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PO. Gordon Andrew Lennox Not known. Royal Navy HMS Pembroke from East Lodge Crossbasket, High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland Gordon Lennox was my Dad. He joined the Royal Navy in 1941 when he was aged 18. He was based in Chatham. His trade was an engine room mechanic.
He was on, HMS Royal Arthur, HMS Pembroke, HMS Titania, HMS Pembroke again, HMS Wildfire, HMS St Tudno and HMS Eskimo.
He became a Petty Officer on 2nd July 1944. Was discharged from the Royal Navy in 21st May 1946.
I don’t know much about his time in the Navy apart from some mention that he went to Holland . He had an accident in July 1942 in which he fractured a toe and was issued a Hurt Certificate. So that’s about all I know of his Navy career. He loved engines all his life and when we went on boats and steamers he loved to show us the engines and explain how they worked. Also when he he taught us to drive a car we had to learn how the engine functioned!
He passed away in 1976 aged 52 before we got round to asking him about his war experience.
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F/Sgt. L. A. Lennox DFM.. 97 Squadron
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Sgt. A. J.I. Lensing . R.D.N.A.S. 320 Squadron
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DC Lenton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DC Lenton 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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Pte. Henry Lenton . British Army Royal Artillery from Walsall, Staffs My late father Henry Lenton was the youngest child of William and Helen Lenton nee Gunn of Walsall they had been publicans in Walsall Foreign Staffordshire. He was child of the St Marys the Mount RC school and served on the altar as a young boy. My father joined the artillery south staffs regiment in 1936 at the age of 17 yrs. He did most of the campaigns during WW2; Dunkirk, Tunisia, El Alemein, Africa and the Holy Land, he was in the airborne parachute regiment in 1944 on Operation Market Garden [Pegusus] earning his wings at Ramat David Palestine K57,a red beret.
He was sent to Arnhem with the airborne to capture the Bridge and was taken POW on 25th Sept 1944 at Oosterbeek whether this was in bombed shelled HQ of the day or on the river of 54 men left in the late evening during to heavy German firing on the river is unclear. He was in the 11th Battalion.
My father was then taken by cattle train truck,the marched into Limburg where he was to be prisoner of War in Stalag 12A from Sept 25th until liberation the following year. His mother passed away in February 1945, therefore he was never to see her beloved face again. My father didn't talk much about the war, but like most young men, tried to begin life again, sadly his wife was diagnosed in 1950 with MS and life was going to be tough for them and their 8 children, today Henry's legacy of loyalty lives on through his children who live across the world, in Australia, UK and Scotland and his memory will never leave us, such brave young men.
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Pte. Henry Lenton . South Staffordshire Regiment from walsall
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Sq. Ldr. Reginald Arthur Lenton MC DFC. Royal Air Force 540 Sqdn. (d.25th October 1943) Squadron Leader Lenton of 540 Squadron died on a mission on 25th October 1943.
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AbleSea. William Ernest Lenton . Royal Navy HMS St Angelo from Northampton
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Pte. Bayard Marshall Leonard . US Army 423 Infantry Regiment from Elyria, Ohio (d.4th Feb 1945) Bayard Leonard joined the army in 1944 at the age of 33. He fought in 106th division, 423 Infantry Regiment in Germany. He was captured at the Battle of the Bulge. He died a prisoner of war on the 1st or 4th of Feb. 1945. He was at Stalag 4B Muhlberg Sachsen 51-13.
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Frederick Leonard . Royal Air Force Civilian Instructor I have always been led to believe that my father, Frederick Leonard was a civilian driving instructor at RAF Squires Gate during the 1939-45 conflict.
We moved to Blackpool and stayed in a house near a park, my father went to work daily and mother looked after me. We made friends with the people who owned and ran a theatre in Blackpool, and when we returned to London, my father bought their house which was in South London. Hope someone can put some light on these memories for me
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Flight Sergeant J F Leonard 1551749. RAFVR 59 Squadron
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JV Leonard . British Army JV Leonard 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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Pat "Paddy" Leonard . Womans Auxiliary Air Force Paddy Leonard, AC2, WAAF, as everyone knew her at RAF Biggin Hill during the Battle of Britain, was a member of the "Glamour Watch." A plotter working in the Ops Building as part of a skeleton crew, she had volunteered for the work duty the day that a 500-lb bomb came through the roof, bounced off a safe and blew up in the back room where it was redirected. Somewhat protected by the heavy plotting table under which she dove, she was not injured by the flying glass, metal and wood shards that resulted from the explosion. With the crackling of a fire heard behind them, the staff in the Ops Building quickly exited the room through the blown out windows. Because of the events of that day, two non-commissioned officers in the building later received the Military Medal. As tradition has it it was most likely also presented to them on behalf of the crew on watch that day.
Paddy Leonard spent a year at RAF Biggin Hill through the period that made the station famous. Part of that time was spent in the old vacated butcher's shop in the Pantiles, which was a temporary new home to the Ops Room plotters until other more permanent facilities could be arranged. Picked up by lorry, the WAAF personel were transported daily to and from the shop which they entered from the rear to avoid any attention to their presence there.
As the need for WAAF officers grew with the ever expanding war, the early veterans of RAF Biggin Hill rose to fill those rolls. Personally selecteed by Assistant Section Officer Felicity Hanbury who would eventually become the head of the WAAF during WWII, Paddy Leonard's next claim to fame was becoming the first WAAF officer, (in fact, the first WAAF) and cipher officer at RAF Wigtown in Scotland, No.1 Air Observer School. Within 2-1/2 years Paddy Leonard grew from an art student at the Croydon School of Art to the rank of Section Officer in the WAAF, senior officer to a 250-WAAF contingent at RAF Wigtown. She also logged 60 hours of flying time as a passenger of various aircraft arriving at of flying out of the station, a requirement of all officers according to her CO so they would know what the flyers had to endure, even though it was against regulations for WAAF to fly early in the war. When she resigned her commission she was only 22 but a seasoned veteran of WWII. Married to a Canadian pilot in the RAF in 1942 she left the WAAF in November 1942 after more than 2-1/2 years of service as she was expecting the first of her four children. Two were born in Harrogate England during the war where she went to join her husband after he was reposted and two others were born in Montreal, Canada after the war.
Paddy Leonard, or Pat Carswell, as eveyone came to know her after her marriage, lived on the Island of Montreal from 1945 to 1974 when her husband took early retirement from his corporate executive job and they moved to the Rideau Lakes area about 25 miles north of Kingston, Ontario. In more than 30 years of retirement she and her husband enjoyed living by the lake, numerous trips, camping, international travel, visiting Scotland and England and touring Europe with their daughter and son-in-law who had settled in the Netherlands where he grew up.
Born in London on February 23rd, 1920 within the sound of Beau Bells, she was the granddaughter of a Irish blood but English-born London Dock Worker who she never knew and a Swedish-Finnish carpenter who learned his trade at sea. They both married English girls in London. As a switch from her ancestral background she was the daughter of a James Leonard who rose to become a member of the London Stock Exchange. She came from a very unusual background. But like her father who had served in WWI she felt it was her duty to serve in WWII. She believed that had her father had any sons, they would have done the same as did a number of her second cousins who were pilots in the RAF. She lived a happy life dying peacefully at the age of 85 on September 12th, 2005 in her home by the lake less than a month after returning from an Alaskan Cruise. She live life to the fullest and enjoyed every minute of it. May she rest in peace.
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R Leonard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Leonard 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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Abel Sea. Ron Leonard . Royal Navy from London
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Sgt. Stanislaus Anthony Leonard . British Army 44th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from Preston Sgt.Stanislaus Leonard served with the 44th Btn. 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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Pfc Wayne E Leonard . (d.25th December 1944) Held as a Prisoner in Fukuoka 3b.
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WJ Leonard . British Army Royal Scots Greys WJ Leonard served with the Royal Scots Greys 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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PD Leonardt . British Army 13/18th Hussars PD Leonardt served with the 13/18th 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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"Lonia" Leonidas . British Army This is information gleaned from my mother and father's marriage certificate dated 5th June 1946. My father is identified as CY/19627 Cadet (E1424) 14th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment stationed at Wrothham Camp, Maidstone, Kent.
I know from anecdotal history that he served in North Africa and Italy during the war and was a Cadet in officer's Candidate School graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant at which time he met and married my mother in 1946. He subsequently served in the Cyprus Regiment after the war, serving in Cyprus and Palestine.
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Maj. Herbert Wallace LePatourel VC.. British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Hampshire Regiment Herbert Wallace Le Patourel was born in Guernsey and took up a career in banking. He joined the Hampshire Regiment at Lieutenant in 1938, and was promoted to Captain in 1941. Le Patourel was 26 years old, and a temporary major in the 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment when he was awarded the VC.
"On 3 December 1942 at Tebourba, Tunisia, enemy forces were holding high ground and resisting all efforts in dislodge them. Major Le Patourel called for four volunteers to go with him and they attacked and silenced several of the machine-gun posts. When all his men became casualties, he went on alone to engage the enemy, using his pistol and hurling hand grenades."
Initial reports from other wounded soldiers suggested that he had been killed in action, and he was awarded the VC posthumously. He was later discovered to have survived, been taken prisoner and was in hospital in Italy. He was repatriated in 1943, and awarded his VC at a ceremony in Cairo.
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William Leppard . Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers My father, Bill Leppard, was in the REME and celebrated his 30th
birthday on D Day. He remembers being transported in an old collier and
when the guns started firing he says, 'It was as though every grain of
coal dust was dislodged and we were covered in the stuff. It was
particularly annoying as we were next to a naval vessel where the
sailors all looked so spic and span!' Bill Leppard is trying to trace
'Jock' Horne who was in the 27th Armoured Division - not very tall,
polite gentleman who was very proud of coming from Stirling Scotland and
who played the harmonica.
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Albert LeRiche . Royal Navy HMS Manchester My father Albert LeRiche was on HMS Manchester in WW2, he then became a Prisoner Of War.
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AS Leroy . British Army AS Leroy 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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FS Leslie . British Army FS Leslie 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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GA Leslie . British Army GA Leslie 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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Flt.Sgt. John Balloch "Jack" Leslie . Royal Air Force 189 Squadron from Kinellar, Aberdeenshire (d.2nd Feb 1944) Jack Leslie was a flight engineer who was lost when two Lancaster's collided on a raid to Koblenz. One or two of the tail gunners survived. I'd like to find out more if anyone has more information on the crash.
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JW Leslie . British Army JW Leslie 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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MA Leslie . British Army East Riding Yeomanry MA Leslie served with the East Riding Yeomanry 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/Sgt. Robert Leslie . Royal Air Force 405 Squadron from Middlesborough
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