Pte Ernest George Henry Sellick . British Army 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment from Bristol
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Chief PO George Ernest Stanley Sellick . Royal Navy Gunnery HMS Malaya from Portsmouth George Sellick served in the Royal Navy in WW2 aboard HMS Malaya August 1941 to June 1943.
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PJ Sellick . British Army PJ Sellick 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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Tpr. Ernest Leonard Sellman . British Army 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment from Alperton, London (d.24th June 1944) My uncle, Ernest Leonard Sellman was a trooper in the British Army, 43rd 2/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment. He died on 24th June 1944 when his cargo ship, the Derrycunihy, struck a mine off the Normandy landing beaches (Juno) and broke in two, killing over half the crew.
This is all I know of my uncle. I don't have any photos from his military service. I would love to know if anyone has any further information about his regiment or if anyone knew him personally. This would be enormously appreciated as he was much loved by his family and I would like to be able to pass on information to my own family.
Editors Note:
The unit was called 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment (formerly 5th battalion the Gloucester Regiment TA). HQ,A and C Squadrons sailed on the Derrycunnihy. On 18 June 1944 HQ, A and C squadrons embarked at West India Docks, London, aboard Motor Transport Ship (MTS) T72, a general purpose cargo ship named the MV Derrycunihy. T72 joined a convoy off Southend-on-Sea and arrived off Sword Beach on the evening of 20 June. High seas and enemy shelling prevented unloading for three days and it was decided to move T72 to Juno Beach for disembarkation. As the ship started engines at 07.40 on the morning of 24 June it detonated an acoustic or 'Oyster' mine dropped by one of the nightly Luftwaffe raiders. The mine exploded under the keel, splitting the ship in two, and the after part, packed with men of 43 Recce, sank rapidly. Worse still, a 3-tonner ammunition lorry caught fire, and oil floating on the water was set alight. Landing craft and the gunboat HMS Locust quickly came alongside and picked up survivors, most of whom were evacuated to SS Cap Touraine, a former French liner. The Regimental War Diary records that 'Great gallantry was displayed by all troops in the two aft holds' and lists 183 men of the regiment lost and about 120 others evacuated wounded. In addition, 25 of the ship's crew (including Army gunners) died in the disaster, which represented the biggest single loss of life off the invasion beaches.
In the days following the sinking, the survivors were formed into a composite squadron and most of 43 Recce's vehicles were landed from the beached fore part of the "Derrycunihy". B Sqn arrived from England, together with the first reinforcements. A complete squadron was transferred to 43 Recce from the reinforcement unit, 161st (Green Howards) Reconnaissance Regiment.
The regimental war diary can be viewed at National Archives in Kew.
There are a number of websites for the Recce unit. There are family records on Ancestry which seem quite comprehensive.
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JR Sellors . British Army JR Sellors 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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JR Sellors . British Army Sherwood Foresters JR Sellors served with the Sherwood Foresters 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 Sellors . Royal Navy HMS Mayina from East Kirkby Leslie Sellors served on HMS Mayina.
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JO Sells . British Army JO Sells 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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MJ Sells . British Army MJ Sells 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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Alan Charles Sellwood DFC.. Royal Air Force
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Anne Selman . Land Army from London My Mum, Anne Selman, served in the Land Army in England towards the end of WW11. She trained as a nurse afterwards, and emigrated to New Zealand. She subsequently married a Kiwi, and had 5 children. She's still alive, although has very advanced Alzheimers Disease. If anyone can remember meeting, or serving with Anne, or if she worked on a farm you know of, I'd be most interested, and delighted, to hear. Please contact me.
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H Selway . British Army H Selway 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 Selway . British Army Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry JE Selway served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry 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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2nd Lt. Kenneth L. Selway . US Army Air Corps from Ohio Kenneth L. Selway was a Second Lieutenant in the Army during World War II. Kenneth was captured by the Nazis, and was sent to Stalag Luft 3 near Sagan, Germany where 6,667 other American POWs were held. Kenneth's capture was first reported to the International Committee of the Red Cross on 13th of June 1943, and the last report was made on 8th of June 1945. Based on these two reports, Kenneth was imprisoned for at least 726 days (1 year and 13 months). The average duration of imprisonment was 363 days. Ultimately, Kenneth was returned to military control, liberated or repatriated.
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Pte. Paul Roy Herbert John Selwood . British Army 7th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry (d.10th July 1944)
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Frank Dougas Selwyn . British Army Royal West Surrey Regiment from London Frank Selwyn enlisted on the 26th of April 1938 and served with the
The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment until 16th of June 1946.
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Gnr. Inesi Semani . British Army East African Artillery (d.26th April 1947) Gunner Semani is commemorated on the Lubudi Memorial in the Congo.
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Gnr. Inesi Semani . East African Artillery (d.26th April 1947) Gunner Semani is commemorated on the Lubudi Memorial in the Congo.
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Teodor Semeniuk . from Halyczowka, Poland My father-in-law, Teodor Semeniuk, passed away and my husbnad and I have been searching for any infomation that could lead us to his family. We have very little information other than he was born in Halyczowka (not sure where this is - Poland I think). We know he was captured on 1st September 1939 in Rybnik, Poland and sent to Stalag IVA at Hohenstein according to a list dated 28th September 1939. He was then sent to Stalag IVD in Torgau around 1944 according to a presence card dated August 1944. His Prisoner of War number is 3571.
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Albert William Henry Semke . British Army from Plaistow, East London My father, Bert Semke, spoke very little about the war and his time as a prisoner in a German Prison Camp, all I know is that he was captured in North Africa and played the violin in a camp band known as The Camposcians. A photograph showing the band members is all that is left.
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Cpl Henry Semmence . British Army Royal Engineers from Gillingham, Kent My father, Henry Semmence, was a sapper in the Royal Engineers in WW2. He was sent to Iraq in 1940 from India and served building anti-tank emplacements, roads, rail etc when an invasion of the Germans was expected to join their troops from the north to North Africa, which never in the end happened. He went up through Iraq from Bagdhad to Mosul and Ninevah, where he discovered ancient baths underground, some of the friezes and remains are now in the British Museum.
I remember him saying that the Kurds were some of the best people he had ever met and they worked well with him. He was lent a camel for transport, that had a baby following. I would love to know more details of his work there, and what the Royal Engineers were doing there.
My parents married in Poona, India, March 1936 my mother travelling out from England and did not know anyone at her wedding. When my father arrived in Bagdhad, he wrote to my mother on hotel paper, "Thank you for the best 5 years of my life" and sent her an engagement ring! This is all I know of his wartime experiences and it would be good to fill in the spaces.
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Pte. Donald Semmens . British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment from Madron, Penzance Donald Semmens served with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment in WW2. He was one of a small party who were all wounded and overrun by the Germans in action in the mountains in Italy in January 1944.
They were fairly well treated and moved from hospital to hospital until they reached Northern Italy where they were packed into cattle trucks and taken to Germany.
His first camp was Stalag 7a at Mooseburg. Later he was transferred to Stalag 11a and finally went to an outside working party No 356-9 and was employed on a drainage scheme.
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WK Semple . British Army 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment WK Semple served with the 3rd Btn 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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Pte. Bernard Semu . British Army 2nd Btn. King's African Rifles (d.11th October 1943) Private Semu was buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 15.
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Pte. Bernard Semu . King's African Rifles 2nd Btn. (d.11th October 1943) Private Semu is buried in the Lubudi African Cemetery in the Congo, Grave 15.
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EEJ Senechal . British Army EEJ Senechal 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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Christopher Leonard "Snowball" Seneviratne . Royal Corps of Signals from Leeds My father, Christopher Seneviratne, was a signalman during WW2. He served in the Middle East from 19/03/1941 to 22/11/1942 and in India from 23/11/1942 to 24/03/1943. His Soldiers Service and Pay Book says he was awarded an Africa Star Medal with an 8th Army clasp. He didn't speak much about his experiences during the war except to tell us that he was one of the 'Desert Rats' and that one of his nicknames was 'Snowball'. I have a collection of photographs taken while he was in North Africa and would like to make contact with anyone who recognises a relative of theirs in any of the photos. He trained at Trowbridge - Special Operators Training Battalion. The will in his passbook was signed by H. Ford, 17 Pitman Avenue, Trowbridge.
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Sig. Christopher Leonard Seneviratne . Royal Corps of Signals 8th Army from Leeds My father, Christopher Seneviratne, was a signalman in the 8th Army between March 1941 and November 1942. He served in India from November 1942 to March 1943 after which he was appointed to a Commission in the Ceylon Defence Forces. He enlisted at Whitby and spent time at Catterick and Trowbridge before going overseas. I have a collection of photographs from his time in the Desert Campaign and his training days. I would be interested to hear from anyone who knew him or who remembers a relative speaking about him.
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Pte. Leopold Senghor . French Army 59th Colonial Infantry Division from Paris Leopold Senghor was born in Senegal and was living in Paris at the time of his enlistment.
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Sedar Senghor . Army Sedar Senghor was imprisoned in Stalag 230 with other African soldiers. I am looking for information.
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