RJ Lee . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment RJ Lee served with the Kings Liverpool 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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Pvt. Robert Eugene Lee . United States Army 17B 12th Armored Division from Montana My father, Robert Eugene Lee, was captured in Herrlisheim, France on Jan 18, 1945 and transported to Stalag XIB.
He lost 75 pounds in 3 months. He tells of using his Boy Scout training to spot edible plants. For instance, he boiled dandelions and ate them. When the others saw he didn't get sick, soon all of the dandelions in camp were plucked up, and he looked for another edible plant. According to Dad, the German guards knew the war was lost at that point and weren't too bad, but "you had to watch out for the Hitler Youth".
Dad was most proud of the fact that the GI's never lost their sense of humor. Consequently, his favorite TV show for years was "Hogan's Heroes". He also spoke of hearing the bombers going overhead, and how encouraging that was. It took about a week after the camp was liberated for Dad to be transported out, due to the large number of POW's who were waiting. Bob Lee still lives in Northern California.
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Ronald Lee . British Army Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
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S Lee . British Army S Lee 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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T. S. Lee . Royal Navy HMS Electra
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Pte. Thomas Herbert Lee . British Army 1st Btn. Welch Regiment from Barry, Glamorgan Thomas Lee was taken prisoner by the Germans when Rommel's Afrika Korps overran 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment near Benghasi in 1st Battle of El Alamein, on the 30th of January 1942.
He was handed over to the Italians and eventually arrived at POW Hospital, Caserta, Italy in May 1942, via several transit camps and a sea crossing.
In July 1942 he was transferred to the POW Hospital at Lucca, Campo PG202.
We are not sure if he was a patient or some sort of medical orderly, because his own account suggests he was involved in the development of a library of 18,000 books at Lucca. His length of stay also suggests something more than a period of illness.
In September or October 1943 he was moved to Stalag VIIIb Lamsdorf on the medical train. Early in his stay at Lamsdorf, he was moved to a work camp run by civilians where he was treated reasonably well. From then he did a year as a miner at another work camp at Beuthen, Kommando E72.
On 22nd of January 1945 they were roused and marched out of camp on one of the Long Marches. This covered 900 miles, several countries and several months before they were liberated in Steblowitz (now Steblovice).
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Pte. Thomas Lee . British Army 1st Btn. Manchester Regiment from Burnley (d.12th Oct 1943) I never knew Thomas Lee as he died before I was born. He was the husband of my aunt Alice. They were married in 1938 and had a daughter, Margaret.
He joined the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment in 1940. The Battalion was sent to Singapore. He was reported missing in action in 1942. Aunt Alice did receive a card from him in July 1943.
He had been captured at the fall of Singapore and was in a Japanese POW camp.
Unfortunately that was the last they heard about him until the end of the war.
The War Office informed my aunt that he had died on 12th of October 1943. He was buried in Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar.
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Pte. Thomas Vincent Lee . British Army Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps from Dublin My father Tommy Lee was born and brought up in Dublin. He was a proud Irishman who joined the British Army at some point in 1939.
I know that 10 days after his 20th birthday on 23rd November 1939 he was in France with the Pioneer Corp and was captured at Boulogne on 26th May 1940. They were waiting to be repatriated by boat but Dad swapped places with another man who was desperate to get home (apparently he'd had a Dear John letter) and so Dad ended up at the HQ waiting for an officer to reply to orders when the boats left without them and the Germans marched into the town the following day.
A German solider told him "the war is over for you Tommy" and Dad grinned and thought jokingly how does he know my name, the German looked perplexed apparently. He was marched across France up into Belgium and back down across Germany. He was kept in one prison camp early on and then moved to Stalag III D until the end of the war as PoW No. 6292.
As children Dad never talked about the war but as we his 5 children grow older he would share stories, for instance I happened to say I went on a day trip to Boulogne and he told me that was where he had been captured and the events surrounding it. Peeling potatoes one day earned me a rebuke, the Germans would have shot me for the chip sized peelings I'd made, but lead to the story of how he hurt is ankle playing football and got a few days light duties peeling spuds in the kitchen. He obviously preferred it and changed the end date on his doctors note several times until he was rumbled and thrown into solitary confinement for a period.
He explained how the camp was near a railway station and one of is duties was to unload Red Cross parcels. On occasions the guards would disappear for a short time and this was the prisoners cue to help themselves. He said there were good and bad amongst the Germans and he never held a grudge or spoke about them with any malice. In fact he went on to learn German, read copious amount of German books - so many that the local library had to restock for him and visited Germany and the site of the camp - now I believe an academy or school.
He recalled seeing parachutists being picked off in the sky and being unable to do anything as they fell outside the camp boundaries and Berlin being bombed and the glow of the fires. His saddest recollection was the young German secretaries in the Red Cross office who were still there after the German guards abandoned the camp.
They were terrified of the Russian's arrival, they knew how harshly the Russian prisoners had been treated and they feared retribution. They had shown Dad that they had cyanide pills sewn into their clothes and were prepared to take them. He and others begged them not to do it but he never saw them again and said he heard later they did take their own lives and he felt that was the greatest waste of life.
Obviously, my grandmother knew he had been taken prisoner but also had the painful experience of Lord Haw Haw reading out his name and saying the British were sacrificing the young boys of Ireland for their cause.
Just as an aside with my dad in the British Army and his brother James a GI, my Uncle Frankie their youngest brother inquired at the Irish Army recruitment office about joining up. When my grandmother found out she frogmarched him back, dumped the papers on the desk and told the officer "I have one son in the British Army and one in the US Army and you are not having him!!"
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P/O Tom J. L. Lee . Royal Air Force nav. 10 OTU
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Rflmn. William Frederick Lee . British Army 19th Btn. Royal Fusiliers William Frederick Lee was interned in Stalag XIa in 1944 and worked in the salt mines.
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Bmdr. William Albert Lee . Brtish Army Royal Artillery
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Pte William Lee . British Army 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment from Little Downham, Ely
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Pte. William Arthur Lee MM. British Army
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WJ Lee . British Army 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars WJ Lee served with the 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars 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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WR Lee . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WR Lee 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 Alan William Lee. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.12th Jun 1943) Alan Lee was Rear Gnr.of Lancaster ED522 PH-U with 12sqd.
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Sgt John Patrick Lee. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.28th Jul 1943) W/Op John Lee was killed on 28th July 1943 in Lancaster III EE142 PH-G of 12sqd
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A/CPO. Carl Arthur "Jimmy" Leech . Royal Navy HMS Scylla from 46 Westbourne Park Avenue, Bournemouth Carl Leech sailed on HMS Scylla as it escorted Arctic convoys to Russia and provided support during the D-Day landings. D-Day coincided with his 30th birthday.
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Charles Osborne Leech . British Army King's Liverpool Regiment from Liverpool My father, Charles Osborne Leech was taken at Dunkirk and spent the whole of the war in Stalag 8b. He was from Liverpool and was with the King’s Regiment. Sadly, he died, aged 49, in 1968. He kept a kind of scrap book which included details of Red Cross parcels, some poetry and some calligraphy but I have no idea what happened to it. If anyone has any memories of him, I would love to get in contact.
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E Leech . British Army Royal Engineers E Leech served with the Royal Engineers 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 Leech . British Army West Yorkshire Regiment F Leech served with the West 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: 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 Leech . British Army Royal Armoured Corps F Leech 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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F Leech . British Army F Leech 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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JT Leech . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JT Leech 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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L/Cpl. William Fraser Leech . British Army Royal Corps of Signals from Kiveton Park, West Riding Yorks
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Cpl. William Norbert Leech . British Army 4th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment (d.25th September 1944) William Leech was aged 30 when he died, he is buried in the Lienden General Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands.
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DW Leeder . British Army Inns Of Court Regiment DW Leeder served with the Inns Of Court 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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Sgt. Charles Herbert Leedham . British Army 2nd Btn. Warwickshire Regiment from Brighton
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Sgt. John Leedham . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 102 Sqdn. (d.14th May 1943) My aunt, Elsie May Williams, married an RAF sergeant in 1942. He was Flight Sgt. John Leedham serving with 102 Squadron. He was a wireless operator and was killed on 14th May 1943 while flying Halifax bombers.
I believe he was Canadian who joined up in early 1942. He was 19 years old when he died.
Can anyone tell me where I might find any further records about Sgt. Leedham?
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L Leedham . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment L Leedham 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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