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George Loughridge . British Army 1st Btn. London Irish Rifles I served with the 1st Btn. London Irish Rifles and was captured at Anzio beach head on 16th February 1944. I arrived at Stalag 4b in the spring of 1944, and was sent out on an Arbeitskommando at Ripnitz Kalkworks and Sandquarry after about six months. From there our group of 20 men were evacuated in April 1945 and marched out with our German guards. Our Arbeitskommando was on this march for about three weeks. The guards took off, throwing their rifles into the bushes and ditches. I paired off with Pte. Lancaster of the Lancashire Fusiliers - as I recall, and we met up with the US troops that evening.
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George Loughridge . I was at Stalag 4B, possibly block 24b, if I recall it right in 1944-45 and worked at the Ripnitz Arbeitskommando Sandquarry and Kalkworks. Marched around the area for three weeks with my mate Pvte. Lancaster and others of our work crew in April 1945 when the Russians were approaching. I ended up with the Americans - at last - in freedom. Wondering if any of that group is still around.
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GJ Louth . British Army GJ Louth 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.Lt. Love . Royal Air Force 418 Sqdn.
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C Love . British Army C Love 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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F/O. Edwin Albert Love . Royal Canadian Air Force 78 Squadron from Tilbury, Ontario (d.4th November 1944 ) Ted Love graduated from Tilbury High School and enlisted upon graduation, he was commissioned as a Pilot Officer at Uplands, ON. on the 17th of June 1943. He trained as a navigator at Prince Edward Island
He was reported missing whilst flying over enemy territory with 78 Squadron on the 4th of November 1944. Shot down in Halifax LK838 on night Air Operations to Bochurn, Germany. They were attacked near Margraten, Holland. Besides F/O Love and three other crew members were killed, WO. W. C. Roach was taken as a POW, two others, not Canadian were missing believed killed. A photo of F/O Love appeared in the local newspaper when he was reported missing. He is buried in the Venray War Cemetery. He was the son of Albert and Edith Grace Love of Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. Ted was 21 years old.
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ERM4. Ernest Victor Love . Royal Navy HMS Copra from Broxbourne Ernest Love enlisted under the Nation Service (AF) Act of 1939 on 17th of Noevmber 1942, he was married with 2 daughters. He served on HMS Collingwood, HMS Victory and HMS Copra.
According to my father's certificate of service in the Royal Navy, he served on Copra as an acting ERM 5th class from 3rd of April 1944 to 28th of October 1944 and was on the same ship as A/ERM 4th class from 28th of October 1944 to 25th of March 1946.
According to my mother, he worked in the engine room. Beyond that, his time in the Royal Navy was never discussed. He died when I was 18.
His record shows HMS Collingwood 17th of November 1942 to 28th of December 1942. Able seaman
HMS Victory 29th Dec 1942 to 12th Jan 1943. " HMS Shrapnel (Pontefract) 13th Jan 1943 to 11th July 1943, Able seaman (to ERM 29th of June 1943.)
HMS Victory 12th Jul 1943 to 2nd Apr 1944. HMS Copra 3rd Apr 1944 to 25th Mar 1946. According to his release order he was at HMS Rosneath in January 1946
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F Love . British Army Royal Armoured Corps F Love 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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Seaman. Gilbert "Gibby" Love . Royal Navy HMS Copra from Paisley Gilbert Love, known as Gibby served on HMS Victory, HMS Saunders & HMS Copra during WW2.
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J Love . British Army J Love 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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John E. Love . US Army New Mexico National Guard As a 19-year-old member of the New Mexico National Guard, John E. Love was one of 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers taken captive by the Japanese in World War II when U.S. forces surrendered in the province of Bataan and Corregidor Island in April 1942
In all, tens of thousands of troops were forced to march to Japanese prison camps in what became known as the Bataan Death March. Many were denied food, water, and medical care, and those who collapsed during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were shot or bayoneted.
"I was one of the first 300 or 400 off the march to enter Camp O'Donnell, and they began dying that same day," Love told the Albuquerque Journal in 2009. He estimated he carried more than 1,000 bodies to the graveyard.
In 2009, Mr. Love joined a campaign with other survivors to change the caption on one of the most famous photos in AP's library about the march. The photo, thought to be of the march, actually was an Allied POW burial detail. After a six-month investigation, AP corrected the caption in 2010
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Pte. John Martin Love . British Army Cameron Highlanders (Queen's Own) from Dumbarton
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WFG Love . British Army Suffolk Regiment WFG Love served with the Suffolk 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. James Marvin Love, . US Army 7th Infantry 3rd Division from McNary, Louisiana My father, Technical Sergeant, James M. Love, Jr., fought in North Africa and other places during WW II. He was captured in Anzio, Italy, held outside of Rome, Italy, and marched through the city. He was then put on a train and sent to Stalag II B prison camp, where he stayed almost two years. Near the end of the war, daddy and a fellow POW and Darby's Ranger, Clyde Ray from Wetumka, Oklahoma, escaped. It took them a week to find the allies but they went back and showed the allies where Stalag II B was and helped liberate the entire population of POW's.
I would love to hear from someone who might have known my dad or Clyde Ray.
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JP Loveday . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JP Loveday 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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WT Loveday . British Army 12th Lancers WT Loveday served with the 12th Lancers 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. Charles Henry Robert Lovegrove . British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment from Islington, London My father, Charles Henry Robert Lovegrove, service no. 5767704 enlisted in the Nofolks on 16th July 1923. He served with the 2nd Battalion and was a drummer/bugler in the Battalion Band. He was an infantry man and was in the retreat to Dunkirk and was one of the fortunate members of the Battalion to get to the beach. However, several were killed and he was badly injured there but was fortunate to be brought back to U.K.
I was born in 1944 and never knew about his further experiences as he never ever spoke about it but had over twenty operations on his legs that were damaged by shrapnel. Now that WW2 is part of the curriculum in schools his grandchildren and great grandchildren want to know. If anyone can give us some information it would be gratefully received.
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Sgt. James Lovegrove . Royal Air Force No 54 Maintenance Unit Jim Lovegrove was my grandfather. During WW2 he held the rank of Sergeant stationed in/around RAF Newmarket (possibly Woodbridge) in Suffolk with No. 54 Maintenance Unit. I have a photograph of him and what I believe to be the rest of his unit in front of a Lancaster.
Outside of that I have little information and I am very keen to find out more. If anyone can shed any light on No. 54 Maintenance Unit and/or any of the people associated with it during the War it would be greatly appreciated.
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Flying Officer Peter Anthony Lovegrove . RAF VR 83 Squadron from Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire (d.12th November 1942) Peter Anthony Lovegrove died in German captivity on 12 November 1942 age 22. He was a Flying Officer (Pilot) with 83 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Service No: 62324. He was the son of Edward T and Hilda M Lovegrove of Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
The RAF 83 Squadron operation he was on involved an Avro Manchester Mk.I on mission to Hamburg, the 8th of April 1942. It was last heard from just after midnight on the 9th of April, thought to be in the Lastrup area of Germany. It crashed northeast of Cloppenburg. The crew killed are buried at Sage War Cemetery. The only survivor was P A Lovegrove who later died in captivity and is buried in grave 6 A 14 Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland.
Pilot:P/O 67046 Jack Heathcote Morphett RAFVR killed.
Pilot:P/O 62324 Peter Anthony Lovegrove 22 RAFVR PoW, died in captivity 12Nov42.
Obs:Flt/Sgt 402188 Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson 27 RNZAF killed.
Wop/AG:Flt/Sgt 647009 Albert Henry Salter 20 RAF killed.
Wop/AG:Sgt 923926 Reginald Stanley Williams 22 RAFVR killed.
AG:Sgt R/66159 George Charles Fisk RCAF killed.
AG:Sgt R/69897 Charles Dewitt Gellatly RCAF killed.
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Elizabeth Lovejoy CdG. Womens Voluntary Service from Bull Inn, Windsor, Berks Elizabeth Lovejoy, (nee Laver, and adopted c.1911 by Charles Lovejoy), was born in 1898 in Windsor, Berks and died in 1954 at Southend-on-Sea.
Lady Londonderry's privately-founded and hugely-successful Women's Legion accepted girls as young as 16 years, though parental permission was needed to join the Legion, up to the age of 21 years. My Auntie Betty joined the Legion at the age of 17 with Grandpa Charlie Lovejoy's permission, in one of the first intakes in 1915. She trained as a motor driver and mechanic at Twickenham, and drove Ambulances, first in Flanders for the Belgians because the War Office wouldn't allow Legionnaires to serve in France, and then in Northern France for the British Army (after General Haig grudgingly-agreed to accept the help of the Legionnaires) until 1919. Somewhere I have a faded photo print of her leaning on the bonnet of a WW1 period Ambulance, and scribbled on the back is "Betty in Flanders"
She was either seconded to work with the RASC at that point or with a Casualty Clearing Station, she never told me which. She did tell me she'd actually captured the crew of a downed German Observation plane, which crash-landed almost alongside the road she was driving with a casualty in the ambulance back to the CCS to which she was attached.
Apparently she and her crew had "acquired" both a pistol and a rifle, from casualties she'd transported, so she and her colleague were armed, and the German aircrew surrendered to the girls! She got a couple of souvenirs out of that, the German Observer's Mondragon Rifle (which I was allowed to play with on special occasions when I visited her house, she told me gleefully she'd smuggled it home in a cello case), and the tail empennage of the aircraft (I recall she told me it was an Albatross) which she kept on display in her hallway at their house in Winchmore Hill.
In 1919 and 1920, she continued in France as a driver working with the Labour Units Recovering The Fallen, because she'd lost her dear Uncle, Sgt. C1027 Walter Tindall, MM. 16th KRRC and she wanted to do her bit in recovering the remains of the dead.
Then, on returning to the UK, she lived with Grandma Maud and her younger sisters Mercia and Jose at Grandpa's Bull Hotel in Peascod Street Windsor, until he died. Grandma Maud, almost prostrate with grief at the loss of her second husband (Charlie had adopted my Aunts Betty and Mercia Laver in 1911) they moved to Southend on Sea after Grandpa Charlie died suddenly in 1921.
Auntie Betty wanted to earn her own living, and became a Companion and Chauffeur to a French widow who had a big house on the Cliffs at Westcliffe on Sea taking her employer touring all over the UK and the Continent. She sent daily picture post-cards home to the family on each trip, which were stuck into an album, eventually coming into my hands when my Mother died, until she met Uncle Phillip Denham, and married him sometime around 1930 or 31. They bought a house in rural Winchmore Hill. So her WVS Service during WW2 was in that part of London.
She joined the WVS at the outbreak of the 1939-45 War, since it didn't look like the Legion was going to be successfully revived and by then she had a young daughter, my cousin Brenda born in 1934.
After Uncle Phillip retired from the Board of Sarson's, they bought a house in Fermoy Road, Thorpe Bay, not far from my parent's house in Marlborough Road.
I can remember her clearly, taking part in official post 1945 Parades marching with ex-WVS members, wearing her medals, the BWM and BVM from 1914-18, plus a Croix de Guerre from both Belgium and from France, and the Defence Medal, and the 1939-45 War Medal. I was still a teenager when she died of lung cancer in 1954, and I'm sad that I never got to know her better.
Hopefully, this bit of family history will survive as a memorial.
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JC Lovejoy . British Army JC Lovejoy 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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Stkr. Ronald Thomas George Lovejoy . Royal Navy HMS Nelson from Middlesex (d.13th Mar 1945) My uncle Ronald Thomas George Lovejoy died aboard HMS Nelson. He was 1st class stoker and is buried at Trincomalee War Cemetery.
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CPO. Harry Norman Lovelace MID.. Royal Navy HMS Nelson Harry Lovelace joined the Royal Navy as boy sailor on 19th of September 1917 He served on HMS Queen Elizabeth (Beatty's flagship) at time of German surrender as Telegraphist.
He was given the honour, as youngest telegraphist in the Fleet, of taking the notice of German surrender from telegraph office to the Bridge.
Harry was posted to HMS Nelson on 3rd of September 1938 serving in the Atlantic and the Med.
He was Mentioned in Despatches, published in theLondon Gazette 11th of June 1942, LG 35586 page 2511, following torpedo attack on Operation Halberd.
He returned to U.K. with his damaged ship and was posted to HMS Mercury 21st of May 1942, demobilised at cessation of hostilities and worked as scientific officer at UW weapons Portsdown and Hambrook House.
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Bill Lovelady . British Army Movement Control Royal Engineers I served from 1942 until 1947 in the Royal Engineers. I was in Movement Control, first in Gloucester then in Didcot, before going to Europe in 1944. There I was stationed in Antwerp, and when the war in Europe ended I was in Eindhoven. After returning to England, I was posted to SE Asia and served in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang. I emigrated to the USA in 1951.
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CPO. Montague William James "Mont" Loveland . Royal Navy Sailmaker HMS Cyclops from Worthing, Sussex
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Reginald Walter Loveless . British Army Royal Hampshire Regiment from 93 Ringwood Road, Totton
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F/Lt. Anthony Desmond Joseph Lovell DFC & Bar, DSO & Bar. Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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Pte. Arthur Cecil Lovell . British Army 7th Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
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Sgt. Arthur Lovell . British Army 4th County of London Yeomanry from Crewe, Cheshire Arthur Lovell served from 1931 to 1938 with the 11th Hussars in Palestine. Following his 6 years of service he was transferred to the Army Reserves in 1938.
He was recalled at the outbreak of war in Sept 1939 and was assigned to the 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). He returned to the Middle East with the 4th CLY in September 1941 and became part of the 7th Armoured Division (The Desert Rats).
The 4 CLY were involved in almost continuous fighting from their arrival until the end of the North Africa Campaign. The regiment particularly distinguished themselves in the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October to 11 November 1942) and took part in the subsequent advance into Tunisia (17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943). This three month campaign was against the more experienced German Afrika Korps led by Gen. Erwin Rommel (The Desert Fox). By this time he had been promoted to Sergeant and was a tank commander.
During action on April 6th, 1943, Arthur was wounded. After several weeks in hospital he rejoined the regiment. The 4th County of London Yeomanry did not take part in the invasion of Sicily but landed in Italy in September 1943. They participated in the Capture of Naples and the crossing of the Volturno. In December 1943, the regiment left Italy for the United Kingdom where it prepared for the upcoming invasion of North West Europe.
The 7th Armoured Division, arrived in Normandy towards the end of D-Day 6th of June, 1944. Its first combat was a day later with 22nd Armoured Brigade supporting the 50th Division at Tilly-sur-Seulles. Combat continued in the area against the German Panzer Lehr Division the next day. Their next operation was Perch which would lead to the ill-fated clash with the Panzer Lehr and 101. Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung at Villers-Bocage. On June 13, the British launched Operation Perch, an attempt to encircle the Panzer-Lehr-Division. The Desert Rats advanced on Villers-Bocage. A company of the Rifle Brigade and a squadron of Cromwell tanks belonging to the Sharpshooters was sent on ahead to Hill 213, a mile east of the town. This force was ambushed by a detachment of Tiger tanks from 2nd Kompanie, 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion and a single Tiger, commanded by SS-Obersturmfuhrer Michael Wittman, destroyed the six tanks of CLY's Regimental Headquarters Troop before his own Tiger was destroyed.
The small force of the Rifle Brigade and Sharpshooters, now trapped on Hill 213, was eventually overrun.
Arthur was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war as a POW finally at Stalag 357 at Fallingsbostel. The camp was liberated on April 16th 1945 by the 11th Hussars, Arthur's original regiment.
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