PFC Harvey Leo La Doucer BSM. United States Army 36th ID 141st from St. Paul, MN, USA My Grandfather was in Company B, 1st Bn, 141st IR, 36th ID. He was taken prisoner on the 26th of October 1944 and was part of the lost battalion in the Vosges Mountains of France. He was taken POW as part of a patrol that was trying to find a way to attack a big German road block by the rear in an attempt to try to liberate the remainder of the trapped men that he was with. This patrol was composed of about 50-55 men, only 5 returned to the lost bn perimeter. He spent the remainder of the war as a POW in Stalag VIIA.
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F/O P. Labelle . RCAF 426 Sqd.
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Chaplain Denzil Laborde . Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire (d.5th Apr 1942 ) Denzil Laborde was ship's Chaplain on board HMS Dorsetshire for most of the war and was lost when the ship sank. His young wife had two small girls, the youngest never saw her father, and was only 5 months old when he died. Close to the end of the war, my father, a close university friend of Denzil Laborde, married his young widow. I grew up hearing about the tragedy from both my half-sisters and well remember the small blue book all about this famous ship, which I believe my elder sister still has.
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Sgt John I Labow . RCAF 408 sqd from 31st Mar 1944
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KA Labrum . British Army KA Labrum 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. Jim Labson . British Army East African Army Service Corps (d.11th October 1943) Private Labson was buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 13.
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Pte. Jim Labson . East African Army Service Corps (d.11th October 1943) Private Labson was buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 13.
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Jean Lacaze . from France My grandfather, Jean Lacaze, was a POW in Stalag 4c.
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Pte. Arthur Charles Lacey . British Army My father, Arthur Lacey was a POW in Stalag 18a in Wolfsberg. Does anyone have any memories or knew friends of his? He was a quiet man with black hair who was a skilled pianist. He may have played in the camp as a lot of entertaining went on there. Like many he said very little about it. He was taken prisoner in Greece where his companions had had their heads blown off. He was very sensitive and suffered badly with his nerves when he returned. I was born in 1946 but had a childhood tainted by dad's post traumatic stress. He was discharged from the army with psychoneurosis, as it was then called.
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A/AB. Arthur Thomas Lacey . Royal Navy HMS President 111 from London My dad, Arthur Lacey served in the Royal Navy as a gunner
from 9th of May 1942 until 2nd of February 1946.
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D Lacey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps D Lacey 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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DJ Lacey . British Army DJ Lacey 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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Eric Lacey . British Army 3rd Tower Hamlets Btn Rifle Brigade Eric Lacey served with the 3rd Tower Hamlets Battalion Rifle Brigade in WW2.
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GA Lacey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GA Lacey 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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JH Lacey . British Army JH Lacey 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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PH Lacey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps PH Lacey 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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R Lacey . British Army R Lacey 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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RN Lacey . British Army RN Lacey 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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Stoker Sydney Lacey . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria While on HMS Nigeria it went for repairs in the USA and my dad, Syd Lacey must have attended this dance - see photos.
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2nd Lt. Tom Lacey MID. British Army 12th Regiment HAC Royal Horse Artillery from Woolwich Immediately on joining in July or August 1942, Tim Lacy's CO said 'I'm going to sack the worst performing subaltern every month', which was a mighty motivation tool. This ended when they were send overseas, as a part of the First Army, to North Africa.
My dad's chief memories (he didn't talk about his wartime experiences a lot) seems to have involved food or drink - getting extremely drunk on hooch made from potatoes by his gun crew to celebrate New Year's day in 1944; eating a meal with an Italian family and eating so much pasta that he literally could not get up afterwards; and staying at a Doge's palace in Venice.
He was involved in (or led?) a patrol that captured the first Tiger tank knocked-out in North Africa. Is this why he was mentioned in dispatches? I have always assumed so.
He remembered Monte Cassino with bitter feelings.
Previous to joining the regular army, he was in the Home Guard. As it was obvious he would be called up (being physically fit and the right age), he was made a sergeant, to give him command experience, of a squad of very old soldiers. They wend on strike - this must be 1940 - as they refused to obey someone so young and inexperienced. He was hastily given a squad of younger soldiers until Sept 1941, when he was 21 and old enough to join the regular army.
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WE Lacey . British Army WE Lacey 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 William Morris Lacey . Royal Canadian Air Force pilot 419 Sqd. (d.13th Jun 1944)
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William "B" Lacey . British Army Parachute Regiment from East London My Grandfather Bill Lacey was 21 when he went to war. I believe he fought in Italy and then Africa. He was injured (shot through the arm while parachuting) and came back to England for a year, then went back to war.
From what I know he never talked about it much, but I remember him staying up and watching war films drinking whiskey and smoking unfiltered Players!
After the war he married his sweetheart (whom he met hop picking in Kent) and had two children.
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S/Sgt. Melvin Howard "Dutch" Lachelt Bronze Star. United States Army 3rd Btn., G Coy. 320th Infantry Regiment from Glenwood, MN My dad, Melvin Lachelt, entered the Army, but would have rather joined the Marines. He would laugh and say he never was in the Army, because he was at the rear of a large group of men being inducted, he did not raise his right arm when the induction ceremony was held.
He did his basic training at Camp Wolters, TX. He was deployed to San Luis Obispo and then redeployed to the east coast for training in preparation for moving oversees. He also trained in England near Exeter, and moved with the 35th Infantry Division, 320th Infantry Regiment to Normandy about 3rd of July 1944.
He marched to St. Lo and took part in the battle to liberate St. Lo. He became part of Patton's 3rd Army and started the sweep around Paris. They passed through Pithiviers and Chateaudun. He witnessed female collaborators having their heads shaved in Chateaudun. They moved to the Moselle river region, between Nancy and Metz. My dad fought and was wounded on 31st October 1944 in the battle near Foret de Gremecey. He remembers the awful tree bursts of artillery that showered wood splinters down on soldiers. He ended the war near Le Havre recuperating from wounds. When he left the line there were only four men left from the original group that landed in Normandy.
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DM Lack . British Army DM Lack 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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Donald Lack . Royal Air Force 31 Squadron My father Donald Lack joined the RAF and after his basic training with 5 Air School and 26 Air school, went to the 76 Operational Training Unit to be trained to fly on heavy bombers, which was based at RAF Aqir in Palestine during WWII.
After he completed his training he was posted to the 31 Squadron of the South African Air Force where he flew operational sorties as co-pilot on B-24 Liberator, a 4 engine heavy bomber.
This Squadron was initially based at RAF Kilo 40, a base north of Cairo in Egypt but moved to Celone (near Foggia in Italy) in June 1944.
Father stayed in the RAF in Italy after Squadron 31 SAAF left in December 1945 and my father was posted to RAF 159 MU till June 1946.
I am still researching my father's history in 31 Squadron and need to find more details covering sorties during 1945.
My father died in 1988 and he had been back to Italy in the early 1980s.
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Maj. Charles Fleming Lackenby . British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry from South Shields Charles Lackenby served at Westwick Camp in 1942 with the 70th DLI, he had formerly served with the 2nd Battalion.
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Sgt Henry Joseph Patrick Lackey. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.17th Jun 1943) W/Op. Henry Lackey was killed on 17th June 1943 in Lancaster ED629 PH-K of 12sqd
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F/O. H. K. Lacock . 87 Squadron (d.26th Aug 1943)
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Sous officier Raymond Lacroix . Belgian Army Raymond Lacroix was a Prisoner of War at Stalag XC 1940-1945.
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