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Ldg.Tel. Roland Reginald Frederick Lewis . Royal Navy HMS Drake from Puriton, Bridgwater To the Memory of my father, Ron Lewis.
Details taken from the original Certificate of Service
- Ordinary Coder - 19 Nov 1943 to 22 Dec 1943
- Ordinary Coder - 20 Jan 1944 to 18 Aug 1944
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Able Sea. Ronald Norman Lewis MID. Royal Navy HMS Nelson from Harrogate, Yorkshire Ronald Lewis completed his training as an Able Seaman and graduated from HMS Wildfire just as World War 2 was declared. He Served on HMS Nelson based out of Scapa Flow with the Home Fleet from 1939 to 1942 in the Atlantic, Arctic and Malta convoys & theatres. He was directly involved in Commando Raids on Norway's Lofoten Islands as well as participating in the 3 day relief of the British Expeditionary Force Troops at Dunkirk. He also served on Crash Boats out of Simonstown and Durban, South Africa and was also a Japanese Prisoner of War for a short period in 1943 to 1944.
In addition, he survived 5 sinking ships. He left the Navy after the end of World War 2 and emigrated, in 1952, with his wife and only son to Australia, where he continued to live until his death in 2018, being 96 years old.
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Sig. Ronald William Lewis . Royal Navy from Lydney
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Roy Lewis . US Army D Company 838th Anti-Aircraft Battalion from Hooksett Roy Lewis, 96, passed away on in 2015, at his home in Hooksett, surrounded by his loving family.
He was born on May 16, 1919, in Ironton, Ohio, the son of Charles and Elizabeth (Russell) Lewis.
Roy served in World War II with the 7th Army, 838th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, D Company, in France, Austria and Germany. His unit provided artillery support for the Rhine River crossing and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
Roy returned from the war to work for Economy Forms Corporation, retiring in 1983.
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Gnr. Sidney George Lewis . British Army 107th (South Notts Hussars) Regiment Royal Artillery from London
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SJ Lewis . British Army SJ Lewis 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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TG Lewis . British Army Royal Pioneer Corps TG Lewis served with the Royal Pioneer 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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TR Lewis . British Army TR Lewis 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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Victor "Taffe" Lewis . British Army 24th Field Regiment Royal Artillery My dad's name was Victor Lewis. He went to India in 1932 until 1937 up on the North West Frontier serving in the 4th Field Brigade Royal Artillery. He also went to France with the BEF serving in the 24th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, only to be driven back to the beaches of Dunkirk. Has anybody out there got a photo of the boxing team of the 3rd training brigade 1931 Woolwich Barracks? This boxing team photo was lost in a small holdall with photos of my Mother, cups for running, and a few boxing medals. Dad told me that he put the holdall in to the stores at Aldershot barracks where he was stationed after Dunkirk. When he went back to claim it, on two occaisons,
sadly they could not find it, for what reasons he did not know he told me. So may be some relative of a friend of Dad's who served at Woolwich in 1931 may have some photographs for me. It's a small world sometimes.
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VL Lewis . British Army 8th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment VL Lewis served with the 8th 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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Pilot Officer W F Lewis . RAF VR 59 Squadron
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W Lewis . British Army W Lewis 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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W Lewis . British Army Gloucestershire Regiment W Lewis served with the Gloucestershire 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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Walter Charles Lewis . British Army Martime Regiment Royal Artillery from Fulham, London My father, Walter Charles Lewis, was in the Royal Artillery and served throughout WW2 from 1939. He was engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic whilst serving as gunner on armed merchantmen ships and I believe also went to Murmansk on the Russian convoys. He received an Atlantic Star campaign medal together with his other war medals. He was born in Fulham, London and died in hospital in London in 1979. My father and I were strangers as he and my mother were divorced when I was 5. I can find no record of this type of service where soldiers served on merchant ships. It seems like a closed book. I know he was torpedoed and had a bad war which had an affect on him, apart from that I know nothing as he never spoke of his experiences. Any information would be gratefully received.
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Tpr. WF Lewis . British Army 44th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps Tpr.WF Lewis served with the 44th Regiment 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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WG Lewis . British Army WG Lewis 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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Fl/Lt. Wilfred "Mike" Lewis DFC. Royal Canadian Air Force RAF Waddington Wilfred "Mike" Lewis, DFC, was a Canadian stationed at RAF Waddington in 1941. Later in the war he was a POW in Stalag Luft 3.
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Able Sea. William Henry Lewis . Royal Navy HMS Aurora from Acton, London My father, William Lewis served aboard HMS Aurora and was stationed mainly in Malta, Convoy to Archangel [Russia] and D-day. He didn't speak much about the war but I have found his service record and torpedo launch records (St Vincent, where he had an average score 72.5%, which based on the technology of the day made this a pretty good rating. I also have a book the Silver Phantom, which is written by the crew about the exploits of HMS Aurora. Apparently the nickname was given to the ship by the Chinese, but there is no record of Aurora being stationed in the Pacific basin during WW2.
He did tell me a little of his time in Malta and how they used to look at dolphins for spotting U-Boats in the Med, apparently, dolphins dive under water when subs purge tanks. I went to Malta and was lucky to be invited into a naval facility and when I mentioned that my father was stationed in Malta, they took me to a room and showed me a large amount of records and photos.
He also once made a comment when we watched the film "Saving Private Ryan", that D-day was not like that. Apparently, my father was on bridge, responsible for gunnery onto the beaches and inland, when an American broke radio contact with "take us off the beach". The captain (Agnew) pulled the headset off my father and shouted in no uncertain terms that they were to stay on the beach and get off the f****ing radio. My father never swore, so hearing that always made me think it was true.
He once told me that they transported the king to Gibraltar and that the king had gone out to smoke and left a door open, someone shouted to close the effing door and got a very polite apology from him.
I think he enjoyed his time in the med most and the trips to Archangel the least. However, he met my mum, when stationed in Glasgow. I have a varied family, as an aunt (Scottish) married a Dane who fought for the Ling and my dad's brothers all went to Canada to train RAF bomber crew and married Canadian women.
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Pte. William Thomas Albert Edward Lewis . British Army Royal Corps of Signals from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire My father, William Lewis, never spoke of his war experience and left very little evidence except for his medals, some old photos and his attestation papers. I do know he served in Italy and in Egypt, as is evident from the medals.
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Pte. William Hugh Lewis . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.14th Jun 1944) William Lewis, 9th D.L.I. was
killed on the 14th of June 1944, aged 29.
Son of John and Jane Ann Lewis of Holyhead, Anglesey,
he is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery.
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William A. Lewis . British Army from Malvern, Worcestershire
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Lt. Col. Pierce Lewis-Williams . British Army HMHS Aba Royal Army Medical Corps Pierce Lewis-Williams was a surgeon and dentist. His papers are held by the target="new">Gwynedd Archives.
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Fireman. Cecil Arthur John "Harry " Leworthy . Auxiliary Fire Service London Fire Service from London Cecil Leworthy, known as Harry served with the Auxiliary Fire Service in London.
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Pte. Kenneth James Lewsey . British Army 8th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (d.27th Aug 1944) Ken Lewsey was my Mothers elder brother. He went across to France a few days after the D-Day landings. After working there way across Northern France they had to hold the river crossing in a small village near Vernon, north of Paris.
It was in this village of Pressagny-l'Orgueilleux that he was killed in a skirmish with a German patrol trying to infiltrate the British lines.
In a special order of the day they had been commanded to hold the position 'to the last man and the last round'.
A sad loss of an eighteen year old. RIP.
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Spr. Isaac Lewthwaite . British Army Border Regiment from Whitehaven, Cumberland My Great Grandfather's brother Isaac Lewthwaite, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, served with the Border Regiment. He came back a broken man, he did not go back to his wife, before the war he had married into an Italian family, but due to his experiences as a POW, he said that the Italians were a cruel breed of people and would never forgive them for the way they treated them. He moved in to live with his brother David but became troubled and he drifted. His wife use to go looking for him, no one had seen him for about 2months then they found him dead in a derelict building, that was about 1947. Ive being doing my family tree and am finding snippets of info, to put a picture to the man.
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D Lewton . British Army D Lewton 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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GE Ley . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GE Ley 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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N Ley . British Army N Ley 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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S Ley . British Army Highland Light Infantry S Ley served with the Highland Light Infantry 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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Mjr. Derrick Ley-Wilson . British Army Durham Light Infantry from Crockham Hill, Kent My father, Derrick Ley-Wilson who was always reluctant to recount his experiences of wartime service with the DLI, he used to say he'd had enough of seeing comrades blown up, shot or badly wounded. The following information is my recollection of his and his wife's (my mother's) accounts, with many gaps.
My father volunteered and joined the Bentley Brigade"at Caterham Barracks in Surrey for basic training. He gained Corporal's stripes but was demoted to Private for disobeying orders not to attend my christening in November 1939. This seems to have been forgiven for he went on for further training (Officer training) in Devon.
He was posted at first to Palestine whence he recounted having saved people from demolished (bombed or shelled) buildings, thanks to the skills and courage of former miners in his command. He was moved on to Egypt of where he talked of guarding the pyramids for a couple of months but this may have been his little joke.
There followed assignment to the North African campaign including El Alamein, at some time in the front line, he described how to minimise exposure under enemy verey lights. He was assigned to operations on Bren Gun Carriers, often behind enemy lines. During his time in North Africa he was left for dead twice but rescued on one occasion by his batman; I don't know details of the other occasion. The daily water ration was a pint a day a quart if you were lucky, he said, the swarms of flies were an abominable nuisance much of the time.
After service in North Africa he went up through Sicily and Italy until the end of hostilities. He was among those away for over four years.
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