Pte. Frederick "Darkie" Durham . British Army Royal Norfolk Regiment from Harrow
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GE Durham . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GE Durham 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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Henry Durham . British Army 112th LAA Royal Artillery
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RD Durham . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RD Durham 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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/O Robert Durham DFM. RAF 12Sqd. (d.12th Jun 1943) Nav. Robert Durham was killed on 12th Jun 1943 in Lancaster DV157 PH-Z of 12sqd
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WH Durham . British Army East Surrey Regiment WH Durham served with the East Surrey 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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Eleanor "Norah" Durie . Womens Land Army I was stationed at Bemersyde House during the war. As a member of the Scottish Womens Land Army I was 19 when i joined. I remember having my 21st Birthday at Bemersyde.
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Pte. John Kilgour Durie . British Army Black Watch John Durie was my grandfather. My father unfortunately passed away and this was the only information he had given me. I think he was in India in 1941.
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Pilot Officer Roy A Durie . RAF 59 Squadron
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L/Sgt. Charles James Louis Durkin . British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment from Croydon, Surrey My father Charles Durkin served with the Middlesex Regiment between 1939 and 1945. He was a reservist and was called up on the outbreak of the war and reported to his regiment's depot at Mill Hill.
He had served with the regiment before the war in India and, I believe, in the Sudan.
He went to France with the BEF and returned to England via Dunkirk on a destroyer HMS Malcolm. He returned to France on D Day, I believe plus 4. He had shrapnel wounds but served with his unit until the end of the war.
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RJW Durkin . British Army RJW Durkin 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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WH Durkin . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers WH Durkin served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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Fireman. George James William "Dick" Durling BEM.. Merchant Navy SS Otranto from 36 Stanhope Road, Swanscombe Dick Durling served on all the Orient Line Ships during WW2
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JJA Durling . British Army JJA Durling 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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MW Durling . British Army Royal West Kent Regiment MW Durling 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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P Durman . British Army 250th Field Delivery Service Royal Army Service Corps P Durman served with the 250th Field Delivery Service Royal Army Service 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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WR Durman . British Army WR Durman 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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. M. Durn . 97 Squadron
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Pte. John Joseph Durney . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers from Kilkenny, Eire My father, John Durney travelled to Liverpool and joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1937. He saw action in Egypt, Palastine, Malta, Africa
He was sent to Leros in Greece where he was captured on 16th of November 1943 and sent to Prisoner Of War Camp Stalag 11a. He was repatriated by the Russians in 1945.
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Ldg Seaman. Durnford . Royal Navy HMS Manchester
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Marine Laurence George Durnford . Royal Navy HMS Cairo (d.12th Aug 1942)
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Gnr. William Henry Durrans . British Army 146th Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Sheffield William Durrans enlisted on the 14th of May 1942 at Congleton. He joined the 146th (Pembroke Yeomanry) Field Regiment, as a gunner/driver. The Regiment was part of the 7th Armoured Division and 8th Army and saw action in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, France and Germany. It was equipped with 5.5 howitzers, 25 pounder guns and limbers and Sexton SPG.
William survived the war.
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L/Cpl. Donald George Durrant . British Army Royal Engineers from Maidstone Road, Rochester, Kent My Dad, Donald George Durrant, was an engineer in the 8th Army. They were called the Desert Rats and he was posted to the Sahara Desert. He was taken prisoner - it may have been at Tobruk - and was sent to a POW Camp. He attempted to escape twice. Once with his friend Tich. As they were crawling on their bellies along a wall some Germans were crawling along the other side of the wall. Unfortunately they met at the end and they were both returned to the camp. He tried escaping again but got caught on the wire and was shot through the groin but recovered.
The guys in the camp were shipped over the Med to Italy and the prisoners were marched up through Italy all the way to Bologna where the city turned out in the streets to watch the column march through. Don dropped down to his knees and crawled out into the crowd under the noses of the German guards. He was taken in by Italians. Don let his black hair and moustache grow. He learned to speak Italian and joined the Italian resistance. However after a couple of years he was re-captured and sent to a POW camp in Gorlitz, Poland called Stalag 8a.
He was badly treated and starved there and the prisoners were made to break rocks in a quarry. Don somehow survived to the end of the war and was liberated by the Russians.
He was taken back home where my grandmother had decorated the street and everyone turned out to welcome him home. However he was too tired and emaciated. He couldn't face up to all the fuss and hid around the corner.
To add to the trauma, since he was away for years, his fiancee thought he was dead, as he hadn't been heard of and had married someone else which broke his heart.
There is lots more to tell and I have been asked to write a book of his story so I am researching and gathering evidence in earnest.
If anyone has a relative or knows anyone from the WW2 Desert Rats or knows of his friend who was nicknamed Tich as he was short in stature, or maybe had a relative that was in Stalag 8a, please do get in touch, any information or contacts you have would be gratefully received.
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Pte. Edna Elizabeth Durrant . Auxiliary Territorial Service from Caister on Sea (d.3rd June 1945) Edna Durrant served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service at Kedleston Park Camp.
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Sgt. Eric Durrant . Royal Air Force 158 Squadron Air Gunner Sergeant Eric Durrant joined the 1658 HCU on 12th of April 1943 as the tail gunner for a Halifax bomber. Prior to this he was with a different squadron and was shot down, being the only survivor of that crew to make it back home. The day after arriving at the 1658 HCU they flew a mission and were shot down again. Sergeant Durrant was captured while trying to escape the continent and sent to a POW camp where he remained until sometime after D-day. I wish I could say more but he told his stories some 30 years ago and passed away about 24 years ago having moved to Canada immediately after the war.
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Capt. Francis Alfred Ward Durrant . British Army 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment from Sutton
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G Durrant . British Army G Durrant 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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P/O John Chetwynd Durrant . Royal Canadian Air Force nav. 419 Sqd. from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. (d.8th Aug 1944) John Durrant flew with my uncle William Longmore, and I would like to contact any relatives of the crew members. The aircraft Lancaster X KB-755 coded VR-F and the entire crew were lost on the 8th August 1944 on a mission near Caen
The crew were: - F/O B. Walker RCAF
- Sgt. B. Jones RAF
- P/O J. Durrant RCAF
- F/O P. Merrick RCAF
- W/O1 J. Schryer RCAF
- F/Sgt. W. Longmore RAF
- F/Lt M. Wilson RCAF
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Sergeant Kenneth Michael Garton Durrant . RAF 582 Squadron (d.16th September 1944)
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Thomas Daniel Durrant . Royal Air Force RAF Benson My father was the sole survivor of a Wellington that crashed near Oxford when returning from an operation. He was stationed at RAF Benson and was part of an OTU. The crash occurred in 1941 and he was admitted to the Radcliff Hospital in Oxford. He was the observer/navigator.
Update
Could it possibly be 10 OTU Whitley P4999, crashed Wooton Road, Abingdon on 23rd March 1941? (Alan)
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