H Powley . British Army Border Regiment H Powley 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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Ch.ERA. Herbert William Powley . Royal Navy HMS Hood from Headingley, Yorkshire (d.24th May 1941) Herbert Powley was born on 2nd December 1900 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, the son of William Charles Powley and Bessie nee Phippen. His father was a coach finisher on the railways. His father died when Herbert was only four. Soon thereafter, Herbert moved to Exeter with his mother and two sisters, and he later attended Hele's Grammar School in the city.
Herbert signed up for the Royal Navy on his eighteenth birthday, soon after the end of the First World War. He was a boy artificer. His first assignment was on HMS Indus, which was the Engine Room Artificer's Training establishment commissioned in 1904.
Soon after his 25th birthday, he was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy. First, he was assigned to HMA London until 17th December 1925, then served on Cerberus (18th December 1925 to 10th March 1926), Geranium (11th March 1926 to 9th May 1927 and Penguin (10th May 1927 to 28th January 1928).
HMAS Cerberus was the Royal Australian Navy's primary training establishment, located adjacent to Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1927 whilst in Australia he married Marion Broadhead, a worsted mender, who had travelled to Australia from Leeds, Yorkshire, to join her sister, Alice. Herbert was friends with a fellow secondee, Herbert Broadhead, Marion's brother.
From 1934 until 1939, Herbert was based in Malta, and served on HMS Hood. Herbert served as president of the Engine Room Articifers Club in Malta and was presented with a silver tea service in recognition. The family moved back to England in 1939 and lived in Headingley, Leeds. The outbreak of the Second World War meant that Herbert did not retire when he became 40, and he died when HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait.
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H Powlter . British Army Royal Tank Regiment H Powlter served with the 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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CPO Arthur Pownall . Royal Navy HMS Ranpura My grandfather, CPO Arthur Pownell, served on HMS Ranpura in 1939/40. He was recalled to service as a reservist, having served in the Royal Navy from the end of the South African war through WWI. The Ranpura went out to India in September 1939 and spent Christmas out there, returning to Atlantic convoy duty in early 1940. My grandfather (who died in 1950) told one sea tale of this ship. One voyage involved a night-time sailing from Liverpool under high security and a very public welcome in New York. He reckoned that they were taking the Crown Jewels! There is often some truth in these tales and I believe it is possible that they were moving gold bullion.
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CW Pownall . British Army Royal Armoured Corps CW Pownall 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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Pte. Ernest Peter Powrie . British Army 5th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) from Dundee (d.26th March 1945) Ernest Powrie lost his life aged just 18 during action in Germany. His battalion was one of the first to cross the Rhine. What perhaps makes Ernest's death more poignant is that his father also died on active service four days later.
Staff-Sergent Albert Powrie was a WW1 veteran and had volunteered to serve his country in this conflict. He was posted to India and worked as a motor mechanic with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Albert died from burn wounds after an accident, not knowing that his son Ernest had been killed four days earlier. Albert's wife (and Ernest's mother) was Janet Grieve Powrie (nee Boyter). Janet passed away in 1978 and had one surviving son. Her distress at hearing of the deaths of her husband and son only days apart can barely be imagined.
Albert Powrie was my great uncle. I never met him or Ernest (I was born many years after their deaths). I found out about them when researching my family tree. There are some mentions of them in local newspapers of the time and council and parish records etc. Given the nature of the family tragedy, it is important to me that they are remembered. I felt a surge of pride to find out I was related to these heroes and intend to visit Ernest's war grave in Germany in the near future. Hopefully one day I cold also visit Albert's grave in India. I now proudly consider myself to be one of the privileged guardians of their memories and will ensure that my children and grandchildren never forget their sacrifices, and why such brave service personal had to perish.
I am an author and mostly compose short stories and poetry. I have now commenced a more detailed research project around these two men and hopefully this could lead to some widespread publicity around their story. Even though it is a tragedy, it is a fantastic story ion the same vein as Saving Private Ryan. I am finding information quite hard to come by as most of the direct descendants of the men are either unknown to me or deceased. More detailed information around the campaigns of their battalions are mostly unknown to me as well. If anyone one reading this article would kindly like to share any information about Albert and Ernest, or their battalions, I would be most grateful.
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Tel Cyril William Poyner . Royal Navy HMS Drake from Birmingham I have a letter from Navy Command advising that my father Bill Poyner served on the HMS Drake from 25th Feb 1944 till 24th Mar 1944. I am tracing my father's WW2 records.
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George Arthur Poyner . British Army Sadly my father, George Poyner, died in 1978 and told us little or nothing about his army life, I have a few very tatty papers and a Regular army book with a certificate of discharge and as far as I can make out his army number was T.5247540. I know that he was in Holland in the war because he told me to look up some people that he met while in Holland. I did just that and the man that I spoke with remembered him well. This was in Venray and the house we were in was the very same house that my father visited in the war only then the windows and the roof had been blown off by a bomb. I would like to find out more about my father and his army background.
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Doris May Poynter . Auxiliary Teritorial Service from Hampstead, London Doris Poynter served in the Auxiliary Teritorial Service in London during World War 2. She worked in the underground chambers at Horseferry Road that connected with Downing Street and the War rooms and has many comical stories about her time there.
A memory of hers she used to laugh about was when her and the other girls were making the connecting calls they would have to say "Number please". They would say this numerous times a day and it could become quite repetitive. So sometimes they started saying "Rubber Knees" instead which got them all laughing!
She also remembers the time Churchill came to say 'Hello' to them all, an experience she never forgot! She also was working on the day when the troops landed in Normandy which had been co-ordinated from the same place where she worked and she and the other girls had been connecting calls that contributed to the momentous occasion however, of course, they knew nothing about it at the time. “It seemed like a normal day to us, no busier than usual!”
A collection of her favourite memories throughout the War in London, filmed in 2005.
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W/Cdr Pozyczka D.F.C. . Polish Air Force 300 Sqd.
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F/Lt. H. C. Prager . Royal Air Force No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland (d.30th August 1941) On 30th August 1941 a Hudson T9336 'Moesi' of 320 squadron was lost during convoy patrol off Norwegian Coast
The crew were:
- F/Lt Henri Carlo Prager - Missing in Action
- F/O Jacobus Weber - Missing in Action
- P.J.C. Van Der Linden - Missing in Action
- Ac2 Krijn Van Os - Missing in Action
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Off. H.C. Prager . Royal Air Force No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland On 8th March 1941 the Hudson T9356 'Brantas' of 320 Squadron crash landed at Carew Cheriton. The crew were:
- Off. H.C. Prager - OK not wounded
- Off. F. Overeijnder - wounded
- Cpl. J. Zuurveld - wounded
- A. Van Mastbergen - wounded
- H. Jongman - OK not wounded
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Able Seaman. Pragnell . Royal Navy HMS Forfar Ab Pragnell listed in the chorus of the revue
"Get Sailing" which was performed onboard the Forfar on the 19th of June 1940.
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Sto. Phillip Roy Pragnell . Royal Naval Reserve HMS Prunella My father-in-law, Roy Pragnell, now aged 85 was one of the survivors on the raft rescued by HMS Versatile. He has a copy of the Daily Mirror photograph of the rescue. He was a stoker and being quite young, 19, worked on auxiliary machinery.
Thirteen men rescued by HMS Versatile, Arthur Brimfield (2nd left), Philip Roy Pragnell in the middle the dark sweater.
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Sto. Roy Pragnell . Royal Naval Reserve HMS Prunella My father-in-law, Roy Pragnell, now aged 85 was one of the survivors on the raft rescued by HMS Versatile. He has a copy of the Daily Mirror photograph of the rescue. He was a stoker and being quite young, 19, worked on auxiliary machinery.
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Cyril John Prangley . British Army Royal Artillery from George Street, Staines My Father, Cyril Prangley’s regiment, was ordered to protect the enemy line in Benghazi so all the other regiments could escape. He was captured sometime during 1940 and held in prison in Benghazi. He was transferred by the German army in a boat to mainland Italy and marched to a place called Casserta.
To our knowledge he was held as a PoW but classed as "missing presumed dead" for three and a half years. He was repatriation by the Americans at the end of the war.
He very rarely spoke of the horrors he saw and the vicious treatment he endured, but recalled on that great morning he awoke to find no German soldiers patrolling the prison camp and the gates wide open and they all just walked out of the gates.
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Able Seaman Douglas Prangnell . Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Forfar from West Norwood, London (d.2nd Dec 1940)
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Edward M. Praplaski . United States Army Air Corps from Chesterbrook, PA Edward M. Praplaski was a veteran with the US Army Air Corps during WWII
and later worked for General Electric Aerospace, where he was an engineer.
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Herbert Henry Pratchett . British Army Essex Regiment from Edmonton I have hardly any information about my uncle Bert Pratchett's war service. I was always told that he was captured in North Africa and taken prisoner by the Italians. He returned from the war with TB and was in hospital for over a year and, although severely weakened by this, lived until he was 78. He married and had a son and another adopted son.
I recently discovered that he had been in Altengrabow, Saxony-Anhalt Stalag X1 prisoner number 1782 but I have no detail about how he ended up there from North Africa. We have a small collection of bits from his time as prisoner - his dog tags, a small knife sharpened down to hardly anything, a plastic cross with the dates of his imprisonment scratched on it and some small metal plates with his camp number and the camp reference on them.
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John Pratley . British Army Sherwood Foresters from Mansfield
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A Pratt . British Army A Pratt 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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A Pratt . British Army A Pratt 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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C Pratt . British Army C Pratt 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 C. Pratt . Royal Air Force 514 Sqd. Sgt Pratt was a member of P/O Chitty's crew, he survived a serious crash when Lancaster LL645 A2-R was returning to Waterbeach on the 30th of March 1944. While attempting to go around after an aborted landing the aicraft struck the ground, ripping off the undercarrage.
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Sergeant D Pratt . RAF 59 Squadron
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Ord. Seaman E. Pratt . Royal Navy HMS Forfar Pratt was amongst those to survive the loss of the Forfar.
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Spr. Frank Pratt . British Army 233 Field Coy. Royal Engineers from Jarrow (d.22nd Mar 1943) Frank Pratt, son of William Bow H. and Mary Pratt (nee Mills), was born in Jarrow, County Durham, in 1918. he died aged 24 during The African Campaign, and is commemorated on Face 10 of the Medjez-El-Bab Memorial, Béja, Tunisia. He is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall.
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Pte. Frederick Walter Pratt . British Army 6th Btn. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from Dunstable (d.13th Jan 1942) My great uncle Frederick Pratt died during WW2.
He was on leave in Lowestoft and was the victim of unfriendly fire.
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G Pratt . British Army Royal Armoured Corps G Pratt 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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JAD Pratt . British Army JAD Pratt 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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