Frank Sherwin Barker . British Army Royal Signals from Rastrick, Brighouse Frank Barker served with the Royal Signals.
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Lt Col. Garvie O Barker . United States Army I am the daughter of Col. Garvie Barker, writing a memoir of growing up during WWII. In 1946 we (mom, me, sister) went to the Philippines where our soldier was stationed. We returned in late January, early Feb of 1947 on the USS General David C. Shanks troopship, along with a boatload of returning military personnel. I am trying to locate any person on that voyage who was an adult. My mom, sister & dad are all deceased, and I need some details for my book.
Thank any & all of you. You may contact me through this site
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Pte. George Henry Barker . British Army 6th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Thetford (d.26th Jan 1942)
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LS George Barker . Royal Navy from 10 Sycamore Crescent, Poplar Grove, Maidstone, Kent
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Glenn J. Barker . United States Army Air Corps My father was Glenn Barker, an avaition mechanic by trade in the Army Air Corps. In about 1987 a fellow showed up at my brother's door in Xenia, Ohio who claimed to be a half-brother from WW2. My question is, is there a database or something that would increase the odds of me finding my half-brother? Can anyone help?
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Pvt. Gordon Barker . British Army POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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W/Sgt Harry Nelson Barker . British Army Royal Artillery from Coventry Warwickshire
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HD Barker . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment HD Barker served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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Isa Barker . Land Army This is such a great site! I am proud that my mother, Isa Barker, served in the Scottish Women's Land Army. I know from her stories what a very hard life it was, and for the contribution that so many women made during that time to have gone unrecognised for so long is a disgrace. I am delighted that this is now changing and these wonderful women are to be acknowledged at last.
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Joan Barker . Auxiliary Fire Service Portsmouth
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Pte. John James Barker . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Felling
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Pte. John James Barker . British Army 9th Btn Durham Light Infantry from Felling
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John Edmund Barker . British Army 33rd Field Regiment Royal Artillery
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Pte. John James Barker . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Splitcrow Cottages, Felling, Co. Durham From a newspaper clipping: Felling Man Missing.
Mrs. A. Barker, of Splitcrow Cottages, Felling has been advised by the War Moe that her husband. John James Barker, D.L.I. is missing in France. Mr. Barker, who was in the Territorial Army before the outbreak of war was drafted to France with the B.E.F. last September.
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Pte John James Barker . British Army 9th Btn. Durham light Infantry from 24 Crowhall Lane, Felling Jack Barker served with 9th Battalion, DLI and went missing in France in 1940.
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Joyce Mildred Iris Barker . Land Army from 32 Eva Road, Warley, Oldbury, Birmingham My name is Joyce Barker, and my daughter is typing this for me in Hampshire, and I'm living in St.Austell, Cornwall now, and we're doing this via a telephone. Kathleen Strong, was my best friend, we took a day off from work and went to Birmingham, where we saw a lorry full of land army girls in bales of hay with a fork in their hand. We liked the uniform so much, Kath and I said, thats it we're going to join up. We went to the cart and asked them what we had to do, and we went and joined up straight away. We had to wait to three weeks. The place they sent us to was a hostel in Small Heath, Dudley. We think there was about 30 other girls there too. The next day we went on a lorry to a farm and we went potato picking, our first day, very hard work. Other days we went thrashing, fruit picking and sprout picking, we got frost bite through sprout picking and had to go hospital, off sick for about a week. We loved our nights out at the local dance and the pub. The pub was called the Yew Tree with a big dance hall at the back. I've got some really funny tales of our dances and doing the jitterbug! We went to an RAF station dance, the whole hostel was invited. We went on a lorry! Next day, after the vaseline had worn off from our faces from the good sleep, back to work again! I drove a tractor and a milkround, milking cows, this was at Chadersley Corbett at 5 o.clock in the morning!
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F/O K. S.H. Barker DFM.. 97 Squadron
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Dvr. Kenneth Sybray Barker . British Army from UK POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Millicent Barker . Auxiliary Territorial Services I am looking for Millicent Barker who served with the Auxillary Territorial Services as a cook and was in London in 1945. She would have been about 27 years old and her husband served as a paratrooper. She lived in Stockton on Tees and was discharged in 1945. Any information on Millicent would be greatly appreciated.
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Flt.Lt. Noel Rochford Guyse Barker . Royal Air Force 153th Sqd.
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Pte. Raymond Walter Barker . British Army East Yorkshire Regiment from Northampton (d.October 1944) My brother, Raymond Barker was killed in Holland in 1944, he was nineteen years of age. He enlisted in early 1942 under age, telling them he was eighteen. He was in the Durham Light Infantry but was transferred to the East Yorkshires.
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Rene Barker . Womens Land Army
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Sgt. Stanley John "Pug" Barker . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Northampton I have been trying to trace my father Stanley Barker's wartime service. I know he was in the Norfolk's prior to the war serving on the North West Frontier, was discharged but then called up at the outbreak of the war.
He was then in the 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk's in France and evacuated from Dunkirk. He was then based around Hull somewhere. Whilst based in Hull he was court marshalled for spreading rumors that the "Babes in the Woods" were going to bombed by the Germans next.
The second Battalion were posted to India where at the completion of the war he took his discharge and married my mother there. She was a VAD nurse through out the war.
If anybody should have any information on my father I would appreciate it. He never made it back to the UK and we migrated to Australia in 1961. I intend coming over there next year and spending some time trying to track any info.
The reason I found this site was that I found a newspaper article regarding the La Paradise massacre, regarding the bullets used by the British saying that they spun on entry and this is what caused major wounds, although dad never spoke much about his war time service I clearly remember him telling me how they made Dum Dum bullets, by cutting across the nose of the bullets so when the bullet made contact it would open up and cause more damage, I always thought that was fighting the Japs, could they have been doing this in France?
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Sgt. Stanley John "Tanker" Barker . British Army 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment from Northampton My father, Stanley Barker, put up his age up and joined up 4 December 1928, just aged 15 years. Initially in the Royal Tank Corps but transferred to 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. On the 23rd March 1931 he was posted to India. He was discharged into reserves on or around 4th April 1938.
He was called out of reserves 9th March 1938, to served in France with BEF. He was part of the rear guard until the last. Station at Hull after evacuation. He was Court Marshaled for spreading malicious rumors when he supposedly said that the "Babes in the woods would be the next ones to be bombed" The Germans had been bombing Hull regularly.
Posted to India on 13th April 1942, Stanley was in Kohima to stop the Japs, he never spoke much about his war years and sadly passed away before I was old enough to ask all the questions that I have been trying find out. He took his discharge in India to join the Indian Police, with a rank of Sargent. He married my mother there, my brother was born in India. When the partition India and Pakistan happened they returned to England. But in May 1961, the family emigrated to Australia. He sadly passed away in March 1976.
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Sgt. Stanley John "Tanker" Barker . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Northampton My father Jack Barker first joined up aged 15 years, he enlisted on the 4th of December 1928 in the Royal Tank Corps T.A. He transferred to the Royal Norfolks on the 23rd of March 1931 and served in in India from 22nd of December 1933 and was discharged on the 4th of April 1938.
He was called from the reserves to go France with the BEF as part of the rear guard at Paradise, some how got away.
He was Court Marshalled in Hull for saying something like the Jerry's will be bombing the babes in the woods, apparently the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk had earned the name The Babes In The Woods.
He was with the Norfolk's at Kohima, took his discharge in India and became Police Sargent in Chittagong. He married my mother there. They returned to the UK on the separation of India and Pakistan.
He died in April 1977
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Sgt. Stanley John "Tanker" Barker . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Northampton From memory, my father, Stanley Barker served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk's in India from 1933 through to 1938.
He took his discharge at this time and was placed into the reserves, was called up at the out break of WW2 and went to France with the BEF. Here things become blurred, he was court marshalled for refusing to drive a Bren gun Carrier saying "the bloody Jerries are hiding up the trees and dropping grenades into them". As written elsewhere, the Norfolk's were at Paradise sur Mare. where he was at this time there is record, luckily for me he was there or I wouldn't be writing this.
Then the next bit of family history starts around Hull after the evacuation. He had several worthwhile adventures there. I clearly remember him telling us that after an air raid he and his company were given the job of cleaning out the basements of the shops. He said as they made their way down into one of the basements it appeared as if there were lots of burned and distorted bodies standing around, only find out that they were all store mannequins.
His next experience was as light. Apparently the Norfolk's had got the nickname of "the babes in the woods" after the place where they were camped.
Dad was a real larrikin. He apparently said "they will be bombing the babes in the woods next". He was court marshalled again.
There is nothing in the family history until he is posted to India on the 13th of April 1942.
Again not much happened, or much he would speak about. We know he was at Kohimaand and that he was wounded. It turned out that my mother was an army nurse already in India and she nursed him.
He took his discharge in India, as did my mother and they married there then my brother was born there.
After his discharge, Dad was in the Indian Police until the Pakistan India separation they then went home to the UK.
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Tpr. Sydney Barker . British Army 43rd Recce Regiment Reconnaissance Corps from Bradford Sydney Barker was my father and as he did not talk about his war experiences I am now trying to find out more about his service.
I know he landed in Normandy late June 1944 following the loss of a large number of men of the regiment on D Day when their boat was blown up by a mine.
I know nothing much, myself, other than I know he received a gun shot wound to his arm on 3rd March 1945 somewhere near the German border in Holland.
He was discharged in 1947. Sadly, my father died in 1987 from chest problems and other ailments which we believe came from his wartime service
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Sgt. Thomas Albert Barker . Royal Air Force 514 Squadron from London Thomas Barker flew as a Navigator with 514 Squadron.
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Tom Barker . British Army Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire I was born on 23rd May 1921 in Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. I joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1938. I served in Palestine in 1939, the Libyan Desert and the Battle of Sidi Barrani in 1940. Then I was wounded and taken prisoner in Crete in 1941. The next two years were spent in forced labour camps. I then changed identities with Harry Tenny (RAF) to help him escape. Two years were spent in Stalag 4B, Muhlberg. I got out of the camp when the guards ran off because the Russians were advancing and reached home on VE Day.
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Tom Barker . British Army 1st Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders My regiment was 1st Btn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, and I was a resident in Stalag 4B for two of my four years as a POW. I was wounded and captured on Crete in June. For two years I worked slave labour, then Harry Tenny - who had been shot down during a raid - swapped identities with me so he could get back to the UK and the RAF, so that he could bomb Germany again. I told him "If you do come back to bomb, just look out for me wavin' me hanky and don't drop any near me."
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