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John Convey . British Army Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from Omagh
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Ord.Sea. Patrick Conville . Royal Navy HMS Janus (d.23rd Jan 1944) Patrick Conville died aged 21 when HMS Janus was sunk. He was the son of Arthur and Mary Conville.
He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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Dvr. Alfred Conway . British Army 922nd Company, A Section Royal Army Service Corps from Leeds Alfred Conway erved in Iceland in Operation Alabaster from 27th of July 1940 to 15th of March 1942 and then in Northwest Europe from 16th of June 1944 to 5th of May 1946.
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DJ Conway . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DJ Conway 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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Able Seaman. H. Conway . Royal Navy HMS Forfar H Conway was brought ashore after the sinking of HMS Forfar in December 1940.
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JA Conway MiD. British Army 5th Btn. Border Regiment JA Conway served with the 5th Btn. Border 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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L/Cpl. John Conway . British Army 7th Btn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Stirling My great grandfather John Conway served in the 7th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. The pictures I have included are from a scrapbook he kept whilst he was a POW. It is currently held by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum in Stirling Castle who were nice enough to send me the photos when I contacted them about the book. My mum always told me that John had been Douglas Bader's batman while he was a POW and looking at the dates and camps listed in the book it certainly seems possible as they were both in some of the same camps at the same time.
I'm not sure when he was captured. I think he took part in the desert campaign and the song in his book seems to support this.
From his book John appears to have been in the following camps:
- Stalag IX-C in Bad Sulza in 1941
- Oflag VI-B in Dossel, Warburg in 1942 where it is possible he came into contact with Douglas Bader
- Stalag Luft III in Sagan between 1943-44
- Stalag VIII-A Gorlitz (and possibly also C) from 1944
- Stalag XI-B Falinbostel presumably up to the end of the war
While he was a POW, John's brother Michael was serving with the 74th Field Company Royal Engineers. He was wounded in Normandy just after D-Day and died of his wounds 14th June 1944.
John's father and one of his older brothers, James had both joined the Argyll's in September 1914. John Snr was in his fifties but lied about his age while James had been a Territorial before the war. Inevitably John Snr was invalided out due to poor health but James was posted to France and was killed in action 6th March 1917.
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Kenneth Conway . Royal Navy HMS Egret
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Able Seaman. P. Conway . Royal Navy HMS Forfar P Conway survived the sinking of HMS Forfar.
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Ty.Ldg.Stoker. Terence Sydney Conway . Royal Navy HMML 183 (d.11th Feb 1945) My dad's biological father was Terence Sydney Conway, who was in the Royal Navy during WWII. Due to an incident on the ship (I believe that another sailor died, and Terence was a witness to this), the ship was delayed in Durban, South Africa for some time. It was there that Terence met my grandmother. My grandmother fell pregnant with my dad – I am not sure if my grandmother and Terence had married or not, but my dad was told that Terence planned to return to Durban after the war to be with my Grandmother and their son. Terence’s ship eventually went back to sea, and then was lost in French Waters around 1945. and he was assumed Dead.
My grandmother, around the time of my dad’s birth (we are not sure if before or after my dad’s birth) then married a man with the surname Roux, which is why I have the surname Roux. Unfortunately, my grandmother also died without leaving us much information about Terence. My father's birth certificate states “Father Unknown”, but his Baptism Certificate says “Father is Terence Sydney Conway”.
My dad was placed into a children’s home at a very young age, and had very little proof of his real family. He tried to find out about his biological father's family for many years with little success. South Africa did not keep very good records during WWII. Not much is known about Terence besides the fact that he was supposedly from the "famous" Conway singing family of the war and that he had a brother named John. We were never sure if any of these last facts were correct of not, but they were the little knowledge that my Dad had.
I have found out the following information about my granddad: Terence Sydney Conway, Ty/Act/Leading Stoker, C/KX 90460, Missing presumed killed 11/02/1945, Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Conway
Other information I have heard is that Terence Sydney Conway may have come from an Irish background. I'm not sure how accurate this is.
Please contact me if you know more. I may have family in the UK who I don’t even know about. Unfortunately, my Dad passed away in 2007, without ever finding the truth. Hopefully I have better luck.
Editor's Note: When he lost his life, Terrance Conway was serving on HM Motor Launch 183 which was lost when it sank after collision with East Pier, Dieppe, N France on the 11th of February 1945. She was a 75t vessel launched in 1941. He was aged 29 and is remembered on the Chatham Memorial.
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Pte. William Corneilious "Haydn" Conway . Australian Imperial Force 2/8th Btn. from Stratford, Victoria, Australia
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Alan McKenzie Coogan . British Army 1st Airborne Division from Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland Alan Cougan served with the 1st Airborne Division in WW2. He was called up in 1940 aged 19. Alan glided into Arnhem (September 1944) and was in the group that held one end of the bridge. Grouped into Charges of 8 (Charge #21) this group was commanded to abandon the charge & move back to British lines. They hid in a shed but were captured by the Germans and taken to the local church with 200 others.
Transported over 6 days by cattle wagon, no food, no water, no toilet, Alan suffered claustrophobia as a consequence. He was taken to Stalag 13A where there were no beds - "a pigsty". Over the ensuing months they were marched from camp to camp. Eventually they were placed in Stalag 4B : 25,000 POWs (Poles, Russians, Italians, Brits). Only 1 meal a day was provided: bread with jam or butter plus soup. Morning coffee was made with acorns. But the Germans had no food either. The daily routine was out at 06:30 until 18:30 with return walks of three miles to the factory to get synthetic petrol. There was a Jewish extermination camp nearby and they all endured the sweet smell of burning flesh.
As the tide of war turned, they had a three day march to another camp as the Russians approached. On this march, Alan escaped by rolling into a ditch and hiding. He spent three days in an evacuated French labour yard and ate out of the bins. Finally he was picked up by US troops who fed him. He got food, stole a car, and was given petrol by US troops and drove 180 miles back behind German lines. Alan was taken in by a Czech woman & given food. While staying in this house, a drunk American burst in. He shot the woman & raped the two daughters.
Alan was finally flown to France then on to Britain. He was admitted to Southport Hospital and declared Grade 9C - unfit for further service. He wighed 7 stone. My Mother heard Lord Haw Haw's radio announcement about POWs and she heard "Alan McKenzie Coogan" much to her relief.
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Pte. Gregory Coogan . British Army 2nd Battalion Irish Guards My father, Pte Gregory Coogan of the 2nd Batt Irish Guards in Stalag V111 B. He is on the right of the photo. The man on the extreme left is a soldier from the Warwickshire regiment and is a survivor of the SS barn massacre; I believe his name is Charlie Daly. I understand that all three men lost a leg. My father was captured and lost a leg trying to evacuate the Dutch Royal Family from Holland in 1939. I think he was repatriated in 1944. This is his story:
I was captured in Boulogne on 23/5/1940. A mine took out my leg at the knee. Two chaps put on a tourniquet and put me on a stretcher, carried me along the road. A section of the Irish guards appeared and offered to escort me to the RAP. As we passed a graveyard, a lot of German troops popped up over the wall and demanded that the boys drop their weapons. They did-and dropped me too! I lay there by the road side and nearly got flattened by a passing Panzer tank. Eventually, two young Germans came along who spoke English. They said 'Ha ha Englisher blue blood!' I protested that I was Irish, from Ireland. They said 'Mr de Valera? We don't want to fight him!' Eventually I ended up in an open shed with other wounded Welsh and Irish. A German doctor offered to inform our next of kin of our status. Then he said 'Who is the worst wounded here?' Apparently it was me. He put me in a German ambulance with some German wounded and took me to Le Toquet, where the French amputated my leg a few days later. 2 weeks later I was moved back to the former British hospital at Camier. I was there for a while, and was due to have my stitches out, as I was told by Major Kimble, a Kiwi who operated on me, when we were told we were moving up to Lille. We were moved at night time, but my stitches had to come out. So, in the pitch black, by the side of the road, after midnight, I reminded Capt Carter of the Welsh guards to remind Kimble that the stitches had to come out. And he took them out there and then in the darkness. We were then detained in Eilghiel in Belgium for some weeks. Then we moved to Obermassfeld, part Stalag 9c, where we were registered. Then we moved to Badsulza. Eventually all the seriously injured were sent to work at a tobacco factory in Nordhausen for a considerable time. Upon being recalled to Stalag 9c, we were told we were to be repatriated. We were dispatched to an old quarry, then put on a train, arriving finally at Rouen, France, after three days the SBO came to us on parade and said 'Men, I have bad news, repatriation has fallen through.' so we were sent back to the racecourse, previously a British camp. After some time, the Germans sent us to Stalag 8b, Landsdorf. I was there until November ‘43, when they started repatriation again. We embarked on a train to Sasslitz on the Baltic, then a boat to Malmo Sweden, then by train to Gothamburg, then a ship back to Leith in Scotland. Then a train Netley in Hampshire. Eventually everyone went home apart from me and a lad from Leeds, Rennison. The nurse in charge was the Queen Mother's cousin, Lady Margaret Bowes-Lyon. She escorted us to Rowhampton, where eventually I got fitted up with a limb in January 44. I have many group photos from 8c and 8B, as well as photos of sports days and theatre shows.
We would love to hear from anyone who remembers our father.
Back row from right, C Philips, C Clarke, D Ryan, H Chivers, W Mc Niell, W Anders. Front row from right, D Cain, S Cooke, L Forrest, W Hamilton, D Mc Garry. 3 Aussies, 3 Irish, 2 N Zlds, 2 Eng and 2 Scotts.
4th left centre row Jackie Cooke
Back row,7th from left Jackie Cooke. Back row, 9 from left Robbie Anderson. Front row, 7 from left Sean Kenny.
From right back row, Brady 2nd, Welsby 3rd
Back row from left 2nd Welsby, 3rd Brady, 2nd Btn.Irish Guards
Wesley & Brady 2nd Battn Irish Guards
All Kiwis
3 Cockneys
Fellows, Warwicks, on the right
From TelAviv, captured in Crete, then V111B
Medics 17/21 Hospital
All Cockneys
Work Party
Two Kiwis (Acropolis)
Chaplin on left
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Fus. A. W.T. Cook . British Army Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (d.11th April 1945)
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Arthur Frederick Cook . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Gloucestershire (d.4th July 1945)
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Pte. Arthur Meredith Cook . British Army 2nd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment from Walsall, West Midlands (d.24th Sept 1944)
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WO2. C Cook . British Army 9th Lancers WO2.C Cook served with the 9th Lancers 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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Pte Cecil Cook . British Army 16th Btn. Durham Light Infintry from Doncaster
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Sgt. Cecil Frank Cook . British Army from Hull, East Yorkshire
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Pte. Cecil Winchester Cook . British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Hampshire Regiment from Ash, Surrey (d.3rd December 1942) Cecil Cook was born in Ash, Surrey on 15th April 1919 the youngest son of Joshua Cook and Emily Jane Waters.
He joined the Army and served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment and attended a camp at Corfe Castle Camp, Swanage in 1939.
He married a lady called Ivy in 1942. She was in the WAAF.
He served with his regiment in November 1942 in Terboura, Tunisia, North Africa. He was killed in action on Thursday 3rd of December 1942. His body was not recovered.
His name appears on the war memorial in Medjez-El-Bab, Beja, Tunisia and also the Ash War Memorial in Ash, Surrey.
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F/Sgt. Charles Smith "Chick" Cook . Royal Air Force 617 Sqdn. (d.27th Nov 1943) I am looking for any members of 617 and 619 Squadrons who remember my uncle, Charles Smith Cook. He was often called "Chick" or because of his
boxing, the "brown bomber". My father told me that that sometime between
1940 and 1943 there was a photo of Charlies' crew and the Lancaster printed in an Edinburgh newspaper. They were standing in front of the plane along with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. I would love to hear from anyone that has memories of my uncle or any of the families of his fellow crew members listed below. If anyone could be kind enough to find the photo I have mentioned I would be so grateful. I'd like to be able to show it to my father, Charlies' brother.
DV381 619Sqdn Lancaster BI PG-B Took off ofr Berlin from Woodhall Spa at 17:22 on the 26th of November 1943. Believed to have crashed into the sea.
- Pilot F/Lt Ronald David Rayment 50657 V. Buried in Becklingen War Cemetery.
- F.Engr Sgt Martin John Lynch 904871 V. Buried in Becklingen War Cemetery.
- Nav F/O John Kellett 129552 V. Commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede.
- B/Aim Sgt William Archibald 1344176 V. Commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede.
- W/Op F/Sgt John Thomas Richards 1271196 V. Commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede. Panel 138
- AG F/SgtCharles Smith Cook 1351535 V. Commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede.Panel 135
- AG F/Sgt Joseph Arthur Fowler 1394170 V. Commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede. Panel 136
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Sgt. Charles Smith Cook . Royal Air Force 619 Sqdn. (d.27th November 1943) Lost during the Berlin campaign. DV381 619 Sqdn. PG-B Op. Lancaster BI.
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F/Sgt. Charles Smith Cook . Royal Air Force 619 Squadron (d.27th Nov 1943) My uncle Charles Smith Cook served with 619 Squadron as a mid upper gunner and was shot down over Berlin in 1943. I am looking for any information
Update: 619 Squadron lost four Lancasters on the night of the 26th/27th November 1943 on a raid to Berlin. One of these was Lancaster DV381, aircraft code PG-B.
This aircraft left Woodhall Spa at 17.22hrs on the evening of 26th November 1943 for Berlin. It is believed to have come down in the sea. Two bodies were recovered - those of F/Lt R.D. Rayment and Sgt M.J. Lynch, who were buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Air Force Memorial at Runnymede (details from BC.Losses (Chorley)). The crew were:
F/Lt R.D. Rayment.
Sgt M.J. Lynch.
F/O J. Kellett.
Sgt W. Archibald.
F/Sgt J.T. Richards.
F/Sgt C.S. Cook.
F/Sgt J.A. Fowler.
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D. Cook . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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2nd W/Ofc. Edward Cook . Merchant Navy SS Orama
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EGT Cook . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EGT Cook 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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EJ Cook . British Army EJ Cook 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. Eric T. Cook . Royal Air Force 10 Squadron from Coalpit Heath (d.16th July 1943) My great uncle Eric Cook was a flying spanner for the 10th Squadron and he never returned from a mission 16 July 1943. I am trying to trace the history of my great uncle Eric T. Cook or Cooke. Any images of the period and time at Melbourne would make my day and help my family trace the life of this man who died at the age of 21 in service of his country. If you have any information on him or just have any images of life at Melbourne that you could share. Anything at all would be gratefully received.
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Pte. Ernest W. Cook . British Army 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment from Lichfield (d.21st May 1940)
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FG Cook . British Army FG Cook 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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