dad and his comrades had to carry sandbags to the Welsh Guards to make barricades. They ran out of ammunition. The Germans then surrounded them.
My dad and the other soldiers were taken prisoners of war and left Boulogne on the 25th of May 1940 and marched into Germany which took 3 weeks, then marched into Poland to Posnam and marched to an underground fort. They were at the fort 11 months then Stalag 344 then to Stalag v111b. My father used to play an accordion also a mouth organ. In 1945 they woke up one morning and all the Germans had left the camp. My dad and other soldiers left the camp and got to the American lines where they were deloused before getting on a plane to England.
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Pte. John Andrew . British Army Royal Engineers Jack Andrew, my father was a prisoner of war for 5 years. He was captured in Boulogne in 1940 by the Germans. He was in Stalag V111B. As a child I never understood what he must have gone through. I feel very proud of my dad. I have had his medals mounted in a frame which is now on my wall so that I can look at them every day. He was so brave.
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Pte. Dennis Andrewartha . British Army 517th Petrol Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from South Wales
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Sergeant Andrews . RAF 59 Squadron
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Sgt. A. S. Andrews . Royal Air Force 90 Squadron (d.22nd June 1943) 90 Squadron Royal Air Force Bomber Command Stirling Mark 3 serial number EE887 WP-T. With a seven man crew took off from West Wickham at 2345 hrs on 21st June 1943 on a bombing mission to Krefeld, Germany. The aircraft was shot down in the early hours of 22nd June by a night fighter, later identified as the German fighter ace Hauptmann H.J. Jabs, and crashed at Hoogwoud North Holland with the loss of all of the crew. . Crew members were: - Pilot Officer H.N. Peters Royal Australian Air Force
- Sergeant D.J. Davies Royal Air Force
- Sergeant David Gillis Royal Air Force Volunteers Reserve
- Sergeant E. Bradshaw Royal Air Force
- Sergeant B.A. Abraham Royal Air Force
- Sergeant A.S. Andrews Royal Air Force
- Sergeant R.R. Law Royal Canadian Air Force
All are buried in Bergen General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
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Dvr. Alvan Robert Andrews . New Zealand Military Forces Army Service Corps from Brightwater (d.4th September 1944) Alvan Andrews was the son of George Aubrey Catley Haycock and of Vera Muriel Haycock (nee Harvey), of Brightwater, Nelson, husband of Gladys Maude Haycock of Brightwater.
He was 27 when he died and is buried in the Brightwater (St. Paul) Anglican Cemetery, Tasman District, New Zealand
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AU Andrews . British Army AU Andrews 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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L/Cpl. CD Andrews . British Army 12th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L/Cpl.CD Andrews served with the 12th Btn. Royal Tank 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: 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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CE Andrews . British Army CE Andrews 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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Sgt. Edgar James Andrews . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 50 Sqdn from Newmarket (d.15th Oct 1940) Edgar Andrews took off from RAF Lindholme in Handley Page Hampden X2993 c/s VN-T. Mission, to bomb Berlin, but was shot down by a nightfighter near Kalbe (between Hannover and Berlin). P/O Davies was also killed but Sgts Hurrell and Lee were taken prisoner and survived the war and eventually were repatriated. They were shot down by Hauptmann Werner Streib commanding 1/NJG 1 at 03.05 hrs
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ET Andrews . British Army ET Andrews 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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Frank "Andy" Andrews . Royal Air Force 620 Squadron Frank Andrews served as a wireless op/air gunner.
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Flt.Sgt. Frank Henry Andrews . Royal Air Force Bomber Command 158 Sqdn. from Lisset, Yorkshire Flight Sergeant Frank Henry Andrews was serving with 158 Squadron when his Halifax Mark II No LW298 was shot down over Tongeren (Belgium) on 3rd/4th November 1943, when it was returning from a Dusseldorf raid. He was found by a local farmer, who contacted Comet Line to send him back to the UK. He was discovered by the Gestapo, together with Rear Gunner Ronald Stokes, on 5th December 1943 in the home of Robert Goffaux and his niece Jeanne Macintosh. All were arrested. Robert Goffaux was sentenced to hard labour, Jeanne (being a British national) was sentenced to death. Frank was sent to Stalag Luft 3 (IVB) on 13th January 1944.
Frank was released by Cossacks in April 1945 and exchanged with Americans for Soviet POWs as part of the Yalta Agreement. He watched the Soviets begging for their lives as they were loaded onto trains - they knew they would be shot or sent to a Gulag. He remained deeply shocked at Soviet POW treatment - they were left to die of starvation and typhus. They begged the Brits to scrape out the remains of empty Red Cross food tins.
When Frank returned to the UK he saw a story about Jeanne Macintosh in the Sunday Times and contacted her. In August 1944, following her death sentence, she was transported to Germany - as the Allies raced to liberate Brussels ten days later. She spent the rest of the war in prison until released from Waldheim Fortress in May 1945 by US troops.
Frank and Jeanne met again, fell in love and were married in September 1945. I was one of the baby boomers, born July 1946.
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Henry George Andrews . Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment from Portsmouth Harry Andrews was my Father, he served with the Maritime Artillery.
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Cpl. Henry George "Andy" Andrews . British Army Maritime Regiment Royal Artillery from Portsmouth, Hampshire My father, Henry Andrews, served in the Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment in WW2. He was aboard a ship which was torpedoed but I don't know the name of his ship. He was the last to leave, apart from the Captain, because he went back to fetch the presents he had bought for his family.
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J Andrews . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Andrews 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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James Andrews . British Army Gordon Highlanders I don't really have much on when my granddad was in the War. We were very close but he never spoke off the War. His name was James Andrews. He served with the Gordan Highlanders in WW2. He got shot in the arm. I'm not sure if he got shot anywhere else. He was in there for 7 years.
I'm sorry I don't have much to go on at the moment but if someone could remember him or have any pics, I would be so grateful.
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James Andrews . Auxiliary Fire Service Liverpool and Warrington
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Pte. John Henry Andrews . British Army Royal Engineers from Netherfield, Nottingham John Andrews, known as Jack, was my grandfather. Unfortunately I have no recollection of him. I believe that Jack was in the Royal Engineers and was part of the rear-guard at Dunkirk. He was wounded and missed being evacuated and was taken prisoner.
He was repatriated in 1943 by the Germans due to his injuries.
At Stalag XXIA he was an active member of the concert party and produced some of the productions. Apparently when performing he was noted for taking female roles and in the photograph he is the blond on the right.
The picture of the programs shows that Jack, along with Paddy Hooks, produced the Christmas 1942 show, Tulip Time. In 1943 my father, who had been wounded just before Dunkirk and taken prisoner was repatriated and he asked the taxi driver what the flags were out in Netherfield for, and the driver said "they are for you mate".
He was repatriated in an exchange of wounded POWs, he had been loaded up with thousands of cigarettes and other goodies, that was when I learned to smoke.
After the war Jack ran his own furniture shops Jack Andrews Ltd. in Netherfield in Nottingham.
He passed away in 1971 at the age of 64.
My own father wrote this as part of his life story for his own funeral.
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Sgt. K. G. Andrews . Royal Air Force 44 (Rhodesia) Sqdn. A Lancaster Bomber of 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron was shot down on 25th/26th July 1944 over Stuttgart. The full crew of this Lancaster were:
F/O T.Ibbotson RAAF
Sgt. J.R.W.Worrall
F/Sgt. E.H.Greatz RAAF
F/Sgt.I.R.Murray RAAF
Sgt. K.G.Andrews
F/Sgt T.W.Whitehead
F/Sgt. F.A.Wells
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L Andrews . British Army L Andrews 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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