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J Hutchby . British Army J Hutchby 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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KJ Hutchcraft . British Army KJ Hutchcraft 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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Albert Hutchings . British Army Highland Light Infantry
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CU Hutchings . British Army CU Hutchings 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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D Hutchings . British Army D Hutchings 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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DF Hutchings . British Army DF Hutchings 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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JWP Hutchings . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JWP Hutchings 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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Flying Officer M D Hutchings . RAF 59 Squadron
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G Hutchingson . British Army Yorkshire Regiment G Hutchingson served with the Yorkshire 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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DR Hutchins . British Army DR Hutchins 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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PO. Ronald Hutchins . Royal Navy HMS Quebec from Andover Hampshire (d.11th Nov 1942) Ronald Hutchens served in HM Landing Craft Medium E2 and HMS Quebec. He is buried in La Reunion War Cemetery in Algeria.
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PO Terence Arthur Thomas Hutchins . Royal New Zealand Navy from Auckland City, New Zealand (d.22nd May 1942) Petty Officer Hutchins was the Son of Arthur and Edith Hutchins; husband of Violet Myrtle Hutchins, of Auckland City, New Zealand.
He was 25 and is buried in the Port Vila Municipal Cemetery in Vanuatu
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Pte. Walter Maurice "Monty" Hutchins . British Army 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment from Newbury Walter Hutchins, known as Monty served as a batman to Captain Staddon, in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
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Squadron Leader C J K Hutchins. . Royal Air Force No.149 Sqd. (d.6th June 1944)
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S Hutchinson . Royal Air Force 150 Sqdn. Sgt Hutchinson served with RAF 150 Squadron from October to December 1941, flying Wellingtons (R1414, L7870, X9816, R1216). The full crew were:
Sgt Kay
Sgt Quinn
Sgt Young
Sgt Brown
F/Lt Roy
P/O Robert Chandler
Sgt Hutchinson.
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A Hutchinson . British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regiment A Hutchinson 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: 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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Arthur Edward Hutchinson . National Fire Service from Castleford
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B Hutchinson . British Army B Hutchinson 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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CW Hutchinson . British Army CW Hutchinson 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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D Hutchinson . British Army D Hutchinson 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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D Hutchinson . British Army Reconnaissance Corps D Hutchinson 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: 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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D Hutchinson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps D Hutchinson 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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Col. Douglas Victory Hutchinson MBE.. British Army 12th Field Coy. Royal Engineers from Warwick My grandpa, Col. Douglas Victory Hutchinson M.B.E., was born soon after the end of World War I. To commemorate what would have been his 100th Birthday, I recently completed his memoirs in a short booklet which can now be found in the Royal Engineers Museum (collection number 201911.4). It tells the story of a young man, bought up on a farm near Warwick and follows his story as he joined the 7th Field Company R.E. in May 1939. When war broke out he embarked from Liverpool to Egypt as an officer in the 12th Field Squadron R.E.
At the beginning of 1941, the Squadron was assigned to 6th Infantry Division, which fought against the Italian 10th Army during Operation Compass. It was re-designated as the XIII Corps alongside the 7th Armoured Division, Australian 6th Division, and 4th Indian Infantry Division. During Operation Battleaxe, the Squadron supported the 22nd Guards Brigade as General Rommel countered the Allied attack. The Division was then sent to Syria to help capture Damascus from the Vichy French. Re-created as the 70th Infantry Division in October 1941, they were transported by the Royal Navy to relieve the Australian garrison in Tobruk.
From September 1941, the 12th Field Squadron, as part of the 70th Infantry Division, were cut off from the rest of the British forces for several months. Along with the rest of the XIII Corps, they finally broke out of Tobruk by early December. After a brief spell of rest and refitting in Egypt, the Squadron found themselves back in Syria to help build the Homs-Tripoli defence line. But before the work was complete they were given orders to return to Egypt to depart for India. During transit, they heard that Rangoon had fallen to the Japanese, and they reached Bombay in March 1942.
By mid-1943, the 12th Field Company served with the 23rd Infantry Brigade. In those early years time was spent on endless recon missions, jungle bridging, and improvised rafting amongst other things. They were in and around the Arakan during the same period as Wingate's earlier offensives to the North. By October 1943, the 70th Division was absorbed into Wingate's Chindit force, where the Division found themselves back in central India for an intensive period of training. Operations included further sorties into the Arakan as part of the newly formed 23rd Long-Range Penetration Brigade in the 34th Column of 4th Battalion, Border Regiment.
In March 1944, the 12th Field Company found themselves diverted from the main Chindit campaign and dispatched to Kohima, where they endured some of the most inhospitable conditions in WWII. The harassing operations by the 23rd Brigade made a major impact on the Japanese to bring about a withdrawal from Imphal/Kohima, and they did not again attempt an invasion on India.
From the end of 1944, Douglas made his way back toward England for the first time in over four years. But he soon found himself back in Rawalpindi as second-in-command with 268th Field Company, assigned to 44th Indian Airbourne Division, for training and to form the 12th Parachute Squadron R.E.
As the war ended, Douglas found himself in the Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany as second-in-command of 147th Field Park Squadron, joining the 11th Armoured Division as part of the 8th Corps. A year later the Squadron joined the 7th Armoured Division. At this time Douglas was promoted to Commanding Officer of 211 Field Park Squadron R.E. for the B.O.A.R. By August 1947, it was re-designated as 145 Field Park Squadron.
Some years later in 1956, Major Hutchinson was posted to Cyprus with the 42 Survey Engineer Regiment where he was appointed Officer Commanding to the 19th Topographic Squadron. From here he oversaw operations in Iraq as well as supervising 3 Field Topographic Squadron in Aden, Oman, and Bahrain. It was during July 1958 when he was caught up in the Iraqi coup d'etat. From 1960 onwards, Colonel Hutchinson served at JHQ B.O.A.R. as Chief of Survey Branch, and was later posted to AFCENT in Fontainebleau, France, as part of NATO.
Colonel Hutchinson assumed his final posting in 1968 as Deputy Director of Field Surveys for Ordnance Survey, and he officially retired in April 1972.
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E Hutchinson . British Army E Hutchinson 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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EG Hutchinson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EG Hutchinson 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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Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson . RNZAF 83 Squadron (d.9th April 1942) RAF 83 Squadron operation: Avro Manchester Mk.I on mission to Hamburg, the 8th of April 1942. It was last heard from just after midnight on the 9th of April, thought to be in the Lastrup area of Germany. It crashed northeast of Cloppenburg. The crew killed are buried at Sage War Cemetery. The only survivor was P A Lovegrove who later died in captivity and is buried in grave 6 A 14 Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland.
Pilot:P/O 67046 Jack Heathcote Morphett RAFVR killed.
Pilot:P/O 62324 Peter Anthony Lovegrove 22 RAFVR PoW, died in captivity 12Nov42.
Obs:Flt/Sgt 402188 Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson 27 RNZAF killed.
Wop/AG:Flt/Sgt 647009 Albert Henry Salter 20 RAF killed.
Wop/AG:Sgt 923926 Reginald Stanley Williams 22 RAFVR killed.
AG:Sgt R/66159 George Charles Fisk RCAF killed.
AG:Sgt R/69897 Charles Dewitt Gellatly RCAF killed.
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Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson . RNZAF 83 Squadron (d.9th April 1942) RAF 83 Squadron operation: Avro Manchester Mk.I on mission to Hamburg, the 8th of April 1942. It was last heard from just after midnight on the 9th of April, thought to be in the Lastrup area of Germany. It crashed northeast of Cloppenburg. The crew killed are buried at Sage War Cemetery. The only survivor was P A Lovegrove who later died in captivity and is buried in grave 6 A 14 Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland.
Pilot:P/O 67046 Jack Heathcote Morphett RAFVR killed.
Pilot:P/O 62324 Peter Anthony Lovegrove 22 RAFVR PoW, died in captivity 12Nov42.
Obs:Flt/Sgt 402188 Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson 27 RNZAF killed.
Wop/AG:Flt/Sgt 647009 Albert Henry Salter 20 RAF killed.
Wop/AG:Sgt 923926 Reginald Stanley Williams 22 RAFVR killed.
AG:Sgt R/66159 George Charles Fisk RCAF killed.
AG:Sgt R/69897 Charles Dewitt Gellatly RCAF killed.
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Pte. Harold Octavius "Charlie" Hutchinson . British Army 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment from North Shields, Northumberland Our late dad, Harold Hutchinson affectionately known by his side of the family as Charlie, grew up in Percy Main on Tyneside in the 1910s and 1920s. He was the youngest of 8 children, his parents losing the first-born twin boys only months after their birth. His dad worked on the ship-building side of the local economy, which was focused on shipping out the locally-mined coal (hence Percy Main as in the main coal-seam). He was to be orphaned by the age of 13 or 14 and was placed in the Tynemouth Workhouse, being taken in by his older sister for short periods when she had enough money to feed him.
He later moved to London in search of work and signed up for the 8th Batallion of the Middlesex Regiment upon war-time call-up in 1940. He and his army colleagues initially spent quite a long time training in various parts of the country before eventually being deployed in Europe, being a qualified driver for his regiment, which operated alongside the Wessex Regiment and was also known as the Machine Gun Regiment.
He sustained back injuries in action and returned home to recuperate before being re-deployed at the London garage of London and Country Buses. He was de-mobbed at the end of the War, by which time he was father to an 19 month old son and a second son, only weeks old. He took the boys and their mother to stay with one of his older brothers near Ipswich, and they were soon able to rent a requisitioned empty estate-cottage some 10 or so miles away in the middle of the countryside.
Our parents eventually married and our dad worked as a building labourer for a good many years, including working on laying concrete sleepers on the East Coast railway line and working on the construction of one of the Sizewell nuclear power stations. His last job was on a plant nursery in our home village before he retired and moved to a more modern rented bungalow in a neighbouring village. He died there in 1993 and a plaque on a memorial bench near his final resting place commemorates his life.
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Pte. J Hutchinson . British Army 4th Btn. Border Regiment Pte.J Hutchinson served with the 4th Btn. Border 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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F/O Jack Pierce Hutchinson DFC. RAAF 626 Squadron On 24/25 February 1944 Lancaster ll797 of 626 Squadron from Wickenby was
brought down over Marsal France on the way to bomb Schweinfurt. This
was to be the 30th operation of their first tour.
The crew were:
F/O Jack Pierce Hutchinson DFC RAAF (Pilot)
F/O Peter Henry Wilson Young (Air Bomber)
P/O Leonard Goodkey RCAF
F/S Arthur Hodgson
F/S Ken Macey
Sgt Bob Edgeworth
W/O Hector Binder RCAF
and second pilot Sgt Brian Bowditch.
I believe an issue of the Wickenby Register from around 2002 contains a report about this crew. If anybody should have a copy of this, or any information at all about the crew and the circumstances of their crash, I would be very pleased to hear from
them.
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