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Molly Gunn . Land Army I served in the Land Army in Devon.
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R Gunn . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Gunn 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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S Gunn . British Army S Gunn 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. William A. Gunn . British Army 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders William Gunn was serving with 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders and stationed in Malaya. In February 1942 he was captured and held as a prisoner of war until summer of 1945. He later served in Korea.
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F Gunnell . British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regiment F Gunnell served with the Loyal North Lancashire 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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Edward Michael Gunning . Royal Navy HMS Collingwood from Manchester My father Ted Gunning joined the army at the beginning of the war in the Royal Artillery. He was transferred to the Navy as a gunner. He served on HMS Triphibian, Collingwood, Victory (3 times), Lanka and Anderson. He was in Ceylon when the war was over. He never spoke about the war. I have perused the pictures on the website but cannot find him. He had an exemplary record. I would love to find out more.
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FA Gunning . British Army FA Gunning 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. Frank Vivian Gunning . Royal Air Force 15 Squadron from Bridport, Dorsetshire. (d.12th Jun 1940) Frank Gunning was an Observer with 15 Squadron.
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JW Gunning . British Army JW Gunning 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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John Nevill Gunning-Wyatt DFC & bar.. Royal Air Force 83 Squadron. Our father John Gunning-Wyatt was a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. We are trying to find out more about him as he died after the war at age 40 from a brain tumour when we were both children. We do have a photo of him and his squadron in front of the Lancaster they flew the plane says Uncle on the side.
Our Dad was 6ft 4ins so quite easy to spot. We cannot seem to find any other photos or know any of the other men in his squadron we would love to find out more. Our mother has his DFC and bar and also his log book. If anyone has any information on his squadron please let us know.
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W Gunstone . British Army W Gunstone 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 Peter Foley Gunter . RAF VR 101 Squadron from Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland (d.3rd July 1945) My uncle Peter Gunter served at Ludford Magna in 101 squadron as a bomb aimer/navigator. On completion of his ops he went to Canada to help train aircrew on Liberators and was killed when a plane taking off was put on same runway as a landing plane. His crew were all buried in abbotsford cemetery British Columbia. I would like to here from anybody who knew him in his time with the RAF VR.
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Phillip Gunyon . Merchant Navy SS. Athenia
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LV Guppy . British Army LV Guppy 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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Pfc Leroy T Gurganus . U S Army Air Force from Texas
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Richard Gurklies . Luftwaffe (d.23rd March 1942) I work for the Bong Heritage Center (WWII Museum) in Superior Wisconsin. We have had donated the tail fin from a Dornier (Flying Pencil) twin engined, twin tailed bomber. Inscribed on it - "Shot down over Portland England on March 23, 1942 at 2000 hours by the 290th Battery Troop A LAARA (Light Anti Aircraft Royal Artillery) - Sgt Barstow".
We have researched the local Portland Naval Cemetery and found the names of four Luftwaffe killed on that date. Their names are:
Horst Becker
Richard Gurklies
Gunter Bock
Horst Bockel.
If you have any information about this event or the persons involved please contact me, so we may properly display this piece of history.
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Edward Gurmin . RAF 78 Sqd From Dishforth I went up to Middleton St. George which was a brand new drome, now Teeside airport, they were just building it then. We went up there on Whitleys and I was flying with Chris Cheshire, who was the brother of Leonard Cheshire VC…he was my skipper. I did 23 trips on Whitleys and then they were bringing out the first of Halifaxs and they were forming a second Halifax squadron at Middleton St. George. It was similar to the Lancaster… we went on to the Halifaxs…in those days you had to do 30 trips over Germany and then you were taken off. We were briefed on 12th August, for Berlin. When we got to the outer defences of Berlin we found the petrol consumption had gone for a real burton. We didn’t have enough petrol left to get back to England…we thought wed try to get into the North Sea somewhere. We hadn’t dropped a bomb then, so we decided to drop the bombs on the secondary target which was Hamburg. So we did a deviation …dropped the bombs on Hamburg.I was on the wireless that night. The observer dropped the bombs. He gave me the thumbs up the bombs had gone. I sent a message back to Middleton St. George saying “operation completed” I got a message back from them saying “message received and understood” and just then there was one Hell of a bang. So I was on the wireless and had two switches, one for the wireless and one for the intercom. I was still on the wireless and I thought I’d better find out what’s happening here. So I pulled my plug out of the wireless, pushed it into the intercom just in time to hear Cheshire saying “Jump for it boys” and I couldnt believe my ears. I said “What do you mean…bale out?” and he said “Yes, and bloody quick”. We’d had this bump - he had the stick and moved the stick and just had nothing at all there. When we baled out we realised wed had a direct hit with an ack ack shell in the fuselage. The whole of the fuselage had gone. All that was left was two wings and four engines. The rear gunner, of course, hed fallen 15000 feet, he was dead. At the same time we were attacked by a night fighter and he killed the front gunner, as I say luckily I was on the wireless that night. Five of us managed to bale out…and of the five who managed to bale out four have since died, including Chris Cheshire ..so I m the only one left. We jumped out at 15000 feet – of course when I hit the deck it was one oclock in the morning and I didnt know where the rest of the crew were…they could have been ten feet away or ten miles away. I was hanging up there and the plane crashed below me. So I got out of my parachute. I actually fell into a bog and I couldnt get out of this bog. Everytime I tried to move out of it I was sinking in the bog. And that night another plane from our squadron was shot down and the whole seven of the crew baled out safely and five of them dropped into these bogs and drowned…so there was only two survived. Five of them drowned in the bogs that I was actually in. Anyway in the moonlight I thought I could see a bit of a path so I took a deep breath and ran like hell towards this path… I managed to get onto this little path and get out of these bogs. I was walking down the road and I was whistling “There ll Always be an England” thinking there may be some of my mates around…so Im whistling this and suddenly a Luftwaffe officer and ten squaddies came round the corner and grabbed me and took me to this ack ack post, that had actually shot us down.
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Pte. Arthur Stanley Gurney VC.. Australian Imperial Force 2/48th Battalion from Australia (d.22nd Jul 1942) Arthur Stanley Gurney was 33 years old, and a private in the 2/48th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Imperial Force he was awarded the VC (posthumously) for the following deed.
"On 22 July 1942 at Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt, during the First Battle of El Alamein, intense machine-gun fire held up the company to which Private Gurney belonged and inflicted heavy casualties on it, including killing or wounding all the officers. Private Gurney, realizing the seriousness of the situation, charged the nearest machine-gun post, silencing the guns and bayoneting three of the crew. He bayoneted two more at a second post before a grenade knocked him down. Picking himself up, he charged a third post and disappeared from view. Later, his comrades, whose advance he had made possible, found his body."
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Pte. Arthur Stanley Gurney VC.. Second Australian Imperial Force 2/48th Battalion (d.22nd July 1942) Stan Gurney was awarded the Victoria Cross.
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Sgt. Denis Albert Gurney . Royal Australian Air Force 50 Squadron (d.24th Jan 1945) Denis Gurney flew with 50 Squadron as an air gunner.
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Able Sea. Harry Gurney . Royal Navy HMS Repulse from Wern Mill, Nannerch, Flintshire Harry Gurney was my lovely father. He was serving as AB on HMS Repulse when it was attacked and sunk by the Japanese on 10th of December 1941. He worked down in the engine room, but on that fateful day he was called up onto deck, for what reason I do not know, but that call saved him, as all his mates he worked alongside in the engine room perished. He was in the water for many, many hours, clinging onto wood from the wreckage. He was picked up by the Australian Navy, and was taken to HMS Sultan on the 11th December until the 18th December. My father, like many others, never spoke to me about his time during the war. I only know the above from other family members who lived through that time. He never really talked about it to my late mother either. Sadly he died relatively young aged 55 years in 1973. He was from a naval family, his father William Samuel Gurney was a Chief Shipwright and was awarded the DSM for bravery. My father's older brother, William Edwin Gurney continued to serve in the Royal Navy and retired as a Lieutenant Commander. My late father worked in industry following the war.
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LJ Gurney . British Army LJ Gurney 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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VD Gurney . British Army VD Gurney 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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WHB Gurney . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WHB Gurney 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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GH Gurr . British Army Reconnaissance Corps GH Gurr 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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PO. Thomas Charles Gurr . British Royal Navy HMS Scylla from Toronto, Ontario My Dad, Thomas Gurr served in HMS Scylla in the early days of the Battle of Normandy, it made new escorts across the English Channel until 23rd of June 1944, when it was severely damaged by an underwater mine.
Declared irreparable, it was towed to Portsmouth.
P.O. Thomas Gurr was a Stationary Engineer in the Boiler Room.
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Pte. Jack Lemuel Gurton . British Army 5th Btn. East Kent Regiment from Burnham on Crouch, Essex (d.9th October 1943) Jack Gurton served with the 5th Battalion, The Buffs.
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SSgt Bedelio Florencio "Bill" Gurule . US Army from San Antonio de las Huertas, New Mexico Bill Gurule was a cousin of my mother who wrote a book about his hometown and his time as a POW in Shinjuku Camp #1 "Fleeting Shadows and Faint Echoes of Las Huertas," published in 1955. This book is out of print.
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Hvdr. Bhanbhagta Gurung VC.. British Indian Army 3rd Btn. 2nd Royal Gurkha Rifles from Phalpu, Nepal Bhanbhagta Gurung was born in Phalpu, a small hill village in western Nepal in the district of Gorkha in September 1921. He enlisted in the British Indian Army joining 3rd Battalion, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) at the age of eighteen.
Promoted to Lance Naik, he served in the Chindit expedition led by Brigadier Orde Wingate into northern Burma in March 1943. He was serving in Number 4 Column, deep behind Japanese lines across the Chindwin, when the column was ambushed by the Japanese 33rd Division and ordered to disperse. His battalion was withdrawn from the line after the expedition for several months of training and refitting, and redeployed in March 1944 in Arakan in the 25th Indian Division, fighting down the Mayu Range towards Akyab. Bhanbhagta was promoted to Naik.
Shortly before the action that won him the VC, he was reduced to the ranks for neglect of duty after being blamed for taking the wrong hill, to the ire of the battalion commander, it later transpired that he had followed the orders of his platoon commander, who had given him the wrong target.
In February 1945, the 25th Indian Division landed at Ru-ywa, as a diversion from the offensive by General Sir William Slim's 14th Army towards Mandalay, and advanced to the Irrawaddy through the An pass, held by the Japanese 54th Division from a number of hills. The Gurkhas held two hills, code-named "Snowden" and "Snowden East", but were attacked by the Japanese and pushed back. They were ordered to retake the hills
On 5 March 1945 at Snowdon-East, near Tamandu, Burma, Gurung and his unit were approaching Snowdon-East. His company became pinned down by an enemy sniper and were suffering casualties. As the sniper was inflicting casualties on the section, Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung, being unable to fire from the lying position, stood up fully exposed to the heavy fire and calmly killed the enemy sniper with his rifle, thus saving his section from suffering further casualties. The section advanced again but came under heavy fire once again. Without waiting for orders, Gurung dashed out to attack the first enemy fox-hole. Throwing two grenades, he killed the two occupants and without any hesitation rushed on to the next enemy fox-hole and killed the Japanese in it with his bayonet. He cleared two further fox-holes with bayonet and grenades. "During his single-handed attacks on these four enemy fox-holes, Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung was subjected to almost continuous and point-blank Light Machine Gun fire from a bunker on the North tip of the objective." For the fifth time, Gurung "went forward alone in the face of heavy enemy fire to knock out this position. He doubled forward and leapt on to the roof of the bunker from where, his hand grenades being finished, he flung two No. 77 smoke grenades into the bunker slit." Gurung killed two Japanese soldiers who ran out of the bunker with his Kukri, and then advanced into the cramped bunker and killed the remaining Japanese soldier.
Gurung ordered three others to take up positions in the bunker. "The enemy counter-attack followed soon after, but under Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung's command the small party inside the bunker repelled it with heavy loss to the enemy. Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung showed outstanding bravery and a complete disregard for his own safety. His courageous clearing of five enemy positions single-handed was in itself decisive in capturing the objective and his inspiring example to the rest of the Company contributed to the speedy consolidation of this success."
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