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Sgt. JA Evans . British Army 52nd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps Sgt.JA Evans served with the 52nd Regiment 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: 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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Sgt. Jack Evans . Royal Air Force 101 Squadron from Bradford (d.22nd Sep 1943) Jack Evans was my late father's cousin and died on a raid on Hannover on the 22/23rd September 1943 with 101 Squadron, Lancaster W4324 SR-M. The crew were:
- Sgt Cyril John Green (29) - Pilot
- Sgt Jack Evans (19) - Flight Engineer
- Sgt William Roy Stables (22) - Navigator/Bomber
- Sgt Blackmore Turner (24) - Air Bomber
- Sgt George Edward Reeve (21) - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
- Sgt Arthur Davis - Air Gunner
- Sgt Gordon Richard Jordan RCAF (21) Air Gunner
It was the first major raid to Hannover in 2 years, 711 aircraft took part in raid: 322 Lancaster, 226 Halifax, 137 Stirling, 26 Wellington and Americans on their first night raid with 5 B17’s. 26 aircraft were lost, 7 Lancaster, 12 Halifax, 5 Stirling and 2 Wellington.
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James Evans . British Army The Buffs My Uncle Jim Evans was a Desert Rat in WW11. I believe he was with The Buffs. I found three diaries which I am offering to the Imperial War Museum shortly. They contain lots of everyday writing but he seems to be in transport as he speaks quite often of 'Dixie' which appears to have been his lorry. He mentions a man called Darkie and an officer called Blakeland. He spent a lot of time in Rome and he also used to like mending watches. Not a lot that I know but someone may remember him.
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CPO James Samuel Evans . Royal Navy HMS Raven from Gosport My grandfather, James Samuel Evans, was stationed at HMS Raven between December 1939 and October 1940, after which he was posted to Jackdaw, Daedalus and Goshawk. He was a Petty Officer Shipwright 1st Class.
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PO.Swrt. James Samuel Evans . Royal Navy HMS Hood from Gosport My grandfather, James Samuel Evans, served on HMS Greenwich from 17 September 1935 to 7 September 1936, before being posted to HMS Hood.
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JE Evans . British Army 24th Lancers JE Evans served with the 24th 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: 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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JE Evans . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JE Evans 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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JH Evans . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JH Evans 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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John Evans . Army 11 Battery 3HAA.RA I served as a gunner with 177 Battery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1941 as Radar Operator. I later with served with 11 Battery, 3HAA.RA in Jahore, Malaya and picked up the only night incursion by the Japs while in Jahore.
The battery was at Anson Road Stadium, Kepple Harbour (a football pitch) and was near to being wiped out on Friday, 13th when many anti-personnel bombs dropped on the site with a direct hit on the height finder. Seven were killed. One bomb only on Saturday, which just missed the ammunition. After taking on a couple of low-flying Japs (traverse right-traverse right-depress-depress-fire and a short fuse up their backsides), a formation of nine were engaged with a salvo smack on the nose of the leading aircraft, followed by another salvo same place. They turned away only to detour and come back for the battery at Kepple Harbour with the sun at their backs. The large bomb we took verified that they had been heading for the Naval Base. The Indian battery nearby had taken a direct hit on a gun and the generator and transmitter of our radar were destroyed.
Although that Indian battery was not in action, 11 Battery was in action on the final day. The lone Bofor sounded reveille at 6am on the 15th, which aroused those of us who had a brief sleep in the Seaman's Mission.
Surrender was a reprieve I felt as I was convinced I must die next day.
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Gnr. John Evans . British Army 3rd Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, 11th HAA Battery Royal Artillery from Birkenhead I had long been wanting to join up, being a reluctant scholar, and brought leaflets home, one being about RAF apprentices which appealed, but my mother was to be my dependant relative and no way was I going to get her permission to join up. However, with call up looming, I reasoned that I may as well go early and choose my own unit, to which she agreed, so off I went to Liverpool recruiting office to be greeted by "wouldn't you like to join the Guards" before I could get inside the place. I declined, and in fact, once inside I had no idea of what I wanted to join, I was in there and savouring the moment. I was pointed in the direction of the person recruiting for the Royal Artillery as it had a choice of units, so I was given my options which included anti-aircraft. Now there were two things which drew me to that. I had been subjected to air raids and hitting back appealed, and ack-ack trained at Oswestry, which I thought useful for a weekend pass, it being nearby, so ack-ack it was.
I was to report on 13th March, 1941, and I had been on the streets with a cousin on the night of the heavy raid of March 12th/13th when many were killed and I learned what a parachute mine sounded like as it descended,a very menacing sound indeed, not the quick swish of a bomb.
So off I went after a couple of hours in bed, telling mother who was accompanying me on the bus for whatever reason, that I wanted no fuss.
Parkhall Camp, Oswestry. Get those windows open on frosty nights. The nuisance early risers disturbing the peace. Parading with knife fork spoon and mug held behind back to march to breakfast.
I wanted, boy-like, to be on a gun, but a written test I undertook saw me selected for radar training which I did in Buxton, Derbyshire, where we slept on the floor in the vast Empire Hotel after going to a farm to fill up with straw the flat old mattress, which surely was from WW1?
Off to a cold windy place in North Wales, Tonfannau, with sea to the front and mountains to the rear, and cold water washing and shaving. A train up to Barmouth, and the memory of that seeing me and my wife going there for the occasional few days; the picture I had of breaking waves
recalled from those wartime days. It was there that I heard the constant stream of bombers going to Liverpool on the occasion of the seven consequitive nights blitz.
Posted to 177 Battery, Newcastle about May, 1941.
Newcastle was alive with uniformed people, saluting every few yards, officers and men fed up with it. One visit to a cinema and half a pint of beer returning to the site.
Why so little to spend? My 17/6- reduced by a 7/- shilling allowance made in respect of my dependant relative. I had been earning 17/6- at age 17 in a shop, and having quit that for better money, had been earning £3-15-0 take home pay, albeit for a six night working week, and a 65 hour week. That was at the Co-op bakery where I was putting up orders for confectionery with two others, one a conscientious objector, for the 47 horse draw vans which even then in 1941 were doing their rounds with bread and cakes, seven vans doing the shops. I wrecked my spine there with a stupid lift, though not knowing what was in store for me late in life as a result. I still can't believe it.
Embarkation leave and off to Woolwich.
Strange these old buildings, three stories high and bare. The body of men gathered there were located in a room at ground floor where battery orders were posted. Three of us decided we would occupy a room elsewhere,and I shared a food parcel with Ron Thirling who lived in Catford. I was to be a bearer at his funeral in Thailand.
We sauntered down to join the main party to find them on parade in full battle order ! "I'll give you two minutes " said a nice man, "two minutes to get back here properly dressed". Well, webbing equipment never went on so fast.
To the stores for equipment, six shirts, sis pair of shorts, a khaki drill uniform with topee, short puttees, extra this and extra that, but why oh why was I , a stripling at 11 1/2 stone and five foot ten , seen to be large ? Others had reasonablty fitting gear but mine went around me near twice. I always was unlucky.
Off to Glasgow with an overnight journey, and ferried out to the Empress of Canada, I returned there in 1991 for an apology of a holiday at Dunnoon.
The only way to see the world is by sea, and once again sleeping on the floor; deck this time as hammocks we could not cope with.
"Any complaints" said the orderly officer? They moaned about mashed spuds and moaned when they got two in their jackets. The sausages were steam cooked of course and looked doubtful, so the tray was passed along, some gravy taken, and the sausages went out of the porthole.
Then came the 'chicken'. Odd to see a ring on a leg, along with the odd feather, so wise men forsake that, but those who were bent on suicide partook of it and were in trouble in the early hours.
Capetown gave troops a wonderful reception, and when we left, returning to ship on Bonfire Night, oranges had been taken aboard. Now these were on sale at 1 1/2d each, and we suspected that they were a gift from those lovely people, so few bought them.
Our group of radar men were posted to a regular unit, who were posted to Singapore in 1938, and we experienced Changi Barracks which matched the comfortable life led by those who ran Malaya. Fancy being shaved in bed , a torch on your chest, a murmured word in foreign language saying -what?
Off to a gunsite in Jahore, we newcomers under canvas and kit turning green with mold.
It's night and I am manning the receiver as the transmitter scans to the north. I ring the command post-" formation of aircraft bearing 35 something" Not easy to get men unused to action out of bed and they got only seven rounds off. I heard nothing from the direction of Singapore, though I read on BBC People's War a Eurasian youth who was awakened by gunfire. Well, if he could hear us, we should have heard the bombs which he said were dropped!
Guns sent up to Kuala Lumpur and radar to Mersing on the East coast, guns turning back as all else were retreating. WE on radar were relieving a static Royal Air Force radar unit, but left soon after as attention had been drawn to this tiny strip of beach by rifle fire directed at a Jap aircraft, and was followed by three bombers calling with slight damage to the radar, but our range was short and for guns only, sending us to Mersing was quite useless but appropriate to what was going on.
Anson Road Stadium was a football ground and 11 Battery was sited there, with Kepple Harbour behind and Kalang airfield ahead with an Indian battery close by. inn spite of anything written or said to the contrary, they, plus a lone Bofor gun were the only ack-ack defence, both taking casualties from direct hits. Twice daily a formation of 27 aircraft blanket bombed with mainly anti-personnel bombs , and the said are was where they dumped them. We with radar had been pushed around from pillar to post as radar was for night use only. We were with the Indian battery when our generator and transmitter were destroyed and a direct hit on a gun.
We heard that 11 battery had taken a beating, with seven dead via a direct hit on the height finder and the battery close to being wiped out. There must have been ten or twelve bombs on site on that Friday 13th.
only one HE bomb which just missed the ammunition on Saturday, but Sunday, the final day saw the battery taking on low fliers before engaging a formation of nine heading for the naval base. Two salvos were each smack on the nose of the leading aircraft which forced them to turn away. Alack and alas, they detoured and came in from Kepple Harbour with the sun behind them and the one very big bomb we took proved where they had been headed. I suppose we surprised them as the battery must have been seen as done for on Friday.
There was no other fire apart from ours, and the Indian battery I can only assume was quiet after the direct hit on the gun.
11 Battery were both first and last to engage the enemy.
The Japs must have been impressed with the much cratered site and continued resistance, and it was said by an officer of ours that we had been selected for the job on Saigon docks for putting up a good show, though of course, all artillery went there.
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Pte. John Arthur Evans . British Army Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, Middlesex R from (d. 1945) I am trying to find out any information about my great uncle John Evans
he was in Stalag 20a in Thorn and I am told that he died in 1945
while being marched away from the camp, in a German town called Parchim.
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John L. Evans . British Army Welsh Guards My dad, guardsman John L. Evans, Welsh Guards, was imprisoned at Stalag XXA. He subsequently escaped via Odessa. I have many photographs and dad's diary. Sadly, dad died when I was a young child, due to illness as a result of the escape. I would love to hear from anyone who may have known him.
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John Evans . British Army My father, John Evans (also known as Jack), was captured at West Capelle during the rearguard fight to Dunkirk. I would like to find out more about this battle. He was then imprisoned at Stalag XXA until his escape on 21st January 1945, when he and many others eventually made it to Odessa. The survivors sailed home on the `Duchess of Richmond'. Any memories or knowledge of this would be very welcome.
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Pte. John Lesley "Taff" Evans . British Army 10th (City of Glasgow) Btn, A Coy. 8 Platoon, Highland Light Infantry from Llanelly, Carmarthenshire (d.2nd May 1945)
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Gnr. John Evans . British Army 64th Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery from Birmingham
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Gnr. John Evans . British Army 64th Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery from Back 14 Bartholemew Row, Birmingham My father, John Evans, joined in 1938 with the BEF until 1940. He served in North Africa in 1942, and was with the Middle East Force in 1944. He was wounded in 1944, and served with the Central Mediterranean Force in 1944. He came home in December 1945 and was demobbed in 1946. I would love to know more about the 64th Anti-tank Regiment.
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Gnr. John Evans . British Army 64th Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery from Back 14 Bartholowmew Row, Aston, Birmingham My father Johnnie Evans joined in 1938 to 1946, he served with the BEF, was in North Africa with the 78th Division until they ended up in Austria, he then came home in mid 1946.
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John Henry Evans . Royal Air Force 210 Squadron Jack Evans served with No. 210 Squadron.
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Pte. Joseph Evans . Army Sherwood Foresters
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JW Evans . British Army JW Evans 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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KA Evans . British Army KA Evans 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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L Evans . British Army Royal Armoured Corps L Evans 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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L Evans . British Army Royal Army Service Corps L Evans served with the 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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Sgt. Leonard Thomas Evans . Royal Air Force from Birmingham My father Leonard Thomas Evans served as a Fitter Armourer in the RAF from 1941 - 1945.
I do not have his service number.
I know he was stationed at various RAF camps such as Hutton Cranswick, during the war.
I am asking is that I am the eldest of his large family & they wish to know what there is about his time in the RAF during the war. As I am now 79 years old I have very little to tell them and would like to know his service number to find out where he actually served.
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Fus. Leuan Evans . British Army 6th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers from Swansea (d.17th July 1944) Ieuan Evans was my Grandfather, but my Father did not know this man was his father until he was 70 years old. I am desperate for any more details if anyone has any. My Father is 80 now and knows hardly anything about Ieuan. How would I find out where he is buried etc?
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LJ Evans . British Army Royal Armoured Corps LJ Evans 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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M Evans . British Army M Evans 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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Sgt. Morgan Evans . British Army 2nd Btn. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire (d.2nd Jul 1940) Morgan Evans was the son of Philip and Elizabeth Evans, husband of Winifred Violet Evans, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
He was 31 when he died and is buried in the Ardara Church of Ireland Churchyard, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
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NJ Evans . British Army 51st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment NJ Evans served with the 51st 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: 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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