Stokr1. John William Pickrell . Royal Navy HMS Tartar from Harrow Jack Pickrell served in HMS Tartar.
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JA Pickthall . British Army JA Pickthall 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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Emerson Blair Pickthorne . Royal Canadian Air Force 99 Squadron My father, Emerson Pickthorne was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and was with the 99 squadron in India and Nepal in 1942, 43. He took some wonderful photos while there with soldiers names identified. The names listed for this photo are: left to right: Woodgate, Ely, Campbell, Allen, Pickthorne, Forsyth, Dobson (RIP), Stanley, Tate (RIP) Bowerman, Austin (RIP), Dickie, Hudson, NacDonald (RIP)
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Sgt J. Pickup . RCAF 428 Sqd. Sgt Pickup was shot down 7th of Sep 1943 and taken POW.
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JK Pickup . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JK Pickup 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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JK Pickup . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JK Pickup 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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Bdr. John Pickup . British Army 23 Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Nelson, Lancs Dad, Bdr Jsck Pickup, had been in the Artillery for 8 years prior to WW2.
They went out to France in Sept 1939 and were stationed near Metz, in North Eastern France. He was a surveyor. They carried out rearguard actions through France and the Somme region to Abbeville. His battery knocked out numerous German tanks using "open sights" at relatively close range. They had become part of The 51st Highland Division.
They were trying to get back to Le Havre. When near to St Valery-En-Caux, the surveying unit was asked to go towards Fecamp to plot future gun positions. When returning the "truck" they were in was targeted by a panzer machine gunner. There was a driver, a captain, Bdr John Pickup and one other person. The only one to be wounded was the captain, whose arm was almost severed by a large calibre round. He had earlier insisted that they return to St Valery, which had almost been surrounded by the Germans before they left. They dropped the captain at an improvised aid post and Dad never knew if the captain had survived his wounds. Dad didnt think he would have.
They were in action around St Valery without infantry in front of them and the 25 pounder guns were worn with all the rounds that they had fired. Within a day or two they surrended to Rommel on 12th of June 1940.
I have researched and found a captain who I think died on the 11th of June 1940, at St Valery and he was in the 23rd Field Regiment and was from Kent, he may have been the captain mentioned above, a brave and dedicated officer!.
Dad spent the next four and three quarter years in POW camps in Poland and Germany (Stalag 20a and 357 at Falinbostal) and nearly being killed by Typhoons on a forced march towards Lubeck at the end of the war.
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Pte. Lewellyn Beaumont Pickup . British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch (d.22nd May 1940) I just saw the movie Dunkirk and wanted to post this as a remembrance to my great uncle, Pte. Lewellyn Pickup, who gave his life whilst serving his King and Country on the 22nd of May 1940.
Growing up my mum always told me the story of Christmas 1939 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire of her uncle coming to visit the house dressed in his kilt.
My mum also mentioned how my great uncle died according to his mate. He had ran into a house to take cover and a German plane dropped a bomb on it. Needless to say his body was never found. He is remembered on the Dunkirk memorial.
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LAC Edward Picton . Royal Air Force 35 Squadron from Tottenham, London Dad, Ted Picton joined 35 Squadron in January 1941 as an aero-engine fitter on Halifaxes. A few things I remember him telling me, declining the invitation to be a rear gunner having seen the turrets being hosed-out of remains after missions, the base being bombed and one of the WAAF's being killed, losing a stripe after getting into a fist fight in one of the local pubs, being sweet on a girl at the Rowntree factory in York.
I took him to Linton on Ouse around Christmas time 1996, unfortunately we couldn't get on to the base as it was closed, but he chatted to one of the guards on duty. I'd hoped to get him to see the reconstructed Halifaxes at the Elvington Yorkshire Air Museum, but he died in 1998 before I could do so. With my wife and 3 children, I went there, and also paid a visit to Linton on Ouse, out of respect to him. It felt emotional walking around the base where he would have been for part of his wartime service.
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Able Sea. George Picton . Royal Navy HMS Aurora from Milford Haven My grandad was on HMS Aurora, he was in Greece and Milan were Benito Mussolini was hanged.
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LAC Harold Christopher James Picton . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (d.19th Sep 1945) Leading Aircraftman Picton is buried in the Ringe Cemetery in Denmark.
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RR Pictor . British Army RR Pictor 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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P/O Bernard G. Piddocke . Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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WJ Pidgeon . British Army 5th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment WJ Pidgeon served with the 5th Btn. Royal Tank 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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Georges Pieltani . Belgian Army from Pepinster, Belgium My great grandfather, Georges Pieltani, from Pepinster, Belgium was held in Stalag 8A. My grandmother told me stories how he and
some of the others would kill a pig and have a barbecue or ruin the
laundry on purpose. It was sort of their little ways of fighting the
Germans discretely. I know he saw some really horrible things during the five years he was there and I have a letter from Red Cross telling my great grandmother where her husband was.
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Pvt. Pierce . US Army Headquarters Battery 172nd Field Artillery Battalion
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Pte. Albert Pierce . British Army Parachute Regiment My great uncle Albert Pierce died in Tunisia during the Second World War and was in the Parachute Regiment. He was born in Llanrhaeder and is on the memorial in Hanmer. We don't really know much else about him so any information or advice from anyone would be brilliant.
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Charles Pierce . U.S. Marine Held as a Prisoner in Fukuoka 3b.
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TC Pierce . British Army South Lancashire Regiment TC Pierce 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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LAC. Alfred Harry Arthur Pierpoint . Royal Air Force from Essex Our father Alfred Pierpoint served, as an LAC and, we assume, undertook radar training at RAF Yatesbury. As far as we know he also worked on instrumentation, automatic pilot and oxygen systems during the war, but we're not sure whether this was at Yatesbury or elsewhere.
We know he worked on Wellingtons and this is consistent with some information we have found that places him at RAF Feltwell in Norfolk around July 1941. He told us a story, more than once, of working on the oxygen tanks of a Wellington when the pilots decided to take off with him still on board.
He also mentioned how, in radar training, his class was being shown the power of high frequency radio waves by an instructor. Said lecturer demonstrated this by holding a piece of 4 by 2 timber a few inches from an active dipole transmission antenna and casually remarking on how it only took a minute or so before the wood began to smoke and then burst into flame. Obviously Health and Safety requirements were fairly low on the wartime agenda.
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Sgt Harry Pierpoint. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.24th May 1943) Rear Gnr. Henry Pierpoint was killed on 24th May 1943 in Lancaster I W4861 PH-M of 12sqd
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Pte. I. Pierre-Louis . Royal Mauritius Regiment (d.5th July 1942) Private Pierre-Louis is buried in the Diego Garcia (Pointe Marianne) Cemetery in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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LH Pierson . British Army LH Pierson 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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Pte. D. Pieterse . S.A. Forces Cape Corps (d.10th January 1945) Private Pieterse is buried in the Rabat European Cemetery in Morocco.
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L/Bdr. George Pigg . British Army Royal Artillery from Sunderland George Pigg was captured at St Valery en Caux in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war as a PoW. Records show him in Stalag 383, Hohelfels in 1942.
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L/Bmbdr. George Pigg . British Army 23rd Field Regiment Royal Artillery from Sunderland George Pigg joined the Army in 1930. He was sent to France in 1940 and was captured at St Valery En Caux. He spent the rest of the war as a Pow and
spent time at Stalag 383 in Hohenfels.
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F/O. Oswald St. John "Ossie" Pigg . Royal Air Force 72 Squadron (d.2nd Sep 1940) Oswald St John Pigg was born in Jarrow in 1918 and was the son of the Reverend John James Pigg and Mabel Tyson Pigg of Chatton Vicarage, Northumberland. He went to the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle. Rev John Pigg, was curate at St John's Church in Grainger Street, Newcastle, then chaplain at Durham Prison and vicar of Chatton in Northumberland.
F/O Oswald St John Pigg served in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. He joined the RAF in March 1937 on a Short Service Commission and was posted to 72 Sqn at Church Fenton on 27 November 1937. On June 2, 1940 he shot down a Ju87 over Dunkirk, then crash-landed, slightly wounding himself, at Gravesend. On 15 August 1940 Oswald shot down a Bf109. The 22-year-old had been involved in an aerial fight and he died when his Spitfire, P9458, was shot down by a Messerschmitt 109 at 11:15am on September 1, 1940. His aircraft crashed and burned out at Elvey Farm, Pluckley.
Oswald lies in the Cemetery at Durham, St. Oswald’s Burial Ground and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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H Piggin . British Army H Piggin 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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LE Piggin . British Army Royal Armoured Corps LE Piggin 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 Pigott . British Army J Pigott 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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