Sgt. T. B. Nisbet . 102 Squadron
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J Nish . British Army Gordon Highlanders J Nish served with the Gordon Highlanders 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. Joseph Gilbert Nisler . US Army Co B. 534th MP Battalion from Charlestown, Wisconsin Joseph Nisler was inducted into the US Army in Milwaukee, WI.
He was assigned to the cavalry replacement center at Fort Riley, Kansas. During his basic training while trying to break a horse in, he was thrown from the horse. He was commanded to continue with the exercise until it was finished. Afterwards he was taken to the infirmary where they found that he had broken his ankle.
He was then transferred out of the cavalry unit due to this injury. He was stationed next at the Port of Stockton, Stockton, California, Crissy Field and later at the Presidio in San Francisco. He attended the Police Academy in San Francisco. This is where he was trained to become a Military Police Officer. He was assigned to the 524th Military Police Battalion, Company B. Graduating from the San Francisco Police Academy on 10th of April 1943.
He was shipped overseas on 7th September 1944 and arrived on 14th where he landed is unknown at this time. This was 38 days after the D-Day offensive in France. I would assume that he landed somewhere near Normandy, France.
He was involved in the campaigns of the Rhineland and Central Europe. He said he was in Belgium and he has pictures of France, so that would make sense since the 9th Army was positioned in Belgium and they spent time in France before coming back home.
During the Rhineland Campaign they were located between Maastricht and Aachen, Belgium headed towards Duren, Germany. They remained in this area near Dusseldorf, Germany during the Central Europe Campaign. He once told us the story of half of his unit spending the night in bombed out buildings on one side of the street and the other half in bombed out buildings on the other side of the street. During a night of bombing and explosions they heard a buzz bomb (V-1 flying bomb, also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, was an early pulsejet-powered predecessor of the cruise missile.)
These bombs had no guidance system at that time. When they ran out of fuel they would fall to earth making a buzzing sound. This bomb fell on the building across the street from the one he was staying in. They lost many of the unit staying in that building.
On another occasion, his unit was pinned down in an apple orchard in Belgium. They were stuck there for a whole week hiding in their fox holes. Anyone that raised their head above the fox hole was shot by sniper fire from the Germans. After a week they either got reinforcements or the Germans finally moved on.
He was shipped back to the United States on 15th of November 1945. His final station was at Fort Sheridan, IL where he was assigned to Truck Driver Light 345 until his Honorable Discharge on 2nd of December 1945. Decorations & citations included, American Defense Service Ribbon, Victory Medal, American Theater Ribbon, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon, (2) Bronze Battle Stars, (2) Overseas Service Bars, (1) Service Stripe, Good Conduct Medal, and Meritorious Unit Award G0 173 9th US Army 1945.
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AD Niven . British Army Royal Engineers AD Niven served with the Royal Engineers 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 Niven . British Army Royal Armoured Corps R Niven 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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Wing Commander Robert H Niven DFC. RCAF 59 Squadron
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Pte. Wullie Niven . Army 5th Btn. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders I am trying to trace a camp in Austria/Germany. My Father Wullie Niven From Glasgow was in The Cameron Highlanders from 1940 to 1946 I know from old photo`s he was in the 5th batt with the Cameron's in Aug 1940, I think he might have gone to North Africa to reform the 51st Highland Division, On back of old Platoon Photo says ??????T, GEISE ?
August 1940.
Next I have POW letter to my mother saying he is in GERMANY Dated 24/01/1944 NO camp Number.
The group photo which I will try and send states ST MARIEN AUSTRIA. The list of names I have in group photo are all from Scotland. My father is Second from left at the back the man in front second left is called Fitzpatrick. next to him is a friend who sent photo to my Dad but no name? Next Three Sergeants Called Bertingshaw, Bailley, Baker, Also Concert party
Wallace, Johnson, Hopfeldt or Hodfeldt? Sorry no first names.
Like most he never spoke much about what he done,where he served or got captured? I do know he had a distrust or fear of Doctors never went unless you dragged him.
He is now deceased but I would like to hear from any living friends or family members who can fill in any missing bits in the Cameron's from August 1940 to when he might have got captured where? to his time in & what is the Number of his POW Camp? I hope to hear from someone.
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Pte. Eric Albert Milner Nix . British army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry from Carlton, Nottingham My grandpa Eric Nix was enlisted on the 5th of March 1940 and was deployed to Burma as a foot soldier. The memories he shared with us was were getting carried by the current in the Ganges and seeing lots of bodies pass him by. He was in Burma for a few years with his infantry before falling ill and spending some time in the military hospital until he was better to be sent home.
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Pvt. Miles Richard Nix . United States Army 3 Battalion, Co I 168th Infantry Regiment. from Estill, SC My father joined the Army in 1941. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the US declared war on Japan and immediately after Germany declared war on the US.
America entered the war with the invasion of North Africa and Daddy was one of the soldiers in the first invasion. He group landed at Algiers, Algeria. He was later captured at Faid Pass in February 1943 by the Germans under the command of the "Dessert Fox", Erwin Rommel.
They were marched to Tunis where they were held in a fenced in compound, burning under the African sun during the day and digging holes in the sand at night to keep warm during the cold nights. They were sent to Stalag VIIA, which was a staging area for the POW's and then sent out to his permanent camp at Stalag IIIB.
He was required to go out on work details and worked building an electric plant. The men in the camp had some very rough conditions. They had little food. They got a cup of Ersatz coffee for breakfast, waterey soup for lunch, and one loaf of Black Sawdust Bread for supper which had to be divided between 6 men. It was a while before the Red Cross parcels began arriving to the camp. The parcels were kept outside the compound and overseen by the Germans. When they received them, they had often been gone through and some food and other things had been taken.
Occasionally Hitler's SS would visit the camp and they were very fearsome. Even the German guards were afraid of them. He was a POW for 26 months. When the Germans heard the guns of the Allied Army moving closer and closer, they quickly marched the POW's away from front lines with little preparation for the march. They had little food or water and snow was on the ground. They would stay in barns and whatever shelter they could. Daddy once stayed in a chicken coup.
At some point while on this march, Daddy and some others escaped and held up in a barn hoping to get to the American troops. When they awoke it was to the sound of tanks. They feared they had been recaptured, but it was the Russians who found them and helped them to return to American control. Freed POW's were given priority on air transport coming back home. He was sent to a hospital in Georgia for a while and then sent to Miami, Florida to recoup. It was a very trying time in his life.
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Nixon . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Nixon served with the Royal Army Service 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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D Nixon . British Army D Nixon 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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Sgt. F. Nixon . Royal Air Force 15 Sqd. (d.11th Aug 1942) Sgt Nixon lost his life when Stirling LS-C crashed into a pond at Potash Farm, Brettenham, near Ipswich, on the 11th of August 1942 at 03:37 while trying to land at RAF Wattisham. The aircraft had been badly damaged by two Ju88s, one of which was claimed damaged by return fire.
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Stkr. George Nixon . Royal Navy HMS Birmingham from London
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Sgt. George Henry "Jud" Nixon . Royal Air Force 151 Maintenance Unit from Salford, Lancashire George Nixon is my Dad who told me a story about being evacuated in the fisrt week Feb 1942 when the Japanese invaded Singapore. He described how they were ordered to not make a sound as the boat they were on escaped through the Straits. His pay book recorded 31st of January 1942 as his last payment in Singapore, the next payment was on the 8th of February 1942 in a place C of Canishing? (illegible writing). The one after that 2 days later was N.E.I. then B'zorg, the HMT1182, the Drigh Rd, then Ambala in India. Any help with these place names would be appreciated.
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Flight Lieutenant Graham William Nixon . RAF 582 Squadron (d.16th September 1944)
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P/O J. C. Nixon . 102 Squadron
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P/O Jack Elwin McIntosh Nixon . RCAF w/op 101 Sqd. from Canada (d.21st Jun 1944)
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John Nixon . Royal Navy HMS Pembroke from Hetton-le-Hole John Nixon served with the Royal Navy aboard HMS Pembroke in WW2. He was a motor mechanic
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Sgt. Joseph Terance Nixon . RAF 57 Squadron from Manchester (d.5th July 1944) Lancaster Mk 111 - JB.486 of 57 Squadron was reported missing from operations on the night of July 4th/July 5th 1944. It was shot down by a German Night-fighter on a bombing raid to the VI Flying Bomb Stores at St. Leu-d'Esserent, and crashed in a wood close to Cormielles St.Poix and where the Crew of seven, were laid to rest in the village chapel.
The lost RAF Crew were:
Anthony Edward Grubb F/O(A/F/L)(Pilot) of Warwickshire
Sgt. Harry Lees F/ENGINEER of Lancashire
W.O. James William Weyers (Navigator) of Alberta,Canada
Jack Paull Hodges F/O (A/Bomber) of N.S.W.,Australia
Sgt. George Thomas Osborne (W/Op.Air) of Staffordshire
Sgt. Clifford Neil Stalker(A/G) of Kent
Sgt. Joseph Terance Nixon (A/G) of Manchester
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Tpr. JS Nixon . British Army 23rd Hussars Tpr.JS Nixon served with the 23rd 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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L Nixon . British Army Royal Armoured Corps L Nixon 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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Sgt. Percy Dryden Nixon . Royal Air Force 44 Squadron (d.20th July 1940) Percy Nixon was buried in the Skagen Cemetery in Denmark, Coll. grave M. 2.
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2nd Lt. Rosemarie Nixon . United States Army Medical Corps from Philadelphia, PA Rosemarie Nixon was an Army nurse in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, she treated the wounded soldiers of the legendary Merrill's Marauders in World War II. A trained nurse, she enlisted in the Army in May 1941, and served until December 1945. She was on her way to India when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She took it on herself to write letters home for soldiers who had lost the use of their hands.
Rosemarie, who attained the rank of second lieutenant, became disabled after a concussion caused by explosives and was treated at the Valley Forge Military Hospital when she returned to the U.S.
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CPO. Samuel Nixon . Royal Navy HMS Manchester from Stoke-on-Trent I am one of the nieces of Chief Petty Officer Samuel Nixon and have just discovered that our uncle served on HMS Manchester when it was torpedod in 1942. I believe there is a photo of Uncle Sam on the Manchester in a museum on Malta. We would love to hear more information.
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SV Nixon . British Army Kings Own Scottish Borderers SV Nixon served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 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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T Nixon . British Army Royal Armoured Corps T Nixon 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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Thomas Reginald Nixon . Royal Air Force 7 Sqdn (d.20th Feb 1944) Thomas Reginald Nixon, was killed on 20th February 1944. We wonder if he is our cousin, Reg who was from Smallthorne in Stoke on Trent? Can anyone help?
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Bmbdr. Walter Nixon . British Army 81st Anti Tank Regiment from 1 Oak Cott Mission Lane, East Bergholt, Essex Walter Nixon enlisted on the 25th of January 1942 aged 18. Photo courtesy of Keith Nixon.
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Pte. Wilfred "Nick" Nixon . Combined Ops 250 Squadron from Luton Nick Nixon served with combined operations support with 250 Squadron in the North African Western desert and Italy.
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Pte. Otto Nkwalla . The Royal West African Frontier Force African Pioneer Corps (West Africa), (d.21 August 1942) Otto Nkwalla was buried in the Limbe Botanical Gardens Burial Grounds in the Cameroons.
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