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J Lines . British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment J Lines served with the Royal Warwickshire 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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WO1. John Lines . British Army 10th Hussars Royal Armoured Corps from Birmingham (d.10th Jun 1940) WO1 John Lines was my mother's first husband, I don't know his story but but I'm told he went to Dunkirk, was sent on a special mission with 7 other NCO's. They were ambushed and shot. Their graves are in a small village St. Pierre-du-Vauvray near Rouen and Evreux in France. I have visited the cemetery and was impressed with how well kept the 8 graves were. I only wish I had noted the names of the other soldiers lying there.
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NFR Lines . British Army NFR Lines 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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L/ACW. Marjorie N. "Noelle " Linfield . Womens Auxiliary Air Force from Surrey My grandmother, Marjorie Linfield was a Leading Aircraftwoman. She met my grandfather, who was in the U.S. Navy, whilst stationed at RAF Exeter in England. They married in 1944 and moved to the States, they had 5 children.
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Able.Sea. William Stephen Lloyd Linfield . Royal Navy HMS Dasher from Twillingate, Newfoundland (d.27th Mar 1943) Able Seaman William Stephen Lloyd Linfield was my grandfather's 1st cousin. He lost his life in the explosion and sinking of the HMS Dasher, March 27, 1943. He was the son of Albert Stanley Harbin and Flora(Masters)Harbin. His mother died shortly after his birth and his father's sister Hannah and her husband, Edward John Linfield, agreed to care for him since they had no son of their own. Eventually, Lloyd's father remarried to Susan Payne and they had three sons, Ernest, Roy and Doug. Lloyd remained with Hannah ("Nan")and Edward ("Ned"). Edward became a prominent businessman and hoped Lloyd would one day inherit his business but that was not to be. With the outbreak of WWII Lloyd decided to join up and was formally adopted at that time. He was a likeable and very popular young man and his death was a terrible blow to his family and friends. Edward never got over it and seemed to lose interest in his business as a result.
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T Linford . British Army Sherwood Foresters T Linford served with the Sherwood Foresters 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. Charles "Jack" Lingard . British Army 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters from Redbourne, Lincolnshire
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HC Lingard . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment HC Lingard 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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L Lingard . British Army L Lingard 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 Lingard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps W Lingard 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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Cpl. Charles "Bill" Lings . British Army 2nd Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment from 30 Lowlands Road, Blackwater Poem: D-Day, A Soldier's Rhyme by Charles Lings, 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
The 5th Division would have to pay with life and limb on this fateful day,
2nd Battalion was no exception, made up of men with no exemption;
4th Company, first platoon, in landing-craft and not too soon,
Shells were falling among the ships, "God help them!" was on our lips,
Code-named "Red-King", that's the "target beach",
Sands in morning light, soon to reach.
Squaddies in battle dress, standing in the stinking mess,
with your body full of stress, breathing like an old steam press,
the sea heaves you to and fro, as does the ramp that lets you go;
into a "hell" beyond belief, you watch your buddies come to grief,
with shrapnel flying all around, it's only safe, close to the ground;
you cannot fall and hide your face, orders are "forward" into the "race"
a race that ends in "All fall down!", to reach the wall above the town.
Now the Very lights are a-popping, to let you know the guns are stopping,
with boots full of water, gaiters full of sand, you wish for England -
not this foreign land;
"Get through the bloody wire!" the sergeant shouts at me;
the subleton, wet and shaking says: "No, we go all three.
Out of the platoon of twenty-five, there's only us left alive!"
Look back and see the mines a-jumping, and the mortar bombs a-thumping,
f alling among the men you knew; then the orderlies come dashing through,
the M42's are "hissing" and "singing"; soon the death-tolls are a ringing;
finally, the tanks arrive; odds-on now we will survive.
Soon you rest and take a breath and know how close you came to death,
eat the grub and drink your tea, think about mates you will never see,
For them that mourn loved-ones true, crosses in a foreign field, won't do;
only those there at the time, will appreciate this, a soldier's rhyme'.
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PCS Lings . British Army PCS Lings 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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EH Lingwood . British Army 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment EH Lingwood served with the 6th 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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Pte. Dennis Percy Link . British Army 30th Battalion Royal East Kent Regiment from Brabourne, Kent Dennis Link served with the Royal East Kent Regiment. I have no knowledge what my father did in the war.
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Pte. Dennis Percy Link . British Army 30th Btn. Royal East Kent Regiment
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LE Link . British Army Royal Armoured Corps LE Link 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 Linley . British Army R Linley 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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RE Linn . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RE Linn 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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Pvt. Roy L. "Mike" Linnehan . US Army from Massachusetts, USA
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Pte. F Linnell . British Army 5th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment Pte.F Linnell served with the 5th Btn. Northamptonshire 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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GE Linnett . British Army GE Linnett 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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DE Linsey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DE Linsey 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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Stwd. Percy Raymond Linsey . Royal Navy LST.420 from Flintham, Newark (d.7th Nov 1944) I have been researching my uncle Percy Linsey who died in active service on the 7th of November 1944. He was travelling to the Walcheren Islands on LST420. As they were trying to land in heavy seas it became impossible. So they were instructed to return to England. As they were leaving Walcheren, unfortunately, they hit a mine and the craft broke up. I have had quite a good response over the last few years. However I have come to a standstill.
I was just looking on this website and spotted all the Royal Arthur pictures. I don't know if my uncle is on any of the pictures. I would be gratefull for any copies of any group photos.
My uncle was Percy Raymond Linsey, he served on: HMS Royal Arthur from 4th of May 1943, HMS DrakeII from 8th June 1943, HMS LakerII from 20th August 1943, HMS Caroline, HMS Domett from 20 September 1943 and LST 420 until 7th of November 1944.
Any other information would also be helpful and appreciated.
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JW Linsley . British Army Yorkshire Regiment JW Linsley served with the 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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V Linsley . British Army V Linsley 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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L/Cpl. John Wilson Linstrum . British Army 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders from Glasgow Jackie Linstrum is my late Father who enlisted in 1931 and with the British Expeditionary Force to France, where he was taken prisoner and spent 5 years as a prisoner of war.
He would never talk about his time as a POW and I have been researching his time in the service with help from my cousin.
I know he sailed on the HM Troopship Nevassa to India and was also in the Sudan early in his army career from 1934 to 1939 and went to France 29th of September 1939 with the B E F.
Other than that I am still researching his service to King and country.
I am now 70yrs old and still hoping to find more about his ordeal.
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Leonard John Lintern . British Army Royal Army Ordnance Corps from Norwich Leonard Lintern was my beloved grandfather who refused to talk about his wartime experiences so I would love to know if anyone has more info. He did tell one story about waking up in the night needing a pee, plodding off to the latrines, hearing gunshots in the dark and ducking down in the ditch. When he got back to the remains of his tent there were bullet holes in his 'pillow' and two of his comrades were no longer alive. That would have been two of those in the 'before' picture whose signatures can be seen. His unit was on the retreat in France, coming off at Dunkirk and the bigwigs shipped the unit back to Bristol to rebuild and recover.
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Sgt. David Henry "Dickie" Lintin . British Army 4th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment from Spalding, Lincs My grandfather joined the 4th Lincs (TA) Rgt in 1924 at a time when it wasn't a popular thing to do but he always told me it got him a free holiday for two weeks of the year and a free pair of boots.
Despite being quite short his skill at arms got him to the rank of sergeant by the early 1930's.
He was mobilised at the end of May 1939 and posted to Grimbsy at the official outbreak of war in September 1939.
In 1940 he was posted to France just in time to join the retreat of the BEF. Luckily he managed to hitch a lift on an old French trawler some two days after the Dunkirk evacuation was ended (having spent the time being hidden in a local convent by friendly nuns).
On his return to the UK he was waylaid by friends and taken to the local pub to celebrate his escape. My grandmother, meanwhile, had received a telegram from the War Office, listing her husband as missing in action. On being told by a neighbour that he was in the pub she lost no time chasing him out of the Black Swan armed with a frying pan!
My grandfather subsequently volunteered for the RA Maritime Service and travelled on the City of Manchester DEMS via the Cape to Singapore just in time to be sunk off Djillichap in the Dutch East Indies.
After a extended stay in Australia (I still have an Australian half-crown he was given for singing 'Roll-out the barrel' at the local legion branch) he made his way safely home.
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J Linton . British Army J Linton 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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Cmdr John Wallace Linton VC, DSO, DSC. Royal Navy HMS Turbulent' from Wales (d.23 March 1943)
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