Pte. Nelson Robert Owen . British Army 7th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from Heacham My father, Nelson Robert Owen, was born in Heacham, Norfolk on the 4th of November 1918. He served with the 7th Royal Norfolk Regiment during the 2nd World War. He was captured at St.Valery on the 12/06/1940. His prisoner of war number was 15877. He was held in Stalag XXA in Poland.
Due to my father dying in 1971 at the age of 52 (I was only 13 years old) I didn't ever really get to hear anything much about his time as a prisoner of war etc. But one thing I do remember is him telling me about his friend (who later became a close family friend) John Hagen, who since the war lived near Melton Constable, Norfolk. He had one Christmas Eve when it was bitterly cold and snowing, picked up his banjo and played 'Silent Night'. Afterwards everyone was completely quiet and silence remained for quite some time, as obviously everyone was feeling very homesick and thinking of family back home. John Hagen had also told me how he had worked in the kitchen and also in the brewery at the camp, where they would prepare the food for the German's, and would regularly urinate in the soup! If anyone can remember anything about my father, please add to this message.
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RH Owen . British Army RH Owen 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.
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Sgt. Robert Edward Owen . Australian Army 2/17th Battalion from St Kilda, Victoria, Australia My father Robert Owen volunteered for military service on 11th of November 1939 and was enlisted as an infantryman on 7th of December 1939 at Number 7 Drill Hall, Chapel Street, East St Kilda. He was living at 1 Te-Arai Avenue, St Kilda ,East Victoria, Australia at that time and was working as an Insurance Inspector.
On 15th of April 1940 he arrived in Khartoum as part of the 2/17th Army Infantry Battalion. He subsequently served in Palestine, North Africa and Crete as Corporal in charge of a motorised Vickers Machine Gun Unit. He was reported missing in action during August 1942. On 27th of October 1942 the Red Cross advised Australian Forces that he had been taken Prisoner of War and moved Stalag VIIIB Lansdorf. He was subsequently moved to Stalag 383 Hohenfels where he spent the remainder of the War.
Whilst at Hohenfels he undertook and completed a Degree in Psychology via a programme operated by Edinburgh University through the Red Cross. He was also painted by the camp artist Ron Nethercote.
On 10th of April 1945 the camp was liberated and by 13th of May 1945 he was moved to the UK. He was billeted in Eastbourne, Sussex until 22nd September 1945 when he left for Melbourne via Gibraltar arriving home on 17th October 1945.
He was discharged as a Sergeant on 3rd December 1945 to his sister's address in Brighton Victoria.
He was entitled to the following medals, 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and the Australia Service Medal, however he never requested them.
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RV Owen . British Army RV Owen 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.
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T Owen . British Army Royal Armoured Corps T Owen 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.
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F/Sgt. T. R.G. Owen . 97 Squadron
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TE Owen . British Army TE Owen 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.
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Private Thomas Richard Owen . British Army Royal Welch Fusiliers from Swansea Stalag 4c POW No 248587
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W Owen . British Army Royal Artillery W Owen served with the Royal Artillery 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.
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WC Owen . British Army Royal Welsh Fusiliers WC Owen served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers 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.
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WF Owen . British Army WF Owen 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.
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Able Sea. William Owen . Royal Navy HMS Indefatigable My Dad Bill Owen was on the communications between the aircraft and the carrier, HMS Indefatigable but had to be relieved from duty as being a northerner as the pilots could not understand him.
On the day of the kamikaze hit, the position he would have occupied, if he had not have been demoted, was hit by the plane and his replacement was killed.
He had a good friend, Eddie Dolan, who later married his wife Edna's sister.
Any information would be welcome.
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L/Cpl. William Valentine Owen . British Army 13th Btn
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Alfred William John Owens . I am seeking information about my grandfather, Alfred William John Owens. Originally from Warwickshire, he moved to Birmingham. He was captured on Crete and spent the next five years as a POW. Does anyone remember him?
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G Owens . British Army G Owens 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.
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Sgt. Glyndwr Owens . Royal Air Force 61 Squadron from Porth Rhondda (d.8th Jul 1941)
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Fus. Idris Owens . British Army Royal Welch Fusiliers Idris Owens was held in StalagXXIB,
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Pte. James Owens . British Army Cheshire Regiment from Bebibngton I have some details about my late father-in-law, James Owens. He was a gunner in the Cheshire Regiment, captured 29th of May 1940 and survived 5 years as a POW (acted as interpreter, thereby earning 'extras' despite knowing no German until he arrived at the camp). He later became part of the Long March into Germany as the war began to end during which many prisoners and some German guards died too from exhaustion, starvation and hyperthermia.
I have his service and pay book and a book gifted to him during his time as a POW by Red Cross entitled, The Autobiography of a Chinese Girl, which has a kind of official sticker:
"P/W 467. Pte. J. Owens Stalag XXID (13)"
While he was grateful, at the time, for such a gift, he never read it!
I also have his memoires of his war which he recorded by hand 1984 and were later typed up but remain unedited.
He married 1950 and had a son, my late husband. He died aged 74 in 1993. I believe his privations and experiences as prisoner, held for 5 years scarred him terribly. He had a recurring nightmare about losing his pack. He suffered flash-backs and depression, classic PTSD symptoms but of course, like his fellows, he never complained. He did not seem to bear any grudges against Germans either.
It makes me laugh to recall how when news of Allied defeats and Nazi victories etc were announced at roll call, the prisoners would cheer wildly much to the bewilderment of the guards who never got British humour.
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L/Cpl. JC Owens . British Army 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry L/Cpl.JC Owens served with the 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry 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.
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JM Owens . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JM Owens 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.
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Noel Owens . Royal Air Force from New Zealand Noel Owens was a New Zealand pilot who flew for the RAF during WW2.
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Pte. Robert John Owens . British Army Pioneer Corps from Belfast, Northern Ireland (d.14th November 1944) Private Owens was the Son of Thomas and Emily Owens; husband of Mary Anne Owens, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He is buried in the Cavan Protestant Cemetery, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
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T Owens . British Army Reconnaissance Corps T Owens 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.
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Stokers Mate William George Owens . Royal Navy HMS London from Swansea
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Pte. Richard Owings . Kings Royal Rifle Corps 4th Battalion from Liverpool
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S Owlett . British Army S Owlett 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.
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R Oxberry . British Army 17/21st Lancers R Oxberry 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.
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Sgt. SR Oxer . British Army 142nd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps Sgt.SR Oxer served with the 142nd 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: 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.
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A Oxley . British Army Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry A Oxley 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: 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.
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