F/O. Maurice George Gant . Royal Canadian Air Force 571 Squadron from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (d.27th Mar 1945) Flying Office (Navigator (Bomber))Gant was the Son of Maurice D. and Sophia Gant of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
He was aged 21 when he died and is buried in the Leek (Zevenhuizen) General Cemetery, Groningen, Netherlands.
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SSgt. Charles Frank Gaphardt . United States Army from Baltimore, Maryland
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Pte. John Leonard Gapp . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment from Canterbury John Gapp served as a Private from 1944-1948 with the 2nd Buffs, seeing service in the Far East including Sri-Lanka (Ceylon), India, Malaysia and Singapore where he performed guard duty at Changi Prison.
John survived active service and returned home to his family.
I knew John from the care, I would listen to his stories of his time serving his country of which he was so proud, but also sad at the friends who did not return with him.
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B Garbett . British Army Royal Armoured Corps B Garbett 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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A Garbutt . British Army 1st Lothian & Border Yeomanry A Garbutt served with the 1st Lothian & Border 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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Sgt. James Robin Garbutt . Royal New Zealand Air Force 622 Squadron from Dunedin, New Zealand (d.15th Feb 1944 ) I am the great niece of James Robin Garbutt. I would love to find out more about him and his mission during World War 2.
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R Garbutt . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Garbutt 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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Sgt. William Martyn Garbutt . British Army Glider Pilot Regt. Army Air Corps William Garbutt flew into Arnhem in 1944 from Blakehill Farm in the first lift on Operation Market Garden. He was second pilot in a Horsa Glider piloted by S.F. Matthews, who was killed in action at Arnhem. William Garbutt was taken prisoner there.
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Pte. Evans Ramirez Garcia . US Army Battery H 200Coast Artillery
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Robert Navarro Garcia . United States Army 119th, C Bty Anti-Aircraft
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J Gard . British Army King's Dragoon Guards J Gard served with the King's Dragoon Guards 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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A Garden . British Army Gordon Highlanders A Garden 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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F/Sgt. Charles Edward Gardener . Royal New Zealand Air Force 1651 HCU. from Auckland, New Zealand (d.4th Mar 1945) Charles Gardener from New Zealand was the wireless operator of Lancaster JB699, BS-F shot down by an enemy aircraft during a training flight as part of Exercise Gisela at 01:35 on the 4th of March 1945 and crashed on their home airfield, Woolfox Lodge. All on board were killed
The crew were:
- F/L D.J.Baum
- Sgt J.A.W.Smith
- F/O D.C.Davies
- F/S R.Warne
- F/S C.E.Gardener RNZAF
- F/O K.R.Brook DFC RAAF
- Sgt T.Platt
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H D Gardener . British Army York and Lancaster Regiment H Gardener served with the York and Lancaster 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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HD Gardener . British Army HD Gardener 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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NG Gardener . British Army NG Gardener 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. Alfred Arthur Gardiner . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment from London (d.17th Jun 1940) Whilst on active duty Arthur was only 22 years old when he was killed aboard the HMT Lancastria.
We have not forgotten
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WO/2 Allan Thomas "Barney" Gardiner . Royal Canadian Air Force 429 Sqdn. (d.26th November 1943) WO/2 Allan Thomas Gardiner was shot down on a mission to Frankfurt on the night of 25/26th November 1943.
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CA Gardiner . British Army Suffolk Regiment CA Gardiner served with the Suffolk 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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EG Gardiner . British Army EG Gardiner 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. Ernest Frederick Gardiner . Royal Air Force 61 Squadron
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Pte. Frederick Gardiner . British Army 8th Battalion Kings Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment from Dalston, London (d.28th May 1940) Fred Gardiner was my mother's youngest brother and was only 27. He was attached to GHQ as a lorry driver that is all I know. He died in Belgium during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. He is buried in Adinkerke.
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F/Lt. George W. Gardiner . Royal Canadian Air Force 429 Squadron from Petrolia, Ontario My dad, George Gardiner was on his 23 mission on July 18th 1944 when his plane was hit from falling bombs from above Aircraft Halifax LW127. Went down 3 killed 3 POW's and 1 made it back to friendly lines. Phil Brunet was in the same camp and bunk house.
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Bdr. Harold Gardiner . British Army 616 Regiment Royal Artillery (d.4th Nov 1945) Harold Gardiner died aged 35. Born in Jarrow in 1909 he was the son of John and Mary Winlow Gardiner (nee Collin) of Jarrow.
He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Cpl. Harry Stewart Gardiner . Australian Army
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Fus. Jack Edward Gardiner . British Army Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from Newmarket My Dad, Jack Gardiner, never spoke too much about the War. He was called up in 1939 and served until 1945.
At the time of call up, he was the golf professional at a course near Newmarket. He was born in 1917 and was 22 when called to serve for his Country. I believe he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy. He never really told me his full story, although he had nightmares for many years.
I never understood why he ended up in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers who were based in Newcastle when he lived in Suffolk.
He was shot through the hand (a minor wound) and never returned to his former life as a golf pro.
I spent 7 years in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles(TA) and strangely the numbers of my service number, when added together, come to the same number as my dads'
My thoughts and prayers to all who gave their lives for King and Country.
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L/Bmdr. James William Gardiner . British Army 28 Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Birmingham (d.20th Aug 1944) I have only just found my great uncle James Gardiner and discovered his war grave site. Upon starting this research I was saddened to find out that my great uncle died in stalag 344 {stalag v111b}. It has since transpired that some time in 1942 he was reported missing and later turned up on casualty lists as a pow in PG 53. I am still investigating and awaiting war office records to fully explain how or why James ended up in such circumstances. I do not know any details of his service capture or cause of death at present. If any one has any knowledge of the event that occurred on 20th August 1944 or of how 28th Field regiment came to be captured, I would be eternally grateful.
I have recently traced the brief details of imprisonment in both PG53 in Italy and Stalag VIIIb of L/bdr James William Gardiner. James was killed by a US air raid on 20th August 1944. I am hoping that someone somewhere knew and remembered my great uncle and maybe there is a picture of him, I have no idea of what he looked like.
Editor's Note: In May 2009 a list of British POW's names was found in a bottle partly buried in the ground near Monowitz camp by Dominik Synowiec. It is thought that the POWs on the list were probably working in the IG Farben rubber factory part of the camp. An historian at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum believes that the list is authentic and he is positive that one of the names on that list -`Gardiner' - is James William Gardiner, who was killed in a US bombing raid on the camp. The following article appeared in a german newspaper in 2009:
"A list of 17 names believed to refer to World War II British prisoners of war held by Nazi Germany near its infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has surfaced in Poland, an Auschwitz museum historian said Tuesday. The list of names on the left-hand margin of the card reads as follows, three of them illegible: "Osborne, Lawrence, Gardiner, Lamb, Symes, Saunders, Dunne, Dunn, Hutton, Holmes, ..., ..., Clark, Manson, ..., Auty, Steinger." "I was looking for something else entirely," Synowiec told AFP Tuesday. He says he discovered the list of names by chance under debris inside a WWII-era bunker located on the site of the Nazi German Monowitz prisoner of war (POW) camp holding primarily British citizens. The POW camp in question was located next to the Monowitz slave labour camp, known as Auschwitz III, a branch of the main Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp holding labourers working at the nearby Nazi-run IG Farben rubber factory. Historian Setkiewicz was able to determine the fate of a man bearing the name Gardiner, believed to be James William Gardiner of Britain's Royal Artillery, who died in a US bombing raid and is buried in Krakow's Rakowicki cemetery. A separate list of seven Auschwitz prisoners surfaced last week after workers found it packed inside a bottle fixed in the mortar of a wall of a building in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim. Now part of a local high school, the building had served as a warehouse for the camp's Nazi guards during World War II. Three of the men on the bottle list are alive, including Frenchman Albert Veissid, now a sprightly 84-year-old contacted by AFP at his home in Allauch in southeastern France and two Poles. One of the men named on the list has passed away while the fate of the remaining three remains unclear. Nazi Germany systematically killed more than one million people, mostly European Jews, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp located in the then Nazi-occupied southern Polish town of Oswiecim between 1940 and 1945. The site was part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's plan of genocide against European Jews, six million of whom perished at the hands of the Nazis during World War II." - AFP (news@thelocal.de)
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L/Bmbdr. James William Gardiner . British Army 28th Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Birmingham (d.20th August 1944) Captured during the offensive action at the Gazala line, it appears that James Gardiner was taken prisoner and transported to PG53 before being taken to Lamsdorf Stalag 344 in Poland by the Nazis. Sadly, during an American air raid on the I G Farben factory, my great uncle lost his life. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to obtain any pictures/photos of James.
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