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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

L/Cpl. Duncan Macfarlane .     British Army Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)   from Crieff

(d.13th Oct 1943)

My great uncle, Duncan Macfarlane was captured near St Valery en Caux and was held prisoner in Stalag XXB, Poland. He sent home two letters which I have copies of. He died in the camp in October 1943. If anyone has any information or photographs of him I would love to hear from you. He is buried in Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery, Malbork, Poland.




Pte. Duncan Allen Macfarlane .     British Army Royal Northumberland Fusiliers   from 34 Castlegate, Berwick-upon-Tweed

Duncan Macfarlane

Duncan Macfarlane was my father who died April 1990 and served in Holland during WW2. He was called up when I was only about 3 or 4 years old. I think he did his training in Ireland and was in Holland when the dikes were destroyed by the Germans, probably near end of the war. I was 8 years old when war ended and my older sister was 10, and when Dad returned home we ran upstairs, peering down through the banisters at this stranger, not having seen him for a long time!




Pte. George Reavley MacFarlane .     British Army 1st Btn. Green Howards   from Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

(d.20th October 1943)

George MacFarlane was killed in action and is buried at Sangro River War Cemetery.




JR Macfarlane .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

JR Macfarlane 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




LW Macfarlane .     British Army

LW Macfarlane 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




R Macfarlane .     British Army

R Macfarlane 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




W Macfarlane .     British Army Bays Regt, Royal Armoured Corps

W Macfarlane served with the Bays Regt, 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




F/Lt. Walter Thomas "Mac" Macfarlane DFC..     Royal Air Force C Flight 76 Squadron   from Innellan, Argyll, Scotland

Walter Macfarlane , Mac joined the RAF in May 1940 and was posted to 76 Squadron in September 1944 where he flew as C Flight Commander on 31 missions until March 1945. On two operations he flew as Acting Squadron Leader.

After completing his Tour he was re-mustered on 76 Squadron on DC3's and sent east to the Japanese theatre where he stayed until until his demobilization in May 1946. He left the RAF with 3,252 flying hours. Mac stayed in flying ending his flying career as a senior captain for British Airways on VC10s.




Stkr 2nd Class William "Allan" Macfarlane .     Royal Navy Stoker HMS Victory   from Alloa




Sgt. John Macfie .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 61 Sqd.   from Glasgow, Scotland

(d.25th June 1944)

John Macfie was killed in action on the 25th of June 1944, aged 21. Buried in the Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme, France, he was the son of Andrew B. Macfie and Frances Macfie, of Glasgow




D Macgibbon .     British Army Reconnaissance Corps

D Macgibbon served with the 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




J MacGregor .     British Army

J MacGregor 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




P/O John Alfred Stuart MacGregor .     Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.   from Martintown, Ontario, Canada.

(d.28th Dec 1944)




Flt.Sgt. Joseph Donald "Mac" MacGregor .     Royal Canadian Air Force C Flight 76 Squadron   from Welwyn SK Canada

Don Macgregor, 3rd from rt, and crew of Halifax bomber

My Dad Joseph Donald MacGregor was a Flight Sargent navigator with 76 Squadron on a Mark III Halifax, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, in Yorkshire during 1944/45. All I know about his time there is what he wrote on the back of a photograph he had of his bomber, (Son of Satan) and his flight crew. He was sometimes called "Mac" or Don, never by his first name of Joseph. As far as I can make out, members of his crew were:

  • F/Sgt Bill Williams, rear gunner, RCAF
  • F/Sgt 'Cobber' Walker, wireless op, RNZAF
  • F/Sgt Don MacGregor, navigator, RCAF
  • Sgt Danny Carp, bomb aimer, RAF
  • Sgt ?, flight engineer, RAF
  • F/O Neat, Pilot, RAF
  • Sgt Bill Brewer, mid gunner, RAF

If there is anyone out there who knew my dad or any of his crew, I would be happy to hear from you.




G Macham .     British Army

G Macham 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




Lt Machin .     Royal Naval Reserve HMS Forfar

Lt Machin was one of the survivors when the ship went down on the 2nd of December 1940.




A Machin .     British Army

A Machin 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




Flt.Sgt. Alan "Mick" Machin .     Royal Air Force 83 Squadron   from Spennymoor, Co. Durham

Bomb aimer, Flight Sergeant Alan (Mick) Machin came from Spennymoor in Co. Durham. He completed 48 sorties in Lancasters, first with 9 Squadron and then with 83 Pathfinder Squadron and then transferred out of operational flying in October 1944. He left the RAF in 1949.




D Machin .     British Army Royal Armoured Corps

D Machin 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




Pte. Frank Malcolm Machin .     British Army 2nd Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment   from Kamptee, India

My father Frank Machin was born in British India in 1922. His father was WO2 in the York & Lancaster Regiment. My father joined the battalion as a boy soldier in 1936 at the age of 14 years. he served in Iceland, Norway, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, France Belgium, Holland, and Germany.

He met my mother in Nijmegen (Holland). After Market Garden, he was billeted at my mother's home in September 1944. They were married in 1945. I believe that my father served with the Chindits in Burma, but cannot confirm this. After the war he was stationed in Germany, and then was stationed at Pontefract Barracks the regiments depot. I was born in the barracks, at No6, B Block. We then moved to Colchester where my brother Ian was born. We were then posted to Brunswick in Eastern Germany. After 2 years we returned to Pontefract, where my father was now the Provost Sargeant.He did tours in Sudan,Egypt, and Palistine. On his return, he was promoted to CSM (WO2), and was in charge of training recruits. In 1954, we moved to Dover Castle. Whilst there, he took part in the Suez Crisis. The battallion were also extras in the film Dunkirk. I also remember standing in the school playground, watching thousands of Hungarian refugees walking past with all their worldly goods on their backs. This was 1956, the battalion had just received their new colours. We returned to Pontefract for the last time before it was closed down. Late 1958, we had our final posting to Queen Elizabeth Barracks at Strensall near York, where again my father was training CSM. He retired after 26 years service, in 1961. He passed away in 1988.




Sgt. Harry Machin .     Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 12 Sqdn. (d.1st September 1943)

Harry Machin was a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1943. He was lost in action on 1st September 1943. Does anyone know if him or any of his crew? If anyone has photographs of his crew and plane or any activity whilst at Whitenby I would be grateful.

Update: Lancaster DV185 PH-D took off from Wickenby at 2015 on 31/8/43, target Berlin, crashed nr Zerbst 1/9/43. Crew:

  • Sgt H. Machin
  • Sgt P. Holloway
  • Sgt F. Lennard
  • F/Sgt E.V. Potter
  • Sgt G.A. Purcell
  • Sgt E.F. Harris
  • Sgt J.G. Jones

All are buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery.




WA Machin .     British Army Reconnaissance Corps

WA Machin served with the 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




DEP Macholl .     British Army Essex Regiment

DEP Macholl served with the Essex 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




Pte. John Michael Machuk .     Canadian Army Queens Own Cameron Highlanders   from Gretna, Manitoba

My father, John Machuk, was captured at Dieppe, August 19, 1942. He was interned at Stalag VIIIB from 1942 to 1943. He was later sent to Stettin. He and his brother Tony were in the same regiment but his brother returned to England and later fought in Italy. John tells the story of escaping with his friend George. The were in a small town at night when they heard someone coming so the jumped over a hedge and into a ditch. It happens that the sound they heard was a German soldier and his girlfriend. He stopped and urinated over the hedge onto my father. Being very dark, his friend George was holding onto dad's legs. Dad could feel him shaking as he was laughing. This happened when he was only 22 years old.




A Macillraith .     British Army 17/21st Lancers

A Macillraith served with the 17/21st 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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.




Sig. Angus MacIndeor MID..     British Army 1st Army Royal Signals   from Islay




MacInnes .     British Army 8th Btn. Royal Scots Rgt.

My father started his POW status in Stalag 12a, later moving to Stalag 4g and finally to Liepzig. He escaped on the march with some others and was finally picked up by American soldiers and treated to some long-awaited luxuries.




Pte. Hector MacInnes MID..     British Army 4th Battalion Cameron Highlanders   from Breakish, Isle-of-Skye

Hector MacInnes received a Mention in Despatches for actions in Malaya.




Abe MacInroy .     Home Guard 23rd (Washington) Battalion Durham




Charles MacInroy .     Home Guard 23rd (Washington) Battalion Durham





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