Sgt Leonard William Smith. . RAF 12sqd
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LAC. Pearson Watson Smith. . Royal Air Force 55 OTU.
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Sgt Wally Smith. . RAF 12Sqd. Wally Smith flew with Lancaster PH-X ED995 in 12sqd.
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WO1 Alfred Edward Smithard . Army Royal Army Ordnance Corps My husband was in 383 and what he as told me he was on the escape committee and on day they where playing, puffer trains without the train, football with no ball and any other games they could think off. He had a book called the barb wire given to him, while in the camp they were not allowed any showers and one day somebody had made up some andrew liver salts tblets, and when the top man of the German came and checked the camp some of the prisoners put the tablets in there mouths and let it froth and a doctor was called and they where allowed to have showers after that.My husband has wrote abook about A Surviver returns but it is not in the shops to buy.
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F/Sgt K B Smitheringale KB, DFC . RAF 12sqd
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LE Smithers . British Army Royal Artillery LE Smithers served with the Royal Artillery 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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GWM Smithey . British Army GWM Smithey 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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P/O. Ivor Ernest Smithson . Royal Canadian Air Force 407 (Demon) Squadron (d.11th Mar 1944) Pilot Officer (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) Ivor Smithson is buried in the Ballyconeely Catholic Cemetery, Ballyconeely, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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JE Smithson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JE Smithson 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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Joan Smithson . Women's Land Army from Bootle, Liverpool My late mother was in the Women's Land Army with the no 42884. Her name at the time was Joan Smithson and came from Bootle in Liverpool and was 18 when she joined up in Lancs.
She was transferred to Salop on the 7th of July, 1941, resided in a hostel in Shrewsbury and worked at Wellington farm Eyton.
I have several pictures of mother with other Land Girls and at work on the farm including one of mother and another Land Girl feeding the cows with the Minister of Agriculture Mr R S Hudson watching during a visit to
Shropshire. This picture and a write up appeared in the Wellington Journal and Shrewsbury News May 16th 1942.
I have my mother's Tie , Armband and Badge. I also have my mother's release card and letter from the County Secretary of Shropshire, 66 Abbey Forgate, Shrewsbury granting mother's discharge on account of marriage.
Mother served from 18/04/1941 to 30/06/1945.
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Flt.Sgt. Sydney Smitt . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 514 Squadron (d.5th Mar 1945) We had a commemoration for the crew of 514 Sqd. who crashed at Bunsbeek on the 5th of March 1945. There is now a memorial board on the crash place and a complete book about the crew and their mission to Gelsenkirchen GE.
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WO. Fredrick Smooker . Royal Air Force 106 Sqn. from Roddymoor, Durham My Uncle F.H. Smooker flew with 106 Sqn. as a bomb aimer.
And along with the crew of Lancaster ED 720 ZN-R were shot down near Cambrai on the night of 8/9 July 1943.
The Lancaster had a crew of seven on normal operations and on this occasion was apparently carrying a second pilot gaining experience of operations before captaining his own crew.
The crew that Uncle Fred flew with routinely were First Lt. Eugene Rosner USAAF, on his last op with the RAF before transferring.
Sgt. Disbury second pilot.
F.Sgt. James Calder Air Gunner RCAF.
F.Sgt Dalton Turner Air Gunner RCAF.
Sgt. J Hougham W.OP/Air Gunner.
Sgt. W Bailey Navigator.
The aircraft was damaged by flack and then a night fighter from 1/NJG4 piloted by Ob. Lt. Fritz Graef attacked and shot them down near Hirson at approx 0250.
Uncle Fred in the nose had tried to fight it off, along with the other gunners, but the front turret was dead.
Flying as they were on only 3 engines they could not keep up with the bomber stream and were the classic sitting duck.
Of the crew of 8 only my Uncle survived and said that on landing by parachute the wreckage of the Lancaster was burning in a field 500 yards away.
He managed to evade capture until Sept of 43 but then spent 56 days in Fresnes prison (Paris) before internment in Stalag camp 4B were he was prisoner 263424.
There have only been 3 Smookers in the RAF My Father Ernest, my uncle Fred and myself W.O.E.P. Smooker.
I mentioned this to Jacko Jackson the BBMF Lancaster pilot who then took me flying in the Lancaster so all 3 Smookers have flown in a Lanc.
I mention this as it made me appreciate what those crews endured in the pitch black and freezing cold nights over Europe.
We should always remember the sacrifice that so many made and never forget the debt we owe.
To me they were all heroes, although they would be embarrassed to spoken of in such a way.
Gentlemen I salute you.
"Per Ardua Ad Astra"
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PA Smout . British Army 250th Field Delivery Service Royal Army Service Corps PA Smout served with the 250th Field Delivery Service Royal Army Service 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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DV Smth . British Army DV Smth 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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G Smurthwaite . British Army G Smurthwaite 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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Gerard Smurthwaite . British Army Durham Light Infantry from Durham City Gerard Smurthwaite was my uncle. During WW2 he served with the Durham Light Infantry. It was very difficult to get any information from him, but here goes: He served with the DLI in the desert, D Day landings, and I believe he also served in another Mediterranean country but I am not sure.
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J Smurthwaite . British Army Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry J Smurthwaite served with the Kings Own Yorkshire 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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Flt.Sgt. Bertie Thomas Smy . Royal Air Force No. 90 Squadron Bertie Smy survived a BK665 Stirling Mk III bomber crash and was taken to Stalag Luft 6 as a POW.
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AC Smyth . British Army AC Smyth 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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Lt. Alexander Joseph Smyth . British Army 6th Btn. Inniskilling Fusiliers from Limavady
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Pte. Colin Smyth . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from Manchester My father Colin Smyth was in the Medical Corps but was also a paratrooper. He had been at Dunkirk, North Africa and made operational drops in Sicily and then at Arnhem where he was wounded. He spent the rest of the war first in hospital in Germany and then at Stalag 11b Fallingbstel. My father died in 1997, aged 78.
I would be interested to hear from anyone whose links to Arnhem are similar.
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Pte. Herbert William "Hector" Smyth . British Army 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment from Hackbridge My grandfather, H.W. Hector Smyth, served as a Private with the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment from 1939to 1946 in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia.
In the 1980s he wrote a book-length memoir of his war years which has come in to my possession and I am now beginning to edit. It covers everything from enlistment and basic training to battle and post-war guard duty. It is amusing, moving, rather un-heroic, distinctly bawdy and full of tales of war life from a private's viewpoint. It is also beautifully well written, although I admit I may be biased. I am considering trying to get it published eventually. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in 1st Battalion, East Surreys in World War 2. One problem though is that although he mentions many friends and officers, he changed everyone's name so I cannot easily identify individuals.
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J Smyth . British Army J Smyth 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. John Patrick Smyth . British Army 8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment from Co.Fermanagh, Northern Ireland (d.27th May 1940) My grandfather, John Smyth was killed in Dunkirk 26 days after his son was born, whom he never met.
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DM Smythe . British Army DM Smythe 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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