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Pte. Austin Scally . British Army No 1 Commando from Wigan
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Frederick Henry George "Micky" Scammells . Royal Navy HMS Halstead (d.11th Jun 1944) I am trying to trace, what happened to my uncle in
World War Two. His name was Micky Scammels and his
name is on the memorial post in Selsy, West
Sussex. Just south of Chichester, West Sussex. He
enlisted into the Royal Navy, we think in 1938,and I
believe he was on a submarine when it went down, my
grandmother was informed that he was missing in
action. I know that is where he lived at the time he
went missing, and did not come home. Please can you
tell me where I can find out more about him. He had two
children at the time, his widows name was
Betty. Thank you so much.
Update:
I have checked the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site, which lists only one man of the name
Frederick Henry George Scammells Able Seaman official number P/SSX 30905
killed in action 11.6.1944 HMS Halstead
24 years old Husband of Betty, of Selsey, Sussex
Name engraved on Portsmouth Naval War Memorial
I would think that this would be your uncle. The official number with the prefix P/SSX shows that he would have been based at Portsmouth and had joined on a 'short service' engagement (seven years with a further five in the reserve).
I trust this will help
David
Update:
My father, F.H.G.Scammells (Micky) died on 11th June 1944 aboard HMS Halstead along with Lesley Cobby, Alfred Cooper, Harry Heslop and others. Any information on his friends, pictures etc will be welcome. I was only 2 years old at the time. Danny Scammells
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WE Scampion . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WE Scampion 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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Thomas Aluicious Scanlan . Royal Navy HMS Glendower from Provanmill, Glasgow. Thomas Scanlan served in HMS Glendower, HMS President 111 and HMS Pembroke.
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L/Sgt. Leslie Joseph Scarboro . British Army
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BA Scarborough . British Army BA Scarborough 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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RP Scarborough . British Army Royal Fusiliers RP Scarborough served with the Royal 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: 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. William Edward Scarbrough . Royal Air Force 100 Squadron from Wandsworth, London (d.15th Feb 1943) My uncle Sgt W.E.Scarbrough flew with 100 Sqd, as a rear gunner (AG) in a Lancaster Mk111 Bomber, and was just three miles from RAF Waltham Lincs, when it crashed landed, due to the damaged that had been inflicted over Germany. We believe that three of the crew survived the crash, by bailing out before the bomber crashed in flames, killing the other crew, one of the survivors a Sgt Carson wrote to my uncle's mother, informing her of his death. This crash happened on the 15th February 1943, we are hoping that there is someone out there who knew Billy Scarbrough, or knows of the crash of the Lancaster, so that we can build up a better picture of what happened on that day. His name will be on the new Bomber Command war memorial in Green Park, but it would be nice if we could find out, from someone what he was like, and what other RAF stations he might have served before, arriving at RAF Waltham Lincolnshire. If you can help please contact me.
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John Scarf . United States Army My father, John Scarf, was an American Army POW in Germany, mostly confined in Stalag 7B. His POW Number was 12067. He was captured in Italy in 1944 and was a POW for 14 months.
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Gdsn. Frank William "Mick" Scarfe . British Army 5th BTn. Grenadier Guards from Oxford Frank Scarfe served with the 5th Grenadier Guards.
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Sgt. Raymond Scargill DFM.. Royal Air Force 166 Sqd. I am trying to do some research in to my great uncle, Raymond Scargill. He was a mid upper gunner on Lancasters at Kirmington 1943-44. The crew;- pilot; F/SGT S.G Coole.
- Flt.Eng. Sgt A.W.Downs.
- B.A. Sgt R.S.Rennie {Canadian}.
- Nav. F/Sgt C.L.Burthwhistle
- W.OP. Sgt F Hollyoak
- Mug. Sgt Raymond Scargill
- R.G.Sgt A.B.Ashworth.166 Sqd.
The aircraft they flew was named Fairfighter's Revenge due to their earlier one name Fairfighter having crashed. My uncle was awarded the DFM for his efforts in rescuing the rear gunner. I would like to know if any of the others were awarded the same
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Giovanni Scaringi . Italian Army My father, Giovanni Scaringi, born in 1913, was an Italian POW at Hartwell Dog Track, Aylesbury from 1942 to 1946. He was a soldier at the Battle of Keren in Ethiopia in 1941. Does anyone remember him?
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DR Scarland . British Army Royal Armoured Corps DR Scarland 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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RE Scarr . British Army RE Scarr 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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Gnr. Albert Cyril Scarratt . British Army 110th LAA, 361 Bty. Royal Artillery from Wolverhampton
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L/Cpl. Edward Robert "Ted" Scarth . British Army 1st Battalion The Buffs East Kent Rgiment from Hackney, London (d.9th December 1941) This is in memory of my Uncle Ted, who I never met as he died in WW2 only 21 years old. He was my father's older brother. He believed really strongly in fighting Fascism. Mosley's Blackshirts used to march through east London where his family lived and hold rallies. My grandmother Millicent {Ted's mother} used to tell me stories of having to go the the local police station to bail Ted out after getting into fights trying to break up the rallies etc.
Both my grandmother and Ted were members of the Communist Party during the war as were lots of people at the time as they believed Communism was the antidote to Hitler and Facism. Ted had been learning Russian at night school because of this. He was proud to fight in the war, and with The Buffs East Kent Regiment was sent to the Western Desert to fight. I have read letters that he sent home, obviously no content about details of where they were etc but he believed in the war he was fighting and also wrote of how much he missed everyone back home. He and his wife Edie had a daughter Edith born in 1940. He spoke of maybe going to live in South Africa after the war.
He was killed in action on 9th December 1941 in Tobruk, Libya and is buried in the Knightbridge Cemetery at Acroma, Libya.
I think of how awful it must have been for my grandmother and father and his wife to hear that news so close to Christmas. My grandmother placed a memorial in the local Hackney Gazette which read "We are still fighting, Ted". She wanted the inscription on his grave to be written in Russian and the War Graves Commision have translated it for me. It reads "The most holy and heartfelt tears that I have seen in this world are the tears of poor mothers".
I am very proud of Ted and I am told I look like him.
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G Scarth . British Army Lancashire Fusiliers G Scarth served with the Lancashire 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: 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. Norman "Prof." Scarth . Royal Navy HMS Matchless from Leeds. I joined HMS Collingwood as an HO volunteer Ordinary Seaman early June 1943. I had only been there two weeks when a lone German bomber, unheralded by sirens, dropped bombs on either side of the hut opposite ours (No. 26 I think). 36 were killed, with more injured. The grave of one of those killed is in Killingneck Cemetary Leeds. I must visit it again. After Collingwood it was HMS Vernon Torpedo School to become a Seaman torpedoman, then to Scapa Flow to join the destroyer HMS Matchless (Russian Convoys & Scharnhorst battle). Then to HMS Vernon again to become Leading Torpedo Operator prior to joining Dido class cruiser HMS Cleopatra & joining East Indies Fleet. Cleopatra, carrying CinC Admiral Arthur John Power, was first ship into Singapore (behind the minesweepers) after the war ended. When Cleo came home, I was not due for demob, so stayed with the East Inies Fleet to join Fleet Minesweeper HMS Niger. The BBC Radio World Service recently interviewed me for its 'Witness' programme about Boxing Day 1943 (the sinking of the Scharnhorst). It was broadcast several times from Boxing Day 2011 to New Years Day 2012, & can be heard now by going to their website.
On Christmas Day we had been ordered to join another convoy because it was rumoured that the Scharnhorst was out. The Scharnhorst was greatly feared. She was the most successful fighting ship of any navy during World War II and she was the bravest ship. We were full speed at 36 knots and going through those mountainous seas. It was a full gale blowing. To go through that at full speed, the bow would rise in the air and come down, hover there and come down with a clatter as if on concrete; mountains of water coming all over the ship.
We were ordered to join the 10th Cruiser Squadron - HMS Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield. They had met up with the Scharnhorst and they had engaged her. There was a brief skirmish, then the Scharnhorst broke off - she was a very fast ship - and with her superior speed she was able to get out of range. But our vice-admiral guessed that she was heading north to attack this convoy that we had been escorting and the guess proved correct.
She had a reputation and she deserved it. There was an awe of her reputation, the excitement that we may be able to end the career of this most dangerous threat to us, to Britain, to the Allies - and fear knowing what we were up against.
It was Boxing Day when we finally met up with 10th Cruiser Squadron and the Scharnhorst. She had abandoned her mission and set off for the Norwegian fjords, which was her base and safe haven. It was pitch black and we shadowed with the use of radars. We knew that she was heading straight towards HMS Duke of York, which was cutting off her escape. She was hit by the Duke of York and was damaged and her speed was slowed.
There was the Duke of York, the Scharnhorst, the 10th Cruiser Squadron with various destroyers and another cruiser, the Jamaica.
All of us met up and all hell broke loose. Although it was pitch black the sky was lit up, bright as day, by star shells - fired into the sky like fireworks - providing brilliant light illuminating the area as broad as day. Towards the end we had been ordered to fire a torpedo. Because the weather had eased a little I had taken up my action station as lookout on the starboard wing of the bridge. The Scharnhorst was close and she was lit up by the star shells and by the fires aboard her. As we steamed past to fire the torpedo I was the closest man - on the wing of the bridge - to the Scharnhorst. She looked magnificent and beautiful. I would describe her as the most beautiful fighting ship of any navy.
She was firing with all guns still available to her. Most of the big guns were put out. They were gradually disabled one by one. As we were steaming past at full speed a 20mm cannon was firing tracer bullets from the Scharnhorst. A 20mm cannon was like a pea-shooter compared to the other guns and it could have no part in this battle, but it was just a gesture of defiance from the sloping deck of her.
And that's one of the things that remains in my memory - a futile gesture but it was a gesture of defiance right to the very end.
I can picture that man on the sloping deck of the Scharnhorst. I can picture that man to this day. Eventually it took 14 ships of the Royal Navy to find her, trap her and sink her. At that point it went pitch black.
The star shells had finished and I presumed the Scharnhorst had been sunk.
We set off to do another torpedo run to fire from the port side and the Scharnhorst was nowhere to be seen. So we slowed and we soon saw many men floating in the water - most of them dead, face down in the water, but some were alive. We switched our searchlight on and I remember our captain calling out to the men in the water "Scharnhorst gesunken?" and the reply came back "Ja, Scharnhorst gesunken", so we threw scrambling nets down and began to haul these men aboard. Thirty-six were saved out of 2,000 men.
We then received an order from the commander-in-chief to join the Duke of York. So we switched off the searchlight, pulled up the scrambling nets and steamed away. We could still hear voices calling from the black of that Arctic winter night, calling for help, and we were leaving those men to certain death within minutes. It seemed a terrible thing to do and it was. But it was the right thing to do. If we had stayed a moment too long we could have joined those unfortunate men. I can hear those voices and I grieve for those men every day of my life. I've even had someone accuse me of being a traitor because I praised the bravery of the German sailors.
I can imagine their feelings as that searchlight went out and they heard that ship steaming away. I truly can imagine the feelings of those men.
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Sgt. Reginald Scarth . Royal Canadian Air Force from Morley, Yorkshire Sgt Reg Scarth, my father, flew with 6 Group Bomber Command. He was a rear gunner in a Halifax that was shot down, he was taken prisoner and held in Stalag 4B, along with a friend from 'back home'. There was an English lady who was married to a German looking for her English son who had been shot down. She was smuggled into 4B via a work party to be reunited him. My father was one of those who kept her identity a secret until she left the camp. I know little else as he did not speak about the war days often.
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Sgt Laurence B Scase. . RAFVR 220 Sqd (d.22nd Jan 1941 )
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EW Scatchard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EW Scatchard 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. John Alfred Scearce . British Army Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from Southall I know very little. I wished I had asked him more about his time during the war. For a while he was a medical orderly during his time in India before travelling down to Egypt, where he was part of the 8th Army. My father would tell me stories of being part of a gun crew on 25 pounders. How this came about when he was enlisted in the light infantry I'm not sure.
John Scearce was captured while on the Greek island of Leros. His POW record has him listed as belonging to the King's Own Royal Regiment, something he never mentioned.
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Flt.Sgt. Jacob Schafer . Royal Canadian Air Force 166 Squadron from Canada (d.27th Aug 1944) Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Jacob Schafer is buried in the Gl. Rye Churchyard in Denmark, in a collective grave with his crewmates.
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Sergeant L V Schafer . RAF VR 59 Squadron from Rhodesia
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Fred Schaffhausen . Royal Air Force 100 Sqdn. I was a pilot with the 100BGH stationed in Thorpe Abetts from July to December 1944. Have been trying to locate friends from Potters Bar for 50 years, with no luck who resided at 44 Highfield Way, Potters Bar. They had a son named John and a daughter named Joy.
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Lt. Armin Newton Schaper DFC, CSC.. from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. My father, Armin Schaper, was a submarine bomber pilot during WWII, based for the longest time in Dunkeswell, England. His duties involved the first night searchlight missions, hunting down German submarines at night, in an effort to make them rise above water during the day, hence making it easier to shoot them.
He had quite a few good and close friends from that squadron, two of whom I have had the pleasure to get to know recently: C.J. Fitze and Virgil Dudey, two wonderful men. I also got to know, through emails, only, however, the wonderful John Weber. All were pilots and all stationed with my father in Dunkeswell.
My brother and I are traveling to Dunkeswell, thanks to CJ Fitze's information, to view where he was based during WWII and to see the little museum created in honor of these brave and humble men. We will be visiting on September 24th, 2009, on what would have been our father's 91st birthday. What an honor and what memories. Our father received two Distinguished Flying Cross medals for his WWII service, Eleven Air Medals and the Conspicuous Service Cross, for his service to our country. How proud we are of him and his memories remain forever embedded in my head and my heart.
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Lt. Armin Newton Schaper CSC, DFC.. US Navy VB 114 from New York, NY Armin Schaper participated in the first night searchlight missions by the US Navy during WWII, chasing German subs over the English Channel, while stationed at Dunkswell with Fleet Air Wing 7.
He received a DFC for safely crash landing his plane with a full load of bombs.... among other reasons.
He flew a Liberator as well as a Spitfire during WWII.
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Off. Heije Schaper . Dutch Navy No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland On the 29th May 1942 a Hudson AM686 'Cheribon' of 320 squadron ditched at sea off Terschelling Island.
The crew were:
- Off. Heije Schaper - POW in Stalag Luft III
- Sgt. A.C. Den Boer - POW
- Sgt. A.J.I. Lensing - POW
- M. Loos - POW
The crew was picked up by a Flak-ship
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F/Lt. Louis Charles Schaverien . Royal Canadian Air Force 196 Squadron from Shepherds Grove My father Louis Schaverien was with 196 Squadron. I don't know much about his war as he spoke little of it. I do know he had shrapnel in his knees, and crashed at least once.
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