Sig. John Wilson "Bing" Conley . British Army 18th Division Royal Corps of Signals from Farnborough (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.
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F/L R. J. Conley DFC.. Royal Australian Air Force 97 Squadron
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Pte. Edward Conlon . British Army Pioneer Corps from Cootehill, Co. Cavan (d.23rd Sept 1942) Edward Conlon was the Son of Patrick and Mary Conlon, husband of Mary Anne Conlon, of Cootehill, Co. Cavan. He also served in the 1914-1918 War.
He was 48 when he died and is buried in the Edergole Graveyard, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
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Pte. Frank Conlon . British Army 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment from Birmingham (d.20th Aug 1944) I am trying to find information regarding my father Private Frank Conlon who served with the 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment and who died in Normandy in August 1944. He is buried in Bayeux Cemetery. I was 3 years old when he died and have only the information my mother told me. My father and mother were both from Belfast, Northern Ireland but met and married in Birmingham. I have tried on two occasions to obtain my father's Army Personnel records but have been told that they cannot be found. He died on the 20th August 1944 but, according to my mother, he was in hospital for a while before his death. I would dearly love some information on him or advice on any other source I can contact to assist me. I want to keep the memory of my father alive for future descendants.
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Pte. James Conlon . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.14th Jun 1944) James Conlon of 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry was
killed in action on 14th of June 1944, aged 23, he was the
son of Michael and Mary Helen Conlon, of
Broughton, Cheshire.
James is buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery.
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JC Conlon . British Army JC Conlon 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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Gnr. William Winfred Conlon . British Army 125th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery from Seaham, Durham (d.24th December 1943) Bill Conlon joined the Territorial like many of his time, not a great desire of marching to war, but for the yearly holiday at an army training camp.
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Musician Frederick W. J Conn . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria
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Musician Frederick W.J. Conn . Royal Navy HMS Nelson (d.12th Aug 1942)
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S Connaughton . British Army Reconnaissance Corps S Connaughton served with the Reconnaissance 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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Charles Connell . British Army Royal Horse Artillery My grandfather was Charles Connell. We would like to know about his activities during the war and his regiment. We believe he was involved with the "Desert Rats"/8th Army. We know he was involved with the RHA and that his gun was the 25 pounder. He was quite young when he joined up (during the letter part of the war). He survived the war but is deceased now. We would be grateful for any information about him or any tips on finding him.
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Pte. Patrick Connell . Bitish Army Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from Birmingham Paddy Connell joined the DCLI in 1932. He was taken prisoner in 1940 in Belgium. I think he was sent to Stalag XXb. Prior to this he was in India and boxed for the RE.
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William "Jock" Connell . British Army Pioneer Corps from 125 Round Street, Bradford My grandfather William Connell would not tell me about his war experiences when I asked as a child growing up in NZ but in my early twenties I went to London for several years and he came over and stayed with me and talked quite freely when I asked.
He was captured at Dunkirk and had to walk to Poland, I do not know where in Poland. He ended up at Hohenfels Stalag 383 in Bavaria. He did escape but was recaptured, making it as far as Amsterdam on one occasion only to be turned in to the Germans by a civilian he contacted by mistake.
He was missing a forefinger on one of his hands and he always told us the Germans shot it off but he told me he cut it in camp and he ended up with gangrene, his arm was affected and he thought he would lose it. In the end though he had only the finger amputated.
Before the war he worked building tunnels in the UK, not wanting to disclose this he said he had been a barber and ended up cutting hair in the camp. At the end of the war he was on a march away from the camp further into Germany when American forces caught up with them. There were other things he told me about that I do not want to talk about here. He suffered from malnutrition as they all did.
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Mary Connell-Jarrett . Land Army from Maidstone, Kent My mother kept detailed diaries of her time in the land army which run to 3 volumes from her filling in her application to join 19th September 1939 following the declaration of war only 16 days earlier. She started training at Wye College Kent learning poultry work and after finishing training in December 1939 had to wait until February 1940 to commence work at Pluckley Kent with the English Flax company where she worked until 1941 (not sure of date as this year her diaries aren't always filled in towards the end of her Land Army days)She then joined the WAAF (more money and better conditions I believe) as a RT operator and became a LACW she often talked about some of the raids she was involved with but these aren't noted down in the smaller diaries she kept I presume because of the secrecy of some of thes missions. She met my father who was a bomber armourer and the rest they say is history!!
The Land Army diaries are full of the films they went to see, food of the time newspaper cuttings, photoes from Picture Post including one of herself, there is even a detailed account of a night time air raid on Stanley Park Road, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey on Sunday 11th may 1941. She was sat in an anderson shelter in the garden and wrote her diary as the raid happened culminating with the point at which they decided to return to the house and then they wer almost swept of their feet so sat tight unti they heard the all clear at which they discovered the back of their houe had disapeared just as if a knife had sliced of the back of the house all the beds and pictures still in place. She notes that "London is burning what is there to come and what will happen to us?"
I have her enamel badge, felt armband, tie and these diaries.
I would be happy to share the contents with anyone to who they would be useful I do not at present wish to part with them as they are part of my family history. My mother died in 1994
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Pte. Charles Edward Connelly . Royal Army Service Corps 46th Div Supply Coy. from 8 Linacre Lane, Liverpool (d.16th Jan 1942) I was only seven years old when my brother was killed. He was only 21 and my mother went white overnight. I have longed to know how he died because I was told he was on manouvers in Gravesend Kent. His body was brought home and an officer came to the house with a flag for his coffin. When I smell Brylcream his memory floods back
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Able.Sea. Edmund Connelly . Merchant Navy MV Neptunian (d.7th Sep 1940) Edmund Connelly died aged 27 in the sinking of the Neptunian. He was the son of Michael and Elizabeth Jane Connelly (nee Greene) of Jarrow.
Edmund is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
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Gnr. James Connelly . British Army 9th Coast Bty. Royal Artillery from Fauldhouse, Scotland James Connelly was captured during the fall of Singapore and became a POW on 15th February 1942. He was in the following camps:
- Changi February 1942 - October 1942
- Wampo November 1942 - May 1943
- Tonchan June 1943 - August 1943
- Kingsao (or could be Ringsao) September 1943 - January 1944
- Tarsao January 1944 - July 1944
- Tomonta October 1944 - May 1945
He worked on the Death Railway and bridge over the River Kwai. James died on 8th December 1997. He was a member of the FEPOW club.
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Matthew Vaughan Connelly . British Army Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from Lochore, Fife My father, Matthew Connelly, was captured at St Valery sur Somme in June 1940. He escaped from a forcsd march and was helped by Belgian family in village of Ellezelles. He remained free for two years, working with the Resistance in Belgium and Northrrn France. He was betrayed and captured in 1942 in Roubaix and imprisoned as spy in Lille. After 10 months he was moved to POW camp Stalag 8b Lamsdorf. He was on the Long March in the spring of 1945, escaped and was liberated in April of that year.
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S/Sgt Mervyn Joseph Connelly . Australian Army
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D Connick . British Army D Connick 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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Agnes Connie . Land Army Miss Agnes Connie, my Grandmother's Cousin was in the Womens Land Army, later in life she was a Cub Scout Commissioner, she passed away recently at the age of 81.
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Dave Conning . Royal Air Force RAF Acklington from Yorkshire Does anyone remember my dad, Dave Conning, a big Yorkshireman, who served in the RAF at Acklington, during WW2? He married a local girl from Amble, Northumberland.
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Pte. Alfred Connolly . British Army 1st Btn. King's Own Royal Rgt. from Shadwell (d.4th July 1944) Pte Connolly was killed in action on 4th July 1944 whilst serving with the 1st Btn. King's Own Royal Regiment. He is buried in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
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Pte. Brendan Connolly . British Army Royal Pioneer Corps from Birr, Co. Offaly (d.14th Aug 1942) Brendan Connolly was the son of Michael and Annie Connolly of Birr, husband of Linda Connolly of Birr.
He was aged 30 when he died and is buried in the Birr (Clonoghill) Cemetery, Co. Offaly, Ireland.
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S/Sgt Gerard Alphonsus Connolly . British Army Royal Artillery (d.24th June 1944) My father, Gerard Connolly, served in the British Army for 20 years. He went in to the Boys Service. He served in India in 1934, where I was born. My mother died three weeks before my father was killed in Italy, he is buried in Assis. They left five children.
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S/Sgt. Gerard A. Connolly . British Army Royal Artillary (d.24th June 1944)
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Sgt J J Connolly . 408 sqd
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Trpr. James Connolly . British Army 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (d.27th Aug 1943) James Connolly died aged 23. The son of William and Sarah Connolly (late McCluskey nee McCrudden) of Primrose, he was born in Jarrow. He served with the 5th Btn The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
James is buried in Dely Abrahim War Cemetery.
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Able Seaman John Marif Connolly . Royal Navy HMS Forfar from St John's, Newfoundland (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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