Drv. David Penrose . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from York, England
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Cpl. William Henry Penrose . British Army My father, William Henry Penrose, born 26th April 1913 in Brayton near Selby, Yorkshire, served in the Army, before, during and after WW2.
We have photos of him in uniform in Egypt and he served in the battle of Sidi Barani and we believe Montecasino and others. We have no record of his service number but we believe he was a Commando. Does anyone know of his military service. Dad died 13 March 1983 in Yorkshire.
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VF Penson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps VF Penson 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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Able Sea. Alec William George "Blondie" Penstone . Royal Navy from Eastmount Lodge I served as an ASDIC operator on the Arctic convoy runs to and from Murmansk and at Normandy. I was awarded the Ushakov Medal (USSR). Two days after my marriage 74 years ago, I left for the Far East and was at the Japanese signing of the surrender of Hong Kong. I returned to UK 14 months later. Our one and only child, a daughter, was born 17 years after our wedding.
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J Pentelow . British Army J Pentelow 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 Penzer . British Army JH Penzer 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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Capt. George Tosco Vivian Peppe . Indian Army Indian General Service Corps (d.1st October 1942) Captain Peppe was 54 when he died. He is buried in the Ranchi (S.P.G.) Cemetery in India, Mil. Plot, Row X, Grave 1.
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A Pepper . British Army 17/21st Lancers A Pepper 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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EH Pepper . British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regiment EH Pepper served with the Loyal North Lancashire 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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F Pepper . British Army F Pepper 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. Jack Desmond Pepper . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. from Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham (d.28 June 1944)
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RJG Pepper . British Army RJG Pepper 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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WO2 William George Pepper R/105665. Royal Canadian Air Force 428 Squadron from Ohaton, AB Canada (d.26th May 1943)
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CW Percival . British Army Royal Armoured Corps CW Percival 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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James Percy . Royal Air Force RAF Redcastle from Scarborough
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Cpl. John Robert "Breck" Percy . British Army 9th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from Bedlington, Northumberland My Father, John Robert Percy, never gave me much detail of his time in the Northumberland Fusiliers and never told me which actual unit he was in so there are many gaps in my knowledge which I would like to fill if possible.
I am assuming he was in the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers because that fits with the stories I have. For a long time as a child I was told that he was wounded at Dunkirk but in the 1970's he finally told me, (citing the 30 year rule as by then he was a civil servant in the MOD and a signatory to the Official Secrets act) that he was actually wounded in a friendly fire accident in England while the unit was dug in on the south coast. Because of this he was in hospital when they were sent to Singapore and he fortunately missed becoming a POW
His tale is that he joined the Territorial Army prior to the war because as a coal miner he got no holidays and this was a way for himself and his mates to get a paid holiday away from the pit. When he was called up in 1938 (Munich Crisis) at the age of 19 he had actually moved away to the south taking his whole family with him but his call up papers took some time to catch him up as they went to the old address in Bedlington. By the time he did report to his unit he had been posted AWOL and was promptly jailed. Fortunately his unit passed the hat round and collected his fine to get him out again.
He also said that before going to France the they were all given the option of going back to the pit. They all turned it down preferring the Army. He said that when they arrived in France they had no firing pins for the machine guns. Looking at other information it seems they were light on lots of other equipment too. Stories of France are very thin, almost non existent and the only one I can recite completely is of his unit being in Arras where they had been told there were no Germans. So, they went sightseeing having left all their equipment in a cul de sac. In the process they met a group of Germans doing the same thing. While the Brits ran back to their guns, the Germans went to their tanks and were entering the Cul de sac as the Brits were moving up the road. My Father said the Commanding Officer was killed in this action and actually said it was the Duke of Northumberland!? The 9th Duke is on record as having died in 1940 but i have no other information.
He never said anything about Dunkirk itself and that is all I have, apart from his cap badge. I would be grateful if anybody can fill the gaps. He died in 1998 and would be 90 now.
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Spr. Constantine Perdik . British Army Royal Engineers (d.25th Aug 1942) Constantine Perdik died aged 24, he was born in Jarrow in 1917, son of John and Priscilla Perdik (nee Douglas) of Jarrow.
He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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PFC. Eduardo Perez . US Army 1st btn co. C 30th Infantry Regiment from Bakersfield, Canada Uncle Ed was a POW in Stalag 18a. He was in a prisoner exchange and came home on the Gripsholm Repatriation ship in about June 1944. I wrote other POW and they claimed that there were no Americans there. Our card from him while he was in the hospital was clearly marked Stalag 18a. The people I wrote to were English. and Aussies and they found my uncle's name on roll call Stalag 18a
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Pte. James Ernest Perfect . British Army 1st Battalion, C Company Suffolk Regiment from Ipswich James Perfect served from 16th of May 1940 until May 1946 and was involved in action at the Normandy Landings as part of C Company, 1st Suffolks, 8th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Corps, 2nd British Army. He further served in Palestine before being demobbed. The picture of him and his Company at Wettern is dated 2nd of September 1944 and those of him in Ismailia are dated 16th of November 1945.
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Ord. Seaman G. Perham . Royal Navy HMS Forfar G.Perham is listed amongst the survivors brought ashore from HMS Forfar.
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Aircraftwoman 1st Class Ivy Emily Perham . WAAF RAF Stradishall (d.25th Aug 1942) My Aunt was killed at RAF Stradishall on 25 August 1942. I would very much like to get in touch with anybody who knew her or anybody who has information related to her death, believed to have been crushed by an ambulance although this is not that clear.
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F Perkin . British Army Border Regiment F Perkin served with the Border 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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Sqd.Ldr. A. S. Perkins DFC.. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 83 Squadron from Wallasey, Cheshire (d.27th Aug 1944) Squadron Leader (Navigator) A. S. Perkins was the Son of Albert Samuel and Millicent Blanche Perkins of Wallasey, Cheshire.
He was aged 32 when he died and is buried in the Randbol Churchyard in Denmark.
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AC2. Albert Alexander Perkins . Royal Air Force from Cardiff War or no war and dangers of training added, the airmen stationed at Stanton Harcourt could be assured the local police were onto them, certainly for the highly dangerous practice of giving someone else a lift on your bicycle!!
It happened to my father, Albert Perkins in 1942. While stationed with 10 OTU at Stanton Harcourt.
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Capt. Alexander Reginald Perkins . British Army Intelligence Corps from Kensington, London Alex Perkins, my father, among several postings was with O.C. 315th Field Security HQ Bari, Italy from 1943-45. He was on the quay with his CO when the Luftwaffe bombed the harbour on the evening of 2nd of December 1943. Like everyone else in the harbour, he was unaware that one of the ships was carrying mustard gas bombs. It was not officially admitted until 1967, read Disaster At Bari by Glenn B. Infield.
My father never talked about it but once, when he described to me how a bomb hit the quay and vaporized his commanding officer. I bought him a copy of Infield's book but he never spoke of Bari again.
He remained in the Intelligence Corps until 1949 with his last posting to HQ Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Cecil Roy Perkins . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Nuneton
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Able Sea. Christopher Harry Perkins . Royal Navy H.M.S. Acheron from Killamarsh, North East Derbyshire (d.17th Dec 1940) Christopher Harry Perkins P/SSX29931 served as an Able Seaman on H.M.S. Acheron. He was lost when the Ship was sunk on 17th December 1940. He was 21 years old. He grew up in Killamarsh in North East Derbyshire. Sadly, I know nothing of him but my mother, who was only a child at the time, grew up in the same village and has never forgotten him. I hope his parents found peace.
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DD Perkins . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DD Perkins 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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DE Perkins . British Army Northamptonshire Regiment DE Perkins served with the Northamptonshire 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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F/L E. J.L. Perkins . 97 Squadron
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