FM Norman . British Army 17/21st Lancers FM Norman 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: 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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H Norman . British Army 147th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps H Norman served with the 147th Regiment 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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H. E. "Joe" Norman . British Army Buckinghamshire Yeomanry My uncle H E 'Joe' Norman was at Stalag XXA, having been part of the Dunkirk rearguard with the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry and taken P.o.W then.
Uncle Joe has only recently started to talk about his wartime experiences and I now hope to obtain a lot more information which I hope to pass on in due course.
Anything regarding the other man in the photo above or people who knew him (or of him) would be appreciated.
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Sgt. James Norman DFM.. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve flight eng. 419 Sqd. (d.25th Jul 1944)
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JB Norman . British Army JB Norman 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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JH Norman . British Army JH Norman 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 Wesley Norman . British Army 11th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Durham City My maternal uncle Jack Norman enlisted at the young age
of 17 in 1939, and served with the 11th Btn. D.L.I., until the time he was wounded, after the Normandy Landing. He was then A/Cpl. John saw action in Iceland where he was stationed from 20th of October 1940 to 22nd of December 1940. He was awarded an Efficiency Medal and the WWII medals, x3. I had never fully appreciated just how young my uncle was, during his WWII service. His wounds left his right hand useless. He carried shrapnel in his body all his life. I have photographs of him in Iceland, and after his discharge in 1945. I have his service records and medal set. He served 6 years 111 days. He was transferred to the Devons in his last year of service. A brave young man.
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KAJ Norman . British Army Royal Armoured Corps KAJ Norman 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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L Norman . British Army Sherwood Foresters L Norman 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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WO. Leonard Charles Norman . Britsh Army Holding Battalion Highland Light Infantry from Glasgow Leonard Norman was a Warrant Officer with the Highland Light Infantry Holding Battalion.
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L/Cpl. LM Norman . British Army Royal Tank Regiment L/Cpl.LM Norman served with the 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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MG Norman . British Army MG Norman 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/C R A Norman DFC. RAAF 460 Squadron
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R Norman . British Army Devonshire Regiment R Norman served with the Devonshire 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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WingCdr. R. A. Norman DFC.. Royal Air Force 460 Sqd.
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Pte. Robert Hansel Norman . British Army 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusliers from 22 Church Str. Head, Elvet, Durham City Robert Norman disembarked at Bombay, on the 28th Oct 1944 under Ranchi, India Command.
Due to heavy casualties within each regiment Robert was moved from regiment to regiment and served with Cameronian Highlanders, King's Own Scottish Borderers,
1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 10th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers 11th of Jul 1945 and 12th Sherwood Foresters. He embarked from Bombay on the 19th of May 1946.
Robert was my maternal uncle and I have all his photographs, ranging from when he was baptised, through being a schoolboy, and then when in Burma. He was awarded the Burma Star. The dark side was that his eyes show no emotion and stare into space, as if
frozen in complete shock of what he has seen and experienced. In his regiment photo in Bombay he is wearing a Chindit hat.
Post war he never spoke one word of his war-time experiences, as was the case with my father and uncle Jack Norman of the Durham Light Infantry.
He never married, although a tall handsome man of excellent physical stature for his entire life. He retained that 'strange stare', although after several pints his eyes did relax with a twinkle. How many young men
like Robert came back from Burma in that strange trance like stance? The Forgotten Army?
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P/O W. Easby Norman . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Squadron (d.28thJune 1944) My uncle's last flight was on 28th June 1944. He was piloting a Lancaster bomber P/O 174553 and the plane suffered a direct hit over France, returning from a bombing mission in Germany. They crash landed in a field near Seine-et-Marine and all seven crew were killed. They are buried in a cemetery at Bransles, a village nearby.
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Your uncle was captain of Lancaster JB664, ZN-M, which took-off from Metheringham for ops to attack railways at Vitry.
P/O N.W. Easby
Sgt E.P. Richomme
F/Sgt A. Robinson
F/Sgt J.A.G. Dixon
Sgt G.A. Collison
Sgt L.K. Webb
Sgt D. Hetherington
(Alan)
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Alan is indeed correct, your uncle was flying JB664, a Lancaster B III built by A V Roe at Chadderton in 1943. The crew (as Alan names them) are buried in a communal grave at Bransles. The raid was on Vitry-le-Francois aimed at the railway system, a strategy at that time to hamper the transport of German troops and armour to the invasion area. JB664 was one of two Lancasters lost on this raid. (Chris)
I have a photo taken in a wood or park of a wooden cross bearing a RAF roundel and the following inscription F/SgtT D Hetherington and five other members of RAF Bomber Command killed in action May 1944. This pertains to the last flight of Lancaster JB664 and may be a crash site memorial. (Ian Sellars)
A small group of us, in Raunds Northants, are researching the names on our War Memorial. Keith Webb, the M/U Gunner, came from Raunds and I have some memorabilia (including a photo and letters from the Mayor of Bransles describing the loss of the Lancaster and the burials) of him, I am currently transcibing Keith's personal diary for 1944 and there are some references to your uncle, including a visit to Norman's home in Feb 1944. (David Rogers)
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I am trying to find as much information as I can about a bombing raid on Vitry-le-francois on the night of 27/28th June 1944. The intended target was the marshalling yards, but somthing went wrong and the town was hit with many civilian casualties. I am researching this with a French friend, whose mother survived the raid and had always wondered what went wrong. Does anyone have information about this? (Jane Martin)
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L/Sig. William Norman . Royal Navy HMS Nigeria from Kings Lynn, Norfolk My sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth and I spent our childhoods during
World War 2 in a small village in the hills behind Perth and the port
of Fremantle in Western Australia.
My cousin Edna, and mother Ethleen billeted crew members from British
ships when they called at Fremantle.
Among the ships that called were HMS Kenya - and, memorably, HMS
Nigeria.
I was 9 years of age, Maggie was 7 and Liz was 4.
Commander Oliver was first billeted with us in our big airy house on
the hills above Darlington. We have fond memories of him - my sisters
remember seating this senior serviceman on the floor of their playroom
and dressing him in their play-clothes!
Then came Bill.
We have never forgotten him. He became an embedded part of our
memories of our childhood. We were deeply fond of 'our sailor Bill'
Nigeria was in port for 3 weeks I think and Bill stayed for about a
week.
Mum and Dad served him breakfast in bed. We roamed our orchard picking
fruit from the trees. We went for long walks in the hills - I remember
taking him on one of my 'secret' tracks to see what I regarded as my
own discovery of a glade of rare spider orchids.
We knew that he enjoyed the dances held in the tiny local hall when
all his shipmates from the billets in the districts had a chance to
meeti some of the local girls - and, I imagine a doughty cohort of
watchful local matrons as well!. The Japanese war was threatening Australia at the time - Darwin had
already been bombed among some 15 air raids in the north-west - but
our childhood focus was very much on England, and Bill in his smart
uniform represented everything heroic we imagined of the Empire,
though I am sure he would not have regarded himself as a hero.
Many years later I realized he was only 18 at the time - a boy
himself, swept up into the maw of that dreadful war.
In a letter to my Mother (Ethleen) and Father (Ted), after leaving
Fremantle, he called us 'my three children'.
I am now 74 and If Bill is alive he would now be about 83 years of age.
We only know he came from Kings Lynn in Norfolk.
This request is inspired by the fact that 60 years on, my great niece
and god-daughter is in a primary school in rural Oxfordshire and I
have been asked to provide a few memories of a childhood in Australia
during WWII.
I would be a wonderful convergence of time and fate if someone among
your membership remembered 'our Bill' and could direct us to him or
his descendants.
Whatever happens - or doesn't happen as a result of this request,
please accept it as a modest but heartfelt tribute to a fine young man
and to his years of service for his country.
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Frederick S. Normand . British Army Royal Tank Regiment Frederick Normand served with the 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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JB Normington . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JB Normington 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. John Edward Normington . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 515 Squadron (d.11th May 1944) Sergeant (Navigator/Radar Operator) John Normington was the son of Walter and Ruth Normington.
He is buried in the Kats General Cemetery, Zeeland, Netherlands.
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Sergeant E S Normore . NFDR 59 Squadron
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WO1 Daniel Normoyle . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (d.21st July 1940) Warrant Officer Class I Daniel Normoyle was the Son of John and Mary Normoyle, of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.
He was 42 when he died and is buried in the Ballyporeen (Templetenny) Catholic graveyard, Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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Edward Norrie . Royal Navy from Hull
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Pte. William Casson Norrie . British Army 7th Btn Gordon Highlanders from Aberdeen, Scotland (d.16th Jun 1944) William Norrie`s parents were John and Wlliamina Norrie, William was their 6th child, he was born in 1925. I found William when researching my Knox family tree. As part of my family research I am particularly interested in the war veterans.
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AE Norris . British Army AE Norris 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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Anthony Norris . British Army East Yorkshire Regiment from London My uncle Anthony Norris was at Dunkirk with the BEF and landed at Ouistreham with East Yorks on D-Day. I understood that he was a Conscientious Objector and was therefore a stretcher bearer. I think his 'conversion' was between the two events. Later on, he rescued a Dutch man from a minefield and stepped on a mine that blew his foot off. He said that because it wasn't hurting at the time, carried on carrying him for which he was awarded the BEM. I'd love to hear from anyone who knew him at all, as I know little else about his war, which was clearly interesting.
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AR Norris . British Army AR Norris 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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CC Norris . British Army CC Norris 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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Wt E Electrical David Edward Norris . RN Mauritius My Grandfather Ted Norris served on the Mauritius during WWII, transferring in after they came back from the East I think. He was an electrical engineer, getting his Warrant while aboard.
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