Sgt. David John Neilson . British Army 53rd Welsh Div Reconnaissance from Glasgow My grandfather Dai Neilson fought in the 2nd World War as part of the 53rd Welsh Reconnaissance division.
I have his beret, bearing the spearhead badge. I also have a SS dagger taken from a soldier during the liberation of a camp later in the war.
I know he was active in the liberation of S'Hertogenbosch and have a script given by the city as thanks for his involvement.
Any contact or further info is much welcome.
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Pilot Officer Roy J Neilson . RAAF 59 Squadron
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Lt. William Walter "Wattie" Neilson . British Army 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (d.12th April 1945)
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F/O A. N. Nelligan . Royal Canadian Air Force pilot 419 Sqd. (d.28th Oct 1944)
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Sgt. Herbert Nellis . British Army 5th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (d.28th May 1940) Herbert Nellis is my paternal grandfather and was killed in action, during the fall of France in 1940. He is buried in Bus House Cemetery, outside Ypres.
His brother served in the Royal Artillery and was a Prisoner of War to the Japanese after he was captured during the fall of Singapore, he survived inhuman treatment.
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Gnr. James Nellist . British Army 965 Defence Battery Royal Artillery (d.2nd Oct 1942) James Nellist died age 24, he was born Jarrow 1918 son of Joseph Foggon Nellist and of Catherine Nellist (nee Dunwoodie) of Primrose Jarrow. He remembered on the Sai Wan Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Pte. Adam John Carswell Nelson . British Army 5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion Highland Light Infantry from Glengarnock, Ayshire (d.18th January 1945) Adam Nelson was the 5th son of Adam & Ellen Nelson who had 8 children, their eldest son was James Douglas Nelson born in Glengarnock in 1908. James Nelson married Bertha Beadle in June 1934 in Largs. Sadly James passed away on 27th February 1943 due to ill health.
His wife Bertha lived in Dalmuir, Clydebank with her 4 daughters until her death in January 1999. Their youngest daughter Sarah Douglas Nelson born 23rd October 1943 married my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings, born 30th March 1940 in Clydebank on 11th November 1960 in Clydebank.
Adam was born in 1917 and killed at age 27 on 18th of January 1945, whilst serving with his unit near Sittard Nederland's. He is buried in the Sittard War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Sadly, with his loss his parents Adam & Ellen Nelson lost 2 children in little over a year.
Neither my Grandfather Nelson (James)& his Brother lived to see the end of the war.
On my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings's side of the family, his father, Alexander Kidd Cummings (Snr), was employed by Singer's (Manufacturing munitions & war supplies) in Clydebank & served in the Home Guard during the War, running along the factory roofs sweeping off incendiary bombs during the Clydebank Blitz with a broom. His elder brother, Sergeant Robert Allison Cummings, served in the Highland Regiment from 1932 to 1946 was a survivor of the Dunkirk Evacuation on 1st June 1940.
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Pte. Alexander Nelson . British Army Royal Army Ordnance Corps from Motherwell & Wishaw, North Lanarkshire (d.8th February 1941) My grandmothers brother Alexander Nelson was killed in Egypt, whilst we think on a motorbike on 8th of February 1941, I have since learned that he was a Private in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Sadly I have no other information about him, not even his birth records.
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Spr. Arthur Nelson . British Army 614 Road Construction Company Royal Engineers (d.9th June 1944) My grandfather Sapper 1912884 Arthur Nelson served with 614 Road Construction Royal Engineers and is buried in Bayeaux Cemetery in Normandy. Unfortunately, due to the loss of my father, we have no knowledge of events leading up to his death on 9th June 1944.
If anyone can help me piece together anything on the events leading up to this it would be of great help.
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Pte Christopher "Jim" Nelson . British Army 2nd Btn Middlesex Regiment from Stonebridge Park, London (d.6th June 1944) Christopher Nelson was my Mums first husband who seems to be known as Jim. I would like to know more about him.
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Pte. Clifford Reginald Nelson . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Lingwood (d.19th May 1940)
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Donald Nelson . British Army Royal Scots Donald Nielson was born on the 16th of Jan 1885 at 74 Lumsden Street Glasgow, he was my grandfather's brother. He later changed to his name to Nelson. I don't know anything about his military service as he was disowned by the family because he didn't marry the woman that had his child. His other brother put his name on the birth certificate and the grandmother raised the child as her own. So, I was always told he was killed lost at sea, until I found one of his six sister's belongings and she had photos and an address of 7, Well Lane, Falmouth Cornwall, he died in 1966. His Mother was Katherine McPherson born in Ross, Scotland and his father was Peter Kristoffer Nielsen born in the town of Provan, Coppenhagen Denmark.
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Edward Nelson . Royal Navy Edward Nelson was my grandfather, he served in the Royal Navy.
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2nd Lt. Garnett Otis Nelson . US Army Air Corps. 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Sqd. from Circleville, W.Va. USA. (d.12th May 1944) Garnett Nelson was listed as Missing in Action on the 12th of May 1944.
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George Nelson . Royal New Zealand Air Force 115 Squadron. from Christchurch, New Zealand (d.2nd Oct 1942)
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P/O. Henry Montague Nelson . Ropyal Air Force 101 Squadron from Islington, London (d.9th Apr 1943) I am trying to find out what happened to my Grandmother's two brothers who died in WW2, Henry and Sydney Nelson. I have managed to find a H.M. Nelson who flew in a Lancaster from RAF Holme on Spalding Moor but as there are only initals and Henry was recorded as being a POW I'm not sure if the H.M. is in fact Henry. I also found a S J Nelson but only going to the grave site listing did I find that it was not Sydney John Nelson. Henry I hope, was in Squadron 101, as Pilot Officer, that was hit by flak, target area but went down on 09/10th Apr 1943. Can anyone help me please?
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Sea. Henry "Jock" Nelson . Royal Navy from Leytonstone
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J Nelson . British Army J Nelson 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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JA Nelson . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment JA Nelson served with the Kings Liverpool 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 Cuningham Nelson . British Army from Whitehaven Sadly my father, James Nelson died when I was young and did not talk about the war. I know he was in the Desert Rats until he got burnt when his tank was hit. He was then in the tanks on D-Day and was one of the first to hit the beaches. What regiment he was in I do not know and would love to find more about him and his experiencs. I have no pictures of him from the war time, but have not been through my mum's personal effects yet after she died a couple of years ago.
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Pte. John Murdoch McGilvray Nelson . British Army 2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry from Glasgow John Nelson served in the East African Expeditionary Force, was taken a prisoner of war at the Battle of Keren. He died in Glasgow in 1949 aged 36.
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NHG Nelson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps NHG Nelson 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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S Nelson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps S Nelson 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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Pvt. Sam Jesse Nelson . US Army from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA My father, PFC Sam Jesse Nelson, Jr., US Army Infantry, was captured in December, 1944, in the Vosges Mountains of France. He was very briefly held at Stalag 4A before being taken to Stalag 4B/Muhlberg. There, he was strafed by British pilots going to Dresden. Of course, they had no way to know who was on the ground. Since my father was an enlisted man, he was put to work. He had no fond memories of the work that was required of him and his buddies, mostly moving rocks from rubble, I believe on railroads tracks.
Although I don't know for sure, I believe that the camp was liberated by Russians as my father described many Russians in the area and he encountered no American or other Allies.
Dad always told us that a few days before the end of the war in Europe, the POWs from Stalag 4B were put on the road marching. Although it was obvious that the guards were hopeful that they'd be able to surrender to the Americans rather than the Russians, there was also talk that Hitler had given a command to execute all POWS. The guards were not vigilant as they were concerned with surviving themselves, and so my father and a friend lit out from the group. Dad said they encountered Russians and others on the road but he figured that he and his friend looked too pitiful to even detain. They were allowed to pass with no interruption.
Sometime later, they made their way into Czechoslovakia where they eventually met up with a British unit. They were given baths and new British uniforms as theirs were in taters and infested with lice.
Eventually, my father was taken, along with many other liberated POWs, to a staging area in France where they awaited transport back to the States.
One of the strangest things he related was that German POWs were serving in the cafeteria. When the liberated Americans came into contact with these Germans, who were in much better condition than the Americans, not surprisingly a fight broke out. I gather it was quite a ruckus. You wonder who thought that would be a good idea?
Also, at the staging area, the liberated American POWs were allowed and encouraged to eat as much as they wanted. Having been practically starved, they ate large quantities of food, including multiple milkshakes every day. When my father was liberated, he weighed less than 100 pounds. He was 6'2". As a result of his starvation and the subsequent lack of nutritional knowledge available at that time, he had stomach and digestive problems for the rest of his life.
Sam Jesse Nelson, Jr. got transport on a ship back into Boston Harbor. He turned the ripe old age of 20 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
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TD Nelson . British Army TD Nelson 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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2nd Lt. Walter John Marchmont Nelson . Royal Navy HMS Mccaw My Dad, Walter Nelson served at HMS Mccaw at Silecroft near Millom in Cumbria during the Second World War and met my mother Doris Plant while he was there and married her. I would be very grateful for any details photos etc. from anyone who knew either or both of them. Thank you.
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Gnr. Wiiliam Rupert Nelson . British Army 41st (NSR) Searchlight Regiment, 363rd SL Bty. Royal Artillery
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F/O Wilfred Nelson . Royal Air Force 540 Squadron from Heaton Chapel, Stockport (d.28th March 1943) Wilfred Nelson was shot down on a Photo Reconnaissance mission over Trondheim Ffiord, Norway. Unfortunately, he went down with his aircraft a Mosquito twin engine Bomber.
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P/O. Wilfred Nelson . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 540 Squadron (d.28th March 1943) Wilfred Nelson was shot down over Trondheim Fiord by a fighter whilst on a photo recce mission to find the Tirpitz Battle Cruiser.
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Sgt James Nelson. . RAFVR 1664 HCU (d. 28th Sep 1943)
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