Colour Sgt. Arthur Crockett . Army The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
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Clr.Sgt. Arthur Crockett . British Army 5th Btn. Queens Own Cameron Highlanders from Liverpool Arthur Crockett joined the 1st Bn Liverpool Scottish in 1932. He was posted to 2nd Bn Liverpool Scottish with the Rank of Sergeant in 1939. He was promoted to Company Sergeant Major then reverted to Rank of Sgt and was posted to 5th Bn Queens Own Cameron Highlanders in North Africa in 1942. He served in Sicily, France, Holland & Germany with the Battalion as part of 152 Brigade, 51st Highland Division, being promoted to Colour Sgt. He was demobbed in Nov 1945 and rejoined 1st Bn Liverpool Scottish as Company Sergeant Major to 1951.
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WA Crockett . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WA Crockett 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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F/Sgt. William Vernon Crockett. . RCAF 280 sqd (d.13th Nov 1943 )
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Pte. Thomas Henry Crockford . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from London Thomas Crockford enlisted in March 1941 and quickly sent to Woking, Surrey to complete his driver training. In 1943 served in North Africa and later from 1944 in Germany. Lucky enough to survive with no injuries and return to his wife and children.
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Able Seaman. D. Crockwell . Royal Navy HMS Forfar A.B. Crockwell survived the sinking of HMS Forfar.
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M Crocombe . British Army M Crocombe 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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CT Croft . British Army Royal Armoured Corps CT Croft 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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J Croft . British Army 6th Airborne Armoured Regiment Reconnaissance Regiment J Croft served with the 6th Airborne Armoured Regiment Reconnaissance 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 Croft . British Army J Croft 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. Leonard George Croft . Royal Air Force 44 Squadron from Godalming, Surrey (d.3rd Aug 1943) Len Croft was married to my Mum. They married on the 24th of October 1942. Len was killed on the 3rd of August 1943 when returning from a bombing raid over Germany. The Lancaster aircraft he was on was shot down over Holland.
Len was the flight engineer and is buried at Harling General Cemetery, Holland.
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RL Croft . British Army Royal Army Ordnance Corps RL Croft served with the Royal Army Ordnance 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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S Croft . British Army S Croft 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 Croft . Royal Marines HMS Nigeria My father-in-law, William Croft, was a Royal Marine Band Corporal aboard the HMS Nigeria. He married Marjorie Pauline Viviers in the Dutch Reformed Church in Simonstown, South Africa on 31 May 1947. We have a cutting of the article which appeared in the local newspaper. If anybody has any recollection or memories of him, we would be very happy to hear from them.
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Bandsman William Croft . Royal Marines HMS Nigeria My father, William Croft, served on board HMS Nigeria as a Royal Marine Bandsman. He served during the Russian convoys and was still on board as a Band Corporal during the ship’s visit to Simonstown in 1947. I would like to get in touch with anyone who might have known him.
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H Crofts . British Army Reconnaissance Corps H Crofts 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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Jim Crofts . British Army Black Watch Whilst researching my grandfathers history I discovered I had a great uncle,
Jim Crofts. He was was hit in the back by a piece of shrapnel at Dunkirk, was rescued and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He was serving in The Black Watch.
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R Crofts . British Army Reconnaissance Corps R Crofts 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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Reg Crofts . British Army Reconnaissance Corps Reg Crofts, my great uncle, served in the Recce Regiment and landed on D Day +1 and went right through to Berlin without a scratch.
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SW Crofts . British Army SW Crofts 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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Pte. Thomas Crofts . British Army 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment from Sheffield, Yorkshire (d.20th January 1944) Whilst researching my grandfathers history I discovered I had a great uncle called Tom Crofts, who was killed in action on 20th of January 1944 and is buried at Minturno War Cemetery in Italy.
My grandfather, Private George Tolmie, 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, was also killed in action at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge on the 25th July 1918. After the end of WW1 Georges widow, Elsie, married again to a James Crofts from Sheffield. James was Tom's brother. They went on to have three children, my mother Marion and two sons, Jim and Reg, hence the family connection.
Jim was hit in the back by a piece of shrapnel at Dunkirk, was rescued and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He was serving in The Black Watch.
Reg served in the Recce Regiment landed on D Day +1 and went right through to Berlin without a scratch.
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Cpl. T. Croisdale . British Army My now deceased stepfather was at Barth as a POW. Unfortunately I never, regrettably, got around to asking him about his all experiences. There is a oddity about one thing he did tell me, he was army (captured in N Africa) and in a Stalag Luft for RAF prisoners. He did say he was interogated at Fallingbostel (Luftwaffe). I know he made a signet ring of RAF roundels made from red/white/blue toothbrush handles. Why did he do this? I think I remember him saying that during an air-raid in Germany he'd walked across to another POW train and as his train moved off he was forced to get on the other one and those aboard gave him RAF kit. Could this possibly be true?
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Pte. Thomas Joseph Croke . British Army South Lancashire Regiment from Cashel, Co. Tipperary (d.24th July 1947) Thomas Croke was the son of Joseph and Catherine Croke, of Cashel.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Cashel (St. John the Baptist) Catholic Churchyard, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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Fl/Lt. Michael Edward Jackson Croker . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 295 Sqdn. (d.19th February 1943) I am looking for information on 295GT Squadron, based at Netheravon, Wiltshire in 1943, Halifax equipped, February 19th 1943 mission with two planes over Loire valley, France. One plane was lost, one returned. My grandfather F/O David Upsher was the pilot of the lost Halifax. The crew are buried in Saumurelcome.
Update.
Fourteen aircraft from 295 Squadron were tasked with a raid on three electricity transformers at Distre, near Saumur. Two aircraft were brought down by anti-aircraft fire. The crew who died on this mission and are buried in Saumur Communal Cemetery are:
F/O D.H. Upsher (pilot)
Sgt I.W. Arnold (navigator)
Sq.Ldr C. Campbell-Miller
Fl/Lt M.E.J. Croker (airgunner)
F/O M.C. Hayes (pilot)
F/Sgt T.W. Holland (airgunner)
Wing Co. P.M.V. Lysaght (pilot)
F.Sgt K.R. Marshall (wop/airgunner)
Sgt W. Mather (navigator)
P/O J.H.C. McIlwrick (pilot)
WO/2 J.E.S. Sasseville (wop/airgunner)
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Fl/Lt. Michael Edward Jackson Croker . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 295 Sqdn. (d.19th February 1943) Fourteen aircraft from 295 Squadron were tasked with a raid on three electricity transformers at Distre, near Saumur. Two aircraft were brought down by anti-aircraft fire. The crew who died on this mission and are buried in Saumur Communal Cemetery are:
F/O D.H. Upsher (pilot)
Sgt I.W. Arnold (navigator)
Sq.Ldr C. Campbell-Miller
Fl/Lt M.E.J. Croker (airgunner)
F/O M.C. Hayes (pilot)
F/Sgt T.W. Holland (airgunner)
Wing Co. P.M.V. Lysaght (pilot)
F.Sgt K.R. Marshall (wop/airgunner)
Sgt W. Mather (navigator)
P/O J.H.C. McIlwrick (pilot)
WO/2 J.E.S. Sasseville (wop/airgunner)
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A/AB. Albert Cromack . Royal Navy S.S. Empire Cromwell from Leeds, Yorkshire (d.28th November 1942) Albert Cromack served in the Royal Navy in HMS President III and the S.S. Empire Cromwell.
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JW Cromack . British Army JW Cromack 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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FA Croman . British Army Royal Armoured Corps FA Croman 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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KJ Croman . British Army KJ Croman 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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Flt.Sgt Donald Cromar DFM. Royal Air Force 83 Squadron from Tooting (d.3rd Jan 1944)
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