HJ Swinton . British Army 23rd Hussars HJ Swinton served with the 23rd 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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Joe Swinwood . Royal Air Force Joe Swinwood served as ground crew, from late 1944 at Linton-on-Ouse, does anyone remember him? Thanks for the memories!
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PTI. Hubert Conrad Switala . Royal Air Force RAF Framlingham from Poland Hubert Conrad Switala was born on 11th November 1911 in Poland. He is my grandfather. His discharge papers are stamped Framlingham (Suffolk) 12th August 1948. His service occupation is P.T.I. which is most likely Physical Training Instructor.
I would be interested in finding records of the airmen who were demobbed
through Framlingham.
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A Sword . British Army Royal Armoured Corps A Sword 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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Cpl. Jack J Sword . British Army 1st Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
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Mjr. Roderick Dennistoun Sword MC.. British Army 1st Btn. Middlesex Regiment Roddy Sword was my father-in-law. He was a regular and served with the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in the BEF. He got his MC during the retreat to Dunkirk when his commanding officer told him to stand and protect the retreat of the battalion, which he did with proper gallantry. He was taken off later and became Lt-Col (before reverting to substantive rank at end of war).
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PJ Sworn . British Army PJ Sworn 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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H Swygart . British Army 145th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps H Swygart served with the 145th Regiment 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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G Syddall . British Army G Syddall 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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William Henry Syddall . Royal Air Force & Fleet Air Arm from Bury, Lancs My father flew spitfires and hurricans during the war. Based first in Forfar, Scotland, then India. He was also a Rolls Royce trained engineer specialising in prop technonogy. Anyone who know him, or knew of him please contact me.
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Sig. Ratcliffe Sydney . Royal Navy HMS Achates (d.25th July 1941)
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L/Cpl. Daniel Sykes MM.. British Army 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Greenock My mother's second cousin, Danny Sykes lost an arm in fighting with his battalion and was awarded the Military Medal.
He never married and died in Liverpool in the 1970s, he was living with his brother Jack and cousin Isobel.
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F/O. Harold Ugo Sykes . Royal Air Force 80 Squadron from Monkseaton, Northumberland (d.28th Nov 1940) Harold Sykes was 22 when he died. He was the son of Jack Sykes and of Inez Sykes (nee Barbier); husband of Dea Valerie Sykes, of Monkseaton, Northumberland.
He is buried in the Churchyard of the Twelve Apostles, Drovian, Albania
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JR Sykes . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment JR Sykes served with the Kings Liverpool 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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Leslie Sykes . British Army Seaforth Highlanders from Victoria, B.C. My mother told me her father, Leslie Sykes, fought with the Seaforth Highlanders and that his kilt was in a museum, along with his sword.
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Medic Norbert "Sy" Sykora Purple Heart. United States Army My father, Norbert Henry "Sy" Sykora, was a POW at Stalag IV. He was a medic, and was captured at the Battle of the Bulge. If anyone reading this knew him, please contact me.
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FP Sylvester . British Army FP Sylvester 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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WO2. Peter Syme . British Army 93rd Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery from Dover (d.16th February 1944) Peter Syme served with the 6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders which converted to become 93rd Anti Tank Regiment. He lost his life on the 16th of February 1944 and is buried in the Caserta War Cemetery in Italy.
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Wally Syme . Army Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Wally was in Stalag 8b with my Father, Arthur Booker, if anyone remembers him or his fellow POW's please get in touch.
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App. John Hasluck Cole Symington . Mercantile Marine S.S. Teesbridge from Consett, Co. Durham (d.25th December 1915) Apprentice John Symington was the Son of John Thomas and Amy Symington of 24 the Avenue, Consett, Co. Durham.
He was 21 when he died and is buried in the Portovenere Communal Cemetery in Italy.
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L/Cpl. Vincent Henry Studley Symmonds . British Army 1st Battalion Welch Regiment from Pontypool Vincent Symmonds was captured after fighting a regular action on Crete,
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L/Cpl Vincent Henry Studley "Simmo" Symmonds . British Army 1st Battlion Welch Regiment from Ponthydryn Simmo, Vincent Symmonds joined the Army at sixteen in 1927 and served until taken POW on Crete in 1941.
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Gunner Temple David William Symmons . Royal Navy HMS Penelope from Port Talbot
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GG Symonds . British Army GG Symonds 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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Dvr. Jack Symonds . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from Liverpool My father, Jack Symonds, was a prisoner of war in Stalag XXB. Unfortunately, he passed away on 30th December last year aged 96 and it is only recently that I began to do some further research on his wartime experiences. I guess this was prompted by the recent release of detailed information on British Army Prisoners of War 1939-1945. From this information, which confirmed his prison camp as Stalag XXB, on the Wartime Memories website there is a photograph of Harry Daniels, in which I am as certain as I can be also has a picture of my father. He is second from the right as you look at the photograph. I sent an email to Patricia Daniels (daughter of Harry). Unfortunately, the email has been returned to me as 'undeliverable', if Patricia reads this I would love to hear from you
His prison number was 15626 and he had been captured at St. Valery in France when the whole of the 51st Highland Division was captured. Father was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps. He always told us that they were relatively well looked after and was eternally grateful for the tremendous work of the Red Cross. He also told us that the reason for their reasonable treatment was that the Germans wished to have some 'model' prisons that could be inspected by the Red Cross and others in order to divert attention away from the extermination camps, which as you will know were not very far away. You can imagine how much I wish I had this information to hand when father was still alive and to be able to show him the photographs and to be able to expand what we already knew. Dad was born in Liverpool and lived there all his life.
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Fl.Lt. John George Symons . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 207 Squadron from Wallington, Surrey (d.23rd May 1944)
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Pte. John Symons . British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch from Dundee (d.19th March 1944)
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Surg. Lt. Deryck R. Syred . Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve HMS Encounter My father, Surgeon Lieutenant Deryck R Syred RNVR, qualified as a medical practitioner in April 1940. He joined the Navy as soon as he was allowed to in July 1941 as Surgeon Lieutenant RNVR. He joined his ship, the Destroyer HMS Encounter, in January 1942 at Singapore.
His ship survived the First Battle of the Java Sea on 27th February 1942, but along with the famous cruiser HMS Exeter and the US destroyer USS Pope was sunk on the morning of 1st March 1942 in what I believe was called the Second Battle of the Java Sea. The ships had been trying to escape the Japanese, who far outnumbered them. Encounter's crew were ordered to abandon ship after she had run out of ammunition and had been disabled. After spending the rest of the day and all the following night clinging to a makeshift raft with eleven companions (one of whom was a Spaniel dog), my father was rescued by a Japanese destroyer. Most of Encounter's crew survived and were taken prisoner.
He was at first imprisoned at Macassar in the Celebes, but was transferred to Fukuoka No 2 POW camp in Nagasaki Harbour in October 1942, where he remained until the end of the war. He spent most of his time there caring for sick and injured allied prisoners, most of whom had to work in the nearby Mitsubishi shipyard under harsh conditions.
My father was listed as missing until March 1943, from which time he was in correspondence with his family, very intermittently, some letters taking over two years to reach their destination. He eventually arrived in England in November 1945 and was demobbed in September 1946. He died of a brain haemorrhage in 1954, shortly after his forty-first birthday.
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