Flt.Lt. David Hugh Sumsion . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 90 Squadron (d.30th August 1944) Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Sumsion was buried in the Collective grave 967-968 in the Aalestrup Churchyard in Denmark.
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Johan Ashby "Joe" Sundberg . British Army Royal Corps of Signals My father was Johan Ashby Sundberg, known as Joe to his family and friends.
He served in the Royal Corps of Signals during W.W.2. I am trying to find information about my father's service for his country. Unfortunately, I have very little information. I believe he was a signalman and his number may have been 14223201 or 14222201 and I know he spent some time in Africa as I have a photo of him with the sphynx and pyramids.
If you can help or point me in the right direction it would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Sgt. James Sunderland MC.. British Army 6th Btn. Yorks and Lancaster Regiment from Wellow, Notts (d.18th Sep 1943) I never knew my uncle James Sunderland as he died before I was born. It is only over the last few months that I have been given photos and newspaper reports about him. Seems he was a bit of a hero (as were so many). He recieved MC and bar and died in Italy. Another member of our family still has his medals.
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Pte. John Sunderland . British Army Corps of Military Police from Keighley (d.7th Nov 1944) John Sunderland drowned near Calais on 7th of November 1944 and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. It is the only information I have.
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Gnr. George Wilfred Sunley . British Army 12 Medium Rgt. Royal Artillery from Scarborough Gunner G W Sunley was taken prisoner in the Middle East in 1942 and held in Comando Campo Base PG 133 Italy. He escaped and made his way to Switzerland, where he was interned.
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Sgt. John Robert Sunley . Royal Air Force 90 Squadron from Rainton, Yorkshire (d.14th/15th October 1944) John Sunley was an Air Gunner with 90 Squadron, he lost his life on the night of the 14th/15th October 1944.
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Sgt. John Robert Sunley . Royal Air Force 186 Squadron from Rainton (d.15 October 1944)
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Armor C. Surber . United States Army 45th Inf. Div. 157th Infantry, F Coy My dad, Armor Surbe, was a POW in Stalag 2B. His unit was F Coy, 157th Infantry, 45th Infantry Division of the US Army. He passed away in 1989.
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PA Surman . British Army PA Surman 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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Pilot Officer Ernest Gordon Surridge . RCAF 419 Squadron (d.30th March 1944) March 29/30, 1944 - 49 Halifaxes from 419, 427, 428, 431, and 434 squadrons were ordered on an attack of the rail yards at Vaires. The crews were over the target at between 12,000 and 13,000 feet, releasing 470,000 lbs of high explosives. According to reports, this attack took place in a bright moonlight and severe damage was caused. Two ammunition trains blew up with great force.
P/O J. Greenidge RCAF and crew from 419 squadron, flying Halifax II HR-912 coded VR-F, failed to return from this operation.
F/L William Sinclair RAF
P/O Thomas Bentley Lowe RCAF
P/O Vernal Lunney RCAF
W/O1 Elmore Humphreys RCAF
Sgt. M. Wheeler RCAF
P/O Ernest Surridge RCAF, panel 253 Runnymede Memorial.
All were lost.
I hope to get further details in due course.
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William Surridge . British Army My Grandfather was in the 8th Army, William Surridge (known as Bill) and I
wonder whether anyone knows anything about him as he has passed away now.
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Sgt. Andrew George Surtees . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron from Morpeth, Northumberland (d.29th April 1943) Andrew Surtees was the Son of Ernest Dickinson Surtees and Annie Alice Surtees, of Morpeth, Northumberland.
He was 21 when he died and is buried in the Aadum Cemetery in Denmark, Coll. grave A. 27.
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Cpl. John Surtees . British Army 233 Field Company Royal Engineers (d.7th Aug 1943) John Surtees was born in Chester le Street in 1920. He was the son of George Surtees MM and Ann B W Surtees (nee Lowerson) of Hebburn and elder brother to Ronald.
He died aged 22 and is buried in the Catania War Cemetery, Sicily.
He is also commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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John Freville Henry Surtees . British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade from Cambridge I have inherited a book, in Dutch, on Holbein the Younger. The fly leaf has a note "from 95538 J.F.H. Surtees. POW no.1204 Oflag VII Germany. January 1940, to Major R Surtees, 13 Barrow Road, Cambridge, England.
Obituary published in the Royal Green Jackets Chronicle, Vol 31, Jan-Dec 1996: "John Freville Henry Surtees was born on 26th January 1919 and educated at Eton. Being unsure of his choice of regiment, he took the exams of both Woolwich and Sandhurst and came top in both. John joined 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade at Tidworth and was a carrier Platoon Commander with them when they, and the 60th and Queen Vics were set to reinforce and defend Calais.
On 25th, Brigadier Nicholson received the order to hold the Calais to the last, and that every moment the enemy could be held off was of the utmost importance to the safety of the BEF. They delayed the Germans until the following day and Winston Churchill wrote in his history of the Second World War that “Calais was the Crux”. The time gained by those who so gallantly defended Calais was to help with the evacuation of 300,000 British troops from Dunkirk.
John with his carriers was given the task of trying to defeat a strong enemy road block in the suburban area. The block had already overwhelmed the advance guard tanks and the attack by John’s platoon was also unsuccessful, but he managed to pin the enemy down and the block was outflanked.
Those who know the sand dunes along the beaches will understand the difficulty for the movement of carriers, and shortly after the road block incident, John’s carriers were to become stuck in the sand so he and his men took to the trenches in “C” Company’s earlier position. The battle lasted four days against impossible odds and eventually the town was taken by the Germans. John was captured but not before being wounded in the leg and moved to a German Field Hospital which had been set up in a Convent in the middle of Calais. John used to speak of the kindness offered to him by the nuns and the German guards alike.
He spent five years as a Prisoner of War and in that period made several ingenious attempts to escape and once managed to get away for five days before being recaptured. On his release from captivity in 1945, he was to learn of the award of the Military Cross for his gallantry five years earlier in Calais. He then joined 2RB as a Company commander, before becoming GSO2 Allied Liaison Branch in 1946/7. Then a short spell as 2i/c of a company at the Green Jackets depot at Barton Stacey until July of 1948 when he was invalided out of the army.
In civilian life he eventually became Chairman of wine importers Percy Fox and Co. He was Master of the Grocers Company in 1966/7 and a member of the Institute of Masters of Wine. He took a prominent part in government entertaining, and was appointed OBE."
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Sgt. Raymond Surtees . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 514 Sqdn. (d.16th June 1944) Sgt. R. Surtees was lost after a raid on Valenciennes on 16th June 1944. Six of the crew of Lancaster II DS816 JI-O are buried at Croisilles British War Cemetery (one member survived and evaded capture). The full crew were:
F/Sgt C.F. Prowles, KIA
Sgt. H.A. Osborn, KIA
F/Sgt R.B. Spencer, KIA
Sgt. R. Surtees, KIA
Sgt. J. Porrelli, KIA
Sgt. A.A. Holmes, KIA
F/O A.H. Morrison, evaded capture
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RE Surtees . British Army Cheshire Regiment RE Surtees served with the Cheshire 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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Robert E. C. Surtees . British Army Robert Surtees 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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Cpl. Ronald Surtees . British Army 7th Battalion Scottish Rifles (d.8th Mar 1945) Ronald Surtees served with the 7th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), he was aged 22 when he died on 8th March 1945.
Born in Chester le Street, County Durham in 1923 he was the son of George Surtees (MM) and Ann B. W. Surtees (nee Lowerson) of Hebburn
His older brother John was also one of the fallen. Ronald is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery and he is also commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall.
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BT Sutcliffe . British Army 49 Regiment Reconnaissance Corps BT Sutcliffe served with the 49 Regiment Reconnaissance 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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F/Lt. Desmond Sutcliffe . Royal Air Force 684 Squadron (d.5th November 1944)
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Pte Eric Sutcliffe . British Army 4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment from Hull
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G Sutcliffe . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment G Sutcliffe 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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Cpl Geoffrey Sutcliffe . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorks Geoffrey Sutcliffe was bayoneted and paralysed and blind for a time. He was held in Stalag XX1D and German doctor who had studied in Oxford kept him as a study patient so he had to follow wherever he went by cattle truck but he recovered back home.
He managed to avoid the sniper that was picking couriers off by laying horizontaly on a motor bike with a cigarette on the end of a stick 2 ft above his head as a mock target.
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J Sutcliffe . British Army J Sutcliffe 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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JE Sutcliffe . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JE Sutcliffe 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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TA Sutcliffe . British Army Royal Armoured Corps TA Sutcliffe 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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Frank Cecil Suter . Royal Navy HMS Revenge My Grandfather Frank Suter was responsible for communicating the position of targets to the gunners.
Originally some years earlier he was assigned to HMS Hood, but fortunately orders were changed and he was enlisted on to HMS Revenge.
He was always known to me as Cecil, but he was officially Frank and his best mate was Tim who also sailed on HMS Revenge.
Grandad didn't talk much about the war, I think it was painful for him to recall the losses and the awful things that took place. He was a gentle man, but proud and strong. He talked or how the men would on occasion swim in the ocean for what ever reason, he with his eyes open and he believes the oil from ships and destruction caused his Glaucoma, which permanently blinded him from an early age.
Grandad survived the war, lived a good and honest life upon his retirement and died as a result of poor nursing care in a nursing home from septicaemia as a result of poor catheter care. He was in his nineties , but still had all his marbles. He was an incredible man.
A picture of HMS Revenge always hung above his bed.
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GW Suter . British Army GW Suter 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. Leroy Suter . United States Army from Haileyville, OK Leroy Suter was one of the first U.S. soldiers to be captured during the Battle of the Bulge.
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