Stkpr. John Ernest "Jack" Paine . Merchant Navy SS Gloucester Castle from Millwall (d.15th July 1942) My merchant seaman grandfather Jack Paine died in July 1942 when the Gloucester Castle was sunk by the German cruiser Michel. I have some information about it and know there were a number of survivors. I want as much information I can get, including stories from any survivors, and I also want to find out if my father's cousin, who came from Canada, was also killed on the ship.
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KRC Paine . British Army KRC Paine 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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F/Lt. Lewis George "Polly" Paine . Royal Air Force 237 Squadron from Eyerstone Farm, Ruwa, Zimbabwe
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PO. Sydney Herbert Paine . Royal Navy HMS Ness from Kingsbury, London Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Sydney Paine served in HMS Ness.
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Pte. William Troy Paine . United States Army 326th Medical Corps from Memphis, TN My father, William Troy Paine (Bill), served in the US Army from 1943 to 1945. He was a medic with the 326th Medical Corps, 101st Airborne Division. He participated in "Market Garden" and landed in Zon. He worked for months at the regimental hospital near the Wilhelmina Canal and was later captured at the "Battle of the Bulge" in Bastogne, Belgium on December 19, 1944. He, along with other prisoners, marched in the snow for days and was packed into railroad cars where they could only stand. He was taken to Stalag IV-B. His POW dogtag No. 316777. He remained there until he was liberated by the Russians.
He did not speak of his experience in the camp often, but he did recall the body lice, hepatitis, and the weight loss. Throughout his life, whenever it snowed my father broke out in a neurogenic rash.
There was one person who he spoke of in the whole camp. This was an Asian American in his barracks. The reason he remembered this man is because he would walk up and down the barracks and say "There are three great men in this world.... Roosevelt... Churchill... and Me (the prisoner stated his name)!"
The closest he came to getting killed in WWII was while he was on a work detail to gather wood. The American planes accidentally strafed the prisoners, killing many. The next day the American planes dropped a wreath over the camp.
Upon liberation by the Russians, he and two other prisoners escaped the Russians. They had to steal cheese from the basement of a German home to survive the trek from the camp to the American lines across the Elbe River.
My father died in July 2010. I know little about his time in Stalag IV-B
If anyone has any more information on that or his trek to the Elbe please contact me.
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AJ Painter . British Army AJ Painter 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 Painter . British Army JH Painter 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. John Harry Painter . (d.7th Sept. 1941)
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P Painter . British Army P Painter 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 Painter . British Army Royal Armoured Corps W Painter 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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P/O Walter John Painter. . Royal Air Force 76 Sqd. (d.11th May 1943 )
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F/O. William James Painting . Royal Australian Air Force 320 Squadron from Whitton, NSW, Australia Bill Painting enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force on the 18th of July 1942 in Sydney. He was born on the 10th of June 1919 in Narrandera, NSW
He served as an air gunner until 17th of December 1945 and gained the rank of Flying Officer with 320 Squadron.
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JG Paitison . British Army South Lancashire Regiment JG Paitison served with the South 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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Sgt. Peter "Skip" Pajich . US Army B Coy. 106th Infantry Regt. from Pittsburgh, PA My father, Peter Pajich, died in 2002, a happy man. He felt like a king most of his life because of the suffering he had as a prisoner of war in Germany. He was a POW for 6 months in Stalag 4B. He spoke of many things but the major memories I, his daughter, have is the fact that he did not get to eat anything but bread. They tried to eat rotten apples from the ground and cockroaches even. They were given very little water. He had body lice most of the time. He said he didn't take his boots off for 6 months. He came out of boot camp at 169 lbs. and came home from POW camp at 89. He saw many die there. He was a 'lucky' one. I am very proud to say he was my father.
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HJ Palethorpe . British Army Royal Armoured Corps HJ Palethorpe 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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THW Paley . British Army Royal Armoured Corps THW Paley 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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J Palfreman . British Army Highland Light Infantry J Palfreman served with the Highland 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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Trpr. George Thomas Palfrey . British Army Tank Corps from Barnet My dad was Trooper George T. Palfrey in the Eight Army captured at Tobrook in May 1941 (I believe) then taken by boat to Italy, and sent onto Germany. My dad as far as I know from a rubber stamp on the back of a photo that my cousin phoned me about on Sunday, was also in Stalag IVG. Dad worked in quarries for three and half years, and it upsets me to even write about it. But I want to make a visit to where the camp was, as dad, who would have been 100 years old this coming November, always wanted to go back. He was not able to as that part of Germany was behind the Iron Curtain then. All that I know is that the POW Camp that dad was in was close to Leipzig, and now I have this camp number from the back of an old photo.
That little photo, of my cousin George who was 4 months old when it was taken, was carried by my dad all through those terrible times and also has an Italian stamp on it. Sadly his sister, George's mum, died while having another baby 18 months later. Dad was not told until he returned to England.
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Jerzy Palimaka . Polish Army from Czestochowa My father was detained at Stalag 1B POW camp Hohenstein between 1939-1940. I am seeking anyone who might have known him or who may have photographs.
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Lt2. Arthur Palladino . United States Army 785th Bomb Squadron 466th Bomb Group from Revere, MA Arthur Palladino was the Bombardier on the Lady Lightning a B-24 in 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bomb Group of the 2nd division of the 8th Army Air Corp, stationed at Attlebridge, Norwich, England (Base #120). His plane was shot down on 15th of Aug 1944 over the Netherlands. 4 of the crew were killed, 5 taken POW and 1 evaded capture. Arthur was held at Stalag Luft 1, North Compound, in Barth until liberated at the end of the war. As of 4 Feb 2017 he is still living at age 95.
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L/Sgt. George Arthur Pallister . from Durham (d.17th Oct 1944)
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Sgt. George Henry Pallister MiD. British Army A/S Group 27 Royal Army Signals Corps from Lincoln George Pallister served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
Father was Mentioned in Dispatches but I do not know why, he never talked about the serious side of his war, only the funny bits.
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A Palmer . British Army A Palmer 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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AG Palmer . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment AG Palmer served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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Flying Officer Alan Cairns Palmer . RAF Lancaster ED 542 106 Squadron (d.3rd April 1943)
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Stok. Arthur Palmer . Royal Navy
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Barbara Dilys Palmer . Women's Land Army from Pensford, Somerset I was interviewed in Bath in January 1942 at the age of 19 and received a letter with the option of immediate training at an "approved" farm or in the following September at Cannington Farm Institute. I decided to go to an approved farm and was sent to Upper Farm, Brean for a month starting in February. My father took me by car to see the farm on a bleak day in January and said "You can't go there!" but I had a letter from the farmer, Mr Tucker, with a date to commence and decided to go ahead. On the appointed day I caught a train to Brent Knoll but had to wait at the tiny station for what seemed a very long time as Mrs Tucker, who was supposed to meet me, was delayed because she was playing bridge!
I was excused milking the first morning, but after that it was up at half past six every morning! Fortunately, having been living in the country I already knew how to milk a cow.
One day I remember was when I was given a bucket and told to go to a large field and pick up stones, as the field was due to be mown the next day and the stones could damage the mowing machine. I'm still not sure if this was some sort of test.
At the end of the month Mr Tucker asked me if I would like to stay on and said "Yes please!" I lived in the farmhouse with the delightful family.
I was very disappointed at the first Christmas when I was told I couldn't go home - the cows still had to be milked!
Fortunately living on a farm, food always seemed to be in good supply, including an extra ration of cheese if you were in the land army. I didn't like cheese at the time but Mr Tucker was happy to have my ration!
One day in 1943 a German plane dropped an incendiary bomb, which contained many incendiary "bomblets"; these large bombs were dropped on a parachute and were supposed to open and spread the bomblets over the area, but this one failed to open properly. Seeing the large bomb on a parachute Mr Tucker thought it was a man parachuting down and told us to stay indoors while he and other members of the Home Guard went to investigate. After the bomb was made safe the large silk parachute was put to good use by the local ladies and we all had nice new underwear!
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Sgt. Benjamin R Palmer . British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch
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Bill Palmer . Royal Navy Commandos Royal Marines My great uncle was a commando. He was also a POW in Stalag 8b.
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Blimp Palmer . Navy HMS Nigeria I have a photo of H.M.S. Nigeria with lots of signatures on the back. It says Torpedo Division 1945 and is dated 19th September 1945.
The names are:
R G Stocker Geordie BurnsRonald J HarrisG KentP RaymentW WheatleyD ChapmanH J FisherD P Sweeney A ?? WhitheadH LockearBlimp PalmerG. KentJ Arnold ~(Sussex) A ChapmanJames Robertson(Jock)R E FisherD MercerR E RileyW L GilbertF J Fulcher (Wind Bo'sun 1st class)D Hughes TGMG L BowersE TicehurstF C WelchG W Downes
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