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James Norton . British Army Jim Norton was held in Stalag XXA after being captured on his way to Dunkirk. He is in photo GB1090. He is, we believe, the man second from the right in the front row on David Parker's website. About Stalag XXA we know very little.
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Pte. James Norton . British Army Cheshire Regiment
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Sergeant K R Norton . RAF VR 10 Squadron (d.20th December 1943) My husband's father, F/O Kenneth Seymour Lear, served in WW2 and flew in a Halifax bomber. We were told by my husband's mother, who is now deceased, that her husband was stationed at Marston Moor. I am trying to find out any history for him as he was reported missing in action and I think in the end declared dead on the 20th December 1943. My husband, like so many born during the war, never knew his father. We don't even have any photos of him. How can I find out if he was stationed at Marston Moor and if he was, if anyone has any pictures of him. He did also go to Canada for training. Can anyone help? We also don't have a date of birth for him but know he was 20 when he died.
Information from lostbombers.co.uk:
Halifax HX164, Operation Frankfurt, airborne 1637 20th December 1943 from RAF Melbourne. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near Dahlen, where those killed were buried. Their graves are now located in the Rheinberg War Cemetery. F/L Whitmarsh gained an Immediate DFM, Gazetted 31Aug43 for his outstanding airmanship during a raid that same month to Mannheim.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Walter Whitmarsh DFM KIA
Sergeant Peter Mill Hayes KIA
Pilot Officer Cyril Priest KIA
Flight Offficer J.R.Kinney RCAF PoW (confined in hospital due injuries)
Flying Officer Kenneth Seymour Lear KIA
Flight Sergeant Ronald George Edwin Buckner KIA
Sergeant Maurice Henry Britton KIA
Sgt K.R.Norton KIA
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Sergeant K R Norton . RAF VR 10 Squadron (d.20th December 1943) My husband's father, F/O Kenneth Seymour Lear, served in WW2 and flew in a Halifax bomber. We were told by my husband's mother, who is now deceased, that her husband was stationed at Marston Moor. I am trying to find out any history for him as he was reported missing in action and I think in the end declared dead on the 20th December 1943. My husband, like so many born during the war, never knew his father. We don't even have any photos of him. How can I find out if he was stationed at Marston Moor and if he was, if anyone has any pictures of him. He did also go to Canada for training. Can anyone help? We also don't have a date of birth for him but know he was 20 when he died.
Information from lostbombers.co.uk:
Halifax HX164, Operation Frankfurt, airborne 1637 20th December 1943 from RAF Melbourne. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near Dahlen, where those killed were buried. Their graves are now located in the Rheinberg War Cemetery. F/L Whitmarsh gained an Immediate DFM, Gazetted 31Aug43 for his outstanding airmanship during a raid that same month to Mannheim.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Walter Whitmarsh DFM KIA
Sergeant Peter Mill Hayes KIA
Pilot Officer Cyril Priest KIA
Flight Offficer J.R.Kinney RCAF PoW (confined in hospital due injuries)
Flying Officer Kenneth Seymour Lear KIA
Flight Sergeant Ronald George Edwin Buckner KIA
Sergeant Maurice Henry Britton KIA
Sgt K.R.Norton KIA
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Sgt Major Philip Sydney "Syd" Norton . South African Army HQ Supply Co 4th Infantry Brigade from Cape Town (originally East Dulwich, SE London) This story is my late fathers. Born in Peckham, in the London Borough of Camberwell, in 1907, Philip Sydney Norton (known as Sydney, or Syd) was living in the Cape at the outbreak of WW2. Having lost his eldest brother, Teddy, in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 a week after his 21st birthday, my father wasted no time in enlisting in the South African Army, originally in the Umvoti Mounted Rifles. In July 1941 he embarked from Durban on the S.S "Dilawa", having been transferred to Supply Company, 4th Infantry Brigade HQ, on 1 January that year. He served in the Western Desert until 21 June 1942, when he was captured in Tobruk and taken Prisoner of War by the Italians and taken, initially, to a prison camp in Benghazi. Like so many other POWs, he suffered a severe bout of amoebic dysentery and was duly taken by hospital-ship to Naples. From there he was driven by ambulance to a hospital in Caserta, where he remained for five and a half months before being discharged on 31 December 1942. Next day he was taken to Campo PG 54, Fara-in-Sabina, where he remained until he escaped in September 1943. My father wrote his own story of his POW experiences, which can be read here: In 1946, after the war, he left South Africa for New Zealand, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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SR Norton . British Army SR Norton 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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Thomas Norton . Navy HMS Hunter My Grandad was on the HMS Hunter and was sunk on the 10th April 1940. He was then taken prisoner and held in what I belive to be a school where he and his fellow men hid a torch in the gutter ready to signal to the ships at sea, but in their attempt to do so the torch was knocked down the drain pipe. My Grandad was then take to Sweeden and and there he signed papers to say that he would not take up arms against the Germans again. He did this knowing that due to his age he would not be called up again to fight. He also served in WW1 where he was also sunk twice in the same day. How unlucky can one be or in his case how lucky was he to survive both wars. Are there books or organisations that I can find out what happened to the men when they were taken prisoner?
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TW Norton . British Army Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry TW Norton served with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 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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Walther Robert Norton . Royal Canadian Air Force 429 (Bison) Squadron My grandfather Robert Norton served on a 429 Squadron bomber in WWII called "Uncle Zeke". He passed away a couple of years ago. I'd love to find information on this aircraft and its crew.
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WI Norton . British Army WI Norton 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 Norval . British Army JH Norval 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 Norval . British Army L Norval 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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LC Norval . British Army LC Norval 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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Carroll Willard Norvell . United States Air Force 100th Bomber Group 8th Air Force My father was a waist gunner on B17s with the 8th Air Force, 100th Bomber Group. He would never talk about the war.
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Pte James B Norville . (d.9th July 1945) Held as a Prisoner in Fukuoka 3b.
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Pte. John Russell "Rusty" Norwood . British Army Royal Army Ordnance Corps from Glamorgan, Wales My husband's uncle, John Norwood was held a prisoner of war in Lambinowice, Poland during WW11. He lost so much weight he he couldn't eat etc. and was in a really bad way when he got home to Wales. He had to have his food fed to him through a straw. He was held in Stalag 344 and his POW number was 221789.
I would be very grateful if anyone can add any more to this story. We are very proud of him and his duty for his country.
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Spr. James Edwin Nother . British Army No. 6 (R&R) Depot Btn. Royal Engineers from Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
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Pte. A. C. Notley . British Army 5th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
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J Nott . British Army J Nott 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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WA Nottley . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WA Nottley 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/Cpl. Frank Edward Nourish . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Leicester My Dad Frank Nourish sent letters home from Stalag XXB.
I know very little about his time as a POW, apart from the odd story he would tell about pinching bottles of drink etc.
But I do know he was on a forced march across Poland.(I do have a little information about the march) and he could never walk properly again up to his death in 1972.
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Henry William Novick DFC.. Royal Canadian Air Force 433 "Porcupine" Sqn from Montreal, Canada Henry Wiliam "Bill" Novick was a member of 433 Sqn, who flew from Skipton.
I know this remarkable man. He is far too modest to talk about his WW2 experiences, but I do know this: Bill is still alive, a respected and much loved ENT surgeon in Montreal Canada. He was until recently an avid tennis player.
His mission was to get his entire crew home safe and well, which he did by ruthlessly drilling them in all aspects of their position in the crew, as well as in safety procedure. He said that his crew "Hated me", because he would not let up, but when they landed their last mission, they lined up to thank him for bringing them safely through a terrible war. After WW2, he served as a volunteer in the Israeli Mahal, piloting a Curtis C46 Commando. bringing urgently needed weapons to the Haganah (forerunner of the Israeli defence force) from Czechoslovakia.
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F/O. William Henry "Bill" Novick DFC.. Royal Canadian Air Force 433 (Porcupine) Sqaudron from Montreal, Canada Bill Novick flew a complete tour, not a scratch on his crew, because he drilled them night and day on every facet of operations on a Halifax. He told me that because of his insistance on practice instead of going to a pub when stood down, his crew hated him. But on landing after their last flight, they lined up to individually express their gratitude for getting all of them home safely. Bill was decorated DFC, gazetted on the 12th of December 1944.
Bill flew a Curtis 46 as a "Machal" volunteer pilot after WW2, bringing desperately needed arms to the nascent Israeli defence forces. This is the subject of the movie "Above and Beyond", released Feb 2015, directed by Nancy Spielberg.
After leaving Machal, Bill became a highly respected ENT surgeon in Montreal, Canada.
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Cpl. Zygmunt Nowak . Polish Army Polish Tank Corps from Wolamakowska, Poland My father Zygmunt Nowak was captured on 6th of October 1939 and sent to Stalag XIII-A, and then moved to Stalag X-A in Schleswig. On 15th of December 19141, he was sent to work on a farm near Flensburg. He stayed there until the end of the war, as the farmer treated him well. Even after he was freed by the British, he stayed on to help at the farm until one of the farmer’s three sons came home from the war. Knowing the area well, he joined the occupying Allied forces to keep law and order in the area.
Not much was said about the camps, so I can't tell any stories. One interesting point was that some time in 1943 Dad was allowed to go home to Poland for a week. My family back in Poland has a record of this. His brother was part of the Polish underground and told him not to go back, as he would hide him in Poland. But Dad said no, as probably the Germans would kill the whole family if he didn't go back, plus he was being treated well there.
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Pte. John "Jock" Nowell . Australian Imperial Force 6th Divison Signals from Brisbane, Qld John Nowell served with the 6th Division Signals, Australian Army in WW2. He was wounded and captured in Kalamatta, Greece 28th of April 1941 and imprisoned at Stalag 18A Wolfsberg Austria.
John escaped with Snowy Yates, (from Ballarat Victoria) and Jock Robertson (from Paisley Scotland). They met up with 8th Army Scouts at Upine on the Austrian - Hungarian border and Kings Royal Rifles and 4th Hussars and he acted as interpreter until the end of war.
John re enlisted after WW2 for the Korean War and died in a Japanese hospital 24th of January 1956.
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Gnr. Leslie Nowell . British Army 5th Searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery from York (d.12th Sep 1944) On 13th May 1915, Leslie was born at Fishgate, York, Yorkshire, the son of George Ernest Nowell and Eliza Nowell. He left school as a teenager and was employed by York Council, where he worked as a general labourer and road sweeper. In 1936, Leslie married Eleanor Atkinson. They had two children and lived at 21 Temple Avenue, Tang Hall Estate, York.
In 1939, after the outbreak of the war, Leslie left his wife and two children to go into the Army. He was assigned to the 5th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, and was posted to Singapore. There, he was stationed at Changi Barracks.
On 15th February 1942, Leslie became a prisoner of war when Singapore was captured by the Japanese; his POW number was M-903. He, his comrades, and many other prisoners were kept at Changi Barracks, which the Japanese converted to use as a prison. He remained there until early April.
On 4 April 1942, Leslie was one of the first thousand prisoners to leave Singapore and be transported on the ship Nissyo Maru to Saigon, where he and the other prisoners were made to work at the docks.
On 22 June 1942, he was transferred to Thailand where, along with 700 other men, he was put to work building a railway. On the way, they were interned briefly at Tarsao Camp, and then spent a couple of weeks building the Kinsayok Camp.
On 23rd June 1944, Leslie and 500 other prisoners were taken from Tha Muang, Thailand to Singapore, where they awaited final transfer to confinement in Japan. On 4 September, he and 900 other prisoners boarded the Kachidoki Maru, which joined convoy Hi-72 en route to Japan. The convoy also included the Rakuyo Maru, which held 1,317 Australian and British prisoners. The two transport ships were not marked as carrying prisoners of war.
On 12th of September, the convoy was attacked by American submarines. At 22.40 hours, the USS Pampanito fired three torpedoes at the Kachidoki Maru. The ship was holed, flooded quickly, and sank. The only survivors were those who were able to jump overboard. Along with more than 400 other brave men who were aboard as prisoners, Leslie lost his life that night.
Sadly, while Leslie was a prisoner of war, his wife Eleanor contracted tuberculosis and died on 28 January 1944, at age 24. She left behind their two young children, Leslie age 8 yrs and Christine 6 yrs, not knowing that what lay ahead for them was to be placed in an orphanage, or knowing the fate of her husband.
Always remembered and never forgotten.
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PF Nower . British Army PF Nower 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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Gnr. William John Noy . British Army 25th Med & Heavy Training Unit Royal Artillery My grandfather William Noy served for a short while with the 25 Medium & Heavy Training Regiment RA, he was posted there on the 28/05/42 till 16/11/42 in C Battery which was based at Marske, North Yorkshire. He was then transferred to the Pioneer Corps and posted to No 12 Training Centre, then to 332 company which was formed in Oldham Lancs, 13 group on 30/11/42, disbanded in Hamburg 08/08/45.
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L/Cpl. Dennis Gordon Noyce . British Army Royal Hampshire Regiment from Southampton Serving in North Africa with Royal Hampshire Regiment, Dennis Noyce was captured by Italians and made a POW in an Italian camp.
After some time, Dennis was passed on to the Germans and sent to a Stalag in Germany, where he remained till end of war.
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