Starszy Sierzant Jan Stolowski . Polish Air Force from Poland (d.30th August 1944) Jan Stolowski was buried in the Collective Grave 961-966 in the Aalestrup Churchyard in Denmark
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Pte. Coenraad Willem Frederik "Raadjie" Stoltz . Union of South Africa Army Artillery Support 2nd Regiment Botha from De Lagersdrift, Eastern Transvaal I have recently started plotting my grandfather's path through WW2, we knew he served in North Africa but that was it, he never talked about the war.
After his death in 1991, I inherited, amongst other things, a stamp collection containing a complete collection of Vatican stamps from 1936 to 1944, a Italian concertina and some letters and photos which turned out to be from his service years. I became really interested and started
researching his military career, I found out that information is often
scarce even military records are often incomplete.
Here's what I know up to now; he volunteered at age of 26 and was enlisted as cadet into the 2nd Regiment Botha. Basic Training started in February'41 in the Army Cadet Force in Middelburg, Transvaal. In August he was in Durban,tented down on a race course, awaiting transport. The letter does not mentions which one.
On 9 October'41 they embarked the HMS Mauretania, with HMAS Australia as escort, in convoy no: CM20. The ship left the harbor at 13:45.In his letter he mentions "the lady in white sang to us from the pier, the lads we shouting, whistling and waving their appreciation" (translation from Afrikaans). I later found out this lady was Perla Gibson who sang to each and every troop ship coming and going, she was very popular and today there is a memorial on the exact spot were she stood every single day to welcome or sent the boys on their way.
Grandpa disembarked at Suez on 21st and the Regiment was camped at Mersa Matruh. In a letter dated 4 November 1941 he complains about theft "everything not worn on, or tied to your person has a habit of disappearing". He also mentions the dust "the wind pushes the dust into everything, ears, boots, knapsack, even your johns". They where tented up in a "wadi", offering a little protection against the wind and dust.
On the 18th the Regiment was on the move, right flank to the 5th South African brigade, during Crusader. On 23 November'41, after the 5th Brigade was badly mauled at Sidi Rezegh, grandfather was captured by German Armored section, one of almost 3000 captured that day. By 2nd of December, according to his military records, he was confirmed captured and POW at Benghazi. This suggest he was part of the "Thirst march" and was detained in what become known as "The Palms" camp, a filthy, unhealthy bivouac camp between many palm trees, about 5 miles from the harbor.
How he was transported, on which vessel and when, still evades me, however in March'42 he is listed as POW, Camp 52, Chiavari, Italy.(Military records). One letter dated June 1942 mentions a "Ernsten" and "Georgie Loyd", he also talk about "Captain Chilly, Dancing Bob, Jannie Smuts" names he had given to his louse! He mentions the river in which they where occasionally allowed to bath in. What happened to him after September'43 until his arrival in England in 1945 is unclear. Some family legend says he escaped and with a few friends hid in the country side until meeting up with some advancing Allied soldiers. I could however, not find any proof of this. Perhaps somebody out there has more information on this period.
And, so the research continue in honor of that special, quiet, gentle, hard working farmer that was my granddad and whose names I proudly bear today
Africa Star, 1939-45 Star, War medal, SASM
Thank you
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P/O. Stone . Royal Air Force 79 Sqd.
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CEH Stone . British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps CEH Stone served with the Kings Royal Rifle 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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Mjr. Charles Bernard Stone DSO,. British Army 262nd Field Company Royal Engineers Charles Stone was in command of 262nd Field Co. RE, Major Stone - in support of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, I Corps which landed on Nan White beach on D-Day. He was awarded the DSO.
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CV Stone . British Army CV Stone 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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EA Stone . British Army 3rd Hussars EA Stone served with the 3rd Hussars 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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Edith Lilian May "Lila" Stone . Woman's Land Army
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EM Stone . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EM Stone 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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ER Stone . British Army ER Stone 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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Eric "Blackie" Stone . Royal Navy HMS Lightning Does any body remember my grandad Eric Stone? He was serving on HMS Lightning when it went down.
Update: My late father was aboard HMS Lightning for all of her time afloat. We met your grandad at the 50th anniversary reunion at Doncaster in 1993. Dad recalled his nickname as 'Jed' Stone. (Eric Gilroy)
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Carpenters Mate. Everett W. Stone . US Navy 584 CBMU from South Nyack, NY. USA My Dad Everett Stone was a SeaBee at Dunkswell between 43 & 45. He claimed to have met Joseph P. Kennedy, older brother of President JFK.
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Pte. Frederick Alfred Stone . British Army 2/6th Btn. A Coy. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment from London Frederick Stone never said anything about his capture, but since reading a few of his letters to my future mother I can understand why he hated the vegetable swede. I also understand why he was hesitant about me joining the Royal Corps of Signals only 19 years after the end of the war.
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Pte. Frederick Stone . British Army 2/6th Btn. A Coy. Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) My father Frederick Stone died several years ago, just recently,I have come into possession of some of my father's letters to his future wife.
I could not, at the time, understand my father's reluctance to allow me to enlist into The Royal Corps of Signals.
He was with the 51st Highland Division that was captured at St Valery en Caux, and taken to Stalag XXB in Poland.
I am trying to find the route that the took on their way to Stalag XXB and their return Westwards when the Red Army were advancing.
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P/O. Harold Stone DFM.. Royal Air Force 35 Squadron from Bristol (d.24th July 1941) I was inspired to join the RAF as a RAF Locking apprentice in 1966 by a large wooden framed poster hanging on my gran and grandads wall. The poster was of five sergeant pilots looking up to the sky headed by Churchills "Never in the field of human conflict" speech. The NCO's from left to right were Dinty Moore, Peter Elliot, Rawles, Harold Stone (my uncle) and James Craig. Also somewhere in my loft is what appears to be the original photograph of the five sergeant pilots together for a recruitment poster encouraging NCO's to fly rather than just officers. I never knew my uncle Harold as he was killed coming back from bombing raid as a tail gunner in a Halifax. I don't know how that ties up with any squadron records but that is what I was told. The last item of the Squadron that I have is the cloth badge of the squadron that Harold Stone would have worn on his Mufti blazer no doubt visiting his favorite football team, Bristol Rovers,of which he was a board member. It was this badge, that my mother gave me recently, that led me to adding Harold Stone's name to this website.
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HWT Stone . British Army Durham Light Infantry HWT Stone served with the Durham 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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F/Lt. Jack Stone . Royal Air Force 40 Squadron from Kiveton Park, Sheffield My father, Jack Stone served with 104 and 40 Squadrons.
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F/Lt. Jack Stone . Royal Air Force 104 Sqdn from Kiveton Park, Yorkshire My father Jack Stone was a navigator and bomb aimer in 40 and 104 Squadrons. I do not know the details but he was shot down, twice I think, and survived.
He was originally a Sargeant and commissioned to Flight Lt. but again have no details.
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KW Stone . British Army Middlesex Regiment KW Stone served with the Middlesex 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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Able Sea. Laurence Francis Stone . Royal Navy HMS Pembroke from Essex Larry Stone served in HMS Pembroke 6th March 1942 to 24th March 1942. Then again 19th March to 13th June 1946. Then he was discharged.
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Len Stone . Royal Navy HMS Sirius My father, Len Stone, served on HMS Sirius from about 1943 to demobilisation in 1946. He was involved in radar.
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Sgt. Leslie George Stone . British Army from Wales
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MS Stone . British Army MS Stone 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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Norman Leslie Stone . Royal Air Force 210 Squadron My father, Norman Stone, was with 210 Squadron Sunderland flying boat as an armourer I think, at Invergordon Aug 1939, Pembroke Dock Sep 1939 to July 1940 and Oban July 1940 to Oct. I have his photograph album of his time with the Squadron and some great pictures of the aircraft and crews at base and on patrol.
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PH Stone . British Army PH Stone 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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RCR Stone . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RCR Stone 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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Sgt. Reginald Stone . Royal Air Force 106 Squadron from West Ewell, Surrey. (d.31st Jan 1943) Reg Stone was only 21 when he was shot down over Germany and presumed dead. He has a gravestone in the Becklingen War Cemetery in Germany. If anyone has any memories or pictures it would be lovely to share.
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Reginald Thomas "Pepples" Stone . British Army Dorsetshire Regiment from Kinsbribge My father, Reginald Stone was in the Devons and Dorset Regiment. I think he went to India. I have a picture of him with some of his mates in Rawlapiny. That's all I know. He never spoke about the war or where he was so I'd like to know.
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RJ Stone . British Army RJ Stone 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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