R Latty . British Army R Latty 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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William Latuske . British Army 152nd (Aryshire Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery My grandfather William Latuske served in the 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Artillery in North Africa and Italy. A true gentleman who sadly passed away in the 1990s but will always be loved and never forgotten.
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J Lauchlan . British Army Royal Armoured Corps J Lauchlan 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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Squadron Leader Ronald Hugh Laud . Royal Air Force 75 Squadron from New Zealand (d.12th Jun 1943) I would be grateful for any information or photos etc. regarding Sqd Ldr Ronald Laud of 75 Squadon.
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Pte Alexander Lauder . British Army 8th Battalion Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders from Deanston, Perthshire Sandy Lauder served in France in 1940 and went to North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy. He was captured at Termoli 1943 and spent rest of war as POW. The camp he was in was liberated by the Russians who pointed them in the direction of the Allies. Eventually they reached the American Army who put them in trucks to take back behind the lines. Unfortunately the truck he was in was involved in an accident which left him with a fractured skull.
After returning back to Britain and recuperating he was demobbed.
On the bus home he overheard someone saying that the village had organised a welcome home for him. He had the driver stop the bus and he walked a mile over the fields and slipped in the back door of his parents house to avoid the crowd. Like many of the returning soldiers he had that hidden guilt of surviving when so many of his friends had not.
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F/O Gordon Robert Lauder . Royal Canadian Air Force bomb aimer 419 Sqd. (d.25th May 1944)
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F/O Gordon Robert "Gordie" Lauder . Royal Air Foirce 419 Squadron from Montreal, Que. (d.25th May 1944) My father was Flying Officer Gordon Robert Lauder. I was five weeks old when he lost his life in battle and I grew up in a world as a young child where his name was only mentioned in a whisper. It seemed too painful a subject for my family to discuss. My father's only brother was the one to fill in the blanks for me when I was an inquisitive teenager. I was fortunate to know he was one of the finest men to walk this earth. I have read many times the letter my Mother received after my Father learned of my birth. He wanted me and he was delighted that I was a girl. I am one of so many to grow up and now be a senior not ever knowing my real Father. I often think how different it all would have been had my Father returned home. When I was twenty-one my Mother and Step-Father gave me a special gift. I travelled with a group of wonderful people to Holland and witnessed how they were so truly grateful for men like my Father. It was the celebration of twenty years of liberation. It took this experience for the young me to completely understand all that had happened during World War Two. I realized who I was when I knelt before his grave in Tilburg, Holland and cried the first ever tears for my Father and began the journey of grief. I don't have any stories to tell about my Dad and so wish that I did. But he is not completely gone because I have four daughters who grew up proudly telling the story of their Brave Grandfather on Remembrance Day at school. Now it is my Grandchildren taking the medals to school and telling the same story. So Gordon Robert Lauder lives on in our family and will be mentioned and never will his name be a whisper.
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Sergeant K J Lauder . RAAF 59 Squadron
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Sgt. Keith John Lauder . Royal Australian Air Force 59 Squadron from Scarness, Queensland, Australia (d.2nd March 1942) Keith Lauder flew as an Observer with 59 Squadron.
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Sgt. Keith John Collinge Lauder . Royal Australian Air Force 59 Squadron from Camberwell, Vic. Australia (d.2nd March 1942) Keith Lauder was on board Hudson AM796 of 59 Sqn RAF when it took off on a Reefer patrol over the North Sea from its base at North Coates, Lincolnshire, UK, at 0855hrs on 2 March 1942. Since then nothing further heard of either the aircraft or any member of the crew. The aircraft was believed lost in an air battle over the North Sea
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RM Lauder . British Army RM Lauder 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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WRK Lauder . British Army Royal Tank Regiment WRK Lauder served with the 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: 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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J Laughlin . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment J Laughlin served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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Loren Lee Laughlin . RAF 607 Squadron 121 Squadron from Texas (d.21st June 1941) I am researching my great uncle. He was Pilot Officer Loren Lee Laughlin and was killed on the 21st June 1941. My family knows very little of our uncle and would like to see if anyone remembers him and his time in the RAF. He was a pilot in the 30’s and joined the RAF very early and was assigned to 607 Squadron before he was moved over to 121 Squadron when it was formed. I am looking for a way to contact any of the survivors of the original members of the 121st who may have known him. My aunt remembers him as a kind and generous man. She talks of his love of planes. He owned one with his partners in Texas before leaving for England. She is so proud of him.
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M Laughton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps M Laughton 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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DA Launchbury . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DA Launchbury 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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JC Launchbury . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JC Launchbury 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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P/O. Alwyne Clarendon Redfern "Laddie" Laundon . Royal Air Force 7 Squadron from Hove (d.21st Dec 1942) Alwyne Laundon, my uncle, was the mid-upper gunner on a Stirling that was shot down over Void, Meuse, France en route to Munich. He was 25. Along with Sgt Arthur Staff, Sgt Patrick Joseph Gillan and Sgt Henry William Frost, he is buried in the communal cemetery at Void. It was not possible to identify the other members of the crew Flt Sgt Thomas Bentham, P/O Donald Martin Howard Taylor, F/O William Alexander Milne and the pilot, P/O John Kitchener Plummer Rumboll, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
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Pte. Leonard Laundy . British Army 2/7th Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment
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Biggs Walter Laurence MID.. Royal Navy The WW2 story of Laurence Walter Biggs has been recorded in a book titled; http://www.Amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0992429307/virtonthevirtuat"target="new">'Above and Beyond'.
It was written for our family so his memory and story would not be lost to the passing of time. I can only encourage you to record your families war story.
The book concludes with the the story of Peter Bickmore BEM who served on MTB 243.
Royal Navy Research Archive book review:
Above and Beyond, is a story of one man’s journey to God; Laurence Walter Biggs’ story tells of his journeys in World War Two as a Seaman Gunner on the Russian convoys to Murmansk, to officer training school as a CW candidate and an unexpected turn of events when he has to leave the course. Laurence finds himself promoted to Leading Seaman and doing three jobs on his return to normal duty; by day a Gunnery instructor at HMS Gosling teaching new entrants, by night teaching weapons and commando skills to civilians gong behind enemy lines, and when called for, he operated as the Coxswain of a vessel in the top secret world of covert operations with one of the RNs Special Operations Groups.
After completing 10 missions with the Special Operations Group it really was back to 'normal’ duties, this time with Coastal Forces employed on minesweepers and patrol work. In December 1944, after several near brushes with death, Laurence finds himself floating in the freezing waters of the North Sea after MTB 243 has struck a mine and been abandoned, he makes a promise to serve God.
The book takes its title from the citation for the award of Mentioned in Dispatches ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ which Laurence received for his actions that night a aboard MTB 243, a night which would mark the start of his journey to God and a promise to keep.
Laurence Biggs lived to fulfill his promise and became an ordained a Priest in the Anglican Church of England on Sunday 21st May 1967 and later emigrated to Australia in 1970. He died in 2005 in Drouin, Victoria, his last Parish.
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Sgt J F R Laurence . (d.25th May 1943) Sgt Laurence was killed on 25th May 1943 on Ops to Düsseldorf.
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Williams Laurence . Royal Air Force from Birkenhead
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Capt. George Herbert Francis Laurens . British Army 2nd Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment from Jersey (d.27th Feb 1945)
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P/O. John Laurens DFM. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 101 Squadron from Ferryhill, Co. Durham (d.20th February 1944) Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Laurens was the son of Jan Gerhardus Laurens and Maria Elizabeth Laurens, husband of Margaret Johnson Laurens of Ferryhill, Co. Durham.
He was 26 when he died and is buried in the Leek (Tolbert) Protestant Cemetery, Groningen, Netherlands.
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AK Laurie . British Army Reconnaissance Corps AK Laurie 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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Lt. W. L. Laurie . Home Guard B Coy. Workington Btn.
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William Scott Laurie . Royal Navy from Dumfries
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Pte. Henry Lauriston . British Army Gordon Highlanders from Marsden, South Shields My father Henry Lauriston was a POW, he died in 1980 and never talked much about his life during the war years. All he ever replied was "I never saw much outside of barbed wire for 3 years". We do recall he talked of Anzio as he was awarded the Italy Star and recently due to my Mothers death I have found out he was a prisoner at Stalag 4B Mulhberg/Elbe Brandenburg along with 64 other Gordon Highlanders and at Stalag 8B Lamsdorf. If anybody has any information I would appreciate it.
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