C Covell . British Army East Lancashire Regiment C Covell served with the East Lancashire 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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FW Coventry . British Army Royal West Kent Regiment FW Coventry served with the Royal West Kent 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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J Coventry . British Army J Coventry 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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Robert Coveny . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd. Bob Coveny served as a wireless operator with 460 Sqd.
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D Coverdale . British Army Royal Armoured Corps D Coverdale 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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L/Cpl. George Coverdale . British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers from Manchester? George was captured in May 1940 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Poland. His POW number was 4463. He really never got over it and never talked to the family about his experiences. The only story I remember was him saying that he did not like Americans because he had met one during the war! He was a gentle caring man who was convinced that he would die before his time because a doctor had foolishly told him that his experiences as a POW had shortened his life by at least ten years! Any information would be gratefully received.
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Sgt D W R Coverley . 76 Sqd
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SA Covington . British Army SA Covington 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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Cpl. Archibald White Cowan . British Army Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from Stirling, Scotland (d.9th July 1944) My grandfather Archibald Cowan was a Corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was part of the Expeditionary Force. He was severely injured and captured in Belgium in 1939. He was then held at Stalag 23A (hospital) before being repatriated to Leith on the Drottningham in November 1943. Unfortunately he died of his injuries in Stirling Royal Infirmary on the 9th July 1944. If anyone has any information on him please contact me.
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Cpl. Archibald White Cowan . British Army 7th Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from Stirling, Scotland (d.9th July 1944) Archibald Cowan was a territorial soldier called up for duty. He served with the 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in WW2 and fought in the Battle of France in 1944.
Archibald died 9th of July 1944 aged 33 years and is buried in the Stirling (Ballengeich) Cemetery in Scotland. Son of Archibald and Agnes White Cowan, of Stirling; husband of Margaret Cowan, of Stirling.
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D Cowan . British Army D Cowan 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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H Cowan MiD. British Army Reconnaissance Corps H Cowan 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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F/Sgt. J. E. Cowan DFM.. 97 Squadron
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Capt. John Cowan . British Army 2nd. Btn. Seaforth Highlanders from West Linton
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Capt John Cowan . British Army 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highanders from West Linton
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F/O. Neville Lawrence Roy Cowan DFC, MID. . Royal New Zealand Air Force 148 Sqn from Hastings, New Zealand Flying Officer Neville Cowan served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force flying with 148 Squadron RAF in WW2. He carried out 48 operational sorties against objectives in Germany and Libya and targets in the Mediterranean area. He made 13 attacks on Bengasi. He once brought his aeroplane safely to his base, although one engine had failed. At all times he has shown great keenness and efficiency and complete disregard of enemy opposition.
Neville went on to serve in the RAF in Malaya during the Malayan crisis where he was Mentioned in Dispatches. He retired from the RAF as a Squadron Leader in 1958/59.
Neville had 2 other brothers that served as well in 9 Squadron, both of whom were also awarded the DFC.
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Cpl. Samuel Cowan . British Army 6th Airborne Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles Samuel Cowan served with the 6th Airborne Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles.
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T. Cowan . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Pte. T. H. Cowan . Home Guard Signal Sect. Workington Btn.
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W Cowan . British Army W Cowan 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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W Cowan . British Army W Cowan 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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Cpl William Jasper Cowand . United States Army B Coy. 31st Inf Rgt. from North Carolina
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L/Cpl. William Troy Cowap . British Army 50th Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps from Devon (d.21st August 1942)
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QMBS. Charles Joseph "Charlie" Coward . British Army 8th Reserve Battalion Royal Artillery Charlie Coward joined the Royal Artillery on the 16th. June 1937 and was serving
with the 8th. Reserve battalion as Quartermaster Battery Sergeant Major when
he was captured in may 1940 at Calais by the Germans. He managed to make two
escapes before they even got him to a prisoner of war camp! During his seven
subsequent escapes he managed to be awarded the Iron Cross whilst hiding in
a German army field hospital, he spotted experimental V1 rockets and managed
to send coded information on them back to the British intelligence via
letters to his father via Mr William Orange:
On the pretext of writing to his father (who was dead), in care of William
Orange, he could get out about a half dozen letters a week to let the people
in England know what was going on. He figured that he could pass the censors
that way, and at the same time get the information to the War Office. In the
letters he sent information that he thought had military value and also
wrote about the conditions of work for the civilians and the inmates, as
well as the British prisoners of war. He wrote giving the particular dates on
which he had witnessed thousands arriving and marched to the concentration
camp. Inquiring of the people in Auschwitz where the next batch was
coming from. In the letters he would say that 600 arrived from Czechoslovakia,
so many from Poland, et cetera. The turnover was in the hundreds of
thousands. You could not count them. The majority of them went into the camp
next to us.
His wife Florence was at first confused by these letters and it took a few
months before she spotted the ruse and redirected the mail to the War
Office.
Charlie arrived in Auschwitz in December 1943. Auschwitz was under the
supervision of Stalag No. VIII B. The camp at Auschwitz at which they lived
was E 715. It was one of the camps grouped around The I.G. Faben plant at
Auschwitz. At the time when about 1,200 British
prisoners of war were working for I. G. Faben. Toward the end of 1943, our
camp held 1,400 British prisoners of war. At the beginning of 1944, British
prisoners were sent to Heydebreck and Blochhammer and about 600 British
prisoners of war remained.
Charlie was sent to the factory at Auschwitz where as senior British
prisoner and the Red Cross representative he witnessed the atrocities at
first hand. True to form he resisted and by bribing guards he managed to
swap the dead bodies of Jewish prisons for some 400 live people, knowing
that the concentration camp guards only measured the number of people
transferred from the camp to the gas chambers he took live prisoners out of
the ranks and buried them in a shallow hole to be recovered later and
replaced them with a dead prisoner he knew that the SS would assume that
the prisoners died on the march., after all, if he was questioned
what would he, a gentile, know or care about Jews. At least 80 of these
poor souls are known to have survived the end of the war. With the
assistance of fellow POW's. and polish resistance workers Charlie helped to
smuggle arms and explosives in to the death camp and substantial damage was
done to the gas ovens that never was fully repaired. Thus ensuring that a
substantial number of other prisoners had some extra chance of survival
from this hell on earth. One of his last duties before he left the camp was
to organise the funerals of 34 British prisoners of war who had been killed
by a stray American bomb after a raid on the factory started whilst they
were on a sports activity. Prior to this he had complained
The British prisoners of war were
not permitted to use the air raid shelters in the IG plant. Charlie complained to
Duerrfeld ( the civilian manager in charge of the factory) about this. He
was very abrupt and said that a place was being allotted. The place we could
use instead of an air-raid shelter was locked so that we would have to get
the guard to get us a key before we could get even that protection. The
inmates had no air-raid shelters of any kind, and the foreign workers were
marched out into the fields.
It is sad to record that the mass graves were subsequent directly hit by
another large bomb and the prisoners' remains were destroyed.
After the war he testified at the Nuremburg IG Fabens war crimes
tribunal.
His testimony ensuring that the civilian contractors could not be excused
from their dreadful part in this savage Auschwitz death factory enterprise:
"I discussed the gas chambers with German civilians. I never heard of any of
the German foremen who protested against the gassing. The others were in
favour of gassing - provided it was for Jews. They looked upon killing Jews
as killing vermin. We were not permitted to talk to the inmates but managed
to do so anyway. I was told by quite a number of inmates that if they were
sick for more than 5 days, they would be sent to the gas chambers.
One foreman boasted about having seen Jews arrive for gassing, 100 to the
railway wagon, standing because there was not enough room to sit down. It
was too much trouble to take the inmates out so a gas pipe was put into the
wagon. He also told us about the Jews walking into the gas chambers."
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Denis Coward . Fleet Air Arm
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PC Coward . British Army PC Coward 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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RT Coward . British Army RT Coward 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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R Cowburn . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment R Cowburn 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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VR Cowdery . British Army VR Cowdery 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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FJ Cowdrey . British Army FJ Cowdrey 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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