AJ Davis . British Army AJ Davis 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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Albert Lee Davis . US Army from Cincinnati, Ohio My Dad, Al Davis served in WWII and was a POW in Stalag XIB. The photo is of his wooden POW tag.
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Pte. Alfred Davis . British Army York and Lancaster Regiment from Wath upon Dearne My father, Alf Davis was a dispatch rider. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and later deployed to North Africa and then up through Italy towards the end of the war. He was an athlete and runner as a young man and went on to raise 5 sons and 1 daughter in New Malden, Surrey. He was a proud man who spoke very infrequently of the war. His first son Jack was born while he was deployed in North Africa to Doris Marjorie Maycock nee Davis of Hythe, Kent. After the war he started a grocery business after selling vinegar from a barrel, he is missed!
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LAC Bernard Harpley "Dave" Davis . Royal Canadian Air Force 408th Sqd. from Hamilton My father has many pictures of his war time years in Britain. He is 96 and sharp mentally and is reminissing a lot. More stories are coming out and he is studying the pictures on 408 Squadron on the internet. If you are interested contact me.
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Able Sea Blair Victor "Titch" Davis . Royal Navy HMS Newcastle from Gloucestershire Blair Davis served on HMS Newcastle from 1942 to 1946.
He was a Radar Operator.
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C Davis . British Army Gordon Highlanders C Davis served with the Gordon Highlanders 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. Charles George Davis . United States Army Coast Artillery Corps from Oklahoma
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CJ Davis . British Army CJ Davis 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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Lead.Sea. Cliff Davis . Royal Navy HMS Bedouin Cliff Davis served on HMS Bedouin
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Pilot Officer D H Davis AFM. RAF VR 59 Squadron
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P/O Daniel George Davis . Royal Canadian Air Force 514 Sqdn. from Ontario (d.16th June 1944) 514 Sqdn Lancaster II LL690 JI-J took off at 2314 from RAF Waterbeach. Believed to have fallen victim to a night-fighter, coming down between Iwuy (Nord) and Rieux-en-Cambresis two small villages 9km NE and ENE respectively of Cambrai. Five lie in Rieux Communal Cemetery while F/S Hutt rests at Iwuy Communal Cemetery. Sgt Bloom is commemorated on panel 235 of Runnymede Memorial. The crew:
F/O E.A. Kingham
Sgt J. Black
F/S F.A. Spencer
Sgt B. Bloom
Sgt F.N. Ansell
Sgt D.G. Davis RCAF
Also lost from 514 Squadron on this raid was Lancaster II DS816-JI-O. Crew:F/S C.F. Prowles, Sgt H.A. Osborn, F/O A.H.Morrison, F/S R.B. Spenser, Sgt R. Surtees, Sgt. J. Porelli and Sgt. A.A.Holmes.
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Sgt. David Paul Davis . Royal Air Force from Abingdon
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DJF Davis . British Army DJF Davis 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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E Davis . British Army E Davis 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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E H Davis . British Army Worcestershire Regimen E Davis served with the Worcestershire Regimen 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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E. D. Davis . British Army Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry E. Davis served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry 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. EC Davis . British Army 40th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment Cpl.EC Davis served with the 40th Btn. Royal Tank 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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Gnr. Edward John Davis . British Army 135th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Weston (d.19th Aug 1945) John Davis lost his life while serving with 135th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA.
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EJ Davis . British Army EJ Davis 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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Trimmer F. A. Davis . Naval Auxiliary Personnel HMS Forfar Davis was one of the ships crew to transfer under the T124X agreement when the Montrose became HMS forfar in 1939. He was counted amongst the survivors when the ship was lost.
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FE Davis . British Army FE Davis 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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FL Davis . British Army FL Davis 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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F/O. Frank Davis . Royal Air Force 10 Squadron (d.8th May 1942) My uncle, Frank Davis, was Mentioned in Dispatches for his part in the Dunkirk evacuation, when he was in the Royal Navy Reserve. He then joined the RAF as a wireless operator/air gunner and was killed on 8th May 1942 when his No.10 Squadron Halifax was shot down over Lubeck.
When I visited his grave at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Berlin, I counted 59 other graves of Bomber Command aircrew killed on that same night.
At the beginning of the war, he co-produced a review with Terence Rattigan.
My father, Wg Cdr Emanuel Bowman and myself also served in Bomber Command.
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Cpl. Frederick Lloyd Davis . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment (d.25th May 1940) My grandfather, Frederick Lloyd Davis was a bandsman in the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolks so he served as a stretcher bearer. He was reported missing in action on 25th May 1940 while defending Dunkirk. He was originally from Christchurch in Dorset and was married with two young sons.
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G Davis . British Army Reconnaissance Corps G Davis 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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GA Davis . British Army GA Davis 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. George Henry Davis . British Army 2nd Batallion Durham Light Infantry from Sunderland (d.27th May 1940) George served in the 2nd Battalion of the DLI, alongside his older brother, Lance Sgt Thomas Davis. Thomas was my grandfather, George would have been my great uncle. They were attacked on the morning of 27th of May 1940 by a Panzer Regiment in the village of St Venant, some 40 miles south of Dunkirk. During the retreat, George and Thomas jumped into the canal to the north of the canal in an attempt to escape from the Germans. I think George and Thomas were in D Company of 2nd DLI, tasked with defending the ground to the west of St Venant, between the railway line and the canal de la Lys just to the north. It is likely that George died towards midday on the 27th, as he was last seen swimming across the canal with Thomas. Thomas reported in a letter back home from his prison camp that he and George were swimming, then George stopped and wasn't seen again.
I believe the 3rd Panzer Division lay to the south of DLI lines, and the German SS infantry lay to the west. As the Panzers moved northwards, it became a battle of guns against tanks. The British troops had no options but to retreat, with many losing their lives in the open ground between the railway and the canal. Thomas was pulled out of the canal by the Germans and taken prisoner. George's body was pulled from the canal about a mile east, snagged on a burnt out barge, and buried alongside the canal.
A couple of years after his death, the International Red Cross dug up his body by the side of the canal, and re-interred him in the St Venant Commonwealth Cemetery. Before re-burial, his remains were examined and the records show that there were no visible signs of gunshot wounds on his remains. This led me to speculate that perhaps he was not shot, but drowned. The morning of the 21st was a particularly hot one, and the brothers had had to race across a cornfield for about a kilometre while under heavy machine gun fire from the chasing Panzers. It is quite possible that George, although only 25, was weakened by the chase, and his exhaustion and equipment combined to drag him beneath the water to his death.
The exact date of death is not known: he disappeared on the morning of the 27th of May, and his body recovered on the 1st June. His grave in the St Venant Commonwealth cemetery bears both dates, although it is most likely the former is the true date.
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GJ Davis . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GJ Davis 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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Grahame J. "Roger" Davis F/Sgt.. Royal Air Force 514 Squadron from Glasgow
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Pilot Officer H L N Davis . RAF 59 Squadron
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